Key Highlights

• Designed for individuals aiming to secure remote international HR opportunities with fast-growing startups.
• Ideal for those seeking career growth or upskilling in the fast-paced HR industry.
• Suitable for beginners, intermediates, and professionals. Special classes are available to bring beginners up to speed.
• Focused on practical skills, not just HR theories or case studies. Learn to perform real tasks relevant to startups, MNCs, and freelancing.
• Master 50+ essential professional skills in just 24 weeks.
• Emphasis on practicing skills, receiving feedback, and improving consistently.
• Learn to draft key legal documents like Employment Contracts and ESOPs across jurisdictions such as the USA, Dubai, and Singapore.
• Attend live sessions twice a week for six months, working on real-world assignments.
• Receive personalized feedback on HR policies and strategies you create.
• Get trained in drafting policies and employee handbooks to streamline organizational HR processes.
• Access internships, freelance work, and jobs based on skills covered in class.
• Boost earning potential with professional skills tailored for HR professionals and freshers.
• Gain practical insights from industry experts with decades of experience, addressing doubts in real-time.
• Access 200+ ready-to-use, high-quality templates for client work.

Who Should Do This Course?

• Aspiring HR Professionals: Build a strong foundation in strategic HR for startups.
• Startup Founders/Entrepreneurs: Develop HR strategies to attract and retain talent.
• Small Business Owners: Implement HR best practices to manage teams efficiently.
• Current HR Managers: Upgrade skills to support organisational growth.
• Tech Industry Professionals: Address HR challenges in innovative environments.
• Consultants/Advisors: Expand HR expertise for comprehensive client support.
• Students/Graduates: Specialise in HR for dynamic industries.
• Freelancers/Gig Workers: Learn HR skills to enhance professional interactions.
• Career Changers: Gain HR knowledge for startups and emerging industries.
• Nonprofit Professionals: Apply HR practices to improve organisational impact.

Your potential employers or clients?

• Startups: Scale teams effectively.
• Emerging Industries: Renewable energy, AI, and biotech sectors.
• Technology Companies: Software, hardware, and IT services organisations.
• Financial Institutions: Banks, fintechs, and investment firms.
• Healthcare/Pharma Companies: Hospitals and pharmaceutical firms.
• Entertainment/Media: Film studios and digital media companies.
• Consulting Firms: HR agencies for people management.
• Corporate Legal Departments: Manage legal staff and compliance.
• Government Bodies: Improve public sector HR practices.
• Freelance Opportunities: Provide HR consulting across industries.​

Learning objectives of this course

• Learn SHRM’s role in digital-first organisations from HR and leadership views.
• Assist international organisations with HR tasks across domains.
• Secure international remote opportunities in HR.
• Handle all HR responsibilities in digital-first setups.
• Reach top organisational roles and manage crises.
• Confidently use technology for strategic HR work.

What is unique about this course

• Focused on strategic HR for startups with practical lessons and templates.
• Learn through Skill Arbitrage’s unique methodology: classes, exercises, and feedback.
• Attend one weekly class (1–1.5 hours) and complete two exercises per class.
• Acquire two skills per week through interactive sessions.
• Opportunity to publish a writing assignment on the iPleaders blog (subject to approval).
• Doubts addressed within 24 hours for quick resolution.
• Complete four assignments or eight simulation exercises on assisting international startups.
• Pass the course by completing 50% of assignments and an MCQ test.
• Average study time: 1 hour/day, with access to class recordings if missed.

Success stories

Here is a Skill Arbitrage student doing this for a startup based in Finland, on recruitment-related work, project management and other projects:

Faiz Ehsan, (our learner since August 2021), a college student.

He started by earning INR 20-25K per month and jumped to USD 1200/ INR 1 lakh per month in about a year - he does recruitment-related work, project management and other research and writing work!

Anindita Mani, HR manager in a company in Kolkata, has already started getting paid work, and worked on 7 assignments on Fiverr, in less than 2 months! 

She has received more opportunities and has turned down some opportunities because she is already in a full-time job.

Kranti Yeole, lives in Mumbai, has about 10 years experience in HR and was serving notice in her job. 

She followed our coaching and got her first lead within  three weeks of the course with a Mumbai-based company, with whom she starts work next month and will earn INR 1000/hr, for setting up HR and accounting processes including policies, payroll documentation, accounting process, compliance applicability and operational process. 

Sunetra Mukherjee lives in Kolkata and has over 13 years of experience in the HR profession, with a core HR generalist profile. She has obtained her full-time BBA and MBA degrees from Burdwan University. 

She had to take a break of nearly 4 years from her career, she wanted to join back.. After studying our course for 3 months, she was able to get an opportunity with a company at a 40% hike. 

Under her contract, she is free to pursue remote work as long as it does not conflict with official responsibilities. She also does remote freelancing work for a few other companies in her free time for example Pinnacle Digital Analytics Pvt Ltd. Many Organisations she is associated with as a Recruitment partner like GKB opticals in Kolkata, Jayanta Lamps in Kolkata and Swadesh Softwares in Durgapur etc.

Maksuda Monir, final year law student from Dhaka, Bangladesh, works for 2 long-term clients and also performs independent projects from Upwork and Fiverr. 

She is not an HR professional but she has still worked on remote HR projects. 

When she was still in college, she started working remotely for a part-time Marketing Officer at ARC287BC Corporation, a research company which works on bicycle tech, based in New Jersey, United States and did administrative and recruitment-related work - she assists them in finding freelancers, and earns USD 300 per month. Since she is a lawyer now, she does legal work for them. 

