HR Fundamentals Certificate | Baruch College | CAPS | Continuing and Professional Studies | City University of New York HR Fundamentals Certificate | Baruch College | CAPS | Continuing and Professional Studies | City University of New York
HR Fundamentals

Certificate: HR Fundamentals

Are you looking for job advancement or a new career in Human Resources? This certificate is designed for those new to the field and those who want to expand their basic areas of expertise. This well-rounded approach will help you choose or add a practice area, providing significant exposure to the most critical HR specialties, including Compensation, Benefits and Employment Law, Labor Relations, Performance Management and Recruitment, The certificate concludes with a capstone course in Strategic Human Resources, linking best practices in the field to the bottom-line.

Our HR certificates are designed to help you advance a career in this field without the time and cost needed for an advanced degree. The HR Fundamentals certificate is a logical first step for our certificates in Organizational Development, Management Development, Project Management or Entrepreneurship and for our courses offered in partnership with SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) which prepare you for certification exams leading to PHR, SPHR, and GPHR professional designations

In this HR Fundamentals certificate, you'll get a comprehensive introduction to the field. For example:

  • In Human Resource Management, you'll get a broad overview of the HR functions necessary for optimal performance, including staffing, strategic planning, globalization, employee engagement, going digital and current HR trends.
  • Compensation and Benefits will exposed you to the basic components of these fields - from developing rewards strategies to plan design, health care, retirement plans and beyond.
  • In Employment Law and Labor Relations you'll learn about federal, state and city regulations, the employer-employee relationship, the regulation of employment discrimination, unions, tort law and labor law.
  • Performance Management will help you develop an understanding of the strategic, tactical, and legal components of performance management.
  • Recruitment, Selection, and Employment Practices provides an overview of the recruitment process, from sourcing candidates, analyzing jobs, preparing job requisitions, and interviewing through candidate assessment.
  • In Strategic Human Resources you will incorporate what you've learned in previous classes including organization design, outsourcing, talent policies and practices, health and benefits and selection and onboarding.

Our Competitive Advantage
We develop our HR certificates based on input from the Greater New York Metro market, our own surveys and those reported by national HR professional organizations. Our Human Resources Advisory Board - including HR professionals representing corporations, educational institutions, non-profit organizations, small businesses and healthcare facilities throughout the New York area - reviews our curriculum for relevance and up-to-the-minute content.

Baruch College, based in New York, is the largest public business school in the U.S. and is committed to providing top-notch training by industry leaders. Certificates in Baruch's Continuing and Professional Studies division offer:

  • Courses taught by experts in the field, based on real-world challenges and successes
  • Flexible scheduling
  • Diverse courses designed for working professionals who want to advance their careers
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NOTE: Once you have purchased a certificate, please do not register for the individual classes online. Call 646-312-5000 to schedule your appointment with an enrollment advisor. You will register for the individual classes in your certificate through an enrollment advisor.

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If purchased individually, the total cost of courses in this program is $3,596.
(You may purchase individual courses by clicking on the course title below.)

Certificate Cost: $3,275.00 

 
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