Ace Your SHRM Certification Exam: A Guide to Success on the SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCP Exams

This book is approved for SHRM recertification credit.

Learn about the program     |     Complete your activity

Purchase the Kindle version to start reading immediately.

A short, accessible guide to demystify the SHRM-CP® and SHRM-SCP® certification exams with expert tips for understanding, studying, practicing, and acing the tests. Covers everything you need to know about exam structure, best practices for studying, research-based tips to sharpen test-taking skills, proven strategies for managing test anxiety, and features scores of strategies from experts and tips from certificants, detailed learning and study resources, practice questions and answer key for both exams, guides to terminology and acronyms, and much more!

About the Authors

Nancy A. Woolever, MAIS, SHRM-SCP, is SHRM Vice President of Certification Operations. Ms. Woolever joined SHRM in 1997 to plan SHRM's conference, seminar, e-learning and executive education programs. In 2006, she began leading SHRM's academic initiative to raise HR educational standards and led the test development and administration of SHRM's student capstone exam before joining the certification team as director of exam development in 2017. Ms. Woolever now proudly serves SHRM and its SHRM-certified credential holders as vice president of certification operations. Before joining SHRM, Ms. Woolever held various management positions in industry and academia. Her specialty areas are test development, training and development. Ms. Woolever holds a bachelor's in business administration and a master's in HR both from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

SHRM, the Society for Human Resource Management, creates better workplaces where employers and employees thrive together. As the voice of all things work, workers and the workplace, SHRM is the foremost expert, convener and thought leader on issues impacting today's evolving workplaces. With 300,000+ HR and business executive members in 165 countries, SHRM impacts the lives of more than 115 million workers and families globally.

The SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCP are the most widely-taken HR certification exams in the world.