Empower Your HR Practice
SHRM members don’t start from scratch — they start from smart. Whether you’re managing compliance, designing policies, or leading a new HR initiative, you’ll find practical, ready-to-use tools built by experts and trusted by thousands of HR professionals worldwide.
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Navigate complex employment laws with confidence. Compare requirements across all 50 states in seconds to ensure compliance, reduce risk, and maintain consistency for your multistate or remote workforce. A must-have for modern HR teams.
Turn strategy into action with SHRM’s expert-developed toolkits. Each one delivers a complete framework—guidance, best practices, and templates—to help you design, implement, and optimize key HR initiatives that drive organizational success.
Get fast, trusted answers to real-world HR questions. SHRM’s expert-reviewed Q&As provide clear, concise guidance on complex topics—from compliance to culture—so you can make informed, confident decisions when it matters most.
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Interactive Tools
Go beyond static templates with calculators and comparison tools. Quickly benchmark salaries, navigate employment laws across U.S. states, and generate reports with our dynamic resources.
Benefits are one of the most important ways to attract and retain talent. SHRM’s annual Employee Benefits Survey captures what organizations across the U.S. are offering—and what’s changing.
Back your HR strategies with trusted data. With SHRM Benchmarking, you get access to key HR and business metrics broken down by organization size, sector, industry, and region.
Toolkits
Comprehensive resources that provide both the big picture and actionable tools to implement HR best practices.
Use actionable insights and practical HR templates to manage equal employment opportunity. Know the relevant laws, reduce risk, and build a fair workplace.
This toolkit provides an overview of the use of independent contractors, commonly referred to as gig workers.
Discover strategies, tools, and resources to develop effective managers, boost employee engagement, and drive organizational success with this comprehensive toolkit.
How-To Guides
Step-by-step guides to help you confidently manage complex HR challenges, from leave laws to workplace investigations.
We provide easy-to-follow steps and examples for creating an employee handbook.
This guide outlines best practices for workplace investigations to make sure everyone involved is protected when investigating harassment, discrimination, retaliation, safety, or ethical complaints.
Gain a step-by-step framework for conducting a skills gap analysis that empowers HR leaders to align talent strategy with business goals and drive results.
Policies
Download editable policy templates vetted by SHRM experts — from dress code to remote work — to ensure legal compliance and consistency.
Strengthen your HR policies with this sample employee classification policy, designed to help organizations accurately define employment categories.
Effectively address workplace security and employee privacy rights with this comprehensive policy on recording in the workplace. Utilize best practices for HR.
Promote a professional atmosphere by establishing guidelines for workplace relationships. Help managers and employees navigate conflicts of interest and maintain trust.
Forms & Checklists
Ready-to-use HR forms and audit checklists that save hours of admin time and ensure you don’t miss a compliance step.
Learn how to address FLSA exemption status changes with employees, minimize confusion, and meet regulatory obligations with confidence and accuracy.
Ensure compliance and transparency with this customizable workplace surveillance policy acknowledgment form to document employee consent and address privacy concerns.
Use this resource to help assess job duties, pay, and exemption categories. Align your practices with federal labor laws and reduce risk.
HR Q&As
Hundreds of concise answers from SHRM experts — your go-to source for quick, trusted HR insight.
Improve worker wellbeing and increase retention through proven strategies to reduce employee stress and foster a healthier, more resilient workplace.
Support fair pay practices by understanding how to handle employee pay increase requests. Learn which factors HR should weigh and how to communicate decisions clearly.
Review the most popular executive coaching models to strengthen your strategy for leadership and management development and organizational impact.
Job Descriptions
Access 1,000+ customizable job description templates that help you define roles clearly and stay competitive in hiring.
Interview Questions
Professionally crafted, competency-based questions to improve your hiring process and assess cultural fit.
Presentations
Ready-made training decks for employee onboarding, compliance, and management development.
HR Glossary
Decode HR language quickly with a searchable glossary of essential terms — perfect for new professionals or quick refreshers.
Express Requests
Get curated, up-to-date resources on trending HR issues. We’ve gathered what’s new so you can focus on what’s next.
Quizzes
Fun and fast knowledge checks to sharpen your HR expertise and prepare for certification.
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