Generative AI for Recruiters and HR Professionals
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What you'll learn
Hire faster and with confidence by using Generative AI to create job descriptions, screen resumes, and evaluate candidates accurately
Automate high-effort HR tasks by creating custom AI tools such as JD creators, screening GPTs, and onboarding chatbots – no coding necessary
Drive more effective and fair hiring decisions through bias monitoring, consistency across evaluations, and human-in-the-loop AI practices
Implement AI in HR operations safely by minimizing hallucinations and addressing legal, ethical and compliance risks
Skills you'll gain
- Human Resource Management
- Employee Engagement
- Large Language Modeling
- Law, Regulation, and Compliance
- Compliance Management
- Performance Review
- Human Capital
- Data Ethics
- Prompt Engineering Tools
- HR Tech
- Responsible AI
- Talent Recruitment
- Talent Acquisition
- Prompt Patterns
- Workforce Planning
- Performance Appraisal
- Human Resources
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February 2026
22 assignments
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There are 3 modules in this course
Ready to transform how you hire, screen, and engage employees using Generative AI — while staying compliant and reducing manual HR workload? This Generative AI for Recruiters and HR Professionals course helps you convert AI hype into real, day-to-day HR impact.
Many HR teams are experimenting with AI tools, but they are encountering difficulties around prompt design, hallucination risks, bias awareness, and ensuring legal compliance. Without structured GenAI skills, using AI in HR becomes risky and inefficient. This course solves that using real HR workflows, prompt engineering frameworks, custom GPT building, screening automation use cases, and compliance-first AI practices. What You’ll Be Able to Do? * Design powerful prompts for hiring, screening, and HR communication * Build HR AI tools like JD creators, screening GPTs, and onboarding chatbots * Detect bias and apply human-in-the-loop screening strategies * Use GenAI while managing legal, ethical, and compliance risks This course is for recruiters, HR professionals, talent acquisition teams, and the HR leaders who are leading AI-driven HR transformation. Enroll now and build future-ready Generative AI capabilities for HR.
This module introduces the fundamentals of Generative AI for HR, including how large language models work and how prompts shape outcomes. You’ll learn practical prompt patterns, persona-based approaches, and techniques to ensure accurate, reliable, and policy-aligned AI responses.
What's included
18 videos9 assignments
18 videos•Total 63 minutes
- Overview of the Course•2 minutes
- What are Large Language Models?•4 minutes
- Randomness in Output•4 minutes
- What is a Prompt?•2 minutes
- Intuition Behind Prompts•4 minutes
- Everyone Can Program with Prompts•3 minutes
- Prompt Patterns•2 minutes
- Introducing New Information to the Large Language Model•4 minutes
- Prompt Size Limitations•3 minutes
- Prompts are a Tool for Repeated Use•4 minutes
- Root Prompts•4 minutes
- Virtual Employee Focus Groups with Personas•5 minutes
- Introduction to the Persona Pattern & Human Resources•2 minutes
- The Persona Pattern•5 minutes
- The Transformer Pattern: A Bigger Impact with HR Works Products•4 minutes
- Reducing Hallucination with Escape Valves: Prevent Mistakes in HR Communication•4 minutes
- Fact Check Pattern: Double Check HR•3 minutes
- Answering Questions with Policies & Other Documents•4 minutes
9 assignments•Total 147 minutes
- Proficiency Quiz•15 minutes
- Proficiency Quiz•20 minutes
- Proficiency Quiz•20 minutes
- Proficiency Quiz•20 minutes
- Checkpoint Quiz•12 minutes
- Checkpoint Quiz•16 minutes
- Checkpoint Quiz•16 minutes
- Checkpoint Quiz•12 minutes
- Checkpoint Quiz•16 minutes
This module focuses on applying Generative AI to performance reviews, employee development, and workforce planning. You’ll learn to generate structured, reliable, and personalized insights using patterns like citations, standardization, and question generation.
