Deciding Between aPHR, PHR, SPHR, SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCP Exams

Welcome to the HR Certification Podcast, a podcast for HR leaders working in the direction of their human assets certification with HRCI and SHRM. Be part of host Jessica Miller-Merrell, founding father of Workology.com and HR Certification prep program, Ace The HR Examination, as she shares research suggestions, examination insights, and topical evaluation for HR exams, together with the APHR, PRHR, SPHR, SHRM-CP, and SHRM-SCP. Now right here’s Jessica with this episode of the HR Certification Podcast.

Jessica Miller-Merrell: [00:00:40.07] Hello, and welcome to the HR Certification Podcast. I’m your host, Jessica Miller-Merrell, and I’m so excited to have you ever right here. My mission, objective, and fervour is elevating the human assets business. And within the HR Certification Podcast, I assist HR leaders in private {and professional} growth solely centered on their HR certification exams with SHRM and HRCI. This podcast is powered by Workology’s HR certification prep programs and assets. For those who’re taken with studying extra, go to our podcast hyperlink, its HRCertificationPodcast.com. Now earlier than I dive into the podcast at the moment, I need to hear from you. Textual content “HR CERTIFICATION” to 512-548-3005. That’s HR Certification. Textual content the phrase “HR CERTIFICATION” to 512-548-83005. You’ll be able to ask questions, depart feedback, and make recommendations for HR certification prep subjects for future podcast episodes. That is my neighborhood textual content quantity and I need to hear from you.

Jessica Miller-Merrell: [00:01:43.94] In every episode, I’ll cowl info and assets that can assist you together with your HR certification exams. These podcasts are quick and to the purpose. I would like you to get in as a lot evaluation as attainable after which transfer on. The HR Certification Podcast goes to be divided into completely different segments. In every episode, we’re going to deal with a typical query or evaluation an HR matter space, like a time period for you, after which we’re going to maneuver on to an HR glossary time period, which I’ll additionally evaluation, after which we’ll stroll you thru an HR certification examination query. Once more, these are designed for SHRM and HRCI exams and that features the APHR, the PHR, the SPHR, the SHRM-CP, and the SHRM-SCP exams. Within the transcript notes of every podcast, I can even share really helpful assets and knowledge to help you in your evaluation, and these can be found at HRCertificationPodcast.com. So let’s get began with our first pilot episode. This episode of the HR Certification Podcast is about how to decide on your HR certification examination. How do you resolve between the APHR, the PHR, the SPHR, the SHRM-CP, or the SHRM-SCP exams? It’s not as simple as you suppose, and that is such an vital choice. This query I get on a regular basis from new college students, and that’s the precise cause why I needed to speak about this in our pilot episode proper out of the gate. There are a selection of causes to earn your HR Certification credentials, however what’s vital is turning into accustomed to what you qualify for based mostly in your training, work, expertise, and background. As a result of we have now two completely different certifying our bodies for certification, SHRM and HRCI, I do know that it may be complicated, which is why I put collectively a useful dandy HR Certification Quiz for you that can assist you perceive what you qualify for. SHRM and HRCI are each nice locations to get your HR Certification, however they’re completely different and so they have completely different necessities, and I do know that may be lots.

Jessica Miller-Merrell: [00:03:44.96] Let me offer you instance. For the APHR and the SHRM-CP, these don’t have any training or expertise necessities to qualify for the examination. Nevertheless, the PHR, the SPHR, and the SHRM-SCP, all have completely different instructional and expertise mixtures and in some circumstances you may qualify to take the PHR with HRCI and the SHRM-SCP with SHRM, however you gained’t qualify to take the SPHR with HRCI. Are you with me? That’s loads of acronyms. I additionally get tons of questions from college students, particularly on Tik Tok, the place I spend loads of time and so they’re asking about what are the exams like? If you wish to comply with me on Tik Tok, it’s @WorkologyBlog over there. I would like HR leaders to know the kind of materials that’s lined and after they can take the examination in addition to how a lot is that this going to all value me? Don’t fear. I acquired you. I’ve a fantastic useful resource known as the HR Certification quiz and that helps you reply all questions and extra. It’s only a seven-question quiz and it offers you on the spot entry to details about which exams you qualify for, for HRCI and SHRM. You’ll be able to go to HRCertificationQuiz.com and take our no-cost HR Certification Quiz. I would like you to know what you qualify for and have it multi function place with SHRM and HRCI. You’ll reply seven questions on work, expertise, training, your HR examination timeline, and a handful of different questions on the way you prefer to be taught.

