About this course
What you’ll learn
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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 Learning 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 SHRM Certification Exam digital study guide, which contains study guidance, test-taking tips, and additional practice questions.
Learning objectives
- Develop leadership competencies in leadership and navigation, ethical practices, and diversity and inclusion.
- Develop interpersonal competencies in relationship management, communication, and global mindset.
- 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 working in human resources or who has duties related to human resources seeking a broad understanding of the field. You might be new to human resources — with less than two years’ experience. Or, you might be a seasoned professional desiring refreshment or an opportunity to update your knowledge on this topic. Either way, you might be, looking to become SHRM® certified. Led by a SHRM®-certified instructor, this course combines the SHRM Learning 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 printed certificate mailed to you. Additionally, you will earn the SHRM® Certificate of Achievement, which can be printed.
Requirements & policies
Schedule
Human Resources Management [Wednesdays] – 0307-031
This classroom course will meet weekly on Gwinnett Campus on Wednesdays from 6:00 – 9:00 pm. There will be no class sessions on Sept. 3 or Oct. 15, 2025.
Human Resources Management [Tuesdays] – 0307-030
This online course will meet weekly through Zoom on Tuesdays from 6:00 – 8:30 pm.
Location
University of Georgia Gwinnett Campus
2530 Sever Road
Lawrenceville, GA 30043
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Fees & funding information
The registration fee includes the SHRM Learning System with printed books (a $1330 value). This program teaches and reinforces the SHRM Body of Applied Skills and Knowledge® (SHRM BASK®) in a flexible, on-demand format, tailored to current knowledge gaps, learning style, and schedule. Non-transferable access to the online study tools is available for 18 months (from the date of purchase). UGA also sends the printed books to participants at no extra charge.
As a special convenience to our students, you can bundle your course registration with a discounted SHRM exam voucher.
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
To receive a partial refund, learners must cancel before July 14, 2025, for course 0307-031 (Wednesdays) and July 20, 2025, for course 0307-030 (Tuesdays). Please see our cancellation policies page (Opens in a new window) for further information.
Technology
This course is hosted on the UGA e-Learning Commons (eLC) portal and the online SHRM Learning 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 a SHRM-CP/SCP exam preparation instructor for the University of Georgia, Charles Craig brings to the classroom over twenty-seven years of real-world human resource experience and years of experience instructing Human Resources Management preparation classes. His human resources certifications include SHRM’s Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP), the Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), and the Global Professional in Human Resources (GPHR). Charles earned his MBA from Brenau University.
Charles is a member of SHRM’s Advocacy Team and a member of the SHRM Atlanta Chapter. He has over fifteen years of experience as a certification instructor for HRCI’s PHR/SPHR and SHRM’s CP/SCP exam preparation classes. As one of SHRM’s original situational judgment question writers for the SHRM-CP/SCP learning system, Charles brings a unique perspective and insight to exam preparation. He previously instructed the learning system class for the University of North Georgia, Emory University, DeKalb County, SHRM Atlanta, and The Chick-fil-a Corporation.
Kim Nash
After a 30-year career in human resources, she founded her company, THriv, to accompany leaders on their professional growth journey to achieve successful results. She serves leaders through coaching, teaching, and public speaking. Kim partners with organizations to provide a variety of business consulting, training & development, compliance management, and human resource related services. Additionally, she delivers a variety of presentations for organizations. Kim also serves as a part-time instructor for various universities teaching the SHRM HR Essentials and Professional Human Resource Management courses for human resource professionals. Kim holds the SHRM-SCP certification through the Society of Human Resource Management, the SPHR certification through HR Certification Institute, the Compensation Management Specialist designation from the International Foundation of Employee Benefits and has completed the John C. Maxwell Certification Program to teach, coach, train, and speak. Kim is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management and a Past President of the Human Resource Professionals of Central PA. She is a graduate of York College of PA with a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Business Education, and holds an MBA/Human Resource Management from the University of Phoenix.
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