Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development · RQF Level 3
CIPD Level 3 Diploma In Applied Human Resources Practice (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits60
- Guided learning540 hours
- Units in this qualification15
Awarded by Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
The Level 3 Diploma is for individuals in applied human resources practice. It covers reward management, coaching, performance management, change management, and induction processes. Successful learners will develop the skills and knowledge required to support HR functions within a business management context.
These are the units Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Analysing and Specifying Job RolesReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of job analysis, including its purpose and benefits
- Understand the different methods of job analysis, such as observation, interviews, and questionnaires
- Understand the importance of accurate and up-to-date job descriptions
- Analyse a job role using appropriate methods
- Specify the key tasks, responsibilities, and skills required for a job role
- Produce a clear and concise job description
Coaching Colleagues in the OrganisationReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature and purpose of coaching within an organisational context.
- Use a coaching style effectively to improve performance in the workplace.
Delivering Human Resources Services to Meet Customer RequirementsReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for the delivery of human resources (HR) services to customers, including identifying customer needs and expectations
- Deliver HR services to meet customer requirements, ensuring quality and timeliness
- Evaluate the delivery of HR services to customers, gathering feedback and identifying areas for improvement
- Improve the delivery of HR services to customers, implementing changes based on evaluation results
Delivering Learning and Development SessionsReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key principles of adult learning, including motivation, experience, and self-direction.
- Understand good practice for delivering learning sessions, including preparation, facilitation, and evaluation.
- Plan a learning session that aligns with specific learning objectives and target audience.
- Deliver a learning session effectively, using appropriate methods and resources to engage learners and facilitate their understanding.
Developing Professional Practice in Human ResourcesReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key components of a specific human resources (HR) professional development programme, including its objectives, structure, and content.
- Understand a range of HR roles within an organisation, including their responsibilities and reporting lines.
- Understand the skills required of HR professionals to perform their roles effectively.
- Understand the knowledge required of HR professionals to perform their roles effectively.
- Understand the behaviours expected of HR professionals in the workplace.
- Demonstrate effective work-management behaviours in an HR context, such as prioritisation, time management, and organisation.
- Demonstrate effective collaborative-working behaviours in an HR context, such as communication, teamwork, and conflict resolution.
- Apply continuing professional development (CPD) techniques to devise a personal development plan that aligns with career goals.
- Implement a personal development plan, tracking progress and making adjustments as needed.
- Review a personal development plan to evaluate its effectiveness and identify areas for further development.
Identifying Learning NeedsReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how learning needs arise within an organisation, considering factors such as skills gaps, performance issues, and strategic objectives.
- Understand why it is important to be aware of learning needs, in order to improve individual and organisational performance.
- Identify learning needs through various methods, such as performance appraisals, skills audits, and feedback from stakeholders.
- Prioritise learning needs based on their impact on individual and organisational goals.
- Specify learning needs clearly and concisely, including the desired outcomes and target audience.
Inducting People into the OrganisationReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of induction programmes for new workers, including legal and organisational requirements
- Understand best practice in the design and delivery of effective induction programmes
- Understand the benefits of a well-structured induction programme for both the organisation and the new worker
- Contribute to the planning and preparation of induction activities
- Support the delivery of induction activities, such as providing information and guidance to new workers
- Evaluate the effectiveness of induction activities and suggest improvements
Resourcing People for the OrganisationReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the various factors that affect an organisation’s talent planning policies and procedures.
- Understand the various factors that affect an organisation’s recruitment and selection policies and procedures.
- Attract suitable candidates to apply for roles within the organisation.
- Recruit people effectively into the organisation.
- Select suitable people for a specified work role, in line with organisational policies and legal requirements.
Supporting Change Management ProcessesReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key drivers for change within organisations, including internal and external factors
- Understand the potential impact of change on different stakeholders within organisations, including employees, customers, and shareholders
- Provide support to individuals and teams during periods of organisational change
- Contribute to the implementation of change management processes within an organisation
Supporting Employee Engagement ProcessesReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concept of employee engagement and its importance to organisational success
- Understand the factors that contribute to employee engagement, such as communication, recognition, and development opportunities
- Understand how employee engagement can be measured and monitored
- Support the implementation of employee engagement initiatives, such as surveys, focus groups, and action planning
- Contribute to the communication of employee engagement results and action plans
- Provide support to managers in promoting employee engagement within their teams
Supporting Performance Management ProcessesReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concept of performance management and how it can contribute to the overall success of a business.
- Understand the principles and practice of individual performance review processes.
- Prepare thoroughly for and conduct an effective individual performance review meeting.
- Know how human resources (HR) can support line managers in conducting effective individual performance reviews.
Supporting Reward Management ProcessesReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
What you'll be able to do
- Understand different organisational approaches to rewarding workers, including the factors that influence these approaches.
- Pay workers fairly and accurately for their contributions to the organisation.
Understanding the Employment RelationshipReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal context of the employment relationship, including relevant legislation and regulations
- Understand the organisational context of the employment relationship, including internal policies and procedures
- Understand the main employment rights of employees during the employment relationship
- Understand the main employment responsibilities of employers during the employment relationship
- Understand the issues to be addressed at the termination of the employment relationship, including redundancy, dismissal, and resignation
Understanding the Organisational Context of Human ResourcesReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different types of organisations, including public, private, and voluntary sectors
- Understand the key characteristics that distinguish different types of organisations, such as size, structure, and culture
- Identify the key factors that affect the business environment, such as economic conditions, technological advancements, and legal regulations
- Analyse the impact of these factors on organisations
- Understand the role of human resources (HR) in supporting the achievement of organisational objectives
- Understand the key functions of HR, such as recruitment, training, and performance management
- Understand how HR policies and practices can contribute to organisational success
Using Human Resources InformationReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different types of data required to effectively support human resources (HR) practices within an organisation.
- Record HR information accurately and securely.
- Store HR information in compliance with relevant legislation and organisational policies.
- Manage HR information effectively to ensure its integrity and accessibility.
- Collect HR information from various sources.
- Analyse HR information to identify trends and patterns.
- Present HR information clearly and concisely for different purposes, such as reporting and decision-making.
The honest bit
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 3 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
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Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit introduces learners to the principles and methods of job analysis, including observation, interviews, and questionnaires. Learners will develop skills to analyse job roles and produce accurate job descriptions detailing key tasks, responsibilities, and required skills.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for CIPD Level 3 Diploma In Applied Human Resources Practice (QCF)
15 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
- Analysing and Specifying Job Roles
- Coaching Colleagues in the Organisation
- Delivering Human Resources Services to Meet Customer Requirements
- Delivering Learning and Development Sessions
- Developing Professional Practice in Human Resources
- Identifying Learning Needs
and 9 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
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Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
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The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
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