Course Introduction

HR is one of the functions AI is transforming fastest – from recruitment and screening to learning, engagement and admin. This one-day course shows HR professionals how to use AI tools to work faster and smarter, while staying fair, compliant and human. Practical and hands-on, with real HR use cases throughout.

Why this matters

HR sits at the centre of how AI enters an organisation – in recruitment, learning, policy and the duty to use it fairly. HR professionals who understand AI can both speed up their own work and guide the wider business on responsible, POPIA-aligned use. This course delivers both: practical productivity for the HR team, and the judgement to keep the human in human resources.

What You Will Learn

• AI across the employee lifecycle – recruit, onboard, develop, engage, retain
• Using AI for job ads, screening, interview prep and candidate communication
• AI for learning, policies, reports and HR admin
• Fairness, bias, POPIA and the ethical use of AI in HR
• Practical prompts and tools for everyday HR tasks
• Where AI helps – and where the human must stay in the loop

The Advantages of Attending

• Reclaim hours lost to HR drafting – Your team drafts job adverts, screening summaries, interview question sets and policy updates in minutes rather than hours, so people who joined HR to work with humans spend less time staring at a blank document.
• Cut time-to-hire without cutting corners – Delegates leave able to triage large applicant pools and surface the strongest candidates fast, shortening time-to-hire while keeping selection criteria consistent and defensible if a decision is ever questioned.
• Reduce POPIA and unfair-discrimination exposure – The team learns exactly where AI use creates data-protection and bias risk across recruitment, screening and admin, and how to set guardrails so candidate and employee information is handled lawfully from day one.
• Onboard and upskill people sooner – HR builds induction packs, role-specific learning outlines and refresher content far faster, so new hires reach productivity sooner and L&D keeps pace with what the business actually needs.
• Leave with working tools, not theory – While other HR teams still treat AI as a buzzword, yours walks out with tested prompts and repeatable processes already mapped to your own recruitment, screening, L&D and admin tasks.

Skills You Will Walk Away With

• Draft and refine job adverts, role profiles and competency criteria with AI prompts built around your actual vacancies
• Screen large applicant pools by generating consistent candidate summaries scored against agreed selection criteria
• Produce structured interview question sets and scoring guides that keep panels fair and comparable across every candidate
• Build induction packs, role-specific learning outlines and refresher material in a fraction of the usual time
• Automate routine HR admin including policy updates, standard letters, contract clauses and meeting notes
• Apply POPIA-aligned guardrails to candidate and employee data, including a clear list of what must never go into an AI tool
• Detect and reduce bias in AI-assisted recruitment and screening so hiring decisions stay defensible
• Check AI output for accuracy and tone before it reaches a candidate or employee, and turn what works into reusable prompts

Who Should Attend

HR managers, HR generalists, recruiters, L&D and people teams who want to use AI confidently and responsibly.

Why train with BOTI

BOTI has trained teams across South Africa for over a decade and is rated 4.8 from 652 Google reviews. This course is practical and hands-on, fully customisable to your team and industry, and can be delivered in-house at your premises anywhere in South Africa or at a public venue, with or without laptops supplied. Every delegate receives a certificate of completion and leaves with skills they can apply the very next day.