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
- Model states and valid transitions
- Make repeated events safe
- Classify failures and recover partial work
- Test recovery and reconciliation
Course lessons
- Model states and valid transitions
- Make repeated events safe
- Classify failures and recover partial work
- 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 workbookSources and further reading
Original Academy teaching and fictional examples. These references provide context, not endorsement. Edition 2026.09; updated 2026-09-24.
- GOV.UK: Responsible AI in recruitment
UK guidance on procuring and deploying recruitment AI.
- NIST: AI Risk Management Framework
Voluntary framework for organising AI risks and controls.