AI for HR Professionals

Beginner Friendly | Intermediate Level | For Non-Technical ProfessionalsThe Strategic Upgrade for Modern HR ProfessionalsHR Mastery With AI is a one-day intensive workshop designed to help HR professionals move beyond administrative overload and reactive execution—towards strategic, system-driven HR practices supported by AI. Today, HR teams are expected to move faster, ensure compliance, improve engagement, and contribute meaningfully to business decisions. At the same time, the rise of Generative AI brings both opportunity and risk. This workshop focuses on how HR can adopt AI safely, ethically, and effectively—to reduce transactional effort, improve decision quality, and enhance employee experience—while keeping human judgment firmly in control. This is not about replacing HR expertise. It is about augmenting HR capability with structured workflows, safeguards, and practical systems.Workshop ModuleThis workshop focusses on how to use AI safely, strategically, and with authority. Morning builds your foundation in safe, compliant AI usage. Afternoon puts it into practice with hands-on builds and real HR use cases.Module 1 — AI Foundations and the Tools LandscapeFrom Curious User to Confident OperatorMost professionals have used ChatGPT once or twice but have never been taught how AI actually works or why their prompts produce inconsistent results. This module builds that foundation properly, so everything else in the day builds on solid ground.Topics CoveredHow large language models actually work, explained without jargonThe current AI tools landscape: what each tool is genuinely good for, and what is hypeThe CCTS framework (Context, Constraints, Task, Style) for writing prompts that produce usable output on the first tryWhy most AI interactions fail, and how to diagnose a bad promptPassive AI tools for meetings and research: Fireflies, Granola, Perplexity, NotebookLM, and more.What You'll Walk Away WithA working mental model of what AI can and cannot do, so you stop guessingThe CCTS framework, ready to apply to any HR writing task from tomorrow morningThe prompting framework that produces consistent, high-quality outputModule 2 — Data Privacy and Safe AI AdoptionThe Conversation Every HR Team Needs and Usually SkipsHR handles the most sensitive data in any organisation, yet most teams use public AI tools without a second thought about what they are uploading. This module makes the risk concrete, then gives you a system to remove it entirely.Topics CoveredDPDP Act 2023: what it actually requires from HR teams using AI toolsThe Green Zone and Red Zone: a simple test for what is safe to paste into any AI toolSystem prompts: setting up a personal AI assistant that knows your role, your tone, and what it should never doThe difference between a generic AI interaction and one built for your specific functionWhat You'll Walk Away WithA clear, simple rule you can apply instantly to decide if something is safe to share with AIYour own system prompt, set up and tested during the sessionA practical understanding of DPDP compliance as it applies to everyday HR AI use, not just a policy documentModule 3 — AI-Assisted Recruitment and ScreeningFrom Three Days of CV Review to Three Minutes, Done ProperlyThis is the centrepiece of the day. You will build a complete, end-to-end recruitment screening workflow, live, using your own laptop, and walk out with a system you can run again on Monday morning.Topics CoveredWhy inconsistent screening criteria and missing audit trails create real organisational riskA hands-on CV masking tool that removes personal data before anything touches an AI systemBuilding a structured screening prompt with adjustable scoring criteria for any roleThe Logic Log: auditing AI reasoning to catch hidden bias before it affects a hiring decisionWhat You'll Walk Away WithA reusable, adjustable scoring framework for any job description you are hiring forThe ability to spot a keyword-stuffed CV that would otherwise pass an automated filterA defensible, documented reasoning trail for every screening decision you makeModule 4 — AI Tools for L&D and Building Your Own HR SystemstFrom Using AI Tools to Building Your OwnThe final module moves from using existing AI tools to creating something new. You will turn a real policy document into multiple training assets in minutes, then get a live introduction to building your own internal HR tools without writing code.Topics CoveredUsing NotebookLM to turn any HR policy document into an interactive resourceGenerating onboarding FAQs, training quizzes, and audio briefings from a single source documentA live, no-code build of an HR tool: a recruitment tracker, onboarding checklist, or policy chatbotA 30-day roadmap for embedding everything from the day into your actual weekly workflowOpen Q&AWhat You'll Walk Away WithThe ability to convert any policy document into an onboarding resource and training quiz in under 10 minutesA first-hand look at how no-code AI tools are built, demystifying what once required a developerA concrete 30-day plan with one new AI habit to build each weekA full resource pack: every prompt, tool, and framework used during the day, ready to reuse