Who this is for
- HR officers and generalists with real workplace experience.
- People handling employee relations, recruitment or operations who want the title to match.
- Professionals aiming at regional or international HR roles.
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Professional in Human Resources - International (PHRi)
PHRi® — Build Your HR Credentials
Transition from executing administrative tasks to managing core operations. Master talent acquisition, employee relations, and workforce planning to qualify for global remote roles.
Career focus: HR Officer, HR Generalist, HR Business Partner.
Next cohort
7 November 2026
7 November 2026
30 hours
Virtual · Zoom · Zoom (strictly virtual)
This class has started
Ask an adviser about the next intake.
Class starts 7 November 2026.
Why the market wants this
Experienced HR vacancies ask for proof, not only years. PHRi™ is a proof hiring managers outside your current company can read.
Why enrol on this intake
The virtual class starts 7 November 2026. Staying uncertified keeps you in the same band while certified peers are shortlisted.
Enrol nowWhat you stand to gain
Pay
Professional HR credentials are used to justify officer-to-specialist and specialist-to-lead pay.
Leadership
You are prepared to own a process — relations, talent, rewards — not only to process forms.
Promotion
PHRi™ is the line that separates ‘has done HR’ from ‘is a professional in HR’ on a promotion pack.
Remote and international work
The international designation is what multinational and remote HR teams recognise.
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Why this credential.
Validate your practical HR knowledge and strengthen your ability to manage talent, employee relations and workplace operations. Designed for experienced professionals ready to increase their credibility and career opportunities. PHRi™ is HRCI’s practice-based international credential for HR practitioners working outside the United States.
HR generalists and specialists already doing professional-level HR work outside the US.
Professionals with a master’s plus 1 year, a bachelor’s plus 2 years, or 4 years of professional-level HR experience.
aPHRi™ holders who now have the hours for a practice-based exam.
The exam you will sit.
Facts below follow the current public outline. Our advisers walk you through eligibility and the application.
- Awarding body
- HRCI
- Questions
- 90 scored + 25 pretest
- Time
- 2 hours 15 minutes (+ 30 min admin)
- Delivery
- Pearson VUE or OnVUE
- Type
- Practice-based (application items)
- Our class
- 30 hours · Zoom · 7 Nov 2026
Content outline
After each block: what you will do, and the strength you leave with.
20%
Employee and Labor Relations
Functional areas
- 20%
Employee and Labor Relations
You can run an investigation and a fair process.
- 17%
Employee Engagement
You can read culture and keep people contributing.
- 15%
Total Rewards
You can explain pay, benefits and the employee experience.
- 14%
Business Management
You can brief HR in the language of the business.
- 14%
Workforce Planning and Talent Acquisition
You can forecast a vacancy and fill it properly.
- 10%
Learning and Development
You can build capability that the business actually needs.
- 10%
HR Information Management
You can trust, protect and report from the HR system.
Eligibility — what the body actually checks.
- At least 1 year professional-level HR + master’s (or global equivalent), or
- At least 2 years professional-level HR + bachelor’s (or global equivalent), or
- At least 4 years professional-level HR.
- Built for practitioners working outside the United States.
How we prepare you.
- 01
Business and workforce
Strategy context, planning and talent acquisition at PHRi™ weight.
- 02
Rewards and engagement
Total rewards plus the engagement domain added in the 2024 outline.
- 03
Employee and labor relations
The heaviest area: investigations, rights and day-to-day ER.
- 04
L&D and HR information
Development programmes and the systems that hold the data.
- 05
Application-level mocks
Practice-based items. Application support. Exam invoiced separately.
What the training includes
- Certificate of Completion
- 30 contact hours (PDUs) documented for your PHRi™ application
- PHRi™ training materials
- Recordings of every class session
- LMS access for up to 6 months
- 700+ exam-style questions, mocks and simulators
- Application and exam-booking assistance