HRC02
HR: Selection and Staffing
Evaluate staffing needs and fill vacancies with the best candidates. Understand legal and ethical issues in hiring, communicate effectively throughout recruitment, and strategically address employee retention.
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Description
A workforce is only as effective as the people who comprise it. The Human Resources: Selection and Staffing Certificate, a collaboration of eCornell and Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, is designed to help Human Resources professionals and other managers evaluate staffing needs and fill vacancies with the best candidate for the targeted position. The six-course certificate leads participants to a deeper understanding of legal and ethical issues in workplace hiring, appropriate and effective communications for recruitment and interviewing, and strategies to address employee staffing and retention.
Who Should Take This Certificate?
The Human Resources: Selection and Staffing Certificate is appropriate for Human Resource employees and managers seeking a richer, deeper understanding of hiring and retention policies and practices from a leading Ivy League institution.
ILRHR501
Issues and Concepts in Equal Employment Opportunities Law
Learn how federal, state, and local laws affect your employees and your organization as a whole.
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ILRHR502
Employment Laws for the HR Professional
Recognize and manage legal issues in the workplace; familiarize yourself with OSHA, FLSA, FMLA, NLRA, and state laws and their applications.
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ILRHR509
Selection and Staffing: The Selection Process
Identify staffing needs and search effectively for the best candidates. Create a long-term, systematic approach to hiring.
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ILRHR510
Selection and Staffing: The Staffing Process
Retain your valued employees, and manage departures and workforce reductions. Systematically assess the effectiveness of selection and staffing in your organization.
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ILRMD501
Selection Requirements and Communications Skills for Interviewing
Structure effective interviews by focusing on communication and listening skills. Eliminate bias and stereotyping of job candidates and understand legal aspects of employment practices.
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ILRMD502
Legal and Unbiased Interviewing and Selection
Conduct effective interviews and select the best-qualified candidates. Create a positive, legal, unbiased interviewing environment.
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Accreditation
Participants who successfully complete all six courses in this series receive a Human Resources: Selection and Staffing Certificate from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) will give .6 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to each student who successfully completes each course. Students can apply to the ILR school for the CEU units after they have successfully completed the courses.
ACE CREDIT Recommendation
The American Council on Education recommends this Certificate Program for up to 3 semester hours in Human Resource Management or Staffing in the upper division baccalaureate degree category.
HRCI Recertification
The courses in this certificate series have each been approved for six (6) recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR, and GPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute. Please contact the Human Resource Certificate Institute (HRCI) for further information about certification or recertification.
With all eCornell courses, access is easy. Participants only need a computer and an Internet
connection. To view specific technology requirements, visit our
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