Society for Human Resource Management

Choose SHRM-CP if you perform operational, day-to-day HR; choose SHRM-SCP if your work is strategic — developing HR policy, leading the HR function, or aligning HR with business goals. Across Saudi Arabia and the GCC, most HR officers and business partners start with SHRM-CP and move to SHRM-SCP as they take on strategic responsibility. SHRM-SCP also requires at least three years of strategic-level HR work (or holding SHRM-CP for three years).