Learn About HR Certification

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HR certification is a career-long commitment. It shows your peers, your employees and your organization that you have mastered the core HR principles and are committed to your profession. Certified HR professionals around the world have received job offers, promotions and respect from their peers.

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Choose the Right Certification for You

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Deciding which HR certification is best for you is an important decision. To help you determine which certification exam is right for you we suggest that you

  •  become familiar with the exam content
  •  take the FREE HR knowledge quizzes  
  •  purchase an Online Assessment Exam  
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Renew Your Certification

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Recertification shows that you

  • keep current on changing HR laws, best practices and innovative labor strategies
  • ensure that your organization and its employees work at peak performance
  • remain a strategic business partner in your organization’s success

By recertifying your PHR, SPHR, GPHR or California credentials you show that you are committed to being the best you can be in your profession.

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Partners

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Exam Partners



Our exam partners help us to develop and deliver our certification exams to HR professionals.

Prometric

Prometric schedules, delivers and monitors our exams in more than 600 exam centers around the world. It is the global leader in exam and assessment technology for information-technology certification, academic admissions and professional licensure and certification. Prometric delivers standardized exams for more than 500 clients through exam centers in more than 160 countries.


PES

PES tabulates official exam scores and provides them to our exam takers and to us. PES also mails certificates to those who pass the certification exams.

Founded in 1941, PES is a non-profit organization whose mission is to develop and administer certification and licensure exams in the highest quality possible. PES develops exams that conform with the standards established by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA), the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), the American Psychological Association (APA), and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

PES' exams also conform to their own PES Guidelines for the Development, Use, and Evaluation of Licensure and Certification Programs.