Structured Interviewing HR CPD Course Online: 2.5 CPHR and HRPA CPD Hours

Hiring Better: Structured Interviews and Fair Selection is a practical, self-paced CPD course for HR professionals, recruiters and hiring managers who want to select people more fairly and accurately. Its nine narrated lessons include: Why Hiring Goes Wrong; Defining the Job; Writing and Posting the Job. You practise on realistic situations and finish with a 36-question final exam. Built to align with CPHR and HRPA CPD requirements, it gives you 2.5 instructional hours and a certificate for your CPD log.

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Practical skills you can use at work the next day

This course is built for HR professionals, recruiters and hiring managers who want to select people more fairly and accurately. Each lesson is about 17 minutes of narrated video with on-screen exercises where you pause and work a realistic situation, followed by a three-question knowledge check that explains every answer. You finish with a written plan or tool you can use at work, a participant workbook with templates, and a final exam that confirms you have the material.

What you will learn in this structured interviewing HR CPD course

• Name common hiring traps and explain why structure improves accuracy and fairness.
• Analyze a job and build a scorecard with observable criteria.
• Write inclusive postings and describe Ontario's job posting and hiring transparency rules in force since January 1, 2026.
• Screen applications consistently and handle gaps and foreign experience fairly.
• Design structured interview questions with scoring guides.
• Run interviews, take evidence-based notes and score independently.
• Avoid questions on protected grounds and handle accommodation in hiring.
• Conduct reference checks, make consistent offers, notify candidates and keep records.

Hiring Better course curriculum: nine lessons, built around real situations

Short, narrated video lessons with worked examples, each closing with a knowledge check so you know the material has landed. Slides and a transcript are included for every lesson.

Who should take this hiring better course

Structured Interviewing HR CPD course: 2.5 online CPD hours for CPHR and HRPA professionals

This course is built to align with CPHR and HRPA CPD requirements for self-directed online learning. It counts as 2.5 instructional hours. You complete every lesson, pass the final exam at 80 percent, download your certificate, and enter the activity in your association’s CPD log yourself. Keep the certificate and your final exam result as your evidence. It is not accredited or pre-approved by CPHR, HRPA or any other association.

It is written for HR professionals across Canada, including CPHR members in British Columbia and Yukon, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island, and HRPA members in Ontario, whether you hold a CPHR, CHRP, CHRL or CHRE designation or are working toward one.

The complete HR CPD pack gives you all 27 courses, 67.5 CPD hours and a certificate for each, for $349 CAD. Bought one at a time they would cost $1,323, so you save $974.

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Hiring Better course: common questions