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About this course
What you’ll learn
A Course Designed for Your Success
This course combines expert instruction with the most comprehensive and effective way to prepare for success on your SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP exam. The interactive SHRM Certification Prep System is a personalized roadmap to help you master the SHRM Body of Applied Skills and Knowledge (SHRM BASK®) and prepare you for the SHRM certification exams.
- Optimize your valuable study time and keep you on track for your upcoming SHRM Certification exam date with a customized study plan.
- Visualize your study plan through course topic cards depicting SHRM BASK® topics.
- Fill your knowledge and competency gaps with interactive online reading content and assess your understanding with flashcards and periodic quizzes.
- Test your knowledge and increase exam day confidence with 2,700+ practice questions used on previous SHRM Certification exams.
- Receive ongoing support from your SHRM-certified instructor, who can provide guidance to prepare you for exam day.
- Culminate your preparation with the included Ace Your Exam digital study guide, which contains study guidance, test-taking tips, and additional practice questions.
Learning objectives
- Develop competencies in organizational leadership, ethical conduct, and fostering a cooperative environment.
- Develop interpersonal competencies in relationship management and communication.
- Develop business competencies to strengthen your consultation ability, analytical aptitude, and business acumen.
- Understand human resources strategies, including talent acquisition, employee engagement and retention, learning and development, and total rewards.
- Understand the organizational function and operation of human resources and its connected areas.
- Understand the workplace context for human resources, including the US legal and corporate implications.
Who should attend?
Anyone looking to become SHRM® certified. Led by a SHRM®-certified instructor, this course combines the SHRM Certification Prep System with expert teaching to facilitate a comprehensive and detailed review of the current SHRM BASK®.
Continuing Education Information
Successful graduates of the course will receive 4.0 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) (Opens in a new window) from the University of Georgia and a digital certificate of program completion.
Requirements & policies
Fees & funding information
The registration fee includes the SHRM Certification Prep System with printed books.
As an added bonus to our students, you will be eligible for a discount on the SHRM Exam Application fee as a part of the Corporate Volume Exam program.
Military funding information
The classroom course has been approved by the Department of Veterans Services to receive military funding. Visit our Financial and Military Assistance (Opens in a new window) page or contact our office at 706-542-3537.
Cancellation or refund
We will issue a refund, minus a $150 processing fee for cancellations made no later than thirty (30) days before the course start date.
Technology
This course is hosted on the UGA e-Learning Commons (eLC) portal and the online SHRM Certification Prep System, so consistent and reliable access to a computer and internet is needed. Participants in the online format must attend the live-online Zoom sessions with access to a camera and microphone in a distraction-free environment.
Certification
To learn more about the SHRM certification, which is separate from this course, please visit the SHRM Certification website (Opens in a new window).
Prerequisites
Although there are no prerequisites for enrolling in the Human Resources Management Certificate course, the content assumes a basic familiarity with the general duties within human resources.
Completion requirements
In order to receive the Certificate of Program Completion, participants must:
- Attend and participate in 80% of the class sessions.
- Earn an 80% or higher on each graded assignment.
People & organizations
Instructors
Charles Craig
As one of SHRM’s original situational judgment question writers for the CP/SCP learning system, Charles Craig brings a rare insider’s perspective to exam preparation, alongside 27 years of real-world HR experience and 15 years as a certification instructor. He holds the SHRM-SCP, SPHR, and GPHR credentials and has led programs at Emory University, the University of North Georgia, SHRM Atlanta, and The Chick-fil-A Corporation. Visit his LinkedIn profile (Opens in a new window) to learn more.
Kim Nash
After a 30-year career in human resources, Kim Nash founded THriv to guide professionals and leaders through coaching, consulting, and development, and has spent over 20 years teaching SHRM certification prep through universities and SHRM partner organizations across the country. She holds the SHRM-SCP, SPHR, and Compensation Management Specialist credentials and has presented on HR leadership topics at the SHRM National Conference. Learn more about her work at her LinkedIn profile (Opens in a new window).
Sharell Thomas
Sharell Thomas is known for making rooms honest and leaving them better. As VP of HR Operations at YMCA of the USA and founder of The Sharell Group, she brings over 20 years of HR leadership across nonprofit, corporate, government, and global environments to her work as an executive coach, organizational culture consultant, and featured speaker at SHRM National, World at Work, and the Human Capital Institute. Explore her background on her LinkedIn profile (Opens in a new window).
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