This specialization teaches HR professionals how to use generative AI through proven prompting patterns that transform complex hiring processes, create personalized employee development plans, improve workplace communications, standardize candidate comparisons, generate targeted interview questions, analyze policies from multiple employee perspectives, fuse performance review data with citations, create dynamic training trajectories, reduce AI hallucinations, and transform single documents into timelines, emails, and FAQs. By the end, you'll have the skills to augment your HR capabilities with AI, freeing up time for strategic work and face-to-face employee interactions.

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Generative AI HR Professional Specialization
Master AI to Transform HR Operations. Master AI patterns to streamline hiring, development, and communications.

Instructor: Dr. Jules White
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What you'll learn
Unlock your creative potential by using generative AI to reimagine routine HR tasks and develop innovative solutions to workplace challenges.
Master generative AI patterns to revolutionize every aspect of HR work - from hiring and development to policy communication and employee engagement.
Demystify generative AI technology to overcome workplace fears and amplify your potential both professionally and personally.
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Skills you'll gain
- Human Resources
- Human Development
- Recruitment
- Management Training And Development
- Communication Planning
- Policy Development
- Artificial Intelligence
- Talent Recruitment
- Policy Analysis
- Large Language Modeling
- New Hire Orientations
- Productivity
- Professional Development
- Interviewing Skills
- Communication
- Employee Performance Management
- Performance Review
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June 2025
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Specialization - 3 course series
What you'll learn
Translate technical resumes and job descriptions into clear, actionable insights for hiring decisions and candidate evaluation.
Build personalized career development trajectories and standardized candidate comparison frameworks that scale across your entire organization.
Anticipate employee reactions to policy changes and craft communications that reduce anxiety and increase buy-in before rollout.
Skills you'll gain
What you'll learn
How to apply prompt engineering to effectively work with large language models, like ChatGPT
How to use prompt patterns to tap into powerful capabilities within large language models
How to create complex prompt-based applications for your life, business, or education
Skills you'll gain
What you'll learn
How Generative AI is going to transform computing and work
How to use Generative AI to amplify and augment your creativity and critical thinking to provide an "exoskeleton for the mind"
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No background is necessary.
You can take the courses in any order.
Hiring and Recruitment
Transform complex technical resumes into clear, comparable candidate profiles
Generate targeted, role-specific interview questions based on job requirements and candidate backgrounds
Create standardized evaluation frameworks that ensure fair candidate comparison
Extract key qualifications from resumes using direct quotations for verification
Employee Development and Performance
Build personalized career development plans that account for individual backgrounds and company resources
Fuse performance review feedback from multiple sources with complete citation tracking
Create dynamic training trajectories that update as employees progress
Project when employees will be ready for new roles to support capacity planning
Policy and Communication
Analyze workplace policies from multiple employee perspectives before implementation
Transform single documents into timelines, emails, FAQs, and other communication formats
Anticipate employee reactions and craft proactive communications that address concerns
Create virtual focus groups to test policy changes with diverse stakeholder viewpoints
Information Management
Extract specific answers from lengthy policy documents with direct quotations and page references
Filter complex documents to show only relevant information for decision-making
Verify AI accuracy and reduce hallucinations through fact-checking techniques
Combine information from multiple sources while maintaining traceability
Strategic HR Capabilities
Generate accessible explanations of complex topics for any audience level
Create comprehensive reports that synthesize information from diverse sources
Design persona-based analyses to understand different employee demographics
Use AI to amplify your creativity and develop innovative solutions to workplace challenges
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