Overview

Recruiting staff members who are genuinely "work-ready" served as a highly powerful lever for achieving organizational excellence. However, a common pitfall for many firms was hiring reactively and rushing into the recruitment process only when they became overwhelmed. This reactive pattern almost always resulted in a poor cultural or professional fit, low overall performance, and high employee turnover.

This training was designed to break that cycle. Participants learned how to accurately define the specific roles their organisation genuinely needed, identify the exact characteristics of "Top Talent" for those roles, and design a structured recruitment process that filtered candidates for both competence and character. Additionally, the course covered onboarding practices engineered to transform new hires into productive, confident contributors within a short timeframe.

Webinar Content

The training programme was structured around the following core topics:

• Intentional Hiring vs. Desperation Hiring: Understanding the strategic shift from reactive, rushed recruitment to planned, proactive staffing.
• Defining Top Talent for Your Organisation: Learning how to map out what peak performance looked like for specific organisational needs.
• A Practical, Structured Recruitment Process: Designing a step-by-step hiring framework that screened effectively for key traits.
• Onboarding That Creates Work-Ready Staff: Implementing integration practices that accelerated a new hire's time-to-productivity.

Competencies Development

By the conclusion of this training, participants developed the capabilities to:

• Strategically Plan Staffing Needs: Align hiring requirements directly with overarching organisational goals and workflow designs.
• Define Role-Specific Top Talent Profiles: Establish comprehensive candidate criteria that encompassed technical skills, behavioural traits, and values-based alignment.
• Design and Execute Structured Recruitment: Build and implement a rigorous hiring process that actively reduced hiring risks while improving the overall quality of candidates.

Presenter

Tamryn Dicks - Burnout Survivor, Multi-Business Owner & "Accidental Accountant"

Tamryn is an international speaker, entrepreneur, and financial expert who transformed three rounds of burnout into a blueprint for sustainable business success. After spending seven years running her accounting firm completely layout-free and nomadically, she mastered the art of building businesses that can run seamlessly without their founders. A finalist for WBC’s 2025 Speaker of the Year , Tamryn blends candid vulnerability with deep strategic knowledge to help audiences conquer overwhelm, master their financials, and build profitable businesses without sacrificing their well-being.

CPD

Attending this webinar and the successful completion of the online assessment will secure a certificate of completion for 1 hours of CPD.

Event Investment

Free for Tax Practitioner, Tax Accountant CPD subscribers and Practice Packages. Not a CPD subscriber yet? Click here to register now.

• Regular price:  R230.00
• Group booking discounts available when you register for a group.

Payments and cancellations

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