Jessica Miller-Merrell: [00:05:22.61] This quiz takes 2 minutes, and when you reply these questions, you’ll be directed to an on the spot useful resource on what you qualify for. And it’ll have a complete, simply rundown of issues like examination charges, all of the exams that you just qualify for, and simply info like what’s on the examination, the kind of check questions you’re going to be requested and the place it’s a must to go so as to register and take the examination. I don’t earn a living off this quiz. I’m doing it as a result of I need to elevate the HR business. I put it collectively after hundreds of HR leaders begged me for these solutions. They saved asking the identical questions again and again. So I used to be like, I’m going to make a quiz. I put it collectively as a result of I would like everybody to have equal entry from a impartial third celebration. That’s me. And I need to offer you all of the info about HR Certification exams proper at your fingertips so you may make the perfect choice for you. This quiz is de facto designed to be a one-stop store for all of your info on the best way to get began with HR certification exams. Once more, that hyperlink is HRCertificationQuiz.com.

Jessica Miller-Merrell: [00:06:27.41] So let’s assume that you just’ve taken the quiz and you realize what, HR Certification exams with SHRM or HRCI you qualify for. For those who don’t know, go over to HRCertificationQuiz.com and do this. Now earlier than deciding, there’s one last item I would like you to consider, and that’s researching job postings in your native space. So completely different geographic areas have completely different type of likeliness or pursuits in sure HR certifications. So it’s vital so that you can analysis these job postings within the space the place you’re going to stay proper now, but in addition the place are you going to stay in two years, 5 years, and 7 years down the street. Now, I’m not saying it’s 100% correct, however I would like you to suppose large and I would like you to assist dream and form of formulate what that’s going to seem like for you in an effort to actually make the perfect choice. Doing that is going that can assist you establish the kinds of HR Certifications which can be being included as necessities in job postings for the roles you qualify for now, to not point out sooner or later, the 2 years, and the 5 years, seven years down the street. I’ve discovered that completely different geographic areas and positions prefer to see completely different HR Certification credentials than others. And likewise SHRM certification is comparatively new within the historical past of HR certification. So it’s vital so that you can have all of the info to make a great choice.

Break: [00:07:55.55] Let’s take a reset whereas we transfer into our subsequent section right here on the HR Certification Podcast powered by Workology, I’m your host, Jessica Miller-Merrell. Workology affords HR certification prep programs and assets. If you wish to be taught extra about what we provide, go to HRCertificationPodcast.com or go to Workology.com. We provide a wide range of completely different prep assets, together with bodily merchandise like flashcards and research guides, together with programs for all various kinds of learners. Most significantly, these are accessible for you wherever and each time you’re. Our digital programs are on-demand and they’re accessible on our very personal Workology app out there for Android and Apple. I additionally need to hear from you. Textual content “HR CERTIFICATION” to 512-548-3005. Ask me questions, depart feedback, make recommendations for future subjects on the HR Certification Podcast. That is my neighborhood textual content quantity and I need to make certain I’m serving up the perfect assets in an effort to ace your HR Certification examination.

HR Glossary Time period

Jessica Miller-Merrell: [00:09:04.87] We are actually shifting right into a particular section of the HR Certification Podcast the place we evaluation an HR glossary time period and we do that for every episode. These are all human assets, phrases and definitions that cowl the information base for each SHRM and HRCI exams. In relation to turning into accustomed to HR phrases which can be a part of the SHRM and HRCI information base, it is necessary so that you can evaluation them repeatedly and utilizing completely different studying types. This is without doubt one of the issues that’s been an vital a part of my Ace The HR Examination course. We provide other ways to be taught with audio classes, quick movies, encouraging note-taking, flashcards, digital and bodily, and longer kind lecture content material. I encourage you to give attention to a single matter space or material in your evaluation versus making an attempt to evaluation all of the issues. It simply doesn’t make sense to do it that means. I would like you to grow to be a grasp in a particular material in an effort to transfer on to the following. And I would like you to arrange the way you evaluation these topics or these areas by what’s going to be on the examination, as a result of every examination is completely different and what’s extra prone to be on the examination that you just don’t know. So if there’s a topic space that you just’re battling and it’s acquired 40% of examination questions, it is advisable to be reviewing that first. It’s going to extend the chance that you just cross your examination. That is a very powerful a part of structuring your evaluation.

