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Recrutiment & Employment Confederation

Access the academy today

This dedicated platform is packed with over 800 recruitment-specific videos, offering flexible, accessible, and engaging learning opportunities to help you thrive in your role.


Why choose the REC Academy?

  • Bite-sized learning: Easily digestible content tailored to fit your busy schedule, with modules mapped to the core competencies of successful recruiters.
  • Exclusive REC content: Access premium materials that elevate your learning experience, built around industry standards.
  • Self-curated learning: Empower your team to take control of their professional growth, developing essential knowledge, skills, behaviour, and standards.

Designed for every stage of your career

Whether you're just starting out or leading a team, the REC Academy has you covered:

  • New recruiters: Build a strong foundation for success.
  • Experienced recruiters: Hone your skills and expand your expertise.
  • Recruitment managers & Leaders: Master leadership strategies and drive team performance.

Why choose the REC Academy?

Bite-sized learning: Easily digestible content tailored to fit your busy schedule, with modules mapped to the core competencies of successful recruiters. Exclusive REC content: Access premium materials that elevate your learning experience, built around industry standards. Self-curated earning: Empower your team to take control of their professional growth, developing essential knowledge, skills, behaviours, and standards.

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Included in your corporate membership

As part of your corporate membership, your entire recruitment team can access this powerful tool—anytime, anywhere. Equip your staff to excel in their current roles and prepare for future challenges with dynamic, on-demand training.

 

How to access the REC Academy

To log in and access the Academy learning platform simply log in to your REC account at rec.uk.com/my-account and click on the REC Academy button to get started.


FAQs

What is The REC Academy?

The REC Academy is a Learning Management System, hosting online training courses focused on the knowledge, skills, behaviours and professional standards that recruiters need.

Who is the training for?

The courses have been mapped against key career stages – New Recruiters, Experienced Recruiters, Recruitment Managers and Recruitment Leaders 

The courses are also mapped against the core knowledge, skills, behaviours and professional standards to make it easy to navigate.

How is the training delivered?

The courses are a mixture of live presenters, filmed delivering training courses, seminars or other training content. This content is edited into bite-sized learning and augmented with AI. 

The AI element is all scripted by recruitment professionals and developed into engaging learning modules.

Who has developed the content?

The content has been developed with Mike Walmsley of Recruitment Training Ltd. Mike has been a thought leader in the recruitment industry for over 20 years. Formerly a £1M biller, he was one of the initial drivers of the international recruitment group, Parker Bridge, before subsequently becoming Managing Director and developing recruitment training that helped him to mastermind a twenty-fold growth in staff size and financial turnover. 

​His encyclopedic knowledge of recruitment techniques coupled with a sharp and innovative mind, has led him to being described as the original SuperBiller™ – and he now presents to packed recruitment audiences around the world at the largest recruitment trade associations.

Is the content Quality Assured?

Yes, as well as a rigorous QA process carried out by the Recruitment Training team as part of the course development process, all of the content has been reviewed by REC colleagues, all of whom have a recruiting background. 

We have checked the videos for quality and relevance of content  

We are only human so it’s possible that we might have missed something. If you spot a mistake please let us know by emailing training@rec.uk.com including a link to the relevant page.


Start your learning journey today

Transform your recruitment career with cutting-edge resources tailored to your needs. Explore the REC Academy and unlock the skills and knowledge to succeed now and in the future.

Corporate members can log in today as part of their membership.