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HR Fundamentals Course, Human Resource Management 550+ Tools
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HR Fundamentals Course, Human Resource Management 550+ Tools

Start your HR career: HR certification practice for beginners, people analytics, payroll basics, HRBP, exam trainers
Created byPapaHR ★ 170K students: Human Resources, HR Management, SHRM, AI Analytics, Recruitment, Payroll, Certification, CIPD, Claude
Last updated 10/2026
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What you'll learn

  • Take away 550+ tools in 68 downloadable resources: lecture presentations plus kits, playbooks, workbooks and a mock exam
  • Get our top working files: hiring kit, pay and benefits calculator, workplace mentoring playbook, job catalog and leveling workbook
  • Play three study games, flashcards, memory and match, and use 7 exam trainers built into the files of the aPHR section
  • See 5 services and apps on screen, from a quick look to a detailed demo: CliftonStrengths, HIGH5, Lever, PeopleForce
  • Recruit and source with ready request forms, 41 Boolean and X-Ray search strings and assessment formats
  • Run performance reviews, feedback meetings and development plans with ready forms and scripts
  • Use HR analytics, surveys and KPIs with ready question lists, metric sets and formulas
  • Plan pay, variable pay, benefits and the HR budget with ready calculation formats
  • Lead change, HR projects and organizational development with step-by-step procedures
  • Prepare for the U.S. aPHR exam with a 65-question mock exam and a readiness scorecard
  • Learn with Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy: 1,800,000+ enrollments, 170,000 students, about 200 books on Amazon

Course content

16 sections • 194 lectures • 109h 33m total length

  • Modern Recruitment: Request Form, Job Profile, Sourcing Map (8 Tools)42:28

    Tools in this lecture

    Files to download (1)

    • Recruitment request form

    Ready to use on the slides (6)

    • Job profile
    • Job advertisement
    • Candidate sourcing map
    • Recruitment system audit checklist
    • Recruitment metrics
    • Recruiter work report

    Models and methods explained (1)

    • Recruitment process framework
  • Quiz: HR Tools for Real Business Problems and Decisions
  • Talent Sourcing: Boolean Guide, LinkedIn Queries, Sourcing Map (43 Tools)44:20

    Tools in this lecture

    Ready to use on the slides (43)

    • Candidate sourcing map
    • Boolean search
    • Company donor X-ray search query
    • Candidate profile site discovery query
    • Corporate email discovery procedure
    • LinkedIn candidate sourcing queries
    • Facebook candidate sourcing queries
    • Twitter candidate sourcing queries
    • Meetup candidate sourcing queries
    • SlideShare candidate sourcing queries
    • Speaker Deck candidate sourcing queries
    • Instagram candidate sourcing queries
    • GitHub candidate sourcing queries
    • GitLab candidate sourcing queries
    • Stack Overflow candidate sourcing queries
    • Airbnb candidate sourcing queries
    • Couchsurfing candidate sourcing queries
    • Flickr candidate sourcing queries
    • Medium candidate sourcing queries
    • Telegraph candidate sourcing queries
    • WordPress candidate sourcing queries
    • Tilda candidate sourcing queries
    • Reddit candidate sourcing queries
    • CV Maker candidate sourcing queries
    • Behance candidate sourcing queries
    • Dribbble candidate sourcing queries
    • Vimeo candidate sourcing queries
    • Blogger candidate sourcing queries
    • Tumblr candidate sourcing queries
    • Personal websites candidate sourcing queries
    • About.me candidate sourcing queries
    • Upwork candidate sourcing queries
    • Freelancer candidate sourcing queries
    • TopCoder candidate sourcing queries
    • Data science communities candidate sourcing queries
    • Google Scholar candidate sourcing queries
    • Goodreads candidate sourcing queries
    • Quora candidate sourcing queries
    • Coderwall candidate sourcing queries
    • CodeProject candidate sourcing queries
    • DOU candidate sourcing queries
    • Habr candidate sourcing queries
    • Xing candidate sourcing queries
  • Employer Branding: Audit Checklist, Strategy Template, Persona (7 Tools)44:30

