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    "headline": "Federal HR training built around how your agency works",
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      "body": "Every format draws on the same practitioner-built curriculum and federally experienced instructors. Choose what fits your headcount, timeline, and budget, or combine them.",
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        "Private group training: we bring a course to your agency, tailored to your mission",
        "Open enrollment: send people to scheduled public classes, live online or in Washington, DC",
        "Self-paced eLearning: online courses your team completes on their own schedule, with the option to take the live class for free within a year"
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      "body": "When you have a team, an office, or a whole component to train, we bring the course to you and shape it around your agency's mission, policies, and real cases.",
      "bullets": [
        "Any course or certificate in our catalog, delivered onsite, live online, or blended",
        "A new course built to your specification when nothing off-the-shelf fits",
        "Scheduled around your calendar, for a cohort of any size",
        "Rostering, progress, and completion reporting for the whole group"
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          "label": "Request private training",
          "href": "mailto:onsite@graduateschool.edu?subject=Private%20HR%20training%20inquiry"
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          "label": "Group training details",
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        "A published schedule across the federal HR curriculum, entry to advanced",
        "Live online, or in person at 1050 Connecticut Ave NW in Washington, DC",
        "No minimum headcount and no setup: register and go",
        "The same practitioner instructors and materials as our private cohorts"
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          "label": "Browse the HR course schedule",
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      "heading": "Federal HR, end to end",
      "body": "From position classification to executive development, our curriculum covers the whole of federal HR. Explore the areas your team needs and the courses in each.",
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          "label": "Browse all federal HR training",
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      "$common": "sections.certsIntro",
      "heading": "The federal HR certificate program, in three levels",
      "body": "Our federal HR certificates build in sequence, from practitioner to advisor to business partner, so you can credential a team in stages and show real capability at each level.",
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          "level": "Level I",
          "name": "Certified Federal HR Practitioner (CFHRP)",
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          "meta": "6 courses · 16 days · 10.8 CEUs",
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          "level": "Level II",
          "name": "Certified Federal HR Advisor (CFHRA)",
          "covers": "Advisor-level practice: employee development, FLSA determinations, intermediate employee relations, job analysis, GS pay setting, and qualifications analysis. Builds on Level I.",
          "meta": "6 courses · 15 days · 9 CEUs",
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        {
          "level": "Level III",
          "name": "Certified Federal HR Business Partner (CFHRBP)",
          "covers": "Strategic business-partner skills: internal consulting, position management, workforce planning, strategic human capital, and behavioral interviewing. Completes the ladder.",
          "meta": "6 courses · 13 days · 7.8 CEUs",
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      "links": [
        {
          "label": "View our GSA Schedule on eLibrary",
          "href": "https://www.gsaelibrary.gsa.gov/ElibMain/contractorInfo.do?contractNumber=47QRAA24D004K&contractorName=AMERICAN+PUBLIC+TRAINING+LLC&executeQuery=YES"
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        {
          "label": "Email the group training team",
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      "body": "Graduate School USA's federal HR curriculum is designed and taught in-house by practitioner instructors with decades of federal service, not licensed from a generic library.",
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    {
      "$common": "sections.faqIntro",
      "body": "The answers training officers and HR directors ask for most, in one place.",
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        {
          "q": "Can we pay with an SF-182?",
          "a": "Yes. Register online, choose the Funding Document payment option at checkout, and upload the completed, signed SF-182. We process the enrollment and invoice your agency per the SF-182 billing instructions. A completed SF-182 is required at registration for any enrollment not paid by credit card."
        },
        {
          "q": "Can a class be done in a single day?",
          "a": "Many of our courses are scheduled as one-day classes while others run longer, so each course page lists that course's duration. Longer subjects can also be delivered privately in a shortened format on request, or taken self-paced, and standard daytime class hours run 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern."
        },
        {
          "q": "What is the difference between private group training and open enrollment?",
          "a": "Open enrollment classes are scheduled public sessions anyone 18 or older can register for, taken live online or at our Washington, DC campus at 1050 Connecticut Ave NW. Private group training delivers a course for your agency's own cohort, about five or more participants, tailored to your agency and delivered onsite, live online, or blended."
        },
        {
          "q": "What if someone we booked for a private session cannot attend?",
          "a": "Our documented policy lets students reschedule to a future session of the same course, and the group training team can walk you through the options for a booked participant who cannot attend. For the exact handling of your situation, contact onsite@graduateschool.edu or (888) 744-4723."
        },
        {
          "q": "Can employees train self-paced, and still take the live class later?",
          "a": "Yes. Our self-paced online courses include pre-recorded video lessons, hands-on exercises, and access to an instructor for questions, and a learner can start anytime. When you buy the self-paced course, the learner may also attend the live instructor-led course for free within one year."
        },
        {
          "q": "Can courses be tailored to our agency's policies and regulations?",
          "a": "Yes. We tailor existing courses to reflect your agency's policies, procedures, examples, and case studies, and we can develop new courses for unique requirements. Self-paced OnDemand courses can be customized the same way, all delivered under GSA contract 47QRAA24D004K."
        },
        {
          "q": "Is there a structured certificate path for our federal HR staff?",
          "a": "Yes. We offer a three-level federal HR ladder: Certified Federal HR Practitioner Level I (CFHRP), Certified Federal HR Advisor Level II (CFHRA), and Certified Federal HR Business Partner Level III (CFHRBP). It gives your HR development office a stackable progression from practitioner to strategic business partner."
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        {
          "q": "What's new in your federal HR training?",
          "a": "Quite a bit. Our HR curriculum is refreshed to current federal law, policy, and regulation; we added AI for federal HR courses across classification, employee relations, performance, benefits, and governance; every course now runs in a modern learning portal with an always-available AI coach; and self-paced online options let a learner start anytime and still take the live class for free within a year."
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      ]
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      "area": "Classification",
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        {
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        {
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          "label": "Instructional Design Essentials",
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        {
          "label": "AI in Federal Performance Management",
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