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Business English for HR: Vocabulary and Job Interviews
3,128 students
Business English for HR: Vocabulary and Job Interviews
business english | english for hr | job interview english | interview preparation | hr vocabulary | esl | cv | star
Last updated 9/2026
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What you'll learn
- Use the professional vocabulary of every people function area, from hiring to global mobility
- Read and write HR documents in English: policies, records, appraisals, offers
- Discuss compensation, benefits and incentive design without reaching for a dictionary
- Talk about analytics, measures and business performance in the register executives expect
- Answer interview questions with structured, evidence-based responses
- Handle the difficult parts of an interview in English: salary, dismissals, provocations
- Run an interview yourself using STAR, competency maps and a scorecard
- Write a CV that survives a six-second scan, and negotiate a pay rise in English
- Learn alongside Mike's 1.6 million students from 185 countries
- Get the author's experience from Preply, Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank
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Course content
17 sections • 47 lectures • 24h 48m total length
Requirements
- English at intermediate level. This builds professional vocabulary, not grammar from scratch
- Some familiarity with people processes helps, since the vocabulary is taught in context
- A notebook or vocabulary app, because thirty lessons of terminology needs revision
- Willingness to speak the terms aloud rather than only recognise them
- A real interview, document or conversation coming up to apply this to
Description
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
Your English is fine until the meeting turns to compensation banding, and then you are translating in your head while the conversation moves on without you.
General English courses do not fix this. The gap is not grammar. It is four hundred specific terms nobody taught you.
Where professional English actually breaks
You understand every word and still cannot say what you mean, because the phrase you need is a fixed expression you have never heard. You write a policy and it reads as translated, which quietly costs you authority. In an interview you describe your work in general language while a native speaker with half your experience uses the exact term and sounds like the obvious hire.
The vocabulary is finite and learnable. It just is not in any general course.
Fifteen hours of professional vocabulary
Thirty lessons of terminology across every area of the people function: the business environment, information systems, job analysis and workforce planning, recruiting and selection, the employee life cycle, records and formal documents, performance management and appraisal, training and development, organisational development, total rewards, incentive design, payroll and benefits, global compensation, international assignments and mobility, employee relations, policy writing, safety and workforce risk, strategic planning, data and measures, expatriate performance, workplace culture and cross-cultural teams.
Each lesson covers one area, its standard terms, and the phrasing used when the subject comes up in a meeting or a document.
Both sides of the interview
Then five lessons on being interviewed: how the employer actually decides, self-presentation that sells experience rather than reciting a CV, the questions that recur and what a strong answer sounds like, the difficult topics — salary, dismissals, provocations — and closing well, including follow-up and offer negotiation.
Then four on running an interview yourself: interview types, job profiles, scorecards, STAR, competency maps, active listening, assessing soft and hard skills, avoiding bias, reference checks, documentation and feedback within legal limits.
And six on the job search around it: how recruiters actually work, CV structure and layout, phone screens, burnout during a search, negotiating a rise, and finding hidden roles on LinkedIn.
A note on scope. Two thirds of this course is people-function vocabulary. If you work in that field, it is exactly targeted. If you do not, the interview and career blocks stand alone, and the vocabulary lessons still teach the business register used across corporate English.
Who is teaching this
Mike, the number one HR instructor on Udemy. More than 1.6 million course enrolments, over 150,000 professionals trained, PHRi and SHRM-CP certified, HRCI representative in more than 10 countries. I built the people function of the unicorn Preply and worked at Wargaming, Alfa-Bank and iDeals, in English, as a second language, which is how I know precisely which words are missing.
What is included
Lifetime access to all course materials
Active instructor support in the Q&A section
Udemy Certificate of Completion
Practical assignments and real business cases
A section with additional courses, tools and resources
A test before you start
Describe your last year of work out loud, in English, in two minutes, and count the times you reach for a general word because the precise one will not come. That count is what this course reduces. Enrol now and start the first lesson today.
Who this course is for:
- HR and recruitment specialists moving into an English-speaking or international company
- Professionals whose written English is fine and whose meetings are exhausting
- Candidates preparing for interviews in English who freeze on the technical vocabulary
- Recruiters who need to interview candidates in English and assess the answers properly
- People relocating, where the process vocabulary differs from what they learned at home
- Anyone whose CV understates them because they cannot name their work in English
- Managers of international teams who deal with people processes in a second language