8 months to learn practical tools for all the fundamental areas of HR!
Programme Overview
Our Certificate in HR Fundamentals is an 8 month programme focused on building your knowledge across all the core areas of HR.
Over the course you can attend workshops, watch videos, read articles and complete online learning modules and assignments and get coaching and feedback from our HR team.
The programme also involves assessing your achievement level from the start to the finish.
Who should register?
You’ll benefit most from the Certificate in HR Fundamentals if you are:
- Studying HR or Business and want to prepare for your first HR role
- Are new to an HR role and want to make sure you know everything you should
- In a role where you have HR responsibilities and want to learn the fundamentals
- In an Office Manager/PA role but with HR responsibilities.
What will you finish with?
The Certificate in HR Fundamentals is different from tertiary study as we cover real life, rather than just covering theory. It’s full of practical suggestions and ideas to use. You’ll work through each module, with real case studies and assessments to test you are applying what we’ve covered. Once you’ve completed your final assessment you will be awarded your certificate.
Elephant Certificates are now recognised globally, in New Zealand, Australia, the Pacific Islands, Singapore, Malaysia, Canada, the US and United Kingdom.
Compulsory Modules
Clever Communications
In your first HR role you might only have limited contact with managers, so making sure your communications are as effective as possible is important! Learn how to use key messaging, adapt to different styles and get your message through.
Essential Employment Law
Working in HR you need to understand the key points of the employment legislation in your country. Work through the different parts of the module, then you’ll need to pass the online employment law test and get 70%.
Recruitment & Selection
At the start of your HR career you are often responsible for advertising roles, helping shortlist and manage vacancies. This module covers how to run a recruitment process, write great adverts and manage candidates effectively.
Induction and On-boarding
Managing induction and on-boarding processes is often HR’s responsibility. Getting it right is essential for making sure new employees get up to speed quickly. Learn how to run induction and onboarding effectively.
Writing HR policies
Making your policies more effective may not be exciting, but is important. Learn how to engage and adapt your policies for different styles, fishhooks around policies and how to build your managers engagement and ownership so they’ve not an ‘HR’ thing.
HR Metrics and Analytics
One area you may be involved in is sending out HR reporting and metrics. This module will give you an understanding of the different levels of metrics and analytics, ideas on what you should be measuring and how to make your HR reporting effective and useful.
Remuneration and Reward
HR Advisors often need to help with salary reviews and bonus processes. This module covers different remuneration models, bonuses schemes, benefits packages and rewards, including HR challenges and how to overcome them.
Establishing yourself
Lastly we’ll help you work out how to establish yourself in your HR career including identifying your core skills but also areas that might be an issue, and how to mitigate these, building credibility as you build your skills and how to answer managers or employees queries.
Module Exchange
If you have completed training or have experience in one of the areas covered by the Certificate, you can exchange one module for one of the modules in our other Certificates. Please let us know when you register if you want to take this option.
To register, just fill in your details below. The Certificate is currently available in the following regions:
The investment is AUD$1145, NZ$1250, Singapore $950. If you are from a different country, you may well be able to complete the Certificate. Just register and let us know (it’s the employment law that’s the big difference!).
The Certificate is scheduled over 8 months however you can defer completion by a further 6 months due to work or other circumstances. You can also complete it in a shorter timeframe if you want to!
Please do let us know if you have any questions. Unfortunately we cannot issue refunds once you have started your study.
What our students say:
Here are some recent graduates of the Certificate in HR Fundamentals, and what they thought of their study.
★★★★★
Overall, I would rate the Certificate very highly, 10 out of 10! I enjoyed the feedback, because it enabled me to view my work from a different perspective. The suggestions were helpful and pragmatic, prompting me to re-read my submission and consider what else might be happening. I have practically applied the feedback within my role, and I feel that this programme has helped me develop and mature into the HR space. I am a lot more confident in my contribution to the team. It has been a wonderful learning experience, and I really appreciate the wonderful resource of Elephant. It helped me grow my confidence, expand my HR knowledge, and gave me tools I can immediately apply in the workplace. The combination of real-life scenarios, communication focus (including adapting to different bird styles), and supportive, thoughtful feedback made it a valuable and practical learning experience.
Diego, People Advisor, Tech Company
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I would rate the certificate highly as I believe it has given me the confidence to push further. It has identified where my strengths are and what my work-on’s are. Sometimes its easy for me to think I don’t know too much but there were areas that highlighted how much I knew as well as where I can develop to further my career. Some goals were set, and the team have been giving me some great feedback! I have been grateful for the feedback as it has been great for learning and growth. Historically I used to take feedback as failure rather than development and improvement. In the last year I have come to recognise that feedback is vital to improvement and development and now I love receiving feedback.
Sarah, People and Culture Co-ordinator, Building Company.
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The certificate was such a good way to expand my skills – I chose it over a 2 day course because I felt that learning the fundamentals over several months would benefit me and my way of learning more and that was certainly the case. I’ve found the biggest and most valuable learning in this certificate to be across Employee Agreements and policies. The assignment working through the clauses in an Employment Agreement was one of my favourites – it was a really good exercise in identifying errors and a great way to strengthen knowledge.
Kirralee, People Experience Coordinator, tech company
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I found all of the feedback from the Elephant team extremely constructive and helpful. Especially when you expressed your ideas on how you may have done or written something differently. It enabled me to see it from another side. I was most proud of completing the the Writing People Policies module – this was the toughest one for me, the question where we had to get the fog index below 10 I found very challenging. When I finally managed it, I was so relieved and impressed. I have also changed how I communicate with certain managers after the clever communications module. This has given me more confidence that I can get my view or advice across more effectively.
Nicole, P&C Administrator, Health Sector
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I really appreciated how detailed the feedback was and the effort put in to explain what I had done well and what was missing. I appreciated the suggestions on other ways to approach things that I may not have thought of. The feedback added a lot to the learning experience. I feel this course has given me much more confidence as I start my HR journey. I completed the Recruitment certificate last year, and combined with this one I feel I have learnt so much. I really value the input from the team and the support given to me by Elise. I can’t thank you enough. Hopefully I’ll be able to sign up for more in the future.
Claire, Recruitment & HR Advisor, NFP organisation
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I enjoyed the feedback, because it enabled me to view my work from a different perspective. The suggestions were helpful and pragmatic, prompting me to re-read my submission and consider what else might be happening. I have practically applied the feedback within my role, and I feel that this programme has helped me develop and mature into the HR space. I am a lot more confident in my contribution to the team. It has been a wonderful learning experience, and I really appreciate the wonderful resource of Elephant.
Rachel, People & Development Admin, Learning Sector
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I am proud of completing the certificate. I have thoroughly enjoyed applying myself. A lot of what the certificate covered I have learnt in my day-to-day tasks however the study material has given me extra confidence and filled in any knowledge gaps. While also providing reasons behind how and why things work as they do in HR. I learnt from the extra examples that were given as part of the feedback. I was presented with suggestions I hadn’t thought of, and I found this useful to take on board. Often you are so caught up and at your creative limit due to time constraints and not sure how far to push it then you are shown an example, such as a policy as a graphic and it is a light bulb moment! The feedback was constructive and it did challenge me to dig deep and go further! Plus it is nice to feel supported and praised 😊
Liz, P&C Coordinator, Energy Sector
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