Licensed HR Management Courses - Spring 2026

The goal of the course is to provide not only a detailed theoretical overview of key issues in people and workplace management, but also to introduce current industry developments and practical examples from the everyday work of an HR department within a company.
  • Period: 09.04.2026 - 08.06.2026
  • Time: 18:00 - 21:15
  • Audience: Current and aspiring HR management, recruitment, or training specialists, office managers, and heads of companies, branches, or departments
  • Location: Online (Zoom.us), the final session on 08.06.2026 at Zunda Towers, Spaces, 6th floor, Raņķa dambis 30, Riga

Program

1. Fundamentals of HR Management

(1 session) — Inese Sila

  • The essence of HR management
  • Development trends in HR
  • HR management functions (stages)
  • Strategic HR management
  • Company and personal values
  • Company values as the foundation of sustainability
  • Internal communication and netiquette in an online environment

2. Labour Law and HR Records Management

(4 sessions) — Linda Romane, Inese Sila

  • Labour law for HR management specialists
  • Current developments in labour law
  • Modern solutions for HR document management
  • Document templates
  • Opportunities for implementing electronic solutions
  • Principles for developing job descriptions
  • Linking job descriptions to HR functions
  • Business writing style and legally correct wording

3. Recruitment and Employer Branding

(5 sessions) — Inese Sila, Inga Daliba

  • Workforce planning
  • Writing job advertisements
  • Recruitment methods
  • Competency models
  • Recruitment marketing
  • Social media and LinkedIn
  • Headhunting
  • Building an employer brand
  • Personal branding for HR professionals
  • Competency-based interviews
  • Recruitment interview workshop

4. Digitalization of HR Processes and Artificial Intelligence

(1 session) — Roberts Dimants

  • Using artificial intelligence in HR management
  • AI tools for candidate pre-screening
  • AI agents for competency assessment
  • HR process automation
  • Reducing administrative burden with the help of AI
  • Data-driven analysis of employee and team productivity
  • Creating personalized development and training plans
  • Internal communication platforms and AI chatbots
  • Implementing AI in an organization
  • Data protection and ethical principles in the use of AI

5. Compensation, Performance Management, and Diversity

(2 sessions) — Liga Rode, Sandra Vilsone

  • Compensation management (Reward Management)
  • Job architecture
  • Building a compensation system
  • Working with market data
  • Employee performance evaluation
  • KPI vs OKR
  • Diversity management in an organization

6. Wellbeing, Employee Life Cycle, and Emotional Intelligence

(3 sessions) — Inese Sila

  • Wellbeing at work
  • Work-life balance
  • Stress and burnout
  • Mobbing, bossing, sexual harassment
  • Employee life cycle in an organization
  • Onboarding program and exit interview
  • HR metrics and analysis
  • Emotional intelligence in HR processes
  • Measuring emotional climate

Participant Benefits

DarbaGuru HR management courses are licensed by the Riga Education and Methodology Centre as an interest education program (license no. RIMCK-25-74-ail). A certificate is issued to those who complete the full course.

The course fee includes:
- HR management specialist courses - 16 sessions (64 academic hours and 14 hours of homework) led by professional instructors;
- training materials in electronic format;
- video recordings of sessions (so you can catch up if you miss a session)
- a certificate upon completion of the full course (16 sessions).

Bonus for course participants:
- for 1 month after the course end date, all handout materials and additional literature will be available to all HR management course participants in DarbaGuru's private WhatsApp group, access to which will be sent at the start of the course.

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