What's included
6 videos4 assignments
6 videos•Total 28 minutes
- Fusing Information with Citations: Aiding in Performance Reviews•5 minutes
- Personalized Learning & Growth Plans with Generative AI•5 minutes
- Forecasting Employee Growth and Readiness for Human Capital Planning•3 minutes
- Accessible Explanations: Get the Key Ideas Right Now•4 minutes
- Question Generator Pattern•6 minutes
- Standardization Pattern•4 minutes
4 assignments•Total 54 minutes
- Proficiency Quiz•15 minutes
- Proficiency Quiz•15 minutes
- Checkpoint Quiz•12 minutes
- Checkpoint Quiz•12 minutes
This module covers end-to-end use of Generative AI in talent acquisition and onboarding, from job descriptions and resume screening to candidate evaluation and onboarding automation. You’ll also learn best practices, bias detection, and ethical and legal considerations for responsible real-world deployment.
What's included
31 videos9 assignments
31 videos•Total 125 minutes
- Introduction to Generative AI in Talent Acquisition•2 minutes
- Generative AI Use Cases in Talent Acquisition•4 minutes
- Mastering Promot Engineering and Develop a JD Creator Part 1•5 minutes
- Mastering Promot Engineering and Develop a JD Creator Part 2•5 minutes
- Create a Resume Screening GPT•8 minutes
- Automate Resume Screening using Gemini•5 minutes
- Create Candidate Evaluation GPT•7 minutes
- Develop a BGV Automation GPT•4 minutes
- Develop an Onboarding Chatbot•5 minutes
- Best Practices for AI in Talent Acquisition•5 minutes
- Generative AI For Talent Acquisition Overview•1 minute
- Identify Touchpoints and Opportunities in Onboarding•4 minutes
- Personalized Candidate Screening with Gen AI•6 minutes
- Prompt Strategies and Various Gen AI Tools•8 minutes
- Building a Custom GPT for Resume Evaluation•5 minutes
- Detecting Bias in Candidate Evaluation with Claude•5 minutes
- Addressing GenAI Pitfalls in Screening with Human-in-the-Loop Strategies•6 minutes
- Best Practices and Emerging Tools for GenAI in Screening•3 minutes
- Introduction to Legal Considerations•3 minutes
- Data Protection and Privacy Laws•3 minutes
- Employment Law Implications•3 minutes
- Conducting AI Audits•3 minutes
- Risk Assessment and Mitigation•3 minutes
- Documentation and Transparency•2 minutes
- Keeping Up with Regulatory Changes•3 minutes
- Stakeholder Engagement•3 minutes
- International Considerations•4 minutes
- Aligning Ethical and Legal Considerations•3 minutes
- Developing Ethical and Legal Guidelines•4 minutes
- Case Studies•5 minutes
- Thank You For Taking This Course!•0 minutes
9 assignments•Total 266 minutes
- Proficiency Quiz•50 minutes
- Proficiency Quiz•40 minutes
- Proficiency Quiz•60 minutes
- Checkpoint Quiz•20 minutes
- Checkpoint Quiz•20 minutes
- Checkpoint Quiz•16 minutes
- Checkpoint Quiz•16 minutes
- Checkpoint Quiz•20 minutes
- Checkpoint Quiz•24 minutes
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Generative AI is commonly found in recruitment & HR to automate job descriptions, resume screening, candidate communication, and onboarding support. In this course, you will learn how these use cases are functioning in real HR workflows and how they can be ethically applied with human review.
No, coding is not required. This course is meant for HR professionals and recruiters, particularly focused on prompt-based usage of AI - it teaches how to build these practical HR AI workflows without writing code.
Using Generative AI, HR’s mundane tasks like resume parsing, JDs structuring, and candidate emails get automated. This coursedemonstrateshow to use AI tools and suggestions to accelerate hiring, but with accuracy and control.
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