This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

A candidate can pass every interview and still never start: the role needs a U.S. person or an active clearance, and nobody checked in week one. Here are 91 tools to hire in defense tech: 52 ready-to-use question lists, templates, checklists and procedures, 13 models and methods, 10 services shown on screen and 16 working files.

Open a lecture, take the eligibility screen, and check the roles you are hiring for today.

Why defense tech hiring breaks late

Eligibility is checked after the offer, hardware roles are described in software terms, cleared candidates are hard to find, military experience is not translated, and start dates slip for months.

What changes after this course

Eligibility is checked lawfully at the start, intake fits hardware roles, cleared talent is sourced where it is, veterans hear a clear mission, and start dates are forecast honestly.

What is inside: 91 tools, counted lecture by lecture

You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.

• 24 downloadable resources: lecture presentations plus 16 working files, including a defense recruiting eligibility screen, a military skills translator, a cleared sourcing library and a start-date forecaster
• 52 ready-to-use tools inside the presentations:
• 27 templates and sample documents: export control and clearance wording, FSO clearance verification email, candidate eligibility screening record, clearance premium calculator
• 12 question lists and scripts: clearance and export eligibility screening, hardware role intake, veteran interviews, clearance timeline manager script
• 7 step-by-step procedures: cleared job board search, patent-to-profile sourcing, SkillBridge partner recruitment, military occupation crosswalk filtering
• 3 checklists, plus 1 scorecards, rubrics and matrices, 1 metric set and 1 other working tool: prohibited eligibility screening questions, veteran interview boundaries, defense tech hiring map, recruitment funnel conversion metrics, clearance path decision tree
• 13 models and methods explained with examples: technology readiness levels (TRL), SWaP-C design constraints, AS9100 quality management, behavioral and situational interviewing
• 10 services shown on screen, including ClearanceJobs, LinkedIn Recruiter, Google Search, GitHub and Google Patents

Where the tools are

Basics and eligibility (2 sections, 16 tools). Defense employers, key roles, clearance, ITAR and U.S. person checks.

Hardware recruiting (1 section, 33 tools). Intake and cleared candidate sourcing.

Veterans and outreach (1 section, 19 tools). Military resumes, the mission pitch and objections.

Offers and planning (1 section, 25 tools). Compensation, equity, hiring plans and start dates.

Who is teaching

I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe.

At Wargaming the company grew so fast, to 2,000 employees, that the local market could not supply the people it needed. We brought people to Minsk from Europe, Ukraine and other countries. When the talent pool is small and specific, recruiting becomes planning: where the people are and how long it takes to bring them in.

How to use the course

Start with eligibility, then sourcing, veterans and offers. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.

What is included

• 8 lectures across 5 sections, 6 hours
• 24 downloadable resources: lecture presentations and 16 working files
• 91 tools across the lessons, including 10 services shown on screen
• Lifetime access to all materials
• Active instructor support in the Q&A section
• A Udemy Certificate of Completion

Where to start

Write down the roles you hire for that need clearance or U.S. person status, then open the first section. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.