Schedule interviews, run onboarding and offboarding checklists, clean HRIS data and build a monthly HR report using AI
What You Will Learn:
- Build a 12-month HR calendar with every recurring deadline, its owner and a reminder date set by lead time
- Schedule, reschedule and close an interview in one round of emails using a bank of 20 ready templates
- Take a new hire from signed offer to the end of day one with a checklist where every task has a due date
- Audit HRIS data completeness and errors field by field and set a retention period for each employee document
- Answer the 25 most common employee questions and know which questions go straight to your HR manager
- Close access, equipment, final pay handoff and documents on time when an employee leaves
- Put headcount, hires, turnover and time to fill on a one-page monthly HR report with ready formulas
- Hand email drafts, summaries and spreadsheet cleanup to AI without sending employees’ personal data
- Learn with Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, alongside 2,000,000+ of his Udemy students
- Learn from 20 years of hands-on HR practice at Wargaming, Preply, iDeals and Starlightmedia
Overview
If you have spent more than five minutes working in a high-growth tech environment, you know that the difference between a smooth-running department and a total chaotic dumpster fire usually comes down to the HR Operations team. I’ve seen plenty of HR courses that spend forty hours talking about “company culture” and “synergy” without actually teaching anyone how to do the damn job. That is exactly where Mike’s HR Coordinator & HR Assistant Training flips the script. This isn’t a theoretical lecture; it’s more like a technical hands-on lab for the administrative backbone of a company.
Mike brings 20 years of battle-tested experience from heavy hitters like Wargaming and Preply, and it shows. The course focuses on the “unsexy” but vital work: the workflows, the spreadsheets, and the automation. What really caught my eye was the focus on scalability. Most entry-level HR professionals get buried under repetitive tasks. This course teaches you how to build a 12-month recurring calendar so you aren’t constantly reacting to deadlines, but rather controlling them. It’s an opinionated, tactical deep dive into how to manage the lifecycle of an employee without losing your mind or leaking sensitive data. The inclusion of AI for spreadsheet cleanup and email drafting—while emphasizing data privacy—is a massive win that most beginner to advanced courses are still ignoring.
Prerequisites
The beauty of this program is that it doesn’t require a Master’s degree or five years of corporate experience to get started. You honestly just need a functional laptop and a solid grasp of basic productivity tools like Google Workspace or Microsoft Office. While it’s marketed as beginner to advanced, having a bit of “tech-fluency” will help you move faster through the AI modules. You don’t need to be a data scientist, but you shouldn’t be afraid of a few industry-standard tools and some basic Excel formulas. If you can navigate a browser and have a desire to build job-ready skills, you’re good to go.
Skills & Tools
- Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS): Learn how to audit data field-by-field to ensure 100% accuracy and compliance.
- Artificial Intelligence (AI): Using LLMs for email drafting and data cleaning without compromising GDPR or employee privacy.
- Recruitment Operations: Mastering the “one-round email” scheduling technique using a massive bank of 20 real-world project templates.
- Reporting & Analytics: Building one-page monthly reports covering headcount, turnover, and time to fill using ready-to-use formulas.
- Process Automation: Creating rigorous onboarding and offboarding checklists that ensure zero-day equipment retrieval and access revocation.
- Compliance: Setting retention periods for employee documents and managing sensitive handoffs.
Career Benefits & Job Roles
Completing this course is essentially certification prep for the real world. It moves you past the “administrative assistant” vibe and into a specialized HR Operations role. If you are looking to land a job as an HR Coordinator, People Ops Specialist, or Recruiting Coordinator, having these specific workflows on your resume is a major differentiator. Companies aren’t looking for people who “like people”—they are looking for people who can manage a HRIS and keep the legal offboarding process from becoming a lawsuit. This training provides the career growth trajectory needed to eventually step into an HR Manager or People Ops Director role because you’ll actually understand the mechanics of how a company scales.
Pros
- Instant Utility: You aren’t just watching videos; you’re getting a “starter pack” of 20 templates and a 12-month calendar that you can literally copy-paste into your current job on day one.
- AI Ethics: I love that Mike explicitly teaches how to use AI without sending personal employee data to the cloud. This is a critical skill that most people are currently failing at.
- Instructor Credibility: Mike has 2,000,000+ students for a reason. His experience at Wargaming and Preply means he’s dealt with thousands of employees, not just a small 10-person startup. The advice is battle-hardened.
- Efficiency-First Mindset: The focus on closing an interview in a single round of emails is a game-changer for anyone currently drowning in scheduling back-and-forth.
Cons
- Excel Dependency: While the formulas provided are job-ready skills, if you are working in a company that uses an extremely advanced, all-in-one HR platform that automates reports, some of the manual spreadsheet cleanup lessons might feel a bit redundant (though still vital for auditing).