SHRM-CP Study Guide
For /r/humanresources
, Table of contents:
1. Introduction
1.1. SHRM Body of Competency & Knowledge
2. US Laws and Regulations
3. People
3.1. HR Strategic Planning
3.2. Talent Acquisition
3.3. Employee Engagement and Retention
3.4. Learning and Development
3.5. Total Rewards
4. Organization
5. Workplace
6. Behavioral Competencies
, Section 1 – Introduction, and the SHRM Body of Competency & Knowledge
This study guide is my interpretation of the most important and relevant information related to the SHRM-
CP test, it is not meant to be a complete guide that covers all areas of the SHRM-CP, and probably
shouldn’t be your only study source. A lot of this guide is derivative of the book “SHRM-CP/SHRM-SCP
Certification All-in-One Exam Guide” by William H. Truesdell; Dory Willer; William D. Kelly, which I
personally believe to be one of the best guides for the SHRM-CP test. I would definitely recommend
getting that book if you want a more comprehensive guide to work with. They’re not paying me to
endorse them but I attribute much of my success on the SHRM-CP to that book.
I intend for this to be a collaborative document, so if there’s anything important that I missed, please feel
free to add comments or shoot me a pm on Reddit (/u/andypizzle). I’ll try to check on this every couple
of days during the Winter 2019 testing window.
1.1 SHRM Body of Competency and Knowledge
The SHRM BoCK is basically a roadmap for the SHRM credentials. It outlines the HR-related areas that
should be covered, but doesn’t really go into detail on them.
If the SHRM-CP test was a pizza, the BoCK would be like a list of all the toppings you could put on the pizza.
Think of leadership/motivation theories like cheeses; it’ll tell you about all the different types of
cheeses(theories), but won’t tell you the attributes of each cheese, or which cheese works best with
different types of toppings (people/situations). This is probably a horrible analogy but I’ll edit this
document again when I can come up with something better.
The SHRM BoCK is free to download on the official SHRM website.
https://www.shrm.org/certification/about/body-of-competency-and-knowledge/Pages/default.aspx
,
For /r/humanresources
, Table of contents:
1. Introduction
1.1. SHRM Body of Competency & Knowledge
2. US Laws and Regulations
3. People
3.1. HR Strategic Planning
3.2. Talent Acquisition
3.3. Employee Engagement and Retention
3.4. Learning and Development
3.5. Total Rewards
4. Organization
5. Workplace
6. Behavioral Competencies
, Section 1 – Introduction, and the SHRM Body of Competency & Knowledge
This study guide is my interpretation of the most important and relevant information related to the SHRM-
CP test, it is not meant to be a complete guide that covers all areas of the SHRM-CP, and probably
shouldn’t be your only study source. A lot of this guide is derivative of the book “SHRM-CP/SHRM-SCP
Certification All-in-One Exam Guide” by William H. Truesdell; Dory Willer; William D. Kelly, which I
personally believe to be one of the best guides for the SHRM-CP test. I would definitely recommend
getting that book if you want a more comprehensive guide to work with. They’re not paying me to
endorse them but I attribute much of my success on the SHRM-CP to that book.
I intend for this to be a collaborative document, so if there’s anything important that I missed, please feel
free to add comments or shoot me a pm on Reddit (/u/andypizzle). I’ll try to check on this every couple
of days during the Winter 2019 testing window.
1.1 SHRM Body of Competency and Knowledge
The SHRM BoCK is basically a roadmap for the SHRM credentials. It outlines the HR-related areas that
should be covered, but doesn’t really go into detail on them.
If the SHRM-CP test was a pizza, the BoCK would be like a list of all the toppings you could put on the pizza.
Think of leadership/motivation theories like cheeses; it’ll tell you about all the different types of
cheeses(theories), but won’t tell you the attributes of each cheese, or which cheese works best with
different types of toppings (people/situations). This is probably a horrible analogy but I’ll edit this
document again when I can come up with something better.
The SHRM BoCK is free to download on the official SHRM website.
https://www.shrm.org/certification/about/body-of-competency-and-knowledge/Pages/default.aspx
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