Free practical course

Advanced Automation and Exception Handling

Design stateful workflows that survive duplicates, partial failures, retries and changing candidate intent.

What you will build

A state machine, failure matrix and recovery specification.

Before you start: Plan Your First Recruitment Workflow and basic familiarity with records and integrations.

74 min estimated, including practice. 4 written lessons.

What you will learn

Course lessons

  1. Model states and valid transitions
  2. Make repeated events safe
  3. Classify failures and recover partial work
  4. Test recovery and reconciliation

Complete the lessons and pass the five-question knowledge assessment at 80% to earn a free course certificate. Exercises are self-directed, not independently graded.

Download the practice workbook

Sources and further reading

Original Academy teaching and fictional examples. These references provide context, not endorsement. Edition 2026.09; updated 2026-09-24.

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