Human Resources: Hiring and Managing Talent in the 21st Century

Develop your HR skills for strategic talent management

As organisations strive to remain competitive, strategic talent management remains at the forefront to develop their culture and drive success.

On this eight-week course from the University of California, Riverside, you’ll learn the fundamentals of hiring and managing talent in today’s workplace landscape. By building your HR skills and a range of practical tools, such as HR-driven gap analysis, you’ll be able to effectively develop and retain employees.

Explore the benefits of empowering employees

HR professionals and leaders are charged with recruiting and retaining dynamic people in alignment with their organisation’s mission, vision, and goals.

You’ll look at ways to achieve this and why it’s so important, while also engaging, developing, and empowering employees to invest in your business’s success. By balancing these aspects of talent management, you can begin creating an exponential return on investment.

Learn how to engage employees through effective leadership

On this course, you’ll explore the importance of effective leadership, from self-leadership to leading others. You’ll be able to assess your own strengths, leadership skills, and competencies, before looking at different leadership styles and discussing ways to engage employees.

Discover the importance of nurturing workplace diversity

Building and leveraging a diverse workforce is among an organisation’s key performance drivers.

You’ll explore the need for a diverse and inclusive workplace culture, discussing inclusive practices in the workplace and how to support and encourage diversity in an organisation.

At the end of this course, you’ll also look at alternative workplace environments and job designs, assessing how you can adapt to hiring and managing talent in an ever-changing working world.

This course is designed for both human resources professionals interested in engaging some of the newest developments in the industry.

It may also be of interest to business managers looking to increase their knowledge of HR best practices.

This course is designed for both human resources professionals interested in engaging some of the newest developments in the industry.

It may also be of interest to business managers looking to increase their knowledge of HR best practices.

• Evaluate the importance of aligning talent to the organization’s mission, vision and goals.
• Model the HR-driven job analysis and identify its value.
• Explore the benefits of employees' continued development, knowledge management, and retention.
• Assess one's knowledge and readiness to embrace 21st century perspectives in strategic talent management practices.