HR specialist: training, continuing education, further training, schools, self-testing
HR specialist with Federal Diploma of Higher Education: taking responsibility for personnel issues
Questions and answers
Is it possible to specialize in continuing education, further training for HR professionals?
It is possible to specialize during the training to become an HR specialist with a Federal Diploma of Higher Education. Prospective students choose one of the three specializations when they register:
- Operational Human Resource Management
- Public recruitment and consulting
- Private recruitment agency
How long does the HR specialist course take?
Continuing education, further education and training to become an HR specialist with a Federal Diploma of Higher Education takes place on a part-time basis. It lasts two to three semesters, i.e. one to one and a half years. Detailed information can be obtained directly from the providers.
What parts does the FPE HR specialists exam consist of?
The Federal Professional Examination (FPE) HR Specialist with Federal Diploma of Higher Education consists of three examination parts and a total of five examination items. The "Generalist knowledge of human resources" part of the examination is the same written examination for all candidates and is weighted at 1. Exam part two consists of two exam items that are assessed equally and together are assessed as an exam part with a weighting of 1. This part of the HR specialist training examination is "Professional case processing" with the items "Integrated case study" and "Presentation / technical discussion including preparation time". The "Professional conduct in everyday working life" part of the examination is weighted with the same weighting, which also depends on the subject area and consists of the examination items "Mini-cases" and "Reflection on an interview situation (including preparation video)".
What are the reasons behind school inquiries from people interested in training for the HR specialist course?
The education platform Ausbildung-Weiterbildung.ch asked those interested in training how they proceed when enquiring about schools for HR specialist training. The survey results showed that:
- 49% of respondents triggered requests to schools for an online assessment
- 29% of survey participants knew the school from before
- 22% received a recommendation for school
The former was confirmed by a free text response: "Good recessions". Other reasons for school inquiries for HR specialist training that were mentioned were: "I found it while searching online", "I came across it online during my research", "online learning course", "location", "fits in with today's digital age", "location and quality", "possibility of e-learning", "nearby", "day course", "due to the online offer", "appeared first when searching", "internet search", "coincidence", "don't know this school yet", "is not unknown to me due to advertising", "the data corresponds to my availability", "distance learning", "offer comparison" and "location".
What are the admission requirements for HR specialists continuing education, further training?
Depending on the chosen specialization, participants in continuing education, further training as an HR specialist FA are required to have different prior knowledge.
For example, at least four years of professional experience is expected for all specializations after completing basic training:
- for people who are aiming for HR continuing education, further training in the field of operational human resource management, two years of which must be HR practice
- two years in the field of unemployment insurance and insolvency compensation for the specialist area of public personnel placement and consulting
- Two years of HR practice, including one year in private recruitment and placement, for the specialization in private recruitment and placement
In addition, for all HR Specialist disciplines, prospective students are required to have a Federal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training, a Baccalaureate, a Specialized Baccalaureate, a Federal Vocational Education and Training Certificate or an equivalent qualification and to have passed the HR Assistant certificate examination.
How can you learn to lead an agile HR organization?
In order to acquire comprehensive skills for agile HR, it is worth taking a further training course such as the CAS Leading HR (flex). In this approximately 10-day course, participants learn...
...to work out current trends and issues in HR and find ways to solve them.
...a comprehensive understanding of agility in the organization.
...get to know flexible and dynamic models.
...to understand psychological decision-making processes.
What is the path to an agile HR organization?
The first step towards agile HR is to shift the focus from HR itself to the business itself. The inclusion of employees, the transfer of competencies such as recruiting and training to teams and employees under the supervision of HR as well as ongoing adjustments in line with the current business environment and objectives. The CAS Leading HR (flex) FH offers a good opportunity for HR professionals to learn this, for example.
What content is covered in continuing education, further training for HR specialists?
During the continuing education, Higher Education and Federal Diploma of Higher Education in HR, participants acquire basic cross-disciplinary knowledge, such as basic knowledge, interaction design and information and network maintenance. This is supplemented by skills in the respective specialist field.
