HRCI PHR/GPHR EXAM DATES/FEES
Source: HR Certification Institute
SHRM CONFERENCES
Source: SHRM Volunteer Activities
SHRM SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
Source: SHRM Foundation Scholarships and Awards
SHRM Foundation Scholarships for SHRM Members
Scholarships will be offered again in 2010. Click here to view application instructions and more information.
This program is generously underwritten by the J. J. Keller Foundation.
The SHRM Foundation will award a total of $100,000 annually in scholarships for SHRM members pursuing degrees in HR-related fields or SPHR, GPHR, PHR or California certification. Members working in the media industry and pursuing a college degree are eligible to apply for a Barbara Sanchez Scholarship.
In addition, SHRM professional chapters and state councils are eligible to compete for the Certification scholarship to fund programs that promote SPHR, GPHR, PHR or California certification. (Note: 'SHRM members' includes professional, general or associate members. Student members, student chapters and local-only members of chapters are not eligible for this scholarship program.)
Awards:
60 Certification Scholarships ($750 each)
40 Academic Scholarships ($1,375 each)
5 Barbara Sanchez Scholarships ($1,500 each)
All applications must be submitted online. In 2010, you may begin the online application process, save your work and then complete the process at a later date. Your application must be completed and submitted by July 15 to be considered for an award.
Awards for SHRM Student Members and Advisors
SHRM Foundation Student Scholarship Program
More than $50,000 will be awarded in education and certification scholarships. 25 Scholarships available
SHRM Foundation Dissertation Awards
In partnership with the HR Division of the Academy of Management, the Foundation presents four $5000 awards each year to support the dissertation research of promising doctoral candidates.
View Past Dissertation Award Winners
HR HOUSTON CONTINUING EDUCATION
Source: HR Houston Continuing Education
HR Houston offers a variety of educational opportunities to meet the needs of HR professionals in the Gulf Coast area. Offerings include monthly meeting programs, half-day seminars, HR 101 and Relationship Management for the HR Business Partner professional development courses, Certification Study Groups, and the extensive offerings of the annual Gulf Coast Symposium on HR Issues.
Education Courses Offered
- Certification Study Group - HR Houston offers the Certification Study Group to assist HR professionals in preparing to sit for the Human Resource Certification Institute's certification exam that confers the Professional in Human Resources (PHR) and Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) designations. The Study Group offers regular meetings that utilize the HR Review Start Smart materials with the opportunity to meet other professionals also studying for the exam, and covers each of the six functional areas of the HRCI Body of Knowledge. The registration fee includes the extensive HR Review Workbook/CD with detailed outlines, 750 practice questions with comprehensive answers, and hundreds of electronic flashcards. The certification Study Group is offered twice a year in both September and February. Check the HR Houston Calendar for further details and to register. For more information on HR Review, click here.
- Human Resources 101 - This 2-day program gives proven, practical applied employment law and effective HR practice education that quickly provides the tools you need in a format you can relate to. Choose the two-day course or one day only. BROCHURE
- Relationship Management for the HR Business Partner - Do people come to you to vent and leave their emotional baggage sitting on your doorstep? Are you having trouble convincing people that you are on their side? Want to be able to gracefully handle negative comments so that their effects don’t hang in the air like a heavy cloud? You need Relationship Management for the HR Business Partner. Today’s HR practitioner needs a superior collaborative skill set to effectively solve problems and champion solutions that affect results. This powerful two-day seminar will make you consciously aware of the language and behavior patterns that communicate respect and value — and make people want to open up to you. You’ll walk away with new tools to get at the goals of internal clients, guide people to their own solutions, motivate others, and mediate differences. This program has been approved for 6 recertification credit hours for each seminar day attended, for a total of 12 hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org. BROCHURE
- Emotional Intelligence: Useful Tools for the HR Practitioner Think Emotional Intelligence is your score on a paper and pencil test that somehow measures an individual's ability to succeed? Think again. This practical seminar will improve your ability to recognize, manage, and use the information communicated by emotions to advance goals and agendas. This program has been approved for 6 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org. BROCHURE
- Behavioral Interviewing Strategies: How To Make More Effective Hiring Decisions - In two powerful days, you will learn how to painlessly guide an interview conversation so that it is easy for a candidate to tell you what you need to know. You'll learn how to artfully manage the interview so that it saves time, minimizes mistakes and becomes an invaluable screening device. You'll understand what works and what doesn't in your candidate selection process and know how to develop the questions that get to the heart of fit and performance. *This program was previously entitled Interview Boot Camp: Beyond Basic Training. This program has been approved for 6 recertification credit hours for each seminar day attended, for a total of 12 hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org. BROCHURE
DAY 1 - Employee Selection: What an Interviewer Must Know
This practical hands-on session will help you understand what works and what doesn't in your candidate screening process and provide tools to help ensure that your interviews are on the mark. Employee Selection integrates the last thirty years of applied HRM research. It brings together the useful information that you wish you had regarding effective candidate selection into a single content packed session.
DAY 2 - Controlling the Interview: Tips for Making Good Questions More Effective
This session is a specially tailored version of the Core Competencies session of our popular Relationship Management seminar. Controlling the Interview focuses directly on interview technique and is appropriate for HR practitioners and non-HR hiring authorities. This session builds out the skills necessary to conduct low friction inquiry. In addition, it provides a practical strategy for quickly getting candidates to open up and tell you what you need to know.
