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HR Beginner Course: HR Specialist Certification, 500+ Tools
9,936 students
HR Beginner Course: HR Specialist Certification, 500+ Tools
Start in human resources: generalist training for HR management, people analytics, hiring, templates and scorecards
Last updated 10/2026
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What you'll learn
- Take away 500+ tools in 45 downloadable lecture presentations: templates, procedures, scorecards, checklists and question lists
- Hire with a job requisition form, job profile, interview question lists, job offer letter and hiring checklists
- Onboard new employees with preboarding, first-day and remote induction checklists and welcome letters
- Plan employee training and set goals with OKRs using ready quality checklists and review questions
- Understand payroll, salary ranges, merit increases and bonuses with matrices and calculation examples
- Build incentive systems, an employer brand and HR policies step by step
- Run employee surveys and read HR metrics for recruitment, onboarding and turnover
- Learn HR vocabulary in English across 30 topics, from recruiting to global mobility
- Use 8 ready AI prompts for job requisitions, employer brand strategy and your LinkedIn profile
- 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
7 sections • 47 lectures • 24h 57m total length
Requirements
- No HR experience required: the course starts with the role and responsibilities of an HR specialist
- Nothing to buy for the course itself: presentations are attached to the lectures
- English at intermediate level; the last section helps international students with HR vocabulary
- Go through the first five sections in order, then use the English for HR section as a reference
Description
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
510 tools for the beginner in HR in one course: 268 ready-to-use templates, procedures, scorecards, checklists and question lists, 241 models and methods, and 1 service shown on screen.
Open a lecture, take the tool, use it in your first HR tasks.
Why the first HR job is hard
A new HR specialist gets a vacancy to close, a newcomer to onboard and a survey to run, often in the same week. Nobody explains how each task is done, and there is no time to read a textbook for each one. What helps is a ready form: a job profile, an interview question list, an onboarding checklist.
What changes after this course
You know what an HR specialist does and how each process works: hiring, onboarding, training, OKRs, culture, meetings and events, payroll, incentives, employer brand, HR policies, surveys, analytics and automation. For each one you have documents to start from. And you can speak about HR in English with the right terms.
What is inside: 510 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.
- 45 downloadable resources: the lecture presentations
- 268 ready-to-use tools inside the presentations:
- 88 templates and sample documents: job description, job offer letter, performance improvement plan, employee handbook
- 70 step-by-step procedures and workflows: workforce planning, mass recruitment, probation completion meeting, HR policy development
- 38 scorecards, rubrics and scoring matrices: competency rating scale, succession risk matrix, merit increase matrix, behaviorally anchored rating scale (BARS)
- 30 checklists: hiring manager intake, employee onboarding, employer brand audit, employee survey planning
- 26 question lists and conversation scripts: recruiter prescreening, reference checks, exit interviews, development reviews
- 8 ready AI prompts: job requisition form, teambuilding activities, employer brand strategy
- 5 formulas and metric sets: onboarding effectiveness metrics, HR metrics, recruitment metrics, budget variance measures
- 3 other working tools: goal achievement competency indicators, 70-20-10 learning model, straight ranking
- 241 models and methods explained with examples: Ulrich HR operating model, structured interview, management by objectives, Big Five personality model
- 1 service shown on screen: ChatGPT
Where the tools are
- HR specialist fundamentals (63 tools). The HR role, recruiting and onboarding.
- Training, OKRs and corporate culture (28 tools).
- Team meetings, corporate events and payroll (20 tools).
- Incentives, employer branding and HR policies (30 tools).
- Employee surveys, HR analytics and automation (21 tools).
- English for HR (357 tools in 30 lectures). HR terms, models and documents by topic: HR technology, recruiting, performance, learning, total rewards, payroll, employee relations, analytics and international HR.
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 was a beginner in HR myself, and I got there by chance. At the end of my studies a friend told me that Alfa-Bank was hiring credit specialists for 150 dollars a month, good money when my classmates started at 100. I joined and went to the training. I had a banking education, so I answered every question and passed the exam better than anyone. The trainers said: since you are so smart, do you want to be a trainer and recruiter like us? I liked that work far more than issuing loans, and I said yes. That is how my HR career began.
How to use the course
Go through the first five sections in order: they cover the HR specialist's work from hiring to analytics. Then use the English for HR section as a reference. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.
What is included
- 47 lectures across 7 sections, 25 hours
- 45 downloadable resources: lecture presentations
- 510 tools across the lessons, ready to copy into your own work
- 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
Open the lecture on recruiting, take the job profile and the interview question list, and prepare one vacancy as if it were yours. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.
Who this course is for:
- Beginners who want their first job in human resources
- Career changers moving into HR from administration, sales, teaching or other fields
- Junior HR specialists and HR assistants who want to see all HR processes
- Office managers and administrators who took on HR tasks
- International students and professionals who need HR vocabulary in English