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AI for Small Business HR: Without an HR Team, 580+ Tools
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AI for Small Business HR: Without an HR Team, 580+ Tools
No HR department, so hiring, reviews and pay land on you? AI for small business HR with ChatGPT and Claude prompts
Last updated 10/2026
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What you'll learn
- Do the three HR jobs without an HR team: take 580+ ready AI prompts, templates, checklists and procedures in 84 downloadable resources
- Place your company on four levels with the Small business HR level check from the first lecture
- Write prompts that return something usable and build an assistant on your own documents with ChatGPT and Claude
- Hire with AI: define the role, write a job advert that attracts, screen CVs against requirements and generate interview questions
- Source and contact candidates with the Boolean string generator prompt library, X-ray sourcing platforms and outreach scripts
- Choose between ChatGPT and Claude with an AI comparison matrix and know which candidate data you must never upload
- Run performance reviews: SMART goals and OKRs, the review form, one-on-ones and development plans built from real performance
- Set pay with a Hay evaluation scorecard, a job architecture builder, a market pricing calculator and a pay equity analyzer
- Plan the payroll budget in three scenarios, personalise benefits and build total rewards statements
- Learn with Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy: 1,800,000+ enrollments, 170,000 students, about 200 books on Amazon
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Course content
17 sections • 46 lectures • 20h 16m total length
Requirements
- A small business where you handle hiring, reviews or pay yourself
- No HR background required: every task comes with a ready prompt, template or checklist
- Access to ChatGPT or Claude; a free plan is enough to start
- Nothing to buy for the course itself: the presentations and 33 working files are attached to the lectures
- English at intermediate level or above, since all lessons are in English
Description
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
In a company of thirty people there is no HR department, so all three of its jobs land on you: hiring, reviews and pay. Here are 584 tools to do them well: 435 ready-to-use AI prompts, procedures, checklists and templates, 36 models and methods, 80 services shown on screen and 33 working files.
Open a lecture, copy the prompt, use it on a real task today.
Three gaps, and no budget to fill them
You hire four times a year, which is exactly the frequency at which nobody gets good at it. The advert is a list of duties, the CVs blur together, and the interview is improvised. You have never run a performance review, because the templates online assume a department that does not exist. And pay is set by feel: two people doing the same work are probably on different money, and one of them will find out.
What changes after this course
You write a job advert in minutes and screen CVs against clear requirements. You know which AI tool to use for which task and what data must stay out of it. You run reviews with goals, a form and a development plan. You grade jobs, compare pay with the market and find who is underpaid. And you plan the payroll budget and benefits in numbers.
Written for a company with no HR department
There are many AI courses for people who work in HR. This one is for the owner or manager who ended up holding the hiring, the reviews and the pay decisions because there was nobody else. Everything here works without a team, without a budget and without an HR system: a chat window, a spreadsheet and about an hour.
What is inside: 584 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.
- 84 downloadable resources: the lecture presentations plus 33 working files, from the AI comparison matrix and the recruiter prompt framework to the pay equity analyzer and the total rewards statement builder
- 435 ready-to-use tools inside the presentations:
- 298 ready AI prompts: workplace conflict analysis, preparing instructions, automating routine texts, job offer comparison
- 37 step-by-step procedures and workflows: job description creation, batch resume screening, AI survey analysis, AI implementation for HR
- 30 checklists: job description quality, bias-aware candidate screening, AI hiring oversight, compensation budget validation
- 28 templates and sample documents: job advertisement, offer letter, total rewards statement, employee development plan
- 20 scorecards, rubrics and matrices: candidate screening, AI platform selection, merit increase matrix, hiring versus pay increases
- 10 question lists and scripts: hiring manager brief, structured interviews, salary review conversations, CFO budget defense
- 8 formulas and metric sets: sourcing and screening KPIs, candidate communication KPIs, AI performance management impact, salary review cycle metrics
- 4 other working tools: 90-day adoption roadmap, salary survey source selection, promotion and off-cycle pay adjustments
- 36 models and methods explained with examples: performance management cycle, market pricing, bottom-up budgeting, Lewin change model
- 80 services shown on screen, including ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, Zapier and PapaHR
Where the tools are
- Start here (1 tool). The Small business HR level check: place your company on four levels.
- AI foundations (2 sections, 125 tools). What AI can and cannot do, productivity, business documents, content, research and advanced prompts.
- Hiring with AI (4 sections, 151 tools). Job descriptions, employer value proposition, CV screening, sourcing, candidate communication, interviews, automation and analytics.
- Claude for recruiting (2 sections, 127 tools). Claude against ChatGPT, projects per vacancy, screening, messages, connectors, instructions and skills.
- Performance reviews (2 sections, 24 tools). Goals and OKRs, monitoring, review forms, one-on-ones and development plans.
- Pay (2 sections, 107 tools). Job architecture and grading, market benchmarking, salary review, pay equity, payroll budget, benefits and total rewards statements.
- The rest of HR (4 sections, 93 tools). Automation, people analytics, learning, implementation, data security and the AI readiness checklist.
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. I am also a founder and lead the strategy of my own academy.
I talk to ChatGPT every day, five to ten conversations, each in a new tab. When an answer is not good enough, I rewrite the instruction until it is, and for my regular tasks I keep ready templates that describe exactly what I need and how the answer should look. In my own academy every blog illustration is made the same way: a template where I paste the article title and the style, instead of spending five or ten minutes searching for a picture.
How to use the course
Start with the first lecture and its level check. Then go to the job you face this month: hiring, reviews or pay. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.
What is included
- 46 lectures across 17 sections, 20.5 hours
- 84 downloadable resources: lecture presentations and 33 working files
- 584 tools across the lessons, including 80 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 what you pay your last three hires and why. If any of those answers is "because they asked", start with the pay sections. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.
Who this course is for:
- Owners and managers of small businesses who do HR because nobody else does
- Office managers and operations leads who inherited hiring and pay decisions
- Founders of startups before their first HR hire
- The first and only HR person in a growing company
- Consultants who support small businesses with people questions