    Tools in this lecture

    Ready to use on the slides (7)

    • Employer brand audit checklist
    • Competitor employer brand comparison
    • Employer brand strategy template
    • Employer positioning scoring matrix
    • Candidate persona
    • Target audience interview script
    • Employee experience map
  • HR Marketing: Content Calendar, EVP Plan, Campaign Report (8 Tools)41:47

    Tools in this lecture

    Ready to use on the slides (5)

    • Candidate and employee brand feedback interview
    • EVP communication planning process
    • Employer positioning scoring matrix
    • Content calendar
    • Recruitment marketing campaign report

    Models and methods explained (3)

    • Recruitment gamification
    • Pay-per-click advertising
    • Remarketing
  • Candidate Assessment: Rating Scale, Test Checklist, Reference Script (17 Tools)42:59

    Tools in this lecture

    Ready to use on the slides (6)

    • Candidate prescreening sales questions
    • Goal achievement competency indicators
    • Competency rating scale
    • Work sample test design checklist
    • Reference check interview
    • Hiring committee evidence checklist

    Models and methods explained (11)

    • General mental ability testing
    • Work sample testing
    • Structured interview
    • Behavioral interview
    • Competency-based interview
    • Group interview
    • Fishbowl interview
    • Team interview
    • Panel interview
    • Stress interview
    • Role play assessment
  • Recruitment Sales: SPIN Script, Offer Letter, Counteroffer Script (9 Tools)43:03

    Tools in this lecture

    Ready to use on the slides (9)

    • Candidate messenger outreach templates
    • SPIN selling
    • FAB selling
    • Job advertisement
    • Job advertisement calls to action
    • Job advertisement structure
    • Job advertisement checklist
    • Job offer letter
    • Candidate counteroffer handling script
  • Journey Mapping and Onboarding: Induction Checklist, Welcome Letter (18 Tools)44:55

    Tools in this lecture

    Ready to use on the slides (18)

    • Preboarding checklist
    • Manager preboarding welcome letter
    • HR preboarding welcome letter
    • New employee announcement
    • First-day induction checklist
    • Remote employee induction checklist
    • New employee questionnaire
    • Onboarding progress interview
    • HR onboarding meeting invitation
    • Manager one-on-one meeting invitation
    • Probation completion conversation checklist
    • Probation completion congratulation message
    • Onboarding survey invitation
    • Onboarding completion questionnaire
    • Performance improvement plan
    • Exit interview
    • Onboarding evaluation metrics
    • Onboarding economic benefit calculation

Requirements

  • No prior HR management experience required: every topic comes with a template, question list or checklist you can copy
  • Nothing to buy for the course itself: presentations and working files are attached to the lectures
  • Basic understanding of how a company works is helpful
  • Start with the section closest to your current task; each lecture stands on its own
  • English at intermediate level or above

Description

This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

558 tools for HR management in one course: 413 ready-to-use files, templates, question lists, checklists and search strings, 5 services and apps shown on screen, plus 140 models and methods.

Open a lecture, take the tool, use it in today's HR task.

Why HR managers run out of time

An HR manager is asked for everything at once: fill the vacancy, fix the review process, explain turnover, calm a conflict, defend the budget. Each task needs a format, and building it from a blank page takes the evening. Next month the same request comes again.

What changes after this course

Each lecture covers one HR area and gives you its tools: a recruitment request form and search strings, review forms and meeting scripts, survey questions and HR metrics, pay and budget formats, change and project procedures. You pick the lecture for the task in front of you and leave with the format filled in.

The highlight: study games and exam trainers

The working files of the aPHR section are interactive: you open them in a browser, fill them in with your company's data, and then play.

  • Three study games: flashcards, memory and match. Flip the cards, find term and definition pairs on a memory board, or connect the pairs against the clock. The games are built into 7 lecture files.
  • 7 exam trainers. Each working file has a trainer with 15 exam-style questions on its topic.
  • A full aPHR mock exam. 65 questions in 1 hour 45 minutes, followed by a readiness scorecard.

