AIRS Training and Technology

AIRS classes introduce students to a host of free sourcing tools and techniques with the goal of boosting recruiter effectiveness. CDR 11.0 follows this tradition by providing recruiters, sourcers and talent acquisition professionals with the information, tools, resources and strategies to help them create or improve upon diversity recruiting efforts . In this course, learn to tap into diverse candidate pools with a variety of tools and resources that can be added to any sourcing strategy. CDR 11.0 gives recruiters a step-by-step plan for discovering hard to find diverse talent and teaches them how to build pipelines of diverse talent. Recruiters will learn how to target and locate the right resources and how to use those resources to implement a solid sourcing strategy to find and attract diverse candidates.

Hiring Heroes 2.0: A Field Guide to Veteran Recruitment

Thousands of men and women transition out of the armed services every year and these highly-skilled, dedicated and disciplined candidates are in great demand. Leading companies are working towards becoming more military friendly in order to hire transitioning Service Members, Veterans and Wounded Warriors. AIRS has designed this class to help talent acquisition and HR professionals create a new veteran recruiting program, or to improve upon an existing one. The course will not only focus on hiring these remarkable candidates, but it will also demonstrate how organizations can attract, engage and retain them as well.

SearchLab 14.0

As a global leader in recruitment training, AIRS continues to teach thousands of recruiters who aspire to earn the CIR designation. The Certified Internet Recruiter (CIR) designation is the gold standard for demonstrating internet sourcing knowledge and it is the preferred requirement by leading companies looking to hire skilled and innovative recruiting professionals.

SearchLab 14.0 is the latest version of the groundbreaking course that AIRS introduced to the recruiting industry over 20 years ago. The concepts taught in this class have helped create a segment of the recruiting profession that hadn't existed previously. This course is the essential foundation for any sourcing or recruiting professional looking to take their candidate search abilities to the next level. For companies, this class will help transform your talent acquisition capabilities and elevate your hiring efforts by being less dependent on paid resources that are overused by recruiters today. SearchLab 14.0 will help attendees to expeditiously find top talent no matter where they might be on the internet. With every new version of this course the goals are set to teach essential concepts that can be applied with immediate impact.

SearchLab 14.0 contains the most progressive internet search techniques available today as well as best practices for effectively implementing the sourcing methodologies. In addition to teaching core search concepts, this class continues to aide recruitment professionals in the strategies necessary to be successful in todays competitive talent market. The techniques learned here will continue to advance any recruiters ability to find and engage top passive candidates from around the globe or around the corner. SearchLab is designed to be an exciting and engaging approach to finding top talent while providing immediate feedback to students during the session.

Fearless Cold Calling and Contacting

It's a fact that cold calling and contacting candidates has always been key to success in recruiting. But it doesn't have to be a chore. AIRS Fearless Cold Calling and Contacting gives you the techniques, planning tools and scripts that take the fear out of making cold calls. This course is a best-of-the-best compilation of the most highly regarded calling methods condensed into proven techniques that turn cold calls into hot candidates.

Mission Critical Elements for Successfully Writing Job Postings

An impactful description for any job opening is one of the most crucial elements for hiring the best candidates. Today's competitive job landscape requires companies and recruiters to create more imaginative, yet targeted postings; they must to be clear, concise, engaging and relevant. With the continued growth of social media sites and other less traditional advertising resources available today, recruiters must also be expert marketers.

AIRS Mission Critical Elements for Successfully Writing Job Postings will shed light on how to bring job ads out of the Dark Ages and into the present. Learn how to take traditional job postings and develop a final product that will entice qualified candidates to apply for your jobs. This class will demonstrate effective ways to write more creative and meaningful job postings that will attract top talent, and help dissuade unqualified candidates.

Certified Social Media Recruiter 3.0

In the realm of social media there are numerous websites that are not well traveled by recruiters, yet are full of potential candidate profiles. Many companies post images and videos of their top performers, so why not take advantage? In this unique and extremely cutting edge AIRS Certification class, attendees will learn how to leverage multimedia sites, shopping sites, and even dating sites to locate candidates using resources that other recruiters may never think to target. Using highly trafficked sites, such as YouTube, Pandora, Pinterest and eBay attendees will learn how to quickly and effectively locate user profiles and gather competitive intelligence.

AdvancedLab 4.0

Reserved for advanced sourcing professionals, AdvancedLab pushes the recruiting envelope with the latest innovative internet sourcing techniques. To get the most out of this course, SearchLab is a pre-requisite. AdvancedLab goes beyond practical methodologies with even more radical ways to source passive candidates while adding efficiency to your sourcing process. Once you've completed AdvancedLab, you'll have the opportunity to earn your ACIR (Advanced Certified Internet Recruiter) certification - proof you have mastered the most advanced sourcing techniques available to recruiters today.

Performance-Based Interviewing

The interview is everything. Many of us make it an emotional decision, rather than an objective one. This course teaches you that competencies are important, but past performance is the best predictor of a candidate's future success. We cover the best of all interviewing practices and detail the clearest path to more productive hiring.

Professional Recruiter Certification 4.0

AIRS Full-Cycle Recruiting program facilitates learning for every Recruiting and Human Resource professional to think more strategically about the entire hiring process. With an abundance of interactive activities, learn to think critically with our Professional Recruiter Certification program which goes step-by-step through every aspect of recruiting including requisition evaluation, implementing Recruiting Agreements with hiring managers and clients, leveraging tools for pipelining candidates, preparing for cold calls, effective contacting and negotiating methodologies, and then implementing and executing a successful interview process. Recruiting is not just about filling requisitions; it is about hiring the best candidate who will have the most positive impact on the organization. AIRS Professional Recruiter Certification is not only for recruiters but also for all Human Resources professionals looking to make a positive impact in their organization's hiring process. Upon completion of the course, all students are eligible to take the AIRS PRC certification examination approved for HRCI re-certification credits.