An Employer Update on the SHRM Assurance of Learning® Assessment

1. An Employer Update on the SHRM Assurance of Learning® Assessment

2. Agenda How does SHRM encourage students to prepare for a career in HR? Career Development Pathway What is the Assurance of Learning Assessment? Why is it important for employers to be familiar with the Assurance of Learning Assessment Capstone to Graduation: The SHRM Assurance of Learning® Assessment The Employers Guide to the SHRM Assurance of Learning® Assessment

3. Career Development Pathway Your path to a successful career in HR

4. So what is the SHRM Assurance of Learning® Assessment? And WHY SHOULD EMPLOYERS CARE?

5. What is it? A knowledge-based, capstone exam designed to: provide HR students with an achievement, by passing a national exit exam, to help them differentiate themselves in the job marketplace; show potential employers that the student has acquired the knowledge required to enter the HR profession; help universities meet their accrediting body’s requirements by showing that the HR degree program teaches its students what it says it will teach them Replace the PHR for traditional students

6. Content Areas Covered Total Rewards Employee Benefits Total Rewards Training and Development Career Planning Training & Development Workforce Planning and Talent Management HR Information Systems Measuring HR Outcomes: Metrics and the Bottom Line Performance Management Staffing: Recruitment and Selection Workforce Planning & Talent Management • Employee & Labor Relations • Employee and Labor Relations • Negotiation Skills • Employment Law • Employment Law • Risk Management: Occupational Health, Safety, and Security • Strategic HR • HR and Globalization • HR and Organizational Strategy • HR Mergers and Acquisitions • Leadership Skills • Managing Diversity

7. Exam Basics Knowledge Exam 160 multiple choice questions 70% recall 30% application of knowledge Pass rate = 62% Certificate of Learning awarded to those who pass. Three(3) 30-day test windows annually. Spring, summer, fall to coincide with commencement Costs Members $135 / Nonmembers $210 Review materials available Apply online @ www.shrm.org/assessment

8. Who is eligible to take the assessment? Undergraduate students and graduate students with little to no HR work experience Must be earning an HR or HR-related degree in a school of business or I/O psychology program Must be studying HR-specific courses. Must be studying HR-related content areas tested on the exam. May take the exam beginning 1 year before graduation and ending 1 year after graduation

9. What does passing the exam show an employer? Over time, test has proven to be both reliable and valid Difficulty measures show that the test is difficult but fair Differentiation measures show the test items appropriately differentiate between those students who know HR and those who do not Slightly more difficult than PHR exam because it includes 30% application questions

10. Employers Guide to the SHRM Assurance of Learning Assessment Shows details of how test was developed Test specifications Quality control measures How scores are determined What passing means to a potential employer Get your free copy by emailing Academics@shrm.org

11. Assessment―Contact Us/Important Dates E-mail and telephone Hotlines! assessment@shrm.org 1-800-283-SHRM x3926 (EXAM) To get your free copy of the Employers Guide to the Assurance of Learning Assessment academics@shrm.org Encourage students to apply www.shrm.org/assessment

12. QUESTIONS?