Who Should Do This Course?

• Aspiring HR Professionals: If you are new to the HR field and want to build a strong foundation in strategic HR management tailored for startups and emerging industries.
• Startup Founders and Entrepreneurs:- If you are a startup founder looking to develop effective HR strategies to attract and retain top talent in a competitive market.
• Small Business Owners:- If you own a small business and want to implement HR best practices to drive growth and manage your team efficiently.
• Current HR Managers:-  If you are an HR manager seeking to enhance your skills and knowledge in strategic HR to better support your organisation’s growth and development.
• Tech Industry Professionals:- If you work in the tech industry and need to understand the unique HR challenges and opportunities within fast-paced, innovative environments.
• Consultants and Advisors:- If you are a business consultant or advisor looking to expand your expertise in HR to provide more comprehensive support to your clients.
• Students and Recent Graduates:- If you are a student or recent graduate aiming to specialise in HR with a focus on dynamic and rapidly evolving industries.
• Freelancers and Gig Workers:- If you are a freelancer or gig worker interested in understanding strategic HR to enhance your professional interactions and opportunities
• Career Changers:- If you are considering a career switch to HR and want to gain targeted knowledge and skills relevant to startups and emerging industries.
• Nonprofit Sector Professionals:- If you work in the nonprofit sector and want to apply strategic HR practices to improve organisational effectiveness and impact.

Your potential employers or clients?

• Startups: Innovative and fast-growing companies seeking to build and scale their teams effectively.
• Emerging Industries: Companies in sectors like renewable energy, AI, and biotechnology that require strategic HR support.
• Technology Companies: Organisations focused on software development, hardware manufacturing, and IT services.
• Financial Institutions: Banks, investment firms, and fintech startups needing HR strategies for compliance and growth.
• Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Companies: Hospitals, clinics, and pharmaceutical firms focused on talent acquisition and development.
• Entertainment and Media Companies: Film studios, broadcasting networks, and digital media firms looking for HR expertise.
• Consulting Firms: HR consulting agencies that advise other businesses on effective people management strategies.
• Corporate Legal Departments and Law Firms: Organisations requiring HR expertise to manage legal staff and navigate complex regulations.
• Government Bodies: Public sector organisations seeking to improve their HR practices and employee management.
• Freelance Opportunities: Independent HR consultants offering their services to a variety of clients in diverse industries.

Learning objectives of this course

• To learn about the role of SHRM in a digital first organisation 
  • From perspective of HR
  • From the perspective of a startup founder/ CXO, and that of a managing partner of a law firm 

• How graduates, MBAs, lawyers and HRs can assist international organisations with HR-related work  
• To understand techniques to get international remote opportunities from fast growing startups as HRs
• Learn skills to handle complete work of an HR in a digital first organisation 
• How to reach top positions in organisations being an HR and help them to survive in crisis situation
• Getting confidence to handle technology required to do such work

What is unique about this course

• This course is focussing on strategic HR for Startups. 
• Apart from practical lessons, you will have access to numerous templates.
• You will learn through Skill Arbitrage’s  unique teaching methodology, comprising classes, exercises and in-line feedback on your submissions. You will have 1 weekly class of 1 - 1.5 hours and perform 2 exercises in each class. In a week, you will acquire 2 skills.
• You will be given an opportunity to work on one writing assignment during the term of the course that shall be published on the iPleaders blog if it meets our specifications.    
• Any doubt regarding a topic shall be addressed within 24 hours.
• In the span of the course, you will need to perform 4 assignments (or 8 simulation exercises) relating to assisting digital first fast growing international startups.  
• To pass the course, you must complete at least 50% of the assignments and attempt an MCQ test. The average study time required is about 1 hour per day, at your own place. If you miss a class, you can watch a recording.

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 achieving these 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

Access to basic study material through an online learning management system, Android and iOS app

Hard Copy Study Material

Hard copy study material modules to be couriered to your address

Practical Exercises

2 practical exercises every week, followed by written feedback. There will be in class exercises, take home exercises, chapter wise MCQs and even some individual capstone projects

Live Online Classes

Based on the exercises, there will be a live video-based online class. You can ask questions, share your screen, get personal feedback in this class.

Convenient Class timings

Classes are held after regular work hours. Typically classes are kept on Sunday afternoon or 8-9 pm on other days.

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):