AI for HR & People: Core

HR and people teams learn to apply AI to hiring, communications, and L&D while avoiding bias and compliance pitfalls. The course covers job descriptions and hiring, policy and comms, learning and development, and bias and compliance cautions. Participants finish able to use AI responsibly across the employee lifecycle.

What this course covers

The course runs across 10 topics, each one a short adaptive session rather than a recorded lecture. The tutor explains the idea, works an example, checks understanding, and adjusts the next step to the answer given.

Introduction to AI in HR & People Ops — Overview of the AI landscape in HR, key use cases across the employee lifecycle, and setting up secure AI tool environments.
Optimizing Job Descriptions & Hiring Workflows — How to draft, refine, and optimize job descriptions using AI while maintaining brand voice and attracting top talent.
Simulated Candidate Screening & Sourcing — Hands-on practice using AI tools to assist in candidate sourcing, resume screening, and generating structured interview rubrics.
Drafting HR Policies & Internal Communications — Using AI to draft clear, empathetic, and professional internal communications, policy updates, and employee handbook sections.
Navigating Difficult Employee Comms & Feedback — Simulating sensitive HR conversations and performance feedback sessions using AI-generated scenarios and real-time roleplay.
Designing AI-Driven Learning & Development Programs — How to leverage AI to map skills gaps, generate personalized learning pathways, and build training curricula for diverse teams.
Creating Custom Training Scenarios with AI — Using AI tools to generate interactive roleplay prompts and situational exercises for manager and employee training programs.
Identifying and Mitigating AI Bias in HR — Analyzing AI outputs for hidden gender, racial, or age bias, and learning how to write de-biasing prompts for recruitment and evaluation.
Compliance, Data Privacy, and AI Governance — A scenario-based look at legal pitfalls, data privacy regulations (GDPR/CCPA), and establishing safe-use policies for employee data.
Capston Practice: The Responsible AI HR Workflow — A comprehensive, hands-on simulation applying AI to an end-to-end HR challenge—from hiring to onboarding—while ensuring compliance.

Skills you build

Results are measured against named skills in the OneRange taxonomy of more than 10,000 skills, so a manager sees proficiency per skill rather than a completion tick. This course maps to HR Policy Development, Bias & Fairness in AI, AI Talent Strategy, Inclusive Hiring Practices, Working with AI Tools.

HR Policy Development
Bias & Fairness in AI
AI Talent Strategy
Inclusive Hiring Practices
Working with AI Tools

Who it is for

HR, recruiting, people teams. The material is pitched at intermediate level, and takes roughly 120 minutes at a typical pace. Because every session adapts, someone who already knows a topic moves through it quickly instead of sitting through an explanation they do not need.

It sits in the Function: HR & People track of the Vero AI Catalog, and can be assigned to one person, a team, or the whole company.

How it is delivered and assessed

Delivery is conversational and interactive, including guided lab, role play, branching scenario exercises. There is no video to sit through and no slide deck to click past.

Understanding is checked with a lab assessment of 5 items, with a pass mark of 70%.

Administrators can copy this course into their own library and adapt it — edit the outline, change the duration, swap the assessment format, or ground it in internal documentation so answers cite the company's own source material.

See how this training works for the whole function on AI training for HR & People.

Also in this track

AI for HR & People: Advanced — An advanced course for HR leaders, people ops who already use AI in daily work. It moves beyond the essentials into people-analytics workflows, policy automation, sensitive-case judgment, and program measurement, with an emphasis on quality control, automation, and judgment at scale.
AI for HR & People: Essentials — Learners will be able to use AI for everyday people work while protecting employee privacy. The course covers drafting job descriptions and announcements, answering common policy questions with the handbook open, and summarizing survey comments into themes. They leave knowing exactly what HR information never goes into a prompt.
AI for People & HR — Apply AI to hiring, comms, and L&D responsibly

Frequently asked questions

How long does this course take?

It runs roughly 120 minutes at a typical pace. Because every session adapts, someone who already knows a topic moves through it quickly instead of sitting through an explanation they do not need.

How is it assigned to a team?

An administrator assigns it from the Vero dashboard to one person, a team, a department or the whole company, and sees progress and results per person and per skill.

Can we customise it with our own documents and terminology?

Yes. Administrators can copy this course into their own library and adapt it — edit the outline, change the duration, swap the assessment format, or ground it in internal documentation so answers cite the company's own source material.

Course code FUN-HR.