English for Human Resources
Work with confidence in English across the whole employee life cycle.
About this course
Work with confidence in English across the whole employee life cycle. Over four days you will build the vocabulary and phrasing HR teams use every day, from job advertisements and interviews to onboarding, policies and employee relations.
Each session mixes short language input with realistic role-plays and writing tasks, so you practise interviewing a candidate, explaining a policy, giving feedback and handling a sensitive conversation in the right tone. You finish with clearer emails, stronger meetings and an Alalamia certificate.
What you'll learn
- Use accurate HR vocabulary for recruitment, onboarding, policies and employee relations
- Write clear job advertisements, job descriptions and candidate correspondence
- Conduct structured and competency-based interviews in English
- Explain policies, procedures and benefits to employees in plain English
- Handle performance feedback, grievances and disciplinary meetings with an appropriate tone
- Draft professional HR emails, memos and meeting notes
Curriculum
- Core HR terminology
- The employee life cycle in English
- Job titles, departments and reporting lines
- Formal and neutral register
- Writing job descriptions and person specifications
- Drafting job advertisements
- Screening CVs and cover letters
- Candidate correspondence
- Opening and structuring an interview
- Competency-based and behavioural questions
- Follow-up and probing questions
- Giving candidates information about the role
- Closing the interview and explaining next steps
- Welcome messages and induction plans
- Explaining terms of employment
- Describing benefits and leave
- Introducing colleagues and procedures
- Reading and summarising policy documents
- Writing clear policy statements
- Plain English principles
- Answering employee questions
- Language for objectives and appraisals
- Giving constructive feedback
- Recognising achievement
- Discussing development plans
- Handling grievances
- Disciplinary meetings and formal language
- Diplomatic and neutral phrasing
- Confidentiality and sensitive topics
- Professional emails and memos
- Taking and circulating meeting notes
- Taking part in HR meetings
- Final role-play and review
Who it's for
HR officers, recruiters and people managers who use English at work and want to communicate with more precision and confidence.
Before you start
- English at around CEFR B1 level or above
- Working in, or moving into, an HR role
Part of these Alalamia diplomas
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