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AI for HR & People Teams

A 60-minute deep dive on where AI actually helps HR — and where the bias and compliance traps live.

60 min·8 chapters·Individual contributor · Manager · Director·Free

Last updated: 2026-05-19

What you'll learn

By the end of this course you'll be able to:

  • Where AI fits in HR — four plays sequenced, plus the fifth pattern HR should refuse
  • Recruiting AI — three helps, three non-uses, four-component bias monitoring
  • Onboarding copilots — three components + the 30-day journey + four metrics
  • Policy Q&A — three categories, corpus discipline, hidden value to HR itself
  • L&D personalisation — three components, three bias risks, three honest metrics
  • Performance and feedback — three legitimate helps + three lines we don't cross
  • Compliance, data handling, works council — three rules, three principles, three sustainability patterns
  • Your HR AI roadmap on one page — six sections, three conversations to unlock

Who this is for

HR leaders, people-ops teams, L&D managers, and HR business partners. Especially valuable for HR teams under pressure to do something with AI — but unsure how to deploy it without exposing the organisation to bias, compliance, or employee-trust risk.

Curriculum

8 chapters · 2 hands-on exercises · capstone challenge

Each chapter ends with the learning objectives ticked off. Quizzes are auto-graded with feedback; exercises are open-ended and produce artifacts you can take to your team.

1

1. Where AI fits in HR

7 min
  • Name the four HR AI plays + the fifth pattern HR should refuse
  • Apply the bias-trap framing to every HR AI proposal
2

2. Recruiting AI — done responsibly

8 minQUIZ
  • Use AI for sourcing, screening (with guardrails), and scheduling — refuse auto-rejection, culture-fit AI, and interviewer ratings
  • Stand up the four-component bias monitoring framework from day one
3

3. Onboarding copilots

8 minEXERCISE
  • Build the three components — corpus, role/location awareness, warm escalation to a named human
  • Track four metrics — including HRBP satisfaction, the forgotten one
4

4. Policy Q&A and employee help

8 min
  • Build the corpus by category and lock down source-of-truth + citation
  • Use the agent's escalations to improve HR — clarify policy, target training, surface new-policy needs
5

5. L&D personalisation

8 minQUIZ
  • Build the three components — skill inventory from real work, gap analysis to where they're going, recommendation with rationale and override
  • Monitor three L&D-specific bias risks and track three honest metrics
6

6. Performance, feedback, and the line we don't cross

8 min
  • Deploy the three legitimate helps where the manager's judgement is the output
  • Refuse AI ratings, AI stack ranking, and flight-risk prediction — and defend the lines against pressure
7

7. Compliance, data handling, and the works council

7 minEXERCISE
  • Apply three HR-specific data rules: purpose limitation, automated decision rights, cross-border transfer
  • Run the works council conversation early, substantively, and quarterly post-launch

Capstone: Capstone — Your HR AI roadmap on one page

6 min
  • Collapse the course into a six-section, eighteen-month operating roadmap
  • Unlock three conversations in week one: CHRO, works council, audit committee

Capstone deliverable: Every learner who completes this course produces «Your AI-in-HR 4-Week Pilot Scope» — a tangible artifact you take back to your organization.

Interactive Course · Free

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All 8 chapters live with interactive slides, audio narration, mock-exam practice, and cross-device progress tracking. The first two chapters are accessible without an account.

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References & sources

Built on cited sources — not vibes.

Every course is researched fresh against vendor documentation, regulatory sources, and peer-reviewed work. Sources used in this course:

EEOC Technical Assistance Document on AI in Employment

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Source link

EU AI Act — High-Risk Systems in Employment

European Commission · Source link

India DPDP Act 2023

Ministry of Electronics and IT, Government of India · Source link

Course details

Track

By Function

Level

Foundational

Audience

Individual contributor, Manager, Director

Function

HR & People

Industry

Cross-Industry

Stack

Microsoft, Stack-agnostic

Paired Gennoor Way phase

train, innovate

Format

interactive, video, reading