

Human Resources Certificates
100% Online Programs
Overview And Certificates
People are any organization’s most valuable asset. eCornell’s Human Resources certificate programs focus on innovative strategies for empowering teams, recruiting top talent, and fostering positive cultures. Learn the language and processes of modern HR, from workforce management to inclusive practices. Explore actionable tools to create environments where every team member thrives. Whether you’re improving operations or driving strategic impact, these programs equip HR professionals to shape the future of work.
Education With Impact
Our courses provide unparalleled structure, support, and engagement to students.
Flexible Online Format
100% self-paced certificate programs allow you to learn on your own schedule.
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Engage directly with peers and instructors. Grow your professional network in every course.
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- Human Resources Management
- Labor Relations
- Employee Relations and Investigations
- Human Resources Essentials
- Strategic Human Resources Leadership
- Employment Law
- HR Analytics
- Conflict Resolution
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for HR
- Recruiting and Talent Acquisition
- Compensation and Benefits
- Compliance Systems
- HR Transformation
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Building a Diverse Workforce
- Professional Mediation
- Executive Compensation Fundamentals
- Human Rights in Global Supply Chains
- Hybrid Work Strategy
Human Resources Management
Courses
- Aligning Employee Performance with Organizational Goals
- Total Rewards Compensation
- Navigating Labor Relations
- Facilitating Staffing Decisions
- Driving Engagement for HR
- Employee Training and Development
- Countering Bias in the Workplace for HR
- Fostering a Coaching Culture
- Consulting Skills for Internal HR
- HR Symposium LIVE
Designed For
- Global professionals from for-profits, NGOs, and governmental agencies
- Line-level HR professionals with 0-5 years experience
- Aspiring HR professionals
Format
All Online
Time Commitment
5 months with 3 to 10 hours of study per week
Cost
$4,999
Labor Relations
Courses
- Collective Bargaining Foundations
- Preparing for Labor Negotiations
- Principles of Costing
- Handling Grievances
- Arbitration
- HR Symposium LIVE
Designed For
- Union staff, stewards and officials
- HR and Operations Managers
- International professionals working with unionized US-based organizations
- Attorneys and general counsel
Format
All Online
Time Commitment
3 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week
Cost
$3,900
Employee Relations and Investigations
Courses
- Conducting Effective Employee Relations Conversations
- Internal Investigation Fundamentals
- Conducting Internal Investigation Interviews
- Investigating Internal Complaint Issues
- Concluding an Internal Investigation
- HR Symposium LIVE
Designed For
- HR professionals
- Employee relations managers
- Generalists seeking to move into a specialized role
Format
All Online
Time Commitment
3 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week
Cost
$3,900
Human Resources Essentials
Courses
- Aligning Employee Performance with Organizational Goals
- Countering Bias in the Workplace for HR
- Fostering a Coaching Culture
- Active Listening and Processing Feedback
- Effective Interviewing
- Addressing Workplace Behavior Issues
- Leadership Symposium LIVE
- HR Symposium LIVE
Designed For
- Global professionals from for-profits, NGOs, and governmental agencies
- Line-level HR professionals
- Anyone who performs HR functions
- Aspiring HR professionals
Format
All Online
Time Commitment
3 months with 3 to 8 hours of study per week
Cost
$3,900
Strategic Human Resources Leadership
Courses
- Human Resources Leadership
- Business Strategy for HR Leaders
- HR Strategy
- Workplace Belonging Symposium LIVE
- HR Symposium LIVE
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Practice for HR
- Getting Results Through Talent Management
- Strategic Talent Analytics
- Strategic Engagement
Designed For
- HR Managers
- HR Directors / Supervisors
Format
All Online
Time Commitment
3 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week
Cost
$3,900
Employment Law
Courses
- Employment Law and Policy Issues
- Equal Employment Opportunity and Employee Treatment Issues
- Benefits, Compensation, Safety, and Other Legal Issues
- Employment Laws Around the Globe
- HR Policies in International Contexts
- HR Symposium LIVE
Designed For
- HR managers and executives in any industry
- HR professionals seeking to develop an area of specialization
- HR leaders expanding into the global market
- Legal professionals
- Global HR leaders
Format
All Online
Time Commitment
3 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week
Cost
$3,900
HR Analytics
Courses
- Essentials of HR Analytics
- Strategic Talent Analytics
- Applied Predictive Analytics in HR
- Valuing HR Initiatives
- HR Symposium LIVE
Designed For
- HR Associates, Managers and Directors
- Analysts
- CHROs and VPs of HR
Format
All Online
Time Commitment
2 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week
Cost
$3,900
Conflict Resolution
Courses
- Diagnosing Workplace Conflict
- Applying a Problem-Solving Approach to Conflict
- Leading Challenging Conversations
- Mediation for Managers
- Leadership Symposium LIVE
Designed For
Anyone managing teams, supervising employees, and interacting in professional settings who needs to more effectively resolve conflict.
