HR managers & business partners
Spend less time on admin and reporting, more time on strategic people development and stakeholder conversations.
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Pragmatic AI series
Practical AI for HR professionals
Transform recruitment, operations, and learning programmes with AI. Learn to automate workflows, build smart assistants, and create personalised HR content — without needing to code.
2-day masterclass (17 hours)
Hands-on labs
HRDF claimable
ChatGPT · Claude · Gemini
What this masterclass focuses on
- Build an AI HR assistant that answers policy questions with cited, accurate responses from your handbook.
- Screen candidates faster with AI-supported CV review and skills matching.
- Automate onboarding emails, schedules, and compliance checklists.
- Design data-driven L&D programmes and personalised learning journeys.
- Create HR learning content: guides, quizzes, video outlines, and scripts.
Why this course
AI that is grounded in real HR work, not hype
Many AI sessions stay at the level of demos and inspiration. This masterclass is built around specific HR workflows — recruitment, onboarding, L&D, and operations — so participants leave with ready-to-use patterns.
The HR reality
- Recruiters and hiring managers drown in CVs and repetitive outreach.
- Onboarding tasks and policy questions eat into time for strategic work.
- L&D teams struggle to keep up with content demands across the organisation.
- People analytics insights often remain trapped in spreadsheets and slide decks.
The AI opportunity
- Use AI to triage and summarise candidate pipelines in minutes instead of hours.
- Deploy grounded HR assistants that answer policy and benefits questions with proper citations.
- Generate learning assets, guides, quizzes, and comms on demand from existing materials.
- Turn HR and performance data into clear, executive-ready reports and recommendations.
Tools and skills
6 tools, 5 capability areas
Participants get hands-on with leading AI tools while building skills that transfer across vendors and platforms.
Tools you will work with
- ChatGPT and Claude for conversational AI and content generation.
- Gemini and NotebookLM for document-grounded analysis and synthesis.
- Google Sheets and similar tools for HR data workflows.
- Optional: Perplexity and other retrieval-first assistants for research.
HR capability areas
- Recruitment and talent acquisition.
- Onboarding and HR operations.
- Learning and development.
- People analytics and reporting.
- Change and stakeholder communication.
Course content
Practical, hands-on training for immediate application
The programme is structured across foundations, HR operations, learning and development, and integration — with a capstone project that pulls everything together.
Foundations & HR operations
- Introduction to AI tools for HR (Gemini, NotebookLM, Google Sheets).
- Building your first AI assistant in 45 minutes.
- AI-driven candidate screening and skills matching.
- Personalised recruitment outreach automation.
- Creating the “HR Brain” knowledge chatbot.
- Automating onboarding workflows and compliance tasks.
- Generating executive reports from operational HR data.
Learning & development + integration
- Synthesising performance reviews for skill gap analysis.
- Designing data-driven L&D strategies.
- Creating personalised learning journeys for employees.
- Generating multi-format training content (guides, scripts, quizzes).
- Measuring training effectiveness and ROI.
- Capstone: Building your unified AI–HR portal.
- Implementation planning and next steps after the workshop.
Intended audience
Who should attend
Designed for HR professionals and people leaders who want to work smarter with AI and bring structure to AI experiments already happening in their organisations.
Talent acquisition teams
Find the right candidates faster, without missing strong cultural fits and non-obvious skills matches.
L&D professionals
Design personalised learning programmes without creating every asset from scratch.
HR operations
Automate routine policy inquiries, letters, and compliance tasks while staying within governance policies.
People analytics teams
Turn HR data into actionable insights and compelling narratives for leadership.
Small HR teams
Gain AI leverage to compete with larger departments and expand your capacity.
Programme details
Delivery and requirements
A short, intensive masterclass designed for real workplace application, with live facilitation and hands-on labs using your own HR scenarios where possible.
| Duration | 2 full days (approximately 17 hours of contact time). |
|---|---|
| Format | Instructor-led with practical labs and guided exercises. |
| Delivery mode | In-person or live online. |
| Group size | Ideal for 10 to 25 participants, depending on format. |
| Prerequisite | Basic familiarity with HR processes and spreadsheets; no coding required. |
| Participant requirements | Laptop, Google account, and sample HR documents (where allowed). |
| HRDF claimable | Yes, with accredited trainer support for Malaysian organisations. |
| Includes | All materials, lab exercises, templates, and certificate of completion. |
What Participants Say
Hear from HR professionals who transformed their workflows with AI
Next steps
Plan a Practical AI for HR masterclass for your organisation
Share your HR team profile, current AI experiments, and the outcomes you need. We will suggest an AI masterclass track tuned to your HR context — including HRDF claim guidance for Malaysian employers.
- Available for corporate HR teams and mixed business cohorts.
- Customisable around your recruitment, onboarding, and L&D use cases.
- HRDF claimable with accredited trainer support.