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Today's workforce expects more than a paycheck: candidates and employees alike evaluate your hiring practices, culture, and commitment to inclusion before they sign on. This Specialization equips HR professionals and people leaders to build every stage of the employee lifecycle: inclusive recruiting and competency-based hiring that reduce unconscious bias, benefits and HRIS decisions that show employees they're valued, and an employee experience strategy grounded in trust, feedback, and growth opportunities. You'll finish able to recruit high-quality and diverse talent, apply core HR guidelines, and measure and improve the employee experience to boost retention and engagement.
Syllabus
- Course 1: HR Guidelines Everyone Should Know
- Course 2: HR Strategies for Recruiting High-Quality and Diverse Talent
- Course 3: Building a Stellar Employee Experience
Courses
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By the end of this course, you'll be able to build, value, develop, and keep a team that drives your organization forward. You'll identify ideal team players, choose recruiting and interview methods that fit each role, design competitive benefits and compensation, deliver recognition that sticks, develop your people through effective training and feedback, and keep them through smart compliance, strong employee relations, and an intentional culture. The world of work is changing fast, and outdated HR policies quietly hold organizations back. This course cuts through the overwhelm with simple, practical guidelines you can put into action right away, whether you lead a scrappy startup or an established enterprise. What makes it different is the perspective: taught by a globe-trotting HR consultant who treats people as humans to be equipped, not resources to be used, it pairs real stories from real workplaces with clear, do-this-today steps. If you're new to HR, you'll gain a structured foundation across the entire employee lifecycle. If you're experienced, you'll sharpen the everyday practices, negotiation, recognition, feedback, tough conversations, that separate teams that merely play from teams that win. Either way, you'll leave ready to transform your organization, and have some fun along the way.
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Discover what it takes to build a workplace where employees genuinely thrive. In this course, you'll explore how the employee experience mirrors the customer experience, uncover what most shapes it day to day, and see how Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs applies directly to work. You'll dive into practical strategies for enhancing that experience, from human-centered design to supportive management, a strong sense of workplace community, meaningful growth opportunities, and trust in leadership. From there, you'll learn how to measure your progress by gathering feedback, crafting effective survey questions, and turning negative feedback into an asset instead of a threat. Finally, you'll connect employee experience to the bottom line, exploring how it drives customer satisfaction, helps organizations win the war for talent, and delivers measurable financial gains. By the end of this course, you'll be equipped to identify, enhance, and measure an employee experience that benefits your people and your business alike.
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Hiring the best talent and building a genuinely diverse workforce are the same job, and this course shows you how to do both. You'll leverage inclusive and equitable practices across the full recruitment cycle, define the competencies that identify extraordinary candidates, and mitigate the unconscious bias that quietly narrows your pipeline. Led by a certified HR professional and inclusive-hiring consultant, these practical lessons move you from theory to action: you'll build candidate profiles, remove artificial barriers, craft inclusive job postings and employer branding, run behavior-based interviews, and evaluate your process so you can pivot and improve. What makes this course different is its focus on doing, not just knowing. Every module hands you tools, real-world examples, and strategies you can apply to your very next hire, whether you're a recruiter, a manager, a leader, or an individual contributor, because inclusive hiring is part of everyone's job. If you've ever wished your applicant pool were stronger and more diverse, this course is your step-by-step guide to making it happen, one intentional action at a time.
Taught by
Madecraft