Hiring & Talent Leadership Certification | Scott Bales Consulting Academy

Course standard: 10 modules, 10 lessons per module, 10 study questions per lesson, review-mode highlighting, and a 100-question final certification exam. This course follows the same premium academy pattern as Managerial Courage.

Module 01: Talent Acquisition Strategy

Build hiring discipline before a job is posted. Define business need, success profile, scorecard, and selection process.

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Module 02: Role Scorecards and Success Profiles

Translate the job into outcomes, competencies, behaviors, and realistic performance expectations.

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Module 03: Candidate Sourcing and Screening

Build a practical pipeline and screen candidates without confusing activity with quality.

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Module 04: Behavioral Interviewing

Use evidence-based questions, follow-ups, and specific examples instead of gut feel and rehearsed answers.

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Module 05: Bias, Fairness, and Legal Risk

Reduce hiring bias, protect consistency, and keep selection decisions job-related and defensible.

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Module 06: Assessment, Scoring, and Selection Decisions

Use scorecards, interview evidence, work samples, and balanced debriefs to make better decisions.

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Module 07: Reference Checks and Verification

Verify patterns, clarify risk, and learn what the interview process may have missed.

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Module 08: Onboarding and First 90 Days

Turn a good hire into a productive employee through structure, expectations, feedback, and support.

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Module 09: Retention, Engagement, and Stay Interviews

Reduce preventable turnover by understanding what keeps good people and what drives them away.

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Module 10: Succession Planning and Talent Pipeline

Build bench strength, identify future leaders, and avoid crisis hiring when roles open.

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Certificate Preview

Earn a premium printable certificate.

Complete all ten Hiring & Talent Leadership modules and pass the final certification exam with a score of 90% or higher to generate your official Scott Bales Consulting Academy certificate.

✅ Student name, company, completion date, score, and certificate ID

✅ Premium SB Academy seal and Scott Bales signature block

✅ Printable certificate for employee records and professional development files

✅ Course focus: hiring judgment, interviewing, selection, onboarding, retention, and talent pipeline leadership

Preview shown with sample information. The final certificate is generated after passing the exam.

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SCOTT BALES

CONSULTING ACADEMY

Certificate of Completion

This certifies that

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Hiring & Talent Leadership Certification

has successfully completed the academy requirements for hiring strategy, behavioral interviewing, candidate evaluation, fair selection, onboarding, retention, and succession planning leadership.

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Scott Bales

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Practical leadership certification for hiring, selection, onboarding, retention, and talent development excellence.

Certification Requirements

Complete the learning modules, master the study checks, then pass the final exam with 90% or higher. The final exam does not include check-answer helpers.

Learning Format

Scenario-based lessons, exercises, Scott AI practice prompts, and audio reader support.

Study Checks

Yellow unanswered, red incorrect, retry until mastered, then continue forward.

Final Exam

100 scenario-based questions with a premium printable certificate.