Turn Your HR Experience into CHRA™ Certification
Strengthen your knowledge across seven HR domains and demonstrate your competence through a proctored examination. Designed for professionals with at least one year of HR experience, the Certified Human Resources Associate (CHRA™) credential validates the knowledge you apply in everyday HR practice.
Do These Challenges Sound Familiar in Your HR Role?
You handle HR tasks every day, but some situations require more knowledge and judgment than routine processes provide.
Handling difficult employee conversations:
Responding to complaints, workplace conflicts, or sensitive questions when the next step is unclear.
Applying policies consistently:
Explaining leave, attendance, and performance policies while managing requests for exceptions.
Managing competing priorities:
Balancing hiring deadlines, onboarding, employee queries, and accurate records.
Moving beyond administrative tasks:
Understanding why a process matters and contributing ideas to improve it.
Is Your HR Development Keeping Pace with Your Role?
As your responsibilities grow, postponing professional development can have practical consequences:
Depending too heavily on others:
Needing frequent support for decisions you are increasingly expected to handle independently.
Carrying outdated practices forward:
Continuing familiar approaches without checking whether they still serve the organization and its employees.
Overlooking useful HR data:
Reporting numbers without understanding what turnover, absence, or recruitment results may reveal.
Struggling to demonstrate readiness:
Finding it difficult to explain what you know and how you would apply it when seeking greater responsibility.
Purposeful development helps you prepare for the demands of your next role while improving your contribution today.
What You’ll Learn in the CHRA™ Certification Program
LYL HRM’s Certified Human Resources Associate (CHRA™) program covers seven core HR domains. The curriculum connects HR principles with workplace activities, helping you understand the purpose, responsibilities, and professional considerations behind each function.
HR Foundations & Ethics
Explore the employee lifecycle, HR’s role within an organization, confidentiality, and ethical decision-making when handling employee information.
Talent Acquisition & Hiring
Learn how job requirements inform job descriptions, candidate sourcing, structured interviews, and a consistent hiring process.
HR Operations & Compliance
Understand employee documentation, policy development, and compliance awareness. Employment requirements vary by jurisdiction, so local rules must guide their application.
Employee Relations & Communication
Explore fair treatment, employee feedback, grievance procedures, and clear communication between employees, managers, and HR.
Compensation, Benefits & Wellbeing
Understand pay structures, total rewards, benefits administration, and the considerations involved in supporting employee wellbeing.
Learning & Performance Support
Learn how to identify development needs, coordinate learning activities, support performance reviews, and follow up on agreed goals.
Digital HR & Emerging Trends
Explore how HR information systems support people processes, alongside data quality, responsible technology use, and developments in digital HR.
Together, these domains provide a defined scope for CHRA™ study and assessment, helping candidates understand what the certification covers before they apply.
The Organization Behind CHRA™
CHRA™ is offered by LYL HRM, the human resources certification division of LYL Corp International. The parent organization brings together professional certification initiatives across several business disciplines.
Within this portfolio, LYL HRM focuses on human resources practice and professional development. Its role is to define certification requirements, administer assessments, and support candidates through the credentialing process.
For candidates, this provides a clear point of accountability for questions about certification requirements, assessment, and credential status.
CHRA™ Certification Fees and What’s Included
The CHRA™ training and examination package costs US$600, covering preparation resources, mentor support, and the certification assessment.
What Your Fee Covers
- Online learning portal: Access study materials during your enrollment period.
- Mentor support: Get guidance on curriculum topics during preparation.
- Proctored examination: Take the assessment required to earn CHRA™ certification.
- Verifiable digital badge: Receive your badge after meeting certification requirements.
- Professional community: Connect with fellow candidates and HR practitioners.
- Profile visibility opportunities: Opportunities to feature your professional achievements through LYL HRM’s network.
Certification Maintenance
An Annual Maintenance Fee of US$75 applies after you pass, separate from the training and examination fee. One AMF covers all your LYL HRM credentials. Continuing professional education requirements also apply.