Format
All Online
Time Commitment
2 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week
Cost
$2,500
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for HR
Courses
- Driving Engagement for HR
- Countering Bias in the Workplace for HR
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Practice for HR
- Fostering an Inclusive Climate
- Workplace Belonging Symposium LIVE
- HR Symposium LIVE
- Disability at Work
- Neurodiversity at Work
- Fostering a Coaching Culture
- Employment Law and Policy Issues
Designed For
- HR professionals
Format
All Online
Time Commitment
3 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week
Cost
$3,900
Recruiting and Talent Acquisition
Courses
- Facilitating Staffing Decisions
- Effective Interviewing
- Total Rewards Compensation
- Onboarding for Success
- Getting Results Through Talent Management
- Designing and Managing Compensation Structures
- Leadership Symposium LIVE
- HR Symposium LIVE
Designed For
- Hiring managers
- Talent recruiters
- HR professionals
- Professionals looking to move into HR or talent acquisition
Format
All Online
Time Commitment
3 months with 5 to 10 hours of study per week
Cost
$3,900
Compensation and Benefits
Courses
- Total Rewards Compensation
- Designing and Managing Compensation Structures
- Benchmarking Competitive Pay Levels
- Introduction to Employee Benefits
- HR Symposium LIVE
Designed For
- Human resources professionals
- Compensation and benefits specialists
- Operational and financial decision makers
- Governments/nonprofits interested in pay-for-performance
Format
All Online
Time Commitment
2 months with 7 to 10 hours of study per week
Cost
$3,750
Compliance Systems
Courses
- Rule Systems as Designed Systems
- Rule Design
- Rule System Training
- Policing of Rule Systems
- Investigation of Rule System Violations
- Responding to Violations and Improving the Rule System
Designed For
- HR professionals
- Compliance officers
- Finance and accounting professionals
- Health and safety managers
- Process control professionals
- Operations professionals
- Lawyers and legal professionals
Format
All Online
Time Commitment
3 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week
Cost
$3,900
HR Transformation
Courses
- Business Strategy for HR Leaders
- HR Strategy
- Consulting Skills for Internal HR
- Strategic Talent Analytics
- Using Design Thinking in HR
- Hybrid Work Models
- HR Symposium LIVE
Designed For
- CEOs and business executives who work with HR leaders
- CHROs and executive-level HR professionals
- HR managers and directors
- HR professionals seeking to advance to management positions
Format
All Online
Time Commitment
3 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week
Cost
$3,900
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Building a Diverse Workforce
Courses
- Building Diverse Talent Pools
- Adopting Inclusive Hiring Practices
- Promoting Inclusive Onboarding and Employee Success
- Counteracting Unconscious Bias
- Workplace Belonging Symposium LIVE
Designed For
- Managers responsible for hiring decisions
- Employees involved with candidate sourcing, screening, assessment, and decision making
- Senior leaders and other individuals who oversee strategies, policies, and practices related to the workforce
- HR professionals
- Aspiring HR managers
- Recruiters
Format
All Online
Time Commitment
2 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week
Cost
$3,900
Professional Mediation
Courses
- Becoming a Mediator: The Business Plan
- Ethics in Mediation and Arbitration
- Employment Law Mediator Training
Designed For
- Mediators and those aspiring to build a career in mediation
- Arbitrators
- Attorneys and lawyers
- Independent consultants
- Union representatives and labor relations professionals
- HR professionals
- Entrepreneurs who want to mediate
- Recent graduates interested in becoming mediators/arbitrators
- Anyone looking to start their own practice as a mediation/dispute resolution professional
Format
Online
Cost
$3,295
Executive Compensation Fundamentals
Courses
- Understanding Financial Statements
- Using Ratio Analysis to Evaluate Financial Performance
- Exploring Executive Compensation and Governance Frameworks
- Evaluating and Designing Executive Compensation Plans
- HR Symposium LIVE
Designed For
- Compensation analyst
- Total rewards specialist
- HR business partner
- Compensation and benefits manager
- HR consultants
- Organizational design specialists
- Executive coaches
Format
All Online
Time Commitment
2 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week
Cost
$3,750
Human Rights in Global Supply Chains
Courses
- Human Rights in Global Supply Chains
Designed For
- Executives in global organizations
- Corporate social responsibility professionals