These are for specialization A (operational HRM):
- Extraction and separation
- Advice for employees and line managers
- Assessment, development, remuneration
- Project management, infrastructure management
For specialization B (public personnel placement and consulting) of the HR specialist training:
- Placement of job seekers
- Cooperation with employers
- Labor market measures
- Sovereign enforcement tasks
And for specialization C (private recruitment and placement):
- Placement of job seekers
- Cooperation with employer
- Acting as a manager (supervision of employees)
- Acting as a manager (managing a business unit)
For whom is further training in agile HR management suitable?
Agile HR management is an important topic for HR professionals who want to establish a dynamic and agile structure in the HR department in an agile organization. Several years of experience in the field of human resources is recommended to ensure a comprehensive understanding.
What are the tasks of an HR specialist?
As an HR specialist, you are responsible for all HR matters in SMEs or sub-functions thereof in larger companies and accompany organizational changes with HR resources. Information is also made comprehensible by structuring and presenting it appropriately. The tasks vary depending on the specialization:
- Operational HR management
- support line managers in the recruitment of new employees
- analyze the development needs of employees and derive suitable personnel development measures from this
- implement the dismissal of employees correctly and professionally
- advise those involved in HR management
- Public recruitment and consulting
- Helping jobseekers to integrate into the labor market
- Coordination of services with institutions such as social services, social insurance companies, advice centers, doctors and clinics
- Defining a job search strategy and proposing labor market measures
- Supporting companies with redundancies
- Labor market situation analyses
- Private recruitment and staff leasing
- Support companies in recruiting the necessary human resources
- Analysis of jobseekers' profiles and skills
- Employability assessments
Are agile methods important to HR?
Agile HR is important in an agile company, as processes such as onboarding, recruitment and development can be made more efficient and innovative. Agile HR methods are based on the strong involvement and personal responsibility of employees and teams and a shared focus on the business objective.
What skills does the HR specialist with a federal certificate course teach?
HR specialists manage the entire recruitment process. They create requirement profiles, conduct interviews and conclude employment contracts. They are the point of contact for employees and apprentices for questions relating to training and further education. An HR specialist supports and relieves the HR management and implements the company and HR policy operationally. They are characterized by detailed knowledge of topics such as social insurance, employment contract law, salary and apprenticeship systems.
What can I achieve with the HR specialist training?
According to graduates, you can achieve the following with HR specialist training:
- depending on the chosen specialization of the HR specialist training:
- Professional skills in operational human resource management
- Specialist skills in public recruitment and consulting
- Specialist expertise in private recruitment and staff leasing
- Gain good specialist knowledge for a job in the HR department of an SME, on the RAV or in a recruitment agency
- perform responsible tasks in the human resources sector, in job placement or in recruitment services
- with training as an HR specialist, employment as an HR employee, team leader or department head is possible
- Good preparation for the Federal Diploma of Higher Education examination in HR
- Opportunity for further development as HR Manager
What further development opportunities are there with the HR specialist certificate?
With the HR specialist certificate, you have the following further development opportunities:
- Head of Human Resources with federal diploma
- Training manager with federal diploma
- Certified business economist HF
- Bachelor of Science (FH) in Business Administration
- Bachelor of Science (FH) in Applied Psychology with various specializations
- Certified Human Resources Manager NDS HF
What usually arouses interest in the "HR Specialist (BP)" training course?
The education portal Ausbildung-Weiterbildung.ch conducted a survey to find out why people are interested in further training as an HR specialist. These are the results:
- 74 % would still like to align further training with their own needs
- 11 % show interest through a recommendation
- 15 % are interested in this course because the qualification is required in job advertisements
Several people have defined the reason for their interest in the HR specialist training program in terms of their goals:
- "Personnel consultant"
- "to increase my knowledge"
- "Putting my many years of expertise in HR on paper."
