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Description

Artificial Intelligence in Recruitment: Assessing Tools, Setting Controls and Making the Call

Two days to decide whether a CV screening tool belongs in your selection process

  • 2 days — 14 h
  • In-person or virtual
  • Expert
  • Up to 6 participants

Application screening and assisted interview tools are multiplying and executive teams expect time savings. The recruitment lead must state whether a tool is acceptable without being able to open up how it works or know what data it was built on. A rejected candidate may ask for an explanation.

These 14 hours are designed for experienced recruitment professionals. Participants build a method for assessing tools, examine the mechanisms through which bias is reproduced at scale, define what must remain a human decision and prepare the information owed to candidates. The ethical framework is treated as a decision-making tool.

Learning objectives

  • Assess an application screening or evaluation tool against explicit criteria
  • Identify the mechanisms through which bias is reproduced in an automated process
  • Define what must remain a human decision within a selection process
  • Prepare the information provided to candidates on the use of these tools
  • Build an audit grid applicable to tools already in service
  • Argue the case for rejecting a tool before an executive team expecting time savings

What makes this programme different

A tool assessment grid built and then applied to a real case brought by the participant
Automated screening runs replayed to show exactly where bias takes hold
A rejection case prepared and then delivered to an executive team under time pressure

Programme

1Mapping the use cases

From sourcing to decision

  • Stages of the process where these tools are proposed
  • Distinction between ranking support and automated decision-making
  • What an application assessment tool actually measures
  • What vendors demonstrate and what they merely assert

2Understanding bias

Training data and reproduction

  • Origin of the data used to build a selection tool
  • Reproduction of an organisation's past choices
  • Variables indirectly linked to prohibited criteria
  • Limits of the fairness metrics announced by a vendor

3Assessing and selecting a tool

Vendor questions and controlled trials

  • Building an assessment grid tailored to the process
  • Questions on design
  • updates and traceability
  • Trial protocol comparing the tool with the current process
  • Conditions for stopping a pilot

4Governing the practice

Human decision-making | information and control

  • Points in the process where a human decision remains required
  • Informing candidates and responding to a request for explanation
  • Monitoring process outcomes over time
  • The recruitment function's position when facing pressing demands from leadership

Who is it for

Recruitment managers · experienced recruitment officers · HR managers and project leads for recruitment tools.

Prerequisites

Experienced recruitment practice and accountability for a selection process.

Dates & locations

36 scheduled dates between November 2026 and December 2027. Seats are confirmed in the order enquiries are received.

November 2026

December 2026

January 2027

February 2027

March 2027

April 2027

May 2027

June 2027

September 2027

October 2027

November 2027

December 2027

None of these dates suit you? We open additional sessions on request, and any programme can be run privately for your team.

Practical details

Before the programme
Online positioning questionnaire. Your development objectives are shared with the trainer, who tailors the practical case studies to your context.
Teaching methods
Theoretical input, workshops and practical case studies. Digital course materials and method sheets provided.
Assessment
Multiple-choice tests and role-play exercises. Assessment of learning at the start and end of the programme, with immediate and 60-day follow-up evaluations.
After the programme
One year of access to the e-learning platform. Self-assessment of the skills acquired and a 30-day follow-up session with your trainer.
How to register
Registration online or on the basis of a quotation.
Lead time
11 working days after confirmation of registration.
Accessibility
Accessible to people of determination. Contact our accessibility coordinator to design a suitable solution: contact@mpf-academy.ae
Start dates
Rolling intake: in addition to the scheduled sessions, this programme can start on request.