An Employer Update on the SHRM Assurance of Learning® Assessment

2 Agenda  How does SHRM encourage students to prepare for a career in HR? – Career Development Pathway  What is the Assurance of Learning Assessment?  Why is it important for employers to be familiar with the Assurance of Learning Assessment – Capstone to Graduation: The SHRM Assurance of Learning® Assessment  The Employers Guide to the SHRM Assurance of Learning® Assessment

3 Career Development Pathway Your path to a successful career in HR Education Internships Assessment Working and Staying Connected Competencies, Life-long Learning & Certification

And WHY SHOULD EMPLOYERS CARE?

5 What is it? A knowledge-based, capstone exam designed to: – provide HR students with an achievement, by passing a national exit exam, to help them differentiate themselves in the job marketplace; – show potential employers that the student has acquired the knowledge required to enter the HR profession; – help universities meet their accrediting body’s requirements by showing that the HR degree program teaches its students what it says it will teach them – Replace the PHR for traditional students

6 Content Areas Covered  Total Rewards – Employee Benefits – Total Rewards  Training and Development – Career Planning – Training & Development  Workforce Planning and Talent Management – HR Information Systems – Measuring HR Outcomes: Metrics and the Bottom Line – Performance Management – Staffing: Recruitment and Selection – Workforce Planning & Talent Management  Employee & Labor Relations – Employee and Labor Relations – Negotiation Skills  Employment Law – Employment Law – Risk Management: Occupational Health, Safety, and Security  Strategic HR – HR and Globalization – HR and Organizational Strategy – HR Mergers and Acquisitions – Leadership Skills – Managing Diversity

7 Exam Basics  Knowledge Exam  160 multiple choice questions – 70% recall – 30% application of knowledge  Pass rate = 62%  Certificate of Learning awarded to those who pass.  Three(3) 30-day test windows annually. – Spring, summer, fall to coincide with commencement  Costs – Members $135 / Nonmembers $210 – Review materials available Apply

8 Who is eligible to take the assessment?  Undergraduate students and graduate students with little to no HR work experience  Must be earning an HR or HR-related degree in a school of business or I/O psychology program  Must be studying HR-specific courses.  Must be studying HR-related content areas tested on the exam.  May take the exam beginning 1 year before graduation and ending 1 year after graduation

9 What does passing the exam show an employer?  Over time, test has proven to be both reliable and valid  Difficulty measures show that the test is difficult but fair  Differentiation measures show the test items appropriately differentiate between those students who know HR and those who do not  Slightly more difficult than PHR exam because it includes 30% application questions

10 Employers Guide to the SHRM Assurance of Learning Assessment  Shows details of how test was developed – Test specifications – Quality control measures – How scores are determined – What passing means to a potential employer Get your free copy by ing

11 Assessment ― Contact Us/Important Dates  and telephone Hotlines! – – SHRM x3926 (EXAM)  To get your free copy of the Employers Guide to the Assurance of Learning Assessment –  Encourage students to apply –

12 QUESTIONS?