- Strategic Leadership: Guiding and Leading the Change Process - Wish you had a better working knowledge of the productivity impact of job loss, restructuring, and significant shifts in employee expectations? Do you have good ideas that never get off the ground? Want better tools to give executives, managers, and employees what they really need when the status quo is losing its luster? Looking for strategic SPHR recertification credits? You need Strategic Leadership – Guiding and Leading the Change Process. Understanding change, its predictable patterns and processes — and the way it affects the human side of business — is essential to performing our jobs well. In two content packed days, you’ll learn what works and what doesn’t in large scale corporate change efforts. You’ll learn new ways to plan communication, build consensus, and ensure sustained support for your company initiatives. You’ll walk away with the knowledge you need to be credibly involved, and principles to help you more successfully address the less dramatic changes in your business and personal life. This program has been approved for 15 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org. BROCHURE
Learning Affiliations
From time-to-time HR Houston forms affiliations with other organizations to expand the professional development options available to members:
- Together with Rice University’s Glasscock School of Continuing Studies, the chapter sponsors Professional HR Development, Global HR Development and Senior HR Development.
- South Texas College of Law extends special registration pricing for HR Houston members for the Employment Law Course held annually in July.
- The Houston Compensation Association discounts certificate classes to earn CCP or CBP designations.
- The National Foreign Trade Council offers workshops to HR Houston members to develop expertise in the rapidly expanding area of international HR.
HR HOUSTON SCHOLARSHIPS
Source: HR Houston University Liaison
Mission
HR Houston's University Liaison Committee (ULC) is committed to advancing the human resource profession by providing opportunities for development and involvement to students entering the field of HR.
Shelby P. Morton Scholarship
The purpose of the Shelby P. Morton Scholarship is to provide annual higher education scholarships for qualified members of collegiate SHRM chapters in the greater Houston area.
Click here for more information on the criteria and to print the application.
Connecting Students to Professionals
ULC offers support by filling requests for HR professionals who can speak to students about the field of human resources profession and supplying professional volunteers who serve as liaisons to student chapters and student liaison opportunities within HR Houston.
HR HOUSTON CERTIFICATION OPPORTUNITIES
Source: HR Houston Certification Opportunities
Certification Study Group
HR Houston offers the Certification Study Group to assist HR professionals in preparing to sit for the Human Resource Certification Institute's certification exam that confers the Professional in Human Resources (PHR) and Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) designations. Regular meetings using the HR Review Start Smart materials provide the opportunity to meet other professionals also studying for the exam, and cover each of the six functional areas of the HRCI Body of Knowledge. The registration fee includes the extensive HR Review Workbook/CD with detailed outlines, 750 practice questions with comprehensive answers, and hundreds of electronic flashcards.
The Certification Study Group is offered twice a year in both September and February. Check the HR Houston Calendar for further details and to register. For more information on HR Review, click here.
HR Houston members, $525; Non-HR Houston Members, $575. Registration fee includes the HR Review Workbook and CD. Visit HRCI (www.hrci.org) for specific information about certification testing dates and application deadlines.
HR Review: Last Minute Course
This 2 1/2 day course, offered shortly before the HRCI exam window, begins with a comprehensive, difficult, 225 questions, four-hour exam, taken under exam-day conditions. The next two days are spent studying the exam to understand the correct answers, related facts and the strategic positioning of the question. This program really gets the test-taker ready for the tough questions and can serve as a "final assessment" in helping evaluate your exam readiness.
The HR Review is offered twice a year in both April and November. Check the HR Houston Calendar for further details and to register. For more information on HR Review, click here.
HR Houston Members, $345; Non-members, $395. The program includes all program materials, a continental breakfast and lunch on Friday and Saturday.
Opportunities for Recertification
Maintaining the PHR and SPHR certifications requires the HR professional to accumulate 60 hours of professional development every three years for recertification.
HR Houston as an Approved Provider offers Mini-Seminars, Best Practices, and Interest Group sessions (up to 4 hours at each meeting) that may typically be used to count toward the requirement. In addition, the programs at the Gulf Coast Symposium and the Half-Day Seminar series provide a significant number of professional development hours. More information regarding recertification is available at www.hrci.org.
Certified professionals maintain their own attendance records from professional development events they attend prior to completing an application for recertification. HR Houston provides this downloadable form for convenience. Click here to print out a copy of the Recertification Credit Form.
Rice University - Glasscock School of Continuing Studies
The Institute for Human Resource Education at Rice University offers educational opportunities for the human resource management profession. Click here for a complete overview of our course offerings.
- Professional HR Development - This course, offered in cooperation with HR Houston and SHRM, offers 36 hours of classroom studies based on the SHRM Learning System®. Both new and experienced professionals will have the opportunity to learn the latest in HR management practices, recruiting, training, employee relations and workplace regulations. The content includes areas tested by the HRCI for the PHR designation. Interested in learning more? Click here for further details.
- Global HR Development - This course, offered in cooperation with HR Houston and SHRM, will help HR professionals gain the knowledge and skills necessary to be successful in the worldwide free market. Instruction is offered using the SHRM Global Learning System®, which is a powerful educational tool for HR professionals with international and cross-border responsibilities. The content includes areas tested by the HRCI for the GPHR designation. Interested in learning more? Click here for further details.
- Senior HR Development - This course, offered in cooperation with HR Houston, is designed for senior HR professionals who want the knowledge and in-depth training required of HR generalists at the highest levels of management. The content includes areas tested by the HRCI for the SPHR designation. Interested in learning more? Click here for further details.
Participants enrolled in Professional HR Development, Global HR Development or Senior HR Development are eligible to receive a discounted membership in HR Houston. In addition, members of HR Houston receive a discounted course fee for these courses.
