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Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management: Beginner

From zero to your first end to end hiring and people process: talent acquisition, structured interviews, onboarding, and a full people operations blueprint.

  • Course
  • Beginner
  • 8 weeks
  • 47 lessons
  • Updated July 2026

What you'll learn

  • Understand how HR genuinely creates business value, and the core pillars of hiring, development, rewards, relations, and compliance
  • Write job descriptions, identify sourcing channels, and build employer branding and a talent pipeline
  • Run structured interviews with behavioural and competency based questions, and reduce bias in hiring decisions
  • Design an onboarding experience covering documentation, probation, feedback, and culture from day one
  • Run a complete end to end recruitment process with a defensible, bias aware selection decision
  • Understand the employee lifecycle, performance management, goal setting, and difficult conversations
  • Understand compensation structures, benefits, Indian labour law basics, payroll, PF, ESI, and HRMS
  • Use Generative AI to draft job descriptions, interview guides, and people documents responsibly
  • Build a full people operations blueprint for a growing company, presented and defended live to Ucanly mentors

Modules

8 modules · 47 lessons · 8 assignments

  1. Module 1: Getting Started in Human Resource Management

    6 lessons · 1 h 31 min

    Understand how recruitment, HR business partnering, people analytics, and leadership roles connect.

    1. The Ucanly HR Career Roadmap 2026Preview
    2. What HR Professionals Actually Do All Day
    3. How HR Genuinely Creates Business Value
    4. The Core Pillars of HR
    5. HR Ethics, Fairness and Confidentiality
    6. Ucanly Lab: Map the HR Function of a Real CompanyAssignment

  2. Module 2: Talent Acquisition and Sourcing

    6 lessons · 1 h 46 min

    Understand why job analysis decides the whole hire, and build a talent pipeline instead of starting from zero.

    1. Understanding a Role Before You Hire
    2. Writing Job Descriptions That Attract the Right People
    3. Sourcing Channels and Where Talent Genuinely Is
    4. Employer Branding and Candidate Attraction
    5. Building a Talent Pipeline
    6. Ucanly Lab: Write a Job Description and Sourcing PlanAssignment

  3. Module 3: Screening, Interviewing and Selection

    6 lessons · 1 h 46 min

    Understand why structured interviews beat gut feeling, and reduce bias in the hiring process.

    1. Screening Without Wasting Everyone's Time
    2. Structured Interviews and Why They Genuinely Work
    3. Behavioural and Competency Based Questions
    4. Bias in Hiring and How to Reduce It
    5. Making the Decision and the Offer
    6. Ucanly Lab: Build a Structured Interview KitAssignment

  4. Module 4: Onboarding and the New Employee

    6 lessons · 1 h 44 min

    Understand where new hires are genuinely won or lost, and design an onboarding experience that builds belonging.

    1. Why the First Ninety Days Genuinely Decide Retention
    2. Designing an Onboarding Experience
    3. Documentation, Compliance and Day One
    4. Probation, Early Feedback and Support
    5. Culture and Belonging From the Start
    6. Ucanly Lab: Design a Thirty Sixty Ninety Onboarding PlanAssignment

  5. Module 5: Ucanly Minor Project, Run a Complete Recruitment Process

    6 lessons · 1 h 48 min

    Analyze a role, source and screen candidates, and reach a defensible, bias aware hiring decision.

    1. Minor Project: Analysing the Role and Requirements
    2. Minor Project: The Job Description and Sourcing Plan
    3. Minor Project: Building the Screening Rubric
    4. Minor Project: The Structured Interview Kit
    5. Minor Project: The Bias Aware Selection Decision
    6. Minor Project: Hiring Defense and Mentor ReviewAssignment

  6. Module 6: Employee Lifecycle, Engagement and Performance

    6 lessons · 1 h 46 min

    Understand every stage from hire to exit, and what genuinely makes people commit to their work.

    1. The Full Employee Lifecycle
    2. Performance Management That Genuinely Works
    3. Goal Setting, Feedback and Difficult Conversations
    4. Employee Engagement and Motivation
    5. Retention and Why People Genuinely Leave
    6. Ucanly Lab: Design a Performance and Engagement ApproachAssignment

  7. Module 7: Compensation, Compliance and HR Operations

    6 lessons · 1 h 44 min

    Understand pay structures, benefits, Indian labour law basics, payroll, and the systems that run modern HR.

    1. How Pay Genuinely Works
    2. Benefits, Rewards and Total Compensation
    3. Indian Labour Law and Compliance Basics
    4. Payroll, PF, ESI and Statutory Essentials
    5. HR Technology and HRMS
    6. Ucanly Lab: Build a Simple Compensation StructureAssignment

  8. Module 8: Ucanly Major Project, Build a People Operations Blueprint

    5 lessons · 1 h 24 min

    Design the full hiring, onboarding, compensation, and retention foundation a growing company genuinely needs.

    1. Major Project: Understanding the Simulated Company
    2. Major Project: The Hiring and Talent Plan
    3. Major Project: Onboarding and the Employee Lifecycle
    4. Major Project: Policy, Compensation and Compliance Basics
    5. Major Project: Engagement, Retention and CultureAssignment

Before you start

  • None. No HR, business, or management background required, open to any graduate from any stream
  • A computer with a reliable internet connection and Excel or Google Sheets
  • Curiosity, consistency, and a willingness to work through real hiring scenarios
See the course and how to enrol
https://ucanly.io/courses/human-resource-management-beginner