What is this programme?
The HR & People Management Certificate from ecertificate.pro is an independent, self-paced online program covering the employee lifecycle end to end: recruitment and structured interviewing, onboarding, goal setting and performance reviews, feedback conversations, retention work and offboarding. It takes roughly 22 hours and finishes with an online assessment; once you pass, the certificate is delivered to your private panel on ecertificate.pro carrying a unique verification code that can be checked only in the ecertificate.pro database. It is not government-approved, not officially accredited by any authority, and it does not grant a licence, a protected professional title or any guarantee of employment. It is also not legal advice: dismissal rules, notice periods and record-keeping duties differ by country, so local law and qualified counsel still govern what you may do. The program is aimed at new people managers, HR generalists, recruiters and small-company founders who run hiring and performance themselves.
Who it is for
New and first-time people managers, HR generalists and coordinators, in-house recruiters, team leads who run performance reviews, and founders or operations managers at small companies who handle hiring and employee relations without a dedicated HR function.
What you will be able to do
- Run a hiring manager intake meeting that ends with a signed-off role scorecard, weighted must-have criteria and an agreed salary band.
- Assemble a structured interview kit: a competency question bank, behavioural probes, a work-sample task and an anchored 1-5 rating scale every interviewer uses.
- Read a hiring funnel properly - stage drop-off, time-to-hire, source quality, offer acceptance rate - and fix the stage that is actually leaking.
- Design a 30/60/90 onboarding plan with access checklists, named check-in dates and a documented probation decision.
- Run a performance cycle from goal setting through calibration, and write review records that still hold up months later.
- Deliver Situation-Behaviour-Impact feedback, run a focused weekly 1:1, and handle a defensive reaction without dropping the message.
- Build a measurable improvement plan and run offboarding end to end: exit interview, knowledge transfer, access revocation and rehire policy.
Modules
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Role Design, Intake Briefs and Salary Bands
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2
Structured Interviewing and Selection Evidence
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3
Sourcing, Funnel Metrics and Candidate Data
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Onboarding and the First 90 Days
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Goals, Performance Cycles and Calibration
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Feedback, 1:1s and Difficult Conversations
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Retention, Engagement and Total Rewards
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Improvement Plans, Exits and Offboarding
How it works
Learning format
Self-paced written material, downloaded from your dashboard. No fixed schedule and no live sessions — you work through it when it suits you.
Material delivery
Everything appears in your dashboard as soon as your payment is confirmed. Files are served only to your signed-in session.
Prerequisites
None. No prior HR qualification is required and the workflows are tool-agnostic, so any applicant tracking system or HR information system will do. Comfort with a spreadsheet helps for the hiring funnel and compensation band exercises.
Completion
Work through the self-paced modules and their downloadable templates, then pass the final online assessment, which mixes knowledge questions with short scenario judgements. On passing, the certificate is issued with a unique verification code to your private ecertificate.pro panel.
Your certificate
Once your completion is confirmed, we prepare your certificate and upload it to your dashboard, normally within 24–48 hours. You receive an e-mail as soon as it is there — you never have to chase it.
Refunds
Because the material is delivered digitally and immediately, purchases are non-refundable once the files have been made available to your account. The full terms are in our Refund Policy.
