Overview

This track is for those interested in the HR professional field, who want to increase their knowledge and skills in the rapidly changing field of HR. The candidate can expect to expand or update their knowledge and expertise at the technical, operational, and strategic level by learning about staffing recruitment and selction, employee orientation programs, employee benefit practices and trends, trainig and development, employee and labor relations and business acumen.

• Business Writing I: Productive Letters, Emails & Memos
• Conducting Effective Performance Appraisals/Reviews
• Conducting Job Analyses and Writing Job Descriptions
• Designing, Preparing, and Updating Employee Handbooks
• Employment Law: Danger Zones
• Essentials for the New HR Professional
• HR Recordkeeping
• Wage and Hour Law
• Wage and Salary Administration Overview
• Win-Win Communication Skills edits
• Advanced Wage and Hour Law: Exempt and Non-Exempt
• Affirmative Action Plan Development
• Americans with Disabilities Act
• COBRA Compliance
• Documenting Discipline and Discharge
• Equal Employment Opportunity Issues: Avoiding Discrimination in the Workplace
• Family and Medical Leave Act
• Harassment Prevention: Promoting a Respectful Workplace
• Hiring and Firing within the Law
• Immigration Compliance for Employers
• Intermittent FMLA: Regaining Employer Control
• Interviewing Skills
• Leading and Engaging Employees in Difficult Times
• Legal Requirements for Temporary Employees, Independent
• Contractors, and Leased Employees
• Maintaining a Union-Free Workplace
• Managing Diversity
• Managing Leaves of Absence: Sorting Them All Out
• Six Sigma and Lean for HR Professionals
• Unemployment Compensation Overview
• Worker's Compensation Law
• Unemployment Compensation Overview Workplace Investigations: From Complaint to Resolution
• Unemployment Compensation OverviewWorkplace Violence: Preventing/Managing Difficult Situations

HR Certification Institute offers three certifications:

• PHR (Professional in Human Resources)

  The HR Certification Institute is the credentialing affiliate of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the world’s largest association devoted to professional human resource management. HR Certification Institute works to define and maintain the HR body of knowledge, and offers assessments and certification of this knowledge. Human Resource certification demonstrates mastery of the HR body of knowledge and is widely accepted as a symbol of professional achievement.