Sustainable Recruitment Excellence: From Principles to Practice

Sustainable Recruitment Excellence: From Principles to Practice

(with the Sustainable Recruitment Alliance Ireland )

CONTENT

These workshops will provide recruitment leaders, consultants, HR professionals, talent acquisition teams and business leaders with practical tools, frameworks and real-world examples to help align recruitment and onboarding activities with wider organisational sustainability and ESG objectives.

Participants will leave with actionable steps they can immediately implement within their recruitment processes, alongside a deeper understanding of how sustainable recruitment practices can strengthen employer brand, improve candidate experience, support client ESG goals, reduce unnecessary costs and contribute to a culture of sustainability.

WORKSHOP 1

Sustainable Recruitment Fundamentals: Aligning Recruitment with ESG and Organisational Sustainability Goals

Learn how sustainability is reshaping recruitment and discover practical ways to build more responsible, future-focused hiring practices.

This session explores the business case for sustainable recruitment, key industry trends, and the Sustainable Recruitment Alliance Ireland (SRAI) Framework. Participants will learn how to benchmark current practices, set meaningful sustainability goals, measure recruitment impact, and identify opportunities for improvement.

Topics include:

• • -The business case for sustainable recruitment

  • – Introduction to the Sustainable Recruitment Alliance Ireland (SRAI)

  • – The SRAI Sustainable Recruitment Framework & Assessment Tool

  • – Measuring recruitment-related environmental impact

  • – Recruitment CO₂ emissions and reduction strategies

  • – Sustainable hiring and ESG-aligned recruitment practices

  • – Real-world case studies and practical examples

  • – Interactive discussion and Q&A

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• – Assess and benchmark current recruitment practices

• – Identify sustainability improvement opportunities

• – Set sustainability goals and KPIs

• – Measure and track recruitment impact

• – Apply sustainable recruitment principles within their organisation

WORKSHOP 2

Sustainable Recruitment in Practice: From Attraction to Onboarding

Move beyond theory and learn how to embed sustainability throughout the entire recruitment lifecycle.

This practical session explores how recruitment teams can align hiring activities with ESG goals, from workforce planning and candidate attraction through to onboarding and employee engagement. Participants will gain actionable insights, proven best practices, and a framework for developing a sustainable recruitment action plan.

Topics Covered

• – Aligning the recruitment lifecycle with ESG objectives

• – Sustainable job design, advertising, attraction and selection

• – Sustainable onboarding and employee engagement

• – Graduate and early talent recruitment strategies

• – ESG-led employer branding

• – Building a culture of sustainability through hiring

• – Developing a sustainable recruitment action plan

• – Interactive Q&A

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• – Apply sustainable recruitment principles across the hiring lifecycle

• – Identify quick wins and longer-term improvement opportunities

• – Create more sustainable onboarding experiences

• – Better engage sustainability-conscious candidates, including Gen Z talent

• – Use recruitment to support wider ESG and organisational goals

• – Develop a practical action plan for implementation

DETAILS:

DATES:             2nd & 9th September 

TIME:                10am – 12 noon 

FORMAT:          Online Training

COST:               FREE for ERF members / €30 pp Non-Members 

This course is subsidised by ERF Skillnet – Early booking is advisable as places are strictly limited.

About the trainer:

Andrew Sheehan is the Founder of the Sustainable Recruitment Alliance Ireland (SRAI) and SustainabilityExamples.com. Through the SRAI, Andrew helps organisations embed sustainability best practices into their talent strategies and workplace culture.

Before launching his own ventures, Andrew spent seven years in the recruitment industry, where he developed and implemented a corporate sustainability strategy that delivered both environmental and commercial results. He later created the Sustainable Recruitment Framework and Assessment Tool to help employers align recruitment with their ESG objectives.

Andrew holds a postgraduate qualification in Corporate Sustainability & ESG Strategy from TU Dublin, has judged the GradIreland Recruitment Awards since 2019 including their new category “Sustainability in early talent recruitment since its inception in 2022, and was recently named Newstalk’s Green Business Person of the Month in 2026.

https://sustainablerecruitmentalliance.ie/