ERF Course: AI, Risk and Responsibility for Recruitment Leaders

A four-part online workshop series for owners, directors and managers of recruitment agencies in Ireland. It is led by Mary Seery Kearney, a barrister who specialises in employment, privacy and AI law, and is run with ERF Skillnet. It builds on the ERF AI Code of Conduct. No technical background is needed.

What it covers

• Session one: how AI produces answers, where it fails and how it is used against businesses.
• Session two: prompting, confidentiality and chatbots that talk to candidates.
• Session three: ethics, bias and what a business is exposed to if it gets AI wrong.
• Session four: the guardrails, policies and human oversight a leader should set up, and what to do after an attack.

Good to know

• The sessions are on 11 and 25 November, 1 December and 9 December 2026, from 10am to 12pm.
• It costs 99 euros per person, or 250 euros for a group of three.
• The course is subsidised by ERF Skillnet. A Skillnet Ireland upskilling grant is available to companies and is paid after the training.