Pass the aPHR Without an HR Job

have taught more than 150,000 people, and a large share of them came to HR from somewhere else entirely - retail,admin, teaching, the army, a career break. The pattern is the same every time.

They can do the work. They have run a shift, handled a payroll query, sat with someone on their worst day at the company.What they cannot do is get past the filter on the job posting, the one that asks for two years of HR experience before it willlet them into a job that would give them the experience.

The aPHR exists for exactly that position. HRCI says it in one sentence: no HR experience is required for this knowledge-based credential. It is a knowledge exam - 65 scored questions, 100 to 700 scale, 500 to pass - and it is the one HRcredential you can hold before anybody has hired you into HR.

What this book does:

• Teaches all five functional areas from zero - talent acquisition, learning and development, compensation andbenefits, employee relations, compliance and risk, at HRCI's own weights, with every term defined the first time itappears
• 300 original practice questions - 235 at the ends of chapters, a 65-question mock exam at the back, every optionexplained, including the correct one
• Answers at the end of the chapter, not under the question - so you have to actually decide before you look
• A glossary of 159 terms and acronyms - the second-most-used part of the book for anyone entering HR from outside
• A twelve-week plan built from the official area weights

What it does not do:

• Promise that a credential is a job. It opens a filter. The interview is still yours to win
• Print a fee, a deadline or a legal threshold I have not verified with HRCI or the issuing agency
• Reproduce real exam questions. HRCI's candidate agreement forbids even studying from leaked items, and a credentialearned that way can be revoked

An exam-prep course costs several hundred dollars. The exam itself costs four hundred. This book costs less than theparking at the test centre.

Read it in the order the exam is built. Then book the date.