Overview

As a new HR specialist in the public sector, you may be wondering how best to grow your skills. The Federal HR Institute’s "Foundations of Staffing: The HR Hiring Essentials Toolkit" is just what you need to understand and develop your role in the federal workplace. This toolkit combines six essential courses for new and entry-level staffing specialists with topics focused on oral and written HR communications, laws and regulations, special hiring authorities, and the federal hiring process. We’ve taken the guesswork out of your foundational development and selected the best courses to kickstart your federal HR career in just three months:

• Introduction to HR Management (4 hours web-based training)
• Foundations of Service Excellence (1 1/2 days virtual instructor-led training)
• Effective Writing for the HR Professional (2 1/2 days virtual instructor-led learning)
• Staffing Laws and Regulations (4 hours web-based learning)
• The Federal Hiring Process (3 hours web-based learning)
• Staffing Programs for Special Populations (4 hours web-based learning)

How You Will Benefit

  Through a combination of online self-paced and instructor-led formats, you’ll gain knowledge and understanding in a variety of staffing topics, including:

• The roles of different agencies, human capital entities, and HR disciplines to better understand what influences HR management in government
  
• How adopting a customer service mindset helps you respond appropriately to inquiries and needs
• Why communicating effectively can help establish strong working relationships
• Crafting targeted messages that engage your intended audience and achieve your desired goals.
• Why knowing your writing objective and audience can help you discern what makes writing effective and ineffective.
• What roles and responsibilities staffing specialists and other personnel have in the federal hiring process.
• What HR professionals can and cannot do when hiring for Federal agency employment.
• Merit Systems Principles and Prohibited Personnel Practices, including hiring flexibilities and Veterans’ preference.
• How to recruit, accommodate, hire, retain, and include individuals with disabilities, veterans, and students, consistent with applicable law.
• Where to best use internal and external resources to recruit, develop, and retain employees with disabilities, veterans, or students.

Additional Course Information

Learners are required to complete all six courses of the toolkit curriculum within one fiscal quarter (three months). This curriculum includes 15 hours of self-paced learning and 32 hours of virtual instructor-led training.

 Who Should Attend

• Early career HR staffing specialists in grades GS 5-7
• HR professionals in other grades or disciplines looking for a refresher