What is inside: 558 tools, counted file by file

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.

  • 68 downloadable resources: the lecture presentations plus 19 standalone working files (kits, playbooks, workbooks, forms, report samples, a calculator, a mock exam and a readiness scorecard)
  • 394 ready-to-use tools inside the presentations:
  • 115 templates and sample documents: job profile, employee experience map, performance improvement plan, HR strategy
  • 73 question lists and conversation scripts: reference check interview, exit interview, one-on-one meeting guide, Gallup Q12
  • 55 step-by-step procedures and workflows: EVP communication planning, performance review meeting, Total Rewards program development, workforce planning cycle
  • 54 checklists: recruitment system audit, first-day induction, performance review meeting quality, HR audit
  • 41 Boolean and X-Ray search strings: Boolean search, LinkedIn candidate sourcing, GitHub candidate sourcing, candidate profile site discovery
  • 32 scorecards, rubrics and scoring matrices: competency rating scale, performance and behavior matrix, succession risk matrix, salary increase matrix
  • 16 formulas and metric sets: recruitment metrics, onboarding economic benefit calculation, employee retention rate, labor productivity metrics
  • 8 other working tools: coaching and mentoring readiness assessment, training intervention decision guide, fringe benefit tax treatment guide
  • 5 services and apps shown on screen, from a quick look to a detailed demo: CliftonStrengths, HIGH5, Lever, PeopleForce
  • 140 models and methods explained with examples: structured interview, 360-degree feedback, Total Rewards, Ulrich HR roles

Where the tools are

  • Recruitment, sourcing and employer branding (107 tools). Recruitment, sourcing, employer brand, HR marketing, candidate assessment and onboarding.
  • Employee lifecycle, performance and development (90 tools). Performance management, appraisal, feedback meetings, talent management, coaching and mentoring, engagement and retention.
  • Analytics, surveys, culture and compensation (68 tools). HR analytics, surveys, HR strategy, culture, total rewards, payroll, variable pay, benefits, wellbeing and recognition.
  • Automation, organizational development and change (85 tools). HR automation, employee relations, organizational development, HR KPIs, change and project management, remote work and team building.
  • HR leadership, structure, processes and budgeting (71 tools). HR influence, organizational structure, HR processes, workforce planning, dismissal and HR budgeting.
  • aPHR exam prep, U.S. edition (167 tools). Eight lectures on U.S. employment law and practice with exam trainers, study games and a 65-question mock exam.

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 have managed recruitment at a scale where reliable HR information matters every week. At the STB television channel, we filled 100 vacancies a month and sometimes had as many as 250 vacancies in progress. I prepared a weekly recruitment report for managers. With an applicant tracking system in place, I asked recruiters to update their information and the report was ready, saving considerable time. That experience informs the recruitment and HR reporting tools in this course.

How to use the course

Use the course as a toolkit. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name, so you can go straight to the form or checklist you need.

What is included

  • 49 lectures across 6 sections, 34.5 hours
  • 68 downloadable resources: lecture presentations and working files
  • 558 tools across the lessons, ready to copy into your own work
  • A 65-question aPHR mock exam, 7 exam trainers of 15 questions each and three study games
  • A 10-question practice test, a quiz and a role play
  • Lifetime access to all materials
  • Active instructor support in the Q&A section
  • A Udemy Certificate of Completion

Where to start

Take the HR task that is on your desk today. Open the lecture on that topic, copy the template or checklist, and finish the task with it. HR managers who work from ready formats close tasks in hours instead of days, and every process you build from a blank page is time your company does not get back. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.

Who this course is for:

  • HR managers who run the HR function of a company or a business unit
  • HR generalists and HR business partners who want a ready toolkit for every HR area
  • People starting in HR who want to see the whole function at once
  • Team leaders and business owners who handle HR tasks themselves
  • HR professionals preparing for the U.S. aPHR exam

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