- Consultants
- Lawyers
- Professionals at NGOs or social auditing firms/investment funds
- Team members from sustainability departments or multi-stakeholder institutions
Time Commitment
40 hours with 6 months of access at your own pace
Cost
$3,750
Hybrid Work Strategy
Courses
- Hybrid Work Models
- Fostering Productivity and Culture in Hybrid Teams
- Managing and Leading Hybrid Teams
- Maximizing Communication and Collaboration in a Hybrid Environment
Designed For
- Individuals managing a team, including a hybrid team
- Individual contributors working in a hybrid environment
- Department, team, and unit leaders
- HR professionals
- Consultants and advisors
Format
All Online
Time Commitment
2 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week
Cost
$3,750
Human Resources Management
Courses
- Aligning Employee Performance with Organizational Goals
- Total Rewards Compensation
- Navigating Labor Relations
- Facilitating Staffing Decisions
- Driving Engagement for HR
- Employee Training and Development
- Countering Bias in the Workplace for HR
- Fostering a Coaching Culture
- Consulting Skills for Internal HR
- HR Symposium LIVE
Designed For
- Global professionals from for-profits, NGOs, and governmental agencies
- Line-level HR professionals with 0-5 years experience
- Aspiring HR professionals
Format
All Online
Time Commitment
5 months with 3 to 10 hours of study per week
Cost
$4,999
Labor Relations
Courses
- Collective Bargaining Foundations
- Preparing for Labor Negotiations
- Principles of Costing
- Handling Grievances
- Arbitration
- HR Symposium LIVE
Designed For
- Union staff, stewards and officials
- HR and Operations Managers
- International professionals working with unionized US-based organizations
- Attorneys and general counsel
Format
All Online
Time Commitment
3 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week
Cost
$3,900
Employee Relations and Investigations
Courses
- Conducting Effective Employee Relations Conversations
- Internal Investigation Fundamentals
- Conducting Internal Investigation Interviews
- Investigating Internal Complaint Issues
- Concluding an Internal Investigation
- HR Symposium LIVE
Designed For
- HR professionals
- Employee relations managers
- Generalists seeking to move into a specialized role
Format
All Online
Time Commitment
3 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week
Cost
$3,900
Human Resources Essentials
Courses
- Aligning Employee Performance with Organizational Goals
- Countering Bias in the Workplace for HR
- Fostering a Coaching Culture
- Active Listening and Processing Feedback
- Effective Interviewing
- Addressing Workplace Behavior Issues
- Leadership Symposium LIVE
- HR Symposium LIVE
Designed For
- Global professionals from for-profits, NGOs, and governmental agencies
- Line-level HR professionals
- Anyone who performs HR functions
- Aspiring HR professionals
Format
All Online
Time Commitment
3 months with 3 to 8 hours of study per week
Cost
$3,900
Strategic Human Resources Leadership
Courses
- Human Resources Leadership
- Business Strategy for HR Leaders
- HR Strategy
- Workplace Belonging Symposium LIVE
- HR Symposium LIVE
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Practice for HR
- Getting Results Through Talent Management
- Strategic Talent Analytics
- Strategic Engagement
Designed For
- HR Managers
- HR Directors / Supervisors
Format
All Online
Time Commitment
3 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week
Cost
$3,900
Employment Law
Courses
- Employment Law and Policy Issues
- Equal Employment Opportunity and Employee Treatment Issues
- Benefits, Compensation, Safety, and Other Legal Issues
- Employment Laws Around the Globe
- HR Policies in International Contexts
- HR Symposium LIVE
Designed For
- HR managers and executives in any industry
- HR professionals seeking to develop an area of specialization
- HR leaders expanding into the global market
- Legal professionals
- Global HR leaders
Format
All Online
Time Commitment
3 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week
Cost
$3,900
HR Analytics
Courses
- Essentials of HR Analytics
- Strategic Talent Analytics
- Applied Predictive Analytics in HR
- Valuing HR Initiatives
- HR Symposium LIVE
Designed For
- HR Associates, Managers and Directors
- Analysts
- CHROs and VPs of HR
Format
All Online
Time Commitment
2 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week
Cost
$3,900
Conflict Resolution
Courses
- Diagnosing Workplace Conflict
- Applying a Problem-Solving Approach to Conflict
- Leading Challenging Conversations
- Mediation for Managers
- Leadership Symposium LIVE
Designed For
Anyone managing teams, supervising employees, and interacting in professional settings who needs to more effectively resolve conflict.
