Learn hiring, onboarding, HR policies, performance, payroll basics, ER, compliance &HR tools
This Course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
What you’ll learn
- Understand the complete HR employee lifecycle from hiring to offboarding and how each HR process connects..
- Create clear job requirements, run structured interviews, and use scorecards to reduce bias and improve quality of hire..
- Build and execute an onboarding process that improves speed-to-productivity using checklists, role plans, and training.
- Apply HR policies consistently and handle common employee questions with professionalism, confidentiality, and documentation..
- Set up performance management basics: goals (OKRs/KPIs), check-ins, feedback models, appraisals, and improvement plans..
- Handle workplace issues using Employee Relations (ER) fundamentals: intake, triage, mediation basics, documentation, and anti-retaliation..
- Explain compensation and benefits foundations, including pay components, pay bands, internal equity, and benefits categories..
- Design simple L&D systems: training needs analysis, learning plans, reinforcement, and measuring learning impact..
- Track essential HR metrics (attrition, time-to-hire, engagement, absenteeism) and interpret trends to drive action..
- Understand HR compliance basics: respectful workplace standards, harassment prevention, privacy-first data handling, and audit-ready practices..
- Use HR tools and systems concepts (HRIS/ATS) and improve HR operations with SOPs, templates, self-service, and automation ideas..
- Build job-ready HR confidence through practical templates, workflows, and real-world HR scenarios across hiring, performance, ER, and exits..
Course Content
- Introduction –> 1 lecture • 8min.
- Employee Lifecycle & HR Operating Model –> 1 lecture • 6min.
- Workforce Planning and Hiring Basics –> 1 lecture • 7min.
- Onboarding and HR Operations –> 1 lecture • 7min.
- Policies, Culture, and Employee Experience –> 1 lecture • 7min.
- Performance Management –> 1 lecture • 9min.
- Learning and Development (L&D) –> 1 lecture • 7min.
- Compensation and Benefits –> 1 lecture • 7min.
- Employee Relations (ER) and Workplace Issues –> 1 lecture • 6min.
- HR Compliance –> 1 lecture • 8min.
- Offboarding, Terminations, and Exits –> 1 lecture • 8min.
- HR Metrics, Analytics, and Reporting –> 1 lecture • 7min.
- HR Tools and Systems –> 1 lecture • 7min.
Requirements
This Course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
HR 101: The Ultimate Guide to Human Resources Fundamentals is a practical, beginner-friendly course that teaches you how HR works across the full employee lifecycle, from hiring to offboarding. You will learn the essentials of recruitment, onboarding, HR policies, HR operations, performance management, employee relations, compliance, compensation and benefits, learning and development, and HR analytics so you can apply HR concepts confidently in real workplaces.
You will learn how to run structured hiring using clear role requirements and interview scorecards, build a strong onboarding system with checklists and 30/60/90 day plans, and manage day-to-day HR tasks with documentation, confidentiality, and consistent policy application. You will also understand performance management fundamentals including goals, feedback, appraisals, and improvement planning.
A key part of the course focuses on Employee Relations (ER) where you will learn how HR handles workplace issues through complaint intake, triage, mediation basics, investigation overview, corrective action documentation, and anti-retaliation practices. You will also cover HR compliance basics, including respectful workplace standards, harassment prevention fundamentals, privacy-first employee data handling, and audit-ready HR processes. Finally, you will learn modern HR foundations like HRIS and ATS basics, and how to track core metrics such as attrition, time to hire, engagement, and absenteeism to support better decisions.
This course is ideal for HR beginners, HR coordinators and generalists, people managers, and startup teams who want a clear, structured understanding of how HR operates and how to build systems that support fairness, employee experience, and business outcomes.