Jessica Miller-Merrell: [00:10:37.27] So let’s transfer on to the evaluation of our HR glossary time period for this episode. I’m going to start out by mentioning the time period after which I’m going to repeat it thrice for you. At present’s time period is Vicarious legal responsibility. In a office context, an employer might be answerable for the acts or omissions of its workers, supplied it may be proven that they occurred in the middle of their employment. Vicarious legal responsibility. In a office context, an employer might be answerable for the acts or omissions of its workers, supplied it may be proven that they occurred in the middle of their employment. Vicarious legal responsibility. In a office context, an employer might be answerable for the acts or omissions of its workers, supplied it may be proven that they occurred in the middle of their employment. Vicarious legal responsibility.

HR Check Query Assessment

Jessica Miller-Merrell: [00:11:30.58] Transferring on to section quantity three. That is the HR Check Query Assessment. It is a particular section the place we evaluation an HR check query and we do that for every episode. These are all check questions that cowl the information base for each the SHRM and HRCI exams. For those who’re searching for assets which can be certifying physique particular in relation to check questions, go to HRPracticeTest.com, choose your certifying physique, and entry our check query financial institution. We’ve one only for SHRM and one for HRCI, too. So earlier than I share the query, I need to offer you a fast evaluation of my HR check query framework. Extra info is accessible on our Workology YouTube channel. I’m going to hyperlink to that video within the transcript of this podcast episode over on HRCertificationPodcast.com. So there are 5 steps to the HR check query framework. The 1st step is to learn every query slowly and concisely. Step two is to establish the HR competency that the check query is about. Step three is to get rid of the flawed solutions. Step 4 is what I name WWSD or WWHD. That stands for What Would SHRM Do or What Would HRCI Do. WWSD or WWHD. Take into consideration the check query from the viewpoint of the particular person from HRCI or SHRM writing that query as you’re answering it. And 5, go together with your intestine. Reply each single query.

Jessica Miller-Merrell: [00:13:05.50] So let’s get to that check query. The query is, after finishing a benchmarking evaluation, what’s the subsequent logical step? Is it A) Contact the survey members for clarification. B) Develop a spot evaluation based mostly on the benchmarking information. C) Create a due diligence evaluation of the method. Or D) Implement wanted change. Going to learn that yet another time for you.

After finishing a benchmarking evaluation, what’s the subsequent logical step?

A) Contact the survey members for clarification.

B) Develop a spot evaluation based mostly on benchmarking information.

C) Create a due diligence evaluation of the method.

D) Implement the wanted change.

What do you suppose the perfect reply is? Drum roll, please. The reply is B) Develop a spot evaluation based mostly on the benchmarking information. A bonus tip for you, as you’re reviewing examination questions and aren’t accustomed to the subject. Possibly you simply couldn’t keep in mind what due diligence was or hole evaluation on this query we reviewed. Add these phrases to evaluation in your subsequent research session. I like to do that this fashion, that means your evaluation goes to be organized and also you’ve recognized a information hole as you’re making ready for the examination. So that you need to evaluation that and do it in a distinct order as a result of your mind is a muscle and it is advisable to problem that in a brand new and fascinating means. The aim right here is to ace your HR certification examination, which is why we have now to combine issues up and problem that mind.

Closing: [00:14:46.14] HR certification is such an vital step in your profession, whether or not you’re seeking to enhance your HR information base, acquire credibility, perhaps on the workplace, enhance your revenue potential, or show to your self that you just deserve it. You have got labored arduous and you realize what you’re speaking about. You do all of this stuff. No matter your cause is for getting HR certification, I’m right here to assist you. Collectively, let’s elevate the occupation. Thanks for becoming a member of me in our pilot episode of the HR Certification Podcast. My title is Jessica Miller-Merrell and I assist HR leaders ace their HR certification exams. Let me do the identical for you. Workology affords a number of assets and programs that can assist you together with your HR certification. You’ll be able to go to HRCertificationPodcast.com to be taught extra about how we assist with HR certification prep for the APHR, the PHR, the SPHR, the SHRM-CP, and the SHRM-SCP exams. In case you have a suggestion for a podcast matter for evaluation for an upcoming episode of the HR Certification Podcast, I need to hear it. Textual content “HR CERTIFICATION” to 512-548-3005. That is my neighborhood textual content quantity. Thanks a lot for becoming a member of our inaugural HR Certification Podcast episode. Let’s get on the market and do it collectively. I want you the perfect in your HR certification research prep. Discuss to you quickly.