Strategic Talent Acquisition

Most hiring processes measure how well a candidate performs in an interview, which correlates weakly with how well they will do the job. This programme rebuilds the process around evidence: defining the role by what success looks like, designing assessments that sample real work, and running a decision that resists the loudest voice in the room.

It runs 7 times over the published calendar, in 6 cities and live online. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• Define a role by the outcomes it must deliver rather than by a list of attributes.
• Design assessments that sample the actual work.
• Run structured interviews that produce comparable evidence.
• Make a hiring decision that resists bias and seniority pressure.

HR and talent professionals, and hiring managers who make frequent appointment decisions.

Short input, then work. Across 3 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• An outcome based role definition.
• A work sample assessment for one live vacancy.
• A structured interview guide with scoring anchors.
• A decision protocol for the hiring panel.

A GATI certificate recording what you attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended.

Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.