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TSI University: Comprehensive Talent Sourcing and Recruiting Curriculum

At TSI University, our mission is to equip you with the problem-solving skills you need to excel in talent sourcing and recruitment. Our online courses adhere to the highest education standards and are carefully engineered for the best learning experience. With a focus on real-life tasks and situations, our program provides the knowledge and expertise necessary to outperform the competition.

Innovative Curriculum

Learn problem-solving skills, not just mimicry training drills with our talent sourcing and recruiting curriculum.

Real-Life Focus

Our programs are designed to prepare you for real-life tasks and situations, providing you with the skills you need to outperform the competition.

High-Quality Learning

Experience interactive e-book learning and live instructor-led virtual classes adhering to the Quality Matters higher education standard.
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Recruiting Smarter With Shally

With 80+ hours of core curriculum across 5 major modules, plus ongoing monthly content updates, weekly live sessions, community discussions, and access to a growing library of resources and previously published courses, Recruiting Smarter With Shally has everything you need to elevate your career. 

5 Core Modules

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Shally Steckerl

Founded by Shally Steckerl, the global authority on talent sourcing and recruitment strategy, TSI University is where practitioners come to master the craft of finding, engaging, and hiring talent that doesn't want to be found.

Shally has spent nearly three decades building high-performing teams and helping organizations turn talent acquisition into a competitive advantage. Shally doesn't just teach sourcing. He transforms how organizations think about talent. 


Whether you're sharpening your own skills or building a world-class team, this is where transformation happens.

Core Modules

Learners are advised to begin with the Welcome, Orientation, Meetings and Resources course to learn how to make the most out of this learning platform. In there is how you register for upcoming live meetings, and where you can find recordings of past meeting. 

After that, feel free to jump around to other courses, or follow them in the recommended order:

  • Managing Your Desk includes all the necessary fundamentals to start your recruitment and sourcing journey such as preparing for and conducting intake meetings, planning, organizing and prioritizing activities,
  • Strategy and Workflow includes important concepts for working with hiring managers, selecting keywords for your searches, screening and presenting candidates. 
  • Candidate Engagement is all about making contact with your candidates from posting jobs to emails, texting and message sequences. 
  • Candidate Discovery contains all the secrets of talent sourcing and lead identification so you can find anyone.
  • Tech and Analytics is the most advanced course and deals with topics like ChatGPT, Custom Search Engines, and Automation.

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Completion Expectations

Completion Expectations

Completion Expectations

Completion Expectations

Completion Expectations

Completion Expectations

Completion Expectations

Modules range in time investment from a minimum of 45 minutes to a maximum of three hours. Learners should generally devote one-third of that time to reading, watching or listening and two-thirds of the time to external activities as directed. 

For example, a 60-minute module typically involves two additional hours of activities such as practice, formative exercises, independent study, reading handouts, and completing the post-module knowledge check.

Time investment varies from one learner to another. Listed on the course page, each activity state an approximate length of time expected for completion based on either average reading speed, or the number of video/audio minutes included.

While the average total time expected to complete the full program once-through, at a reasonable pace and without repetition, is approximately 80 hours, it can range from 30 to 120 hours excluding weekly meetings. Expect to invest and additional 2 hours per live meeting. One for attendance or replay, the other in hands-on practice.

Program Duration

Your full TSI University learning track for Recruiting Smarter With Shally includes high-impact training content across sourcing, recruiting operations, search mastery, AI workflows, and hiring-manager excellence.

Total Structured Content in Recruiting Smarter With Shally

5 courses consisting of 30+ modules and 220+ learning activities 
15 hours of guided lessons, examples, case studies, and demonstrations.

Practical Learning Reality

Most learners take 30–80 hours once you include:

  • Pausing and reviewing techniques

  • Practicing searches

  • Applying lessons to live reqs

  • Completing worksheets and quizzes

  • Implementing playbooks in their own workflow


Recommended Pacing Options

Choose the style that fits your schedule, need, and urgency:


Fast-Track (3 Days) - Main Learning Path, No Extras

  • Day 1: Foundations, workflows, strategy, planning

  • Day 2: Hiring-manager alignment, intake, outreach 

  • Day 3: Advanced search mastery, AI and Automation

Ideal for teams onboarding quickly or recruiters jumping into complex reqs.


Standard Pace (5 Days) - Main Learning Path, No Extras

  • 3 hours of content per day

  • Allows time to practice between modules

  • Best for retention and application


Advanced Learning (2 Weeks) - Main Learning Path, No Extras

  • 60–90 minutes per day

  • Time to put each technique into actual hiring situations

  • Perfect for long-term skill adoption and performance change


Deep Mastery (3 Months) - Main Learning Path + All Modules and Extras

  • 5 hours per week (incl. attending office Hours, Jam Sessions and Masterclasses)

  • Learn how to apply frameworks instinctively and apply to any new setting 

  • Expand techniques into new and unexplored areas

Minimum Time to Complete

Hours

Average Time to Complete

Hours

Maximum Time to Complete

Hours

What You’ll Walk Away With

  • Repeatable sourcing frameworks
  • Better search results in less time
  • Outreach that gets replies
  • Confident intake leadership
  • Tight hiring-manager partnerships
  • Practical AI workflows
  • Unfair advantages
instructional Design Notes
  • Adult learning principles applied throughout
  • Microlearning approach (5-15 minute lessons)
  • Spaced repetition with knowledge checks
  • Real-world application in every section
  • Progressive complexity building
  • Optional live coaching sessions
  • Downloadable job aids and templates
  • Mobile-friendly content delivery
Our Talent Sourcing and Recruiting curriculum leads the industry in quality and comprehensiveness. We focus on equipping students with problem-solving skills, rather than running mimicry-training drills.

Our programs are designed around real-life tasks and situations, bringing you only what you need to know to be able to outperform the competition.

Online courses adhere to the Quality Matters higher education standards. These are not recorded webinars. They are interactive e-learning experiences, ensuring ease of use and remote access from any Internet connected device.

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