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Professional Certificate · Master's level · CPP-24
HR Data and Artificial Intelligence
For: Human resources managers and officers, HR information system managers and HR controllers who use staff data or are considering an artificial intelligence tool.
Learning outcomes
- Analyse workforce data to inform a management decision.
- Assess the value and risks of an artificial intelligence tool applied to people.
- Identify the biases of an artificial intelligence tool and the conditions for its human oversight.
Programme over 4 weeks
| Week | Content |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Workforce data analysis: data quality, indicators, visualisation; practical work in a virtual lab on fictitious data. |
| Week 2 | Simple explanatory models applied to workforce data; presenting an analysis to inform a management decision. |
| Week 3 | Artificial intelligence in HR: application screening, conversational assistants, predictive tools; bias, explainability, human oversight; UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. |
| Week 4 | Professional simulation: analysis of fictitious workforce data and a reasoned assessment of an artificial intelligence tool applied to people. |
Assessment
Marked professional simulation, assessed against a rubric (70%): workforce data analysis and assessment of an artificial intelligence tool applied to people; online knowledge-check quiz (30%). The data are fictitious or anonymised: no employee or candidate can be identified.
The certificate is awarded with a mark of at least 10 out of 20.
Optional: Governing Sensitive HR Processing
An additional 1-credit module over 2 weeks (CPP-24C), awarded as a separate certificate; together with this certificate, it makes up the full course component of the original programme.
- Risk assessment of sensitive HR processing (predictive tool, surveillance, health data) under loi n°2008-12 du 25 janvier 2008 (Personal Data Protection Act); role of the CDP and any formalities required; ECOWAS Acte additionnel A/SA.1/01/10 (Supplementary Act on Personal Data Protection).
- Security and access rights; acceptable use policy for digital tools and artificial intelligence in the HR function.
At your own pace: the self-paced pathway
In a class, this certificate takes 4 weeks, on the cohort's dates. On the self-paced pathway, you start whenever you like, online, and progress at your own pace. The price is the same.
Estimate how long my pathway will take
- Duration
- about 4 weeks
- Estimated end
- 4 weeks after you start
- Examination
- Online, subject to available slots, no earlier than 4 weeks after you start
- Payment
- In a single payment
An indicative estimate, for a start today and 40 hours of work. You can change your pace along the way; the pathway must be completed within 12 weeks (about 3 months) of your start. Your e-Campus access opens with your first payment.
Admission
Spreadsheet skills, and experience of the human resources function assessed on application. Admission based on application; detailed requirements set by the school.
The credits you earn are recognised without further assessment if you later join the programme they come from, Professional Master's degree in Human Resources Management, within a period set by the certificate regulations.