Programme Overview
A two-day programme for HR and workforce specialists responsible for talent acquisition and development, performance management, organisational design and employee experience. It covers how AI is transforming every stage of the employee life cycle, how to use AI tools responsibly in HR practice, and how to navigate the sensitive regulatory and ethical landscape that arises when AI is applied to people. Participants leave able to use AI for core HR tasks, to design AI-enhanced workforce planning, and to apply safeguards consistent with SDAIA’s AI Ethics Principles and PDPL requirements.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this programme, participants will be able to:
- Describe how AI is reshaping the HR profession across recruitment, learning and development, performance and workforce planning.
- Use AI tools for talent acquisition, screening, learning design, employee communication and HR analytics.
- Apply AI to workforce planning and skills-gap analysis in the context of Saudi Vision 2030 and Saudisation goals.
- Recognise and mitigate the risks of bias, privacy and fairness in AI-supported decisions about people.
- Apply SDAIA, the PDPL and Saudi Labour Law considerations to AI use in HR.
- Lead the conversation with executives, managers and employees about responsible AI in the workplace.
Programme Content & Modules
Day 1: The HR landscape and AI in practice
How AI is reshaping HR. Recruitment, learning and development, talent analytics, workforce planning and employee experience in the age of AI. The Saudi workforce-transformation context, including Saudi Vision 2030, Saudisation and the Human Capability Development Program.
Practical work with AI tools for job-description writing, sourcing and screening, interview support, learning-content design, engagement analytics and HR-process automation. Prompt engineering for HR-specific tasks.
Day 2: AI for the workforce and responsible practice
Using AI for skills mapping, workforce segmentation, career-path design and Saudisation planning. Working with global skills frameworks and national workforce data. Combining AI output with professional judgement in HR.
Bias, fairness and explainability in AI-supported people decisions. PDPL obligations regarding employee data. SDAIA’s AI Ethics Principles in an HR context. Saudi Labour Law considerations when AI informs hiring, performance or termination decisions. Applied capstone project: each participant designs a responsible-AI-use policy for one HR process in their organisation.
Suggested Duration
Two training days.
Target Audience & Prerequisites
Target audience: HR business partners, talent-acquisition specialists, learning-and-development professionals, organisational-development consultants, HR analytics teams, compensation-and-benefits specialists, HR operations leaders and senior HR officers in government, banking, energy, healthcare and large enterprises.
Prerequisites: Practical HR or workforce experience. Basic computer literacy. No prior background in AI or programming is required. A laptop is required for the hands-on sessions.
