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Category /Sub-category Rules/Exceptions/Audit Requirements
Instructor-Led Continuing Education
Courses that are led by an instructor whether live
or recorded and have expected learning outcomes
for participants.
Credits can be earned by completing a course
offered by:
• a college or university,
• attending a non-pre-approved program or
conference that adds to your HR knowledge,
• participating in E-learning, online training, in-
house work training, or
• attending a professional HR association hosted
program.
Business Rules
• Programs must be HR-related and be at least
45 minutes long (30 minutes of content and 15
minutes of Q&A).
• Credit(s) may be recorded in quarter-hour
increments such as 1.25 for a program that is 1
hour, 15 minutes in length.
• Pre-conference sessions may be awarded
additional credit if submitted separately from
the main conference.
• Exam preparatory courses to attain a general
HR certication (ex. HRCI or SHRM certications)
cannot be awarded recertication credits.
College and University Courses
HR Certication Institute accepts continuing
education units (CEUs) awarded through the
International Association for Continuing Education
and Training (IACET).
• If you audit a course (meaning you attend the
class but are not responsible for completing
coursework) an HR-related college or
university course, you can claim a maximum
of ten recertication credit hours on your
recertication application.
• For each college credit hour earned, ten
recertication credits can be awarded. For
example, a three-credit semester course, 30
recertication credit hours will be awarded.
• To receive recertication credit for a college or
university course, a maximum grade of “C” must
be earned.
Specied credit (Business, Global, California
or Ethics) may be earned through continuing
education/instructor-led courses.
No Maximum
Conferences and Seminars:
Credit may be given for a general (plenary) session
if the presentation is at least one-hour long and is
specically HR-related.
• Typically, a maximum of eight credit hours per
one-day conference are awarded for attending
all conference educational sessions.
• Additional credit hours may be awarded for
any HR-related activities if you provide/upload
additional information and documentation
about them on your recertication application.
Specied credit (Business, Global, California
or Ethics) may be earned through continuing
education/instructor-led courses and must be self-
reported.
If you have additional questions about how to
determine how much credit you can potentially
earn for taking a college or university course,
please contact our client relations team at info@
hrci.org.
Examples of College and University Courses
• A course awarded three CEUs using IACET
criteria is equivalent to 30 classroom hours.
aPHR, PHR, PHRca, SPHR, GPHR, aPHRi, PHRi,
and SPHRi certied HR professionals would
receive 30 recertication credit hours for each
course.
• For courses containing more contact hours
than the IACET guidelines allow, please upload
documentation (like a detailed syllabus) to
illustrate the requested number of hours.
Audit Documentation
Certicate or letter of attendance, registration
form, course syllabus, unofcial transcript, grade
report, or other course material are all acceptable
forms of documentation.
All recertication activities must be HR-related. In general, if an activity can be related to the Exam
Content Outline for the certication type an individual has earned and it adds to the certicant’s
knowledge of the HR eld, it is considered “HR-related” and recertication credit will be awarded.
Submitted recertication activities are all subject to HRCI’s recertication review process.