CIPD Level 7 Advanced Award in Resourcing and Talent Management

The qualification is suitable for practitioners who have responsibility for HR decision making at a strategic level.

You're likely to be in a role where you either contribute to, or are responsible for, setting the strategic direction for resourcing, retaining and developing talent. You may also be involved in short and long term talent planning and succession planning activities with a view to building your organisations performance.

On successful completion of the programme, you'll have demonstrated your ability to: 

• analyse and evaluate the major features of national and international employment markets from which organisations source staff and ways in which these markets evolve or change
• develop and evaluate resourcing and talent management strategies, diversity management and flexible working initiatives
• manage recruitment, selection and induction activities effectively, efficiently, lawfully and professionally
• undertake and evaluate long and short term talent planning and succession planning exercises with a view to building long term organisational performance
• gather, analyse and use information on employee turnover as the basis for developing robust staff retention strategies
• manage retirement, redundancy and dismissal practices fairly, efficiently and in accordance with the expectation of the law, ethical and professional practice.

To gain the CIPD Level 7 Advanced Award in Resourcing and Talent Management, you must:

Qualify for the award through a short telephone diagnostic

The first step is to make sure you are going to have the necessary evidence for the competency-based assessments at the assessment centre. A short telephone diagnostic will help us to decide if you qualify for this route.

Attend the following workshops

• Induction Workshop
  Once accepted and registered on the programme, your next step is to attend an induction workshop. This workshop outlines the competency-based model for the Award(s), including the assessment design and criteria. We will cover all aspects of the assessments and how we can support you with compiling and submitting your evidence for assessment.


• Two Working towards Assessment Workshops
  During the 20-week programme you are required to attend two separate workshops, usually in weeks 3 and 10. The style and approach of the workshops is to share experiences and ways of working and may at times require some pre-workshop activity.

Successfully complete

• pre-workshop activity 
• assessment preparation activities, key reading and research 
• telephone assessment session 
• preparation activities and evidence which you will present to assessors at the assessment centre. 

Your time in between and after workshops is taken up with various assessment preparation activities, as well as key reading and research with the support of your adviser. All of which prepares you for a telephone assessment session with your adviser in week 18. This session will focus on reviewing your preparation activities and the evidence you will present to the assessors at the assessment centre in week 20, giving you two weeks to take on board any adviser feedback.

Present to the assessors at the assessment centre
Week 20 is the assessment centre, which takes place over two consecutive days. You will go through each of the assessments with other candidates and receive your feedback report a week after the assessment centre, which will include the assessment decision.