Overview

A practical, jargon-free look at what AI means for HR and people teams, across hiring, onboarding, learning and people analytics. Learners see where AI is reshaping the work, how to use today’s tools for real HR tasks, and how to use it fairly and lawfully, with bias and candidate rights front of mind. Four short units.

Target Audience

HR and people professionals, from recruiters and HR officers to people leaders. No technical background required.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion, learners will gain a full and clear understanding of:

• What AI is and isn’t, in plain language
• Where AI is reshaping recruitment and people management
• How to use today’s AI tools effectively for real HR tasks
• The specific risks of AI in people decisions, above all bias
• How to use AI fairly, transparently and in line with employment rules
• How to talk about AI confidently with candidates, managers and colleagues

Features and Benefits

• Written for complete beginners: practical, jargon-free and easy to follow.
• Current and fact-checked: researched against up-to-date 2026 sources, including the latest tools and regulation.
• Four short, focused units with gated progression; each unit unlocks once the previous one is passed.
• Light, formative interactions running through every unit (click-to-reveal, quick knowledge checks and estimate-and-reveal sliders), never scored.
• An end-of-unit quiz that finishes with a marking screen showing which answers were right or wrong, with a short explanation for each.
• Easy retakes: a failed quiz drops the learner straight back into freshly shuffled questions, with no need to click through the unit again.
• Optional audio narration on every screen (the learner chooses to listen), plus narrated motion-graphic video introductions, with captions throughout for accessibility.
• Responsive layout, suitable for PC, tablet and mobile.
• SCORM 1.2 conformant (single SCO); reports completion and an averaged score to any compliant LMS.

Course Contents

Unit 1: AI Foundations for HR

• What AI is and why HR teams are turning to it
• How AI learns from data and why that creates a fairness risk
• What AI is good at and where it falls short
• The sensitive data behind HR AI

Unit 2: AI Across HR

• Writing job adverts and screening CVs (with the fairness risk)
• Sourcing, chatbots and candidate experience
• Interviews, onboarding and the HR helpdesk
• Learning, workforce analytics and people decisions

Unit 3: Generative AI for HR Tasks

• Drafting, summarising and sensitive communications
• Creating content and analysing feedback
• Prompting well and handling people data safely
• The limits to respect (not legal or HR advice)

Unit 4: Using AI Responsibly in HR

• Candidate and employee data privacy
• Bias and fairness, the central risk, with a real case
• Keeping humans deciding, with transparency and accountability
• The rules (EU AI Act, bias-audit laws, equality law)