- "Career change"
- "I would like to expand my expertise"
- "I would like to develop further in the area of personnel"
- "Further training desired"
- "Next training step following the HR assistant qualification"
- "the course complements my professional practice"
- "I have seen an interesting job advertisement for which this training is desirable"
Two people are very sure about their interest: "I know that I would like to complete the HR specialist course" and "I find this area very exciting.".
Three other people are already working in this area: "I already work in HR",
"I am already an HR assistant" and "I have completed the HR assistant course and would like to develop further"
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Course evaluations from participants on HR-Fachmann / HR-Fachfrau (BP) (ehemals Personalfachmann / Personalfachfrau (BP) / Personalberater / Personalberaterin (BP))
Ich werde das WZR auf jeden Fall weiterempfehlen. Ich bin der Meinung, dass wir uns sehr viel Wissen aneignen konnten und wurden optimal auf die Prüfung vorbereitet. Die Dozenten überzeugten mit viel Wissen, Erfahrung und Menschlichkeit! Auch die Zusammenarbeit mit dem Sekretariat war top! Sie hat sich sogar einmal extra die Zeit genommen, uns zu besuchen und unsere Anliegen persönlich entgegenzunehmen.
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Der Lehrgang und die Schule kann ich ohne Einschränkung empfehlen. Gerne dürfen Aufbau des Unterrichts und Prüfungsvorbereitung verbessert werden. Aber ich bin sicher, dieser Prozess ist bereits im Gange.
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Ich würde den Lehrgang bedingt weiterempfehlen, die jedoch Schule sofort. Zu viele Stundenplankorrekturen. Vielleicht kann da die Schule nichts dafür. Etwas mehr Parkplätze wären vorteilhaft.
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Grundsätzlich gut, tolle Lehrmittel. Einige sehr tolle Dozenten. Da es keine gesamtschweizerischen eigentlichen Lehrbücher für den Lehrgang HR-Fachleute gibt, finde es schwierig, ob in den Lehrmitteln alles so abgebildet ist, wie es an der Prüfung verlangt wird. Dies liegt aber am Lehrgang und nicht an der AKAD. Sinnvoll wäre es, wenn es für den Lehrgang einheitliche Unterlagen gäbe.
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Grundsätzlich sehr gut. Die Ausbildungsmethodik war aufgrund von Corona nicht so abwechslungsreich
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Insgesamt bin ich mit der Weitierbildung bei der Akad zufrieden. Aufrund von Corona mussten leider viele Kurse online durchgeführt werden. Die Kursräume vor Ort sind zweckmässig eingerichtet und die Dozenten sind alle sehr bemüht Fragen zu beantworten und den Stoff zu vermitteln. Einzig die Abschlussprüfung im Generalistenwissen in Form von reinen Multiplichoice-Aufgaben war doch eher enttäuschend.
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Insgesamt top, einige Dozenten müssten up to date gebracht werden. Spitze, dass viele Dozenten auch das praktizieren, was sie unterrichten.
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Zweisemestriger Kurs zum HR Fachfrau/Fachmann (Dienstagabend in Zürich). Ich würde die Ausbildung wieder bei AKAD machen. Die Lehrbücher fand ich sehr gut für den grossen Anteil Selbststudium. Das Modell mit einem Abend pro Woche passte gut in meine berufliche und familiäre Situation. Man wurde gut auf die Prüfungen vorbereitet! Sehr gut fand ich auch die interne Vorprüfung! Die Mehrheit der Dozenten waren fachlich und didaktisch sehr gut.
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Personalassistentin 2018 und HR-Fachfrau mit eidg. Fachausweis 2019. Ich hatte durch die AKAD eine gute Grundausbildung zur eidgenössischen Fachprüfung. Die Dozenten waren stets offen auch per E-Mail für Rückfragen und der Schulstufe wurde gut behandelt. Was ich persönlich von Vorteil fand, war die nichtpflichtige Anwesenheit, da ich durch meine Arbeit des Öfteren nicht anwesend sein konnte.
