This beginner‑friendly course gives you a practical foundation in Human Resources across the full employee lifecycle. Through simple tools, realistic scenarios, and step‑by‑step guidance, you’ll learn how HR supports hiring, onboarding, pay, benefits, performance, and employee relations while maintaining fairness, consistency, and compliance. You’ll build essential skills in recruiting, job analysis, compensation basics, feedback and coaching, learning and development, employment law, and respectful offboarding. By the end, you’ll understand what HR does, speak the language of HR confidently, and apply core practices that help employees and organizations thrive.
1. Welcome to HR Essentials
2. From Hire to Exit
3. Rules that Reduce Risk
4. Planning the Work
5. Finding Talent
6. Choosing Fairly
7. Setting People Up to Succeed
8. Pay and Benefits 101
9. Helping Performance Improve
10. Bringing It All Together
Following this program, learners will be able to:
HR Foundations & Employee Lifecycle
Map and explain each stage of the employee lifecycle—from attraction through exit.
Describe HR’s core responsibilities and how policies, handbooks, and documentation support consistency.
Hiring, Onboarding & Workforce Planning
Conduct basic job analysis and understand workforce planning needs.
Use structured, fair recruiting and interviewing practices to support job‑related hiring decisions.
Compensation, Payroll & Benefits Basics
Explain foundational pay concepts (ranges, equity, pay periods, overtime basics, deductions).
Describe total rewards and the Employee Value Proposition (EVP) that helps attract and retain talent.
Performance, Development & Coaching
Apply fundamentals of performance management, feedback, coaching, and identifying training needs.
Understand how learning & development supports employee growth and organizational capability.
Employee Relations, Compliance & Culture
Recognize essential employment law concepts and respond to common employee relations issues.
Conduct fair workplace investigations, manage discipline respectfully, and support healthy offboarding.
Connect HR practices to culture, engagement, and inclusive everyday behaviors.
Certificate of completion
This beginner‑friendly course gives you a practical foundation in Human Resources across the full employee lifecycle. Through simple tools, realistic scenarios, and step‑by‑step guidance, you’ll learn how HR supports hiring, onboarding, pay, benefits, performance, and employee relations while maintaining fairness, consistency, and compliance. You’ll build essential skills in recruiting, job analysis, compensation basics, feedback and coaching, learning and development, employment law, and respectful offboarding. By the end, you’ll understand what HR does, speak the language of HR confidently, and apply core practices that help employees and organizations thrive.