Learn HR — your first 90 days in people operations
A task-based onboarding track for a young HR officer joining a multinational office or an international NGO — walked on real organisations, not slideware. It comes in two domains, each on its own running example, because generalist corporate HR and humanitarian/INGO HR are two different jobs with two different rulebooks.
Published as they're written. Lessons go live one at a time; a task that isn't live yet shows a short preview. Start with Read the org structure & headcount or Run a recruitment pipeline — the first two, live now.
Domain A — Generalist HR Lifecycle
SHRM-CP · HRCI (PHRi/SPHRi), walked on Meridian, the multinational building its internal payments platform (the same organisation the finance track costs). The full employee lifecycle — hire to retire — and the records behind every step.
| # | Task | Competency |
|---|---|---|
| A1 | Read the org structure & headcount | Org effectiveness |
| A2 | Maintain the employee record (Employee ≠ User) | HR information mgmt |
| A3 | Run a recruitment pipeline | Talent acquisition |
| A4 | Onboard a new hire | Onboarding |
| A5 | Manage time, attendance & leave | Total rewards (leave) |
| A6 | Run a performance cycle | Performance mgmt |
| A7 | Handle an employee-relations case | Employee relations |
| A8 | Manage training & development | Learning & development |
| A9 | Offboard / separation | Offboarding |
Domain B — Humanitarian / INGO HR
CHS (Core Humanitarian Standard) · People in Aid · Humentum, walked on the Hilsa Health Initiative, a donor-funded INGO. The same HR lifecycle, but where duty of care, safeguarding, and donor rules shape every decision — and where some of the job is policy the standard owns, not a button the product ships.
| # | Task | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| B1 | Duty of care for a field posting | CHS · People in Aid |
| B2 | Safeguarding & PSEA | CHS |
| B3 | Run a confidential whistleblowing channel | CHS · Humentum |
| B4 | Field per-diems & travel | Humentum |
| B5 | Cross-project / multi-donor time & effort allocation | Humentum |
| B6 | Ethical recruiting in complex ops | CHS · People in Aid |
| B7 | Staff voice & well-being | CHS |
| B8 | Equitable reward across a multi-currency workforce | Humentum |
17 tasks across two domains. Figures in the walked examples are illustrative until the running-example seeds land. Competency and standard names are cited for orientation, never reproduced. Grounded in SHRM-CP/HRCI, the Core Humanitarian Standard, People in Aid, and Humentum. See the spine: CR-105.