Thursday, 12 June 2025
13:00 - 15:00
(
2 hours )
Online
The AI revolution is here, and HR is on the front line. Our recent Legal Island survey (25 March 2025) shows most HR professionals now use GenAI regularly – many every day.
This is the first CPD-certified course in the UK and Ireland focused solely on AI for HR. Whether you’re a seasoned HR professional or just starting out, this course gives you the practical know-how to apply AI tools ethically and effectively in the workplace.
Taught by top-tier AI experts and professional trainers, this programme will help you:
• Earn your first recognised AI qualification tailored to HR.
• Boost your CV, portfolio, or job application with AI credentials.
• Show you fully grasp the seismic change happening in the workplace today due to AI.
• Stay relevant. Stay competitive. Get AI-ready with us.
"The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the microprocessor, the personal computer, the Internet, and the mobile phone. It will change the way people work, learn, travel, get health care, and communicate with each other. Entire industries will reorient around it. Businesses will distinguish themselves by how well they use it.” Bill Gates
AI is already being likened to the Industrial Revolution in terms of how it will shape the nature of work and how it is done.
Already some employers are looking to implement AI to secure a strategic business advantage. Others see it as a means of slashing or eliminating routine admin tasks freeing up many to focus on the core parts of the job they were recruited to do. Early studies suggest that AI can help improve levels of efficiency by 25% while improving quality standards too*. *September 2023 Harvard Business School
This course will suit anyone in HR wanting to boost their HR career with a CPD Certified Course covering the fundamentals of AI for the workplace.
This highly practical course will allow you to quickly develop your own AI skills and to rapidly boost your own output levels.
It’s ideal for anyone who sees themselves as a beginner or at an intermediate level when it comes to workplace AI.
After attending this course you will:
The course structure:
The course will be delivered online weekly on the following dates:
Each online module will be recorded and accessible at any time before the exam deadline. You do not have to attend live to complete the certificate.
The online multiple choice exam and the written assignment must be completed by Wednesday 3 August.
The course includes 30 minutes of recommended reading per week, totalling 8 hours of class time, 2 hours of reading, and a recommended 1 hour of study time.
With the addition of 1 hour exam and time to complete the written assignment, the total course hours come to approximately 16.5 hours.
What's the assessment process?
Assessment consists of a 1-hour multiple-choice exam and a written assignment.
The assessment will be by means of a multiple-choice exam and a written assignment of between 500-1,000 words. The assignment title will be one of the following:
The assignment is not weighted but you will receive feedback on it from AI specialist James Hutt. James is a partner at Paradigm Junction.
Marina is an expert in AI with a passion for creating conversational AI interfaces using both traditional intent-based approaches and the latest cutting-edge technologies, such as large language models (LLMs). Currently, she is working at a deep tech startup, experimenting and mixing things up to create truly intelligent conversational agents.
She is an experienced project management professional and trained business analyst.
Marina is co-author of the leading textbook on AI “Transforming Conversational AI” along with Professor McTear at Ulster University.
Sarah Cochrane joined the Employment Team at Carson McDowell in 2012. Sarah attained a degree in law (LLB Honours) from Queens University in 2005 before embarking on the Legal Practice Course (LPC) at the College of Law in Chester later that year. Sarah trained with DAC Beachcroft LLP in Manchester and qualified as a solicitor into the Employment & Pensions Team in 2009.
Sarah is dual qualified in England & Wales and Northern Irish law. She provides practical employment advice to employers from a wide variety of industries throughout the UK. This advice and assistance is given mainly to Human Resource officials and management and ranges from day to day ad hoc issues to more detailed, complex advice and project work. Sarah acts for clients in defending claims in the Industrial Tribunal and Fair Employment Tribunal. Sarah also assists Carson McDowell’s Corporate Team by providing employment advice in relation to mergers and acquisitions.
Sarah is a committee member of the Employment Law Group for Northern Ireland and a member of the Employment Lawyers Association.
Kieran Gilmurray is the author of the book “The A-Z of Organizational Digital Transformation.” He is regularly ranked as one of the top global experts Automation, Data Analytics, Brand Influencers and Business Technology Innovators.
Kieran is a senior executive with 28+ years of experience leading digital transformations for businesses. He has been a director, board member, research fellow and advisor to multiple international companies.
Barry Phillips (CEO) BEM founded Legal Island in 1998. Since then, the company has become the leading workplace compliance training company in the island of Ireland. He was awarded a British Empire Medal in the New Year’s Honours List 2020 for services to employment and equality.
Barry is a qualified barrister, coach and meditator and a regular speaker both here and abroad. He also volunteers as mentor to aspiring law students on the Migrant Leaders Programme.
Barry is an author, releasing his latest book titled 'Mastering Small Business Employee Engagement: 30 Quick Wins & HR Hacks from an IIP Platinum Employer' in 2020 along with Legal Island MD Jayne Gallagher.
Barry has worked at the European Parliament, the European Court of Human Rights and the International Labour Organisation in Geneva before qualifying as a lawyer in 1993.
He has travelled extensively and lived in a total of eight different countries considering himself to be a global citizen first, a European second and British/Irish citizen last of all. His guiding mantra in life is “Never react but respond. Get curious not furious.”
Barry is an Ironman and lists Russian language and wild camping as his favourite pastimes.
The CPD certificate course features:
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