Format
All Online
Time Commitment
2 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week
Cost
$2,500
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for HR
Courses
- Driving Engagement for HR
- Countering Bias in the Workplace for HR
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Practice for HR
- Fostering an Inclusive Climate
- Workplace Belonging Symposium LIVE
- HR Symposium LIVE
- Disability at Work
- Neurodiversity at Work
- Fostering a Coaching Culture
- Employment Law and Policy Issues
Designed For
- HR professionals
Format
All Online
Time Commitment
3 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week
Cost
$3,900
Recruiting and Talent Acquisition
Courses
- Facilitating Staffing Decisions
- Effective Interviewing
- Total Rewards Compensation
- Onboarding for Success
- Getting Results Through Talent Management
- Designing and Managing Compensation Structures
- Leadership Symposium LIVE
- HR Symposium LIVE
Designed For
- Hiring managers
- Talent recruiters
- HR professionals
- Professionals looking to move into HR or talent acquisition
Format
All Online
Time Commitment
3 months with 5 to 10 hours of study per week
Cost
$3,900
Compensation and Benefits
Courses
- Total Rewards Compensation
- Designing and Managing Compensation Structures
- Benchmarking Competitive Pay Levels
- Introduction to Employee Benefits
- HR Symposium LIVE
Designed For
- Human resources professionals
- Compensation and benefits specialists
- Operational and financial decision makers
- Governments/nonprofits interested in pay-for-performance
Format
All Online
Time Commitment
2 months with 7 to 10 hours of study per week
Cost
$3,750
Compliance Systems
Courses
- Rule Systems as Designed Systems
- Rule Design
- Rule System Training
- Policing of Rule Systems
- Investigation of Rule System Violations
- Responding to Violations and Improving the Rule System
Designed For
- HR professionals
- Compliance officers
- Finance and accounting professionals
- Health and safety managers
- Process control professionals
- Operations professionals
- Lawyers and legal professionals
Format
All Online
Time Commitment
3 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week
Cost
$3,900
HR Transformation
Courses
- Business Strategy for HR Leaders
- HR Strategy
- Consulting Skills for Internal HR
- Strategic Talent Analytics
- Using Design Thinking in HR
- Hybrid Work Models
- HR Symposium LIVE
Designed For
- CEOs and business executives who work with HR leaders
- CHROs and executive-level HR professionals
- HR managers and directors
- HR professionals seeking to advance to management positions
Format
All Online
Time Commitment
3 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week
Cost
$3,900
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Building a Diverse Workforce
Courses
- Building Diverse Talent Pools
- Adopting Inclusive Hiring Practices
- Promoting Inclusive Onboarding and Employee Success
- Counteracting Unconscious Bias
- Workplace Belonging Symposium LIVE
Designed For
- Managers responsible for hiring decisions
- Employees involved with candidate sourcing, screening, assessment, and decision making
- Senior leaders and other individuals who oversee strategies, policies, and practices related to the workforce
- HR professionals
- Aspiring HR managers
- Recruiters
Format
All Online
Time Commitment
2 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week
Cost
$3,900
Professional Mediation
Courses
- Becoming a Mediator: The Business Plan
- Ethics in Mediation and Arbitration
- Employment Law Mediator Training
Designed For
- Mediators and those aspiring to build a career in mediation
- Arbitrators
- Attorneys and lawyers
- Independent consultants
- Union representatives and labor relations professionals
- HR professionals
- Entrepreneurs who want to mediate
