HR 101 | Fundamentals

Most people don't start their HR career with a clear picture of what the job actually involves. You're handed a policy document, a system login, and a string of situations nobody fully prepared you for, a manager asking you to draft a termination without a single documented conversation, a new hire who doesn't show up because the offer never mentioned the actual shift pattern, a colleague asking something in confidence you're suddenly responsible for handling well. Knowing HR exists is not the same as knowing how to practise it responsibly. That's the gap HR Fundamentals 101 is built to close.

HR Fundamentals 101 gives you the working foundation every HR professional needs before anything else: what HR actually exists to do and where its authority genuinely sits, how to hire and onboard someone the right way, how performance, compensation, and wellbeing actually function day to day, how to handle employee relations, policy, and fairness without just reciting a rulebook, the compliance basics that keep you and your organisation safe, how to read and use HR data responsibly, and how to walk into your first ninety days in a role and actually build credibility instead of guessing.

This isn't a course about memorising HR terminology. It's about learning to handle the situations that show up in your very first weeks on the job, the ones no policy fully covers on its own.

You'll work through realistic scenarios, decision labs, and exercises that build real judgment, not just recall, so you leave knowing not just what a policy says, but what to actually do when it doesn't give you a clean answer.

Whether you're stepping into HR for the first time, moving into it from another function, or want to sharpen the fundamentals you've been relying on instinct for, this course builds the practical, responsible foundation everything else in HR gets built on top of.

By the end of the course, you should not just know what HR is.

You should be ready to practise it.