Top-10 Resources for English for Human Resources (HR)

Promova English for Human Resources Professionals

Description:

Promova English for Human Resources Professionals explains forty terms used in personnel work, on the blog of the language-learning company Promova. The terms sit in four groups, from hiring and recruitment to the vocabulary that has grown up around artificial intelligence at work, and each one is defined in plain language and followed by a sentence showing it in use.

100% Free (unlimited): The article is open to anyone, with no account and no payment. All forty definitions, their example sentences and the questions at the end are on the page. Promova's app and its corporate training are separate services with their own sign-up, and no part of the article is kept for them.

Access: 100% Free Level: Intermediate (B1-B2) Format: Article / Reference Written for: Business English (ESL) English Variant: US

How It Helps Your Business English

What this resource offers:

The page explains forty human resources terms in four groups: hiring and recruitment, employee experience, performance management, and newer vocabulary from digital and AI work. It covers applicant and candidate, job specification, 360-degree feedback, quiet quitting, succession planning, talent mapping, HRIS and human-centered AI, each defined and shown in a sentence.

How to use this resource:

You can take one group at a time and meet the words in the order the work itself follows, from the job posting through to performance and retention. Each definition is written in plain language, so you can read it without a dictionary, and the sentence beneath shows you the term in ordinary office use. The last group is useful when you meet newer expressions in a meeting and want to know what colleagues mean by them.

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Last verified — Oct. 19, 2026