When you’re delivering a course on recruitment skills for new managers, you might be tempted to do “just enough” — cover the basics, tick the boxes, send them out into the world.
But what if you flipped that mindset and committed to going the extra mile?
Let’s dig into three powerful reasons why doing so will change the game for your participants, your organisation, and your reputation as a trainer.
1. You’re training more than a process — you’re shaping a culture
Recruitment isn’t just “fill the vacancy and move on.”
When you go deeper, you’re influencing how new managers view hiring — it becomes a strategic, mission-driven, value-aligned activity.
With the ready-to-use materials in our course for trainers on recruitment skills for managers, you have the framework to help participants understand recruitment as “finding someone who helps move the organisation forward” rather than “someone who does the job”.
The extra mile might include: spending time helping participants craft job advertisements that resonate with the culture, running role-play interviews that highlight unconscious bias, and working through the “four outcomes of every selection decision” (accept good / reject poor / accept poor / reject good) so that managers truly understand the stakes.
Doing this kind of work doesn’t just fill roles — it builds the kind of teams where people stay, perform, and feel part of something. That’s high return on investment.
2. Better training delivery means better outcomes (and fewer mistakes)
When you commit to delivering the course at a high standard — using high-quality resources, facilitating with energy, and engaging the group actively — you reduce risk. Hiring mistakes are costly, as they waste time, erode morale, and deplete resources.
The course materials we provide include a fully editable 88-slide PowerPoint, facilitator guide, participant workbook (57 pages), and built-in assessment + action system.
If you merely scratch the surface, you risk participants walking away thinking “okay, I know how to write a job spec,” but not being confident in how to assess someone, avoid bias, or measure recruitment performance.
Going the extra mile means helping managers leave the room with fundamental tools — structured interviews, psychometric testing frameworks, and metrics like quality of hire.
The difference between “I’ll try doing better” and “I am confident I can do better”.
That confidence changes behaviour, and behaviour drives results.
3. Your reputation as a trainer (and the value of your training programme) goes up
When you deliver great, impactful courses, people notice.
Participants tell their peers, sponsors of training ask for you again, and budgets stretch to your programs.
If you treat the recruitment-skills course as “just another workshop”, you miss the chance to build your credibility.
But if you invest the extra effort — customise the materials, bring real examples, follow up with action planning — you position yourself as a trusted partner in performance, not just a facilitator.
Our workshop pack explicitly states that if you built the course yourself from scratch, you’d likely invest 20-30 hours of prep.
The beauty is that with ready-to-go content, you free up that time to focus not on slide creation but on delivery excellence: building discussion, running real-world simulations, and helping your managers internalise the learning.
That extra edge makes the difference in how participants rate you — and how much business impact your training achieves.
Summing up
When you deliver a recruitment skills course for new managers, choosing to go the extra mile isn’t optional if you want real results.
You’re shaping culture, ensuring better outcomes, and building your own credibility.
And you don’t have to reinvent everything.
With the course materials we’ve developed for trainers, you can focus less on prep and more on delivery, turning good training into significant impact.
Catherine Fitzgerald is the founder of Oak Innovation. With over 30 years of experience in the training and development industry, Catherine and her team are ideally positioned to help corporate trainers, people managers, and consultants access editable training course material.