- Recent graduates interested in becoming mediators/arbitrators
- Anyone looking to start their own practice as a mediation/dispute resolution professional
Format
Online
Cost
$3,295
Executive Compensation Fundamentals
Courses
- Understanding Financial Statements
- Using Ratio Analysis to Evaluate Financial Performance
- Exploring Executive Compensation and Governance Frameworks
- Evaluating and Designing Executive Compensation Plans
- HR Symposium LIVE
Designed For
- Compensation analyst
- Total rewards specialist
- HR business partner
- Compensation and benefits manager
- HR consultants
- Organizational design specialists
- Executive coaches
Format
All Online
Time Commitment
2 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week
Cost
$3,750
Human Rights in Global Supply Chains
Courses
- Human Rights in Global Supply Chains
Designed For
- Executives in global organizations
- Corporate social responsibility professionals
- Consultants
- Lawyers
- Professionals at NGOs or social auditing firms/investment funds
- Team members from sustainability departments or multi-stakeholder institutions
Time Commitment
40 hours with 6 months of access at your own pace
Cost
$3,750
Hybrid Work Strategy
Courses
- Hybrid Work Models
- Fostering Productivity and Culture in Hybrid Teams
- Managing and Leading Hybrid Teams
- Maximizing Communication and Collaboration in a Hybrid Environment
Designed For
- Individuals managing a team, including a hybrid team
- Individual contributors working in a hybrid environment
- Department, team, and unit leaders
- HR professionals
- Consultants and advisors
Format
All Online
Time Commitment
2 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week
Cost
$3,750
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Human Resources Management
| Select Payment Method | Cost |
|---|---|
| $4,999 | |
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3900
Labor Relations
| Select Payment Method | Cost |
|---|---|
| $3,900 | |
Purchase Options
3900
Employee Relations and Investigations
| Select Payment Method | Cost |
|---|---|
| $3,900 | |
Purchase Options
3900
Human Resources Essentials
| Select Payment Method | Cost |
|---|---|
| $3,900 | |
Purchase Options
3900
Strategic Human Resources Leadership
| Select Payment Method | Cost |
|---|---|
| $3,900 | |
Purchase Options
3900
Employment Law
| Select Payment Method | Cost |
|---|---|
| $3,900 | |
Purchase Options
3900
HR Analytics
| Select Payment Method | Cost |
|---|---|
| $3,900 | |
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2500
Conflict Resolution
| Select Payment Method | Cost |
|---|---|
| $2,500 | |
Purchase Options
3900
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for HR
| Select Payment Method | Cost |
|---|---|
| $3,900 | |
Purchase Options
3900
Recruiting and Talent Acquisition
| Select Payment Method | Cost |
|---|---|
| $3,900 | |
Purchase Options
3750
Compensation and Benefits
| Select Payment Method | Cost |
|---|---|
| $3,750 | |
Purchase Options
3900
Compliance Systems
| Select Payment Method | Cost |
|---|---|
| $3,900 | |
Purchase Options
3900
HR Transformation
| Select Payment Method | Cost |
|---|---|
| $3,900 | |
Purchase Options
3900
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Building a Diverse Workforce
| Select Payment Method | Cost |
|---|---|
| $3,900 | |
Purchase Options
3295
$3,295
Professional Mediation
| Select Payment Method | Cost |
|---|---|
| $3,295 |
Purchase Options
3750
Executive Compensation Fundamentals
| Select Payment Method | Cost |
|---|---|
| $3,750 | |
Purchase Options
3750
$3,750
Human Rights in Global Supply Chains
| Select Payment Method | Cost |
|---|---|
| $3,750 |
Purchase Options
3750
Hybrid Work Strategy
| Select Payment Method | Cost |
|---|---|
| $3,750 | |
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