# AI for HR Professionals (Private Sector) (Self-Paced) Canonical URL: ## Overview Study on your own schedule, and this course will carry you from an opening conversation with Claude to a finished AI workflow made for HR professionals. HR-specific examples, exercises, and genuine people operations documents give you the practice you need to write prompts that work, stay organized through Projects, produce reusable templates as Artifacts, and connect Claude to the tools in your workplace. Once you are through, the Claude system in front of you is personalized to your HR role and to the people priorities your organization ranks highest. How much writing an HR professional owns is remarkable once you list it out: employee communications, onboarding programs, policy documents, performance review frameworks, offer letters, and job descriptions. Claude speeds that output up considerably, so long as it operates inside the right organizational context and follows sound professional guardrails. Setting up those guardrails and then applying them to the entire spectrum of HR content is what this course demonstrates, and that spectrum runs from talent acquisition and employee relations through policy and compliance, people analytics, and program development. The whole thing culminates in a capstone, where your full Claude system produces a complete HR deliverable package. ## What you'll learn - Write prompts precisely and purposefully so that accurate results keep coming for writing, analysis, summarization, and research - Settle Projects, Artifacts, Styles, and Memory into place to build a Claude workflow that answers the demands of your HR role - Become comfortable with advanced prompting techniques such as role-based prompting, the You Ask Me method, and chain-of-thought reasoning - Thread Claude through the workplace tools your people operations team relies on, such as Google Drive, Gmail, Excel, and PowerPoint - Bring Claude to bear on the HR workflows that shape your day, which include job descriptions, performance management frameworks, employee communications, manager guidance, and policy documentation - Construct a complete HR Claude system and wrap up the course with a thorough capstone deliverable package fit for use at work ## Curriculum #### Module 1: Getting Started with Claude AI - Explain how Claude works in plain language and identify the model tiers, plans, and interface - Understand the context window, how Claude processes information, and when to start new conversations - Practice your first Claude conversation using an HR-specific prompt - Identify what Claude does well, what it doesn’t, and when human judgment is essential #### Module 2: Prompting Fundamentals - Apply the five-part prompt framework: context, task, format, constraints, and examples - Write effective prompts across five use cases: writing, summarization, analysis, research, and creative problem-solving - Recognize and fix common prompting mistakes that produce vague or unusable output - Practice prompting with HR scenarios: drafting a job posting, summarizing a policy document, and writing a manager feedback script #### Module 3: Working with Files & Documents - Upload and analyze images, PDFs, spreadsheets, and documents directly in Claude - Use Claude to extract, compare, and summarize information from uploaded files - Work with HR-specific file types: position descriptions, org charts, performance review forms, and employee handbook sections - Complete a hands-on document analysis exercise using provided HR sample files #### Module 4: Projects & Knowledge Bases - Explain how Projects use custom instructions and knowledge bases to organize ongoing work - Write effective Project instructions that encode your role, audience, format preferences, and rules - Upload reference documents and understand how RAG retrieves relevant content - Create an HR Project for a talent acquisition or performance management scenario using provided sample files #### Module 5: Artifacts, Styles, Memory & Usage Management - Create reusable deliverables with Artifacts and edit them directly or through conversation - Build custom Styles that match your professional communication voice - Configure Memory to retain key context about you and your work across conversations - Apply usage management techniques to extend your plan value #### Module 6: Advanced Prompting & AI Tool Selection - Use role-based prompting, chain-of-thought reasoning, and multi-step workflows - Apply Extended Thinking, web search, and the You Ask Me technique for complex tasks - Compare Claude with ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini to choose the right tool for each task - Practice advanced prompting with HR scenarios: auditing a job description for bias, building a structured interview guide, and developing a performance improvement plan framework #### Module 7: Introduction to Claude Cowork - Explain what Cowork is and how it differs from the claude.ai chat interface - Read, write, and manage files from your desktop environment - Configure guardrails, file permissions, and network settings for safe use - Understand prompt injection risks and how to protect against them #### Module 8: Context System, Connectors & Integrations - Build foundational context files and set Global Instructions that apply to every Cowork session - Connect Claude to Slack, Google Drive, Gmail, and other workplace tools - Use Claude natively in Excel and PowerPoint with the Office add-ins - Configure your context system and connections for HR workflows, including people analytics in Excel and leadership presentations in PowerPoint #### Module 9: AI for HR — Core Workflows - Use Claude to produce bias-reviewed, level-calibrated job descriptions and structured interview guides - Draft manager coaching scripts, performance improvement plan frameworks, and corrective action documentation - Build employee communications, handbook sections, and onboarding program content - Set up HR-specific Skills and Scheduled Tasks for recurring content production - Complete a hands-on lab producing a multi-document HR content package #### Module 10: Capstone — Build Your HR Claude System - Audit your HR tasks and identify the highest-value opportunities for Claude assistance - Configure a personalized HR Claude system: Projects, context files, Styles, and connected tools - Run a complete end-to-end workflow that produces a real HR deliverable package - Create a Week 1 action plan for applying what you’ve learned to your HR role ## Pricing **Tuition:** $899