Hiring talent for freelance writing work, social media management, engineers, researchers from Upwork and especially Fiverr. 

She also works with other clients. 

She also earns USD 150 per month (for 50 hours of work) by working for a long-term client whose products she lists on Amazon.

Anjali Suneja is Strategic and innovative HR with 13+ years of experience in translating business vision into HR initiatives. Over the past few months she has initiated the process and below are some of actions she have undertaken: 

For a resort in Jaipur Anjali has been able to draft the policy, helped them to constitute ICC, employee sensitising training and orientation of ICC members are going on.

On Linkedin, one HRBP from a reputed hospital of Ahmedabad (Shrimad Rajchandra Hospital and Research Centre-SRHRC) approached her for reviewing their Anti Sexual Harassment policy and constitution of ICC and he appreciated for the same.

She have 3 client meetings in the pipeline in the second week of March 23, to discuss POSH Implementation at their workplaces.
She have also initiated the process for getting associated with Jaipur WICCI (WOMEN ́S INDIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY) ANTI SEXUAL HARASSMENT COUNCIL.

She has recently been approached by “Metis-POSH Consulting Service LLP”, for an associate position as freelance POSH trainer.
She is also in discussion with TPOs form management institutes of Jaipur, to get associated as  a POSH Faculty/guest lecturer. She believes this will help to bring awareness at the root level for future HR Managers.

Let me show you our students who have started getting impressive results

Young professional who migrated to Canada in less than 2 years 

Chaitali Bagai, a 2021 graduate from Jyoti Vidyapeeth Women's University, Jaipur started performing freelance work after learning skills and obtaining assistance from our team  for various projects for international clients. She then shifted to Canada and is working as a recruitment coordinator at CT Bakery (owns Bread Talks brand), Toronto Ontario, Canada.

A recent graduate who performs domestic freelance work in HR

Srishti Mishra, lives in Varanasi, graduated in 2020 from Galgotias University and joined our course in January 2023, received her first lead from a startup HisabKaro in 1 week, did employer branding work on a pro bono basis and also secured a paid content-writing gig with a company dealing in B2B and Vendor Management.

Yes - that is how fast you can get results if you work hard with Skill Arbitrage! 

Mid-career professional who started a pan-India consultancy firm

Prachir Sogani, who was running an HR consultancy in Jaipur but was restricted to low-end HR compliance work for Rajasthan-based clients, added 8 new high-value services (drafting, HR documentation, responses to statutory authorities, disciplinary proceedings, etc.) and started serving clients on a pan-India basis, and multiplied his income by several times.

Senior Professional who became a CHRO/HR Head

Ruchi Ahluwalia, HR head at Scania Commercial Vehicles and Carl Zeiss, got a job with Quess Corp, a listed company that is India’s largest private sector employer (employs 400,000 people), as a CHRO within 1 year of joining our courses and learning the skills. 

Asgar Ali, a Safety Officer in a Factory, became an HR head in 1 year, and is heading 2 plants at a Heavy Engineering Company ISGEC which employs more than 1000 workers and has a turnover of over 5500 crores! 

Professionals who obtained a salary increments/new jobs

Sonika Panghal started studying with us last June. After 4 months of learning HR compliance skills, she received a new job offer and got a hike of 25%! She also received a remote content writing part-time job as well. 

Biswajit Bhattarchya has been working in HR compliance for the past 11 years now. After 3-4 months of enrolling in our course, he secured a job offer in a new company in the petrochemicals space (changed sectors) and received a 40% increment in salary! 

Swati Sinha is a 2005 BBA graduate. She is based in Bengaluru and is a Co-founder and Director of consulting firm JobsCubicle, The firm mainly is an Executive Search firm for the recruitment and placement of top talent with its clients in the IT, ITES, Telecom, FMCG, Financial Services, Banking, Real Estate and Manufacturing Industries etc. 

Though she had a well-established firm, she joined the SkillArbitrage course to Upskill herself and grow her firm further. 

She started working on an exercise shared in the course and within 2 weeks she got a new client named Nexturn,  a Hyderabad-based startup that deals in software and digital transformation of their clients. She directly got connected with the CEO of the company and now has started assisting him with recruitment. The interviews of candidates are in the final stage and she will be paid once the process of recruitment is over.

She learnt new methods of how to outreach international clients and help them, she will now be working on revamping her LinkedIn and also be regular on it, as she now knows that these strategies can give good results and help her grow their client base.

Money-back guarantee

If you take this course, follow it diligently for a month, do all the exercises but still do not find value in it, or not able to understand or follow it or not find it good for any reason, we will refund the entire course fee to you. It is a 100% money-back guarantee with only one condition, you must pursue it properly for a month. If you don’t find it valuable after that, get your entire money back.

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Training Methodology

Online 24/7 access

Study materials available via LMS, Android, and iOS apps.

Hard Copy Study Material

Modules couriered to your address.

Practical Exercises

Two exercises weekly with written feedback, MCQs, and capstone projects.

Live Online Classes

Interactive video sessions for Q&A and personalized feedback.

Flexible Timings

Classes on Sunday afternoons or 8-9 pm on weekdays

Live Doubt Clearing

You can ask questions, get your doubt cleared live as well as through online forums

Certification

This course is recognized by the National Skill Development Corporation, a PPP under the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship of the Government of India. You will receive a certificate cobranded by NSDC and Skill India on successful completion.

This is how the certificate from NSDC and Skill India will look as per the current applicable format (may change as per the approval authorities):