Successful Talent Acquisition with Sales Techniques

Successful Talent Acquisition with Sales Techniques

Course Information

1 Day Course

Fee: $600 (bef. GST)

Course Dates:

  • 15 May 2025
  • 20 June 2025


Time: 
9.15am – 5pm

Contact: [email protected] 

Venue: Hotel (near MRT)

Note:

  • Tea breaks and buffet lunch will be served. Car park coupons are available upon request. 
  • For 3 pax and above, 10% discount across the board

Course Introduction

This course is designed to help Talent Acquisition Professionals, Recruiters, and Head-hunters who want to harness sales techniques to enhance their hiring success and stay ahead of the competition.

The participants will have a good understanding of strong interpersonal skills, techniques to pitch for and successfully attract top talents to impact growth of individuals, organisations and businesses.

Learning Outcome

  • Develop a Sales-Driven Talent Acquisition Mindset
    Participants will be able to apply strategic sales techniques to talent acquisition, including prospecting, nurturing, and closing top candidates effectively.

  • Enhance Employer Branding and Candidate Engagement
    Participants will craft compelling job pitches and employer branding strategies to attract and convert passive talent into engaged applicants.

  • Master Objection Handling and Negotiation Skills
    Participants will gain confidence in handling counteroffers, salary negotiations, and candidate concerns to successfully close hiring deals.

Course Outlines

Apply strategic thinking to position the company, map out the competitive landscape and plan how to prospect the candidates.  

Learn how the top sales professionals attract, nurture, and close deals—and apply those same techniques to securing top talents

Craft compelling employer branding and job pitches that transform passive talent into engaged applicants

Master strategies for handling counteroffers, salary negotiations, and candidate concerns effectively

Pitch succinctly with power to impress and attract top-notch candidates against strong competition

Implement a streamlined, sales-driven talent acquisition process to speed up moving from sourcing to offer acceptance

  • Use LinkedIn and digital platforms to proactively source and engage top candidates
  • Apply relationship-building techniques to create a robust, high-quality talent pipeline

Master the art of closing to ensure the right candidates say “YES” and confidently accept your offer

  • Engaging Mini Lecture
  • Interactive Activities
  • Learning Videos

Trainer Profile

Christina Tan has been a sales professional for more than 25 years, with 10 years of sales management experience. She has diverse exposure as Sales and Business Development Director, Product Manager and Consultant spanning across world class multi-national companies, local multi-nationals, SMEs and government trade agencies.

Applying a successful proven methodology, Christina acquired close to 100 clients including Fortune 500 clients, government agencies and local large and medium enterprises. These customers include real estate, healthcare, home team, education, telecommunication and manufacturing sectors. She had contributed in contracts of over $100m and sustainable pipeline of multi-million-dollar for key accounts 3 years ahead. She created legacy deals for pioneering world class technologies, breaking into green field markets from scratch to million-dollar markets.  In her consulting role with Singapore trade agencies, she had assisted SMEs in business, productivity and quality improvement national programme committees and winning Star Awards.

In her management role, Christina has systematically trained sales teams on effective communication with customers, networking techniques to increase business contacts and sales pipelines, rapid rapport-building to create connections, consultative and insightful selling and building lasting customer and partner relationships. Christina sets high training standards in customer service, advocating impactful personal branding and image, tactful phone conversation and phone etiquette. In addition, sales teams will acquire skills in the management of challenging customers, conducting of professional customer meeting and impressive presentation skills. 

Christina guides sales team on how to formulate strategic partnership for multiplier effects for business optimisation. Other critical skill sets like time optimisation, counteracting objections, sales closure and cycle management are what Christina has successfully proven through her sales career and training of her team.

Christina has a balanced blend of both hard and soft skills. She graduated with Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics (2nd Class Honours) from Nanyang Technological University and was awarded Graduate Diploma in Marketing (Silver Medal Award) from the Marketing Institute of Singapore. She was also top achiever in Integrated Productivity Improvement KAIZEN Course organized by Asian Productivity Organisation conducted in Japan.

Companies that she had worked in included SMEs, MTI Agencies now Enterprise Singapore, MNCs (Dimension Data, Equinix, IBM) and large GLC (ST Engineering). Her vast exposure provides good understanding of business contexts to contribute to the sales force across key sectors.

To date, she has trained and coached hundreds of entrepreneurs, Sales Leaders and Professionals, ranging from financial services, IT, direct sales, education, manufacturing, sustainability, healthtech and other key industries to achieve increased sales results. These include Gojek, MeshBio, Financial Alliance, Prudential, NTUC Club and others.