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HRCI Certification Preparation Intermediate

PHRi Professional in Human Resources International — Exam Preparation

The most widely held HR credential across the Middle East, focused on operational and tactical mastery.

70 hours 4 Modules 13 Lessons Arabic and English 0 Students
Nadia Mansour

Instructor

Nadia Mansour

Lead Trainer — HRCI Programmes

PHRi Professional in Human Resources International — Exam Preparation

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  • On-demand video lessons
  • Downloadable PDF resources
  • Module quizzes with explanations
  • Access to the certification question bank
  • Verified completion certificate
  • Lifetime access to course updates

Course Overview

PHRi is the international variant of HRCI's professional-level credential and is the most widely held HR certification across the Gulf and wider Middle East. It is designed for practitioners who own HR processes, advise line management on day-to-day people matters, and implement policy rather than author it.

The examination is knowledge-based and weighted across five functional areas: HR administration, talent acquisition, HR development and retention, compensation and benefits, and employee relations and risk management. It tests technical mastery in depth, and unlike SHRM it does not devote half the paper to behavioural scenarios.

Our preparation is accordingly content-dense and question-heavy. The programme distributes coverage in exact proportion to the published examination weightings, and every functional area concludes with a scored diagnostic so that revision effort concentrates where measured performance is weakest.

What You Will Learn

Administer the full range of HR processes across the employee lifecycle to a professional standard

Lead talent acquisition activity including workforce requisition, selection and offer management

Design and support development, performance and retention interventions

Apply compensation and benefits principles including job evaluation and pay structures

Manage employee relations matters and mitigate people-related organisational risk

Sit the PHRi examination with performance validated by scored diagnostics across all functional areas

Curriculum

4 Modules · 13 Lessons · 70 hours

Requirements

  • One to four years of professional HR experience depending on your level of academic qualification, as specified by HRCI
  • Working proficiency in English
  • Approximately eight study hours per week
  • Our advisory team confirms your eligibility against the current HRCI table before you pay any examination fee

About the Trainer

Nadia Mansour

Nadia Mansour

Lead Trainer — HRCI Programmes

PHRi and SPHRi certified consultant specialising in compensation structures, job evaluation and HR analytics.

What Students Say

“I came from an administrative role with no HR background at all, and aPHR was the right starting point. The Arabic explanations meant I understood the concept properly before learning the English terminology for the examination, which I could not have managed the other way round.”
Mariam Osman

Mariam Osman

HR Coordinator · Healthcare Provider

“We had a pay structure that nobody could explain and compression across three grades. The compensation workshop gave me the evaluation method and the modelling approach to rebuild it properly, and the remediation costing was what finally persuaded our finance director.”
Hisham Farouk

Hisham Farouk

Compensation and Benefits Manager · Logistics and Distribution Group

“We enrolled eleven people from two countries on the business partner programme. The value was in the live assignment: every participant brought a real problem from their own unit, and several of those recommendations were implemented before the programme even finished.”
Yousef Haddad

Yousef Haddad

HR Director · Retail Group

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