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Der Kurs hat mich weitergebracht, Auffrischungskurse tu aktuellen Themen wären wünschenswert. Wenn der HR Leiter Kurs in Modulen angeboten wird, würde ich mich dafür interessieren (ohne eidg. Abschluss)
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War aus meiner Sicht alles super
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Ich würde jederzeit wieder einen Kurs bei AKAD belegen, ich fühlte mich ausgezeichnet betreut und habe AKAD auch bisher jedem weiterempfohlen.
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Im Grossen und Ganzen bin ich zufrieden mit dem Lehrgang und der Schule. Fragen wurden immer relativ zügig beantwortet und ich hatte immer eine Anlaufstelle dafür. Persönlich hätte ich mir die Online Meetings anders vorgestellt und fände dies für die Zukunft auch gut noch ein wenig zu überdenken. Eventuell müssen doch 2 Online Meetings pro Monat (und zeitlich länger) stattfinden, damit einerseits mehr an Wissen transferiert und geschult werden kann und andererseits auch ein Austausch unter den Studierenden gewährleistet wird. Auch für die intensivere Prüfungsvorbereitung - vor allem mündlich - wäre der eine oder andere Austausch mehr noch hilfreich gewesen. Hier tappte man eher im dunkeln, bis zur internen Probeprüfung. Ob es nun an den Prüfungen definitiv klappt, sei noch dahingestellt.
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Mehr Online-Möglichkeiten anbieten und ein Online-Portal erstellen, wo alles geteilt werden kann und auch "Online-Prüfungen" praktiziert werden können, da die eidg. Prüfung ja auch am Computer durchgeführt wird. Einige Dozierende haben sich besonders für die mündliche Vorbereitung sehr für uns Zeit genommen. Bei anderen Lehrern liess vorallem der mündliche Unterricht während Corona zu wünschen übrig. Bücher waren nicht optimal.
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Es gibt Stimmen, die diesen Lehrgang nicht mehr an der Wkv Wetzikon besuchen würden. Die Kursleiter waren alles in allem gut. Der Lehrgangsleiter würde sich besser stellen, wenn er seine Unterlagen, welche er als Muster abgibt ins Reine schreiben würde, anstatt einfach alles zu schwärzen was man nicht sehen darf. Dies käme professioneller daher. Aber vielleicht ändert er jetzt gewisse Dokumente oder Inhalte, da er nun mehr Zeit hat, seit er pensioniert ist. Wäre Schade, wenn die Weiterbildung nicht regelmässig durchgeführt werden kann. Denn ich schätze es, dass das Wkv Wetzikon solche kaufmännischen Weiterbildungen in der Nähe anbiete und man nicht gleich in die Stadt muss.
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Eher kleine Schule, familiär. Dadurch eventuell weniger Auswahl an Referent/innen. Sympathischer Auftritt
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Die Qualität hängt sehr von der jeweiligen Lehrperson ab
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Bisher ein sehr guter Lehrgang. Die Dozierenden setzen den nötigen Druck auf, damit das Lerntempo gehalten werden kann. Es hat manchmal doppelte Fragen in einer Frageserie oder Fragen, die im Buch nicht behandelt werden. Mir sind sogar schon Aufgaben begegnet, die mit dem Thema nichts zu tun haben.
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Ich finde ich war zum Zeitpunkt der Prüfung sehr gut vorbereitet. Falls ich Fragen hatte konnte ich jederzeit mit den Dozenten in Kontakt treten. Bis auf das Sekretariat und die z.T. überflüssig gekauften Lehrmittel bin ich sehr zufrieden mit der Schule. Bei den Lehrmitteln sollte man sich besser mit den Dozenten absprechen. Einige Dozenten benützen keine der gekauften Bücher im Unterricht, finde ich sehr schade und rausgeschmissenes Geld. Die selbst geschriebenen Skripts sind sehr gut und reichen aus um den Stoff zu lernen. Da könnte man evtl. das Fachbuch als Empfehlung aufführen jedoch nicht als notwendig. So kann jeder selber entscheiden ob er es braucht.
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Sehr empfehlenswert!
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