Hello Friends,
Well I am writing this mail as I want to share my experience about details and scope of SHRM PHR/SPHR exam in India. I am a HR generalist with around 3.5 years experience. I have recently cleared the PHR exam :) which I took in June'09.
Who should go for SHRM certification?
If you are working in US to or plan to move to US or your company (in India) has made it mandatory, you can go for it. The reason I am saying this is as the course content is purely based on US Federal laws and related stuff. So if you are in India it might not be of much use to you.
What Course material can you use?
I have no US experience and studied 'PHR/SPHR: Professional in Human Resources Certification Study Guide' by Anne Bogardus. And also used certgear's practice tests. In addition to this tried various online tests which are free. Apart from this didn't use any other course material, so if you know every word of Anne Bogardus's book, you really don't require to shell out hundreds of dollars on HRCI study material.
Plus PHR/SPHR certification is valid for 3 years which means you need to recertify every 3 years.
Last but not the least, do your research before you go ahead for this certification. All related info is available at www.hrci.org
I hope my experience will be of help to many.
Good Luck
Cheers!!!
Shivani
Well I am writing this mail as I want to share my experience about details and scope of SHRM PHR/SPHR exam in India. I am a HR generalist with around 3.5 years experience. I have recently cleared the PHR exam :) which I took in June'09.
Who should go for SHRM certification?
If you are working in US to or plan to move to US or your company (in India) has made it mandatory, you can go for it. The reason I am saying this is as the course content is purely based on US Federal laws and related stuff. So if you are in India it might not be of much use to you.
What Course material can you use?
I have no US experience and studied 'PHR/SPHR: Professional in Human Resources Certification Study Guide' by Anne Bogardus. And also used certgear's practice tests. In addition to this tried various online tests which are free. Apart from this didn't use any other course material, so if you know every word of Anne Bogardus's book, you really don't require to shell out hundreds of dollars on HRCI study material.
Plus PHR/SPHR certification is valid for 3 years which means you need to recertify every 3 years.
Last but not the least, do your research before you go ahead for this certification. All related info is available at www.hrci.org
I hope my experience will be of help to many.
Good Luck
Cheers!!!
Shivani