Tech-empathy.

Want to collaborate with technical stakeholders better? Learn to speak their language. TechMap is the most popular course for HR professionals to learn all about tech.

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What is TechMap?

The most popular tech course for non-techies.

TechMap is the HR training course that teaches you everything you need to communicate with technical stakeholders. 15 hours of bite-sized activities supported by an engineer coach will help you bring confidence and empathy to conversations with techies.
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Stand out from the crowd

Get tech-savvy. Win the trust of tech candidates and colleagues. We break down the who, why, and what of modern technology organisations into easy-to-understand, familiar models.

Add the TechMap certification to your CV

TechMap is the standard HR certification showing you understand technology, developed with hundreds of HR professionals at companies like Bloomberg, MorningStar, DuckDuckGo, Wealth Simple, and HelloFresh. The TechMap LinkedIn certification will help you stand out from the crowd.

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88% of learners gave the TechMap course a 5-star rating on TrustPilot. Why? Because it's an HR training course designed specifically for HR professionals to learn about tech.

Buy now, use it forever

No recurring fees: buy the course once, start whenever you want and use it as long as you need. Our alumni often return to the course after they've completed it. Most TechMap certified HR professionals expense their training through their company.

Learning you actually want

Experience digital learning like you never have before, in our unique and highly-praised online learning environment. Blend visual, discussion, and hands-on learning in a bite-sized, self-led way, in just 15 hours.

15 hours

15 hours is all it takes for you to transform your conversations with technical stakeholders. Spread your self-paced training over a couple of weeks, a month, or even a weekend.

For junior and experienced HR professionals

Like engineers, the most successful HR professionals keep up with their knowledge of tech. It's as valuable for those just getting started as it is for HR professionals with years of experience.

Aligned to the SHRM BASK

TechMap aligns to all three behavioural competencies of the SHRM Body of Applied Skills and Knowledge: Leadership, Interpersonal, and Business. It teaches who techies are, what they care about, how their careers can develop, and how to communicate effectively with them.

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Curriculum

What you'll learn

The who, how, and why of tech.

TechMap is an HR training course made up of 15 hours of bite-sized, highly-visual interactive activities designed to teach you everything you need to know about tech with no unnecessary filler.

Activities include videos, interviews, interactive articles, discussions with peers and HR leaders, conversation simulations, and more. You get feedback and support from experienced techies to make sure you get fully certified.

You'll cover what techies do, how they think about the tools of their trade, and how they work together to get things done. You can dive deep into specific areas, like CI/CD, DevOps, or Data Engineering.

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How you'll learn

15 hours of high-quality learning, supported by a coach

You can start learning as soon as you sign up. You have access to course updates forever – and we add new content all the time. And we're here to support you along the way.

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    Interactive videos

    Short, carefully-edited, highly-visual video introductions with embedded discussions and quizzes. They're quick – you can fit them in between meetings!

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    Coached Discussions

    Learn from the recruiter community with thoughtful, self-paced discussions on cutting-edge topics in technical recruiting. Then, tune your responses with feedback from both our custom AI and our experienced techie coaches.

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    Interactive articles

    Focussed, interactive articles with embedded challenges and discussions get right to the heart of complex technical topics, fast. TechMap Certified recruiters have told us it's the best content they've ever seen – written precisely for them.

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    TechMap Certification

    At the end of the course, a technical coach reviews all your work on TechMap and helps you fill in the gaps wherever necessary. When you've demonstrated you understood the core topics, you become TechMap Certified, with a certificate you can post directly to LinkedIn.

Thousands of HR professionals are now TechMap Certified

The structure in general just left me speechless honestly. I was just fascinated by how the map is organized with such different content. You never get bored.

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The TechMap training has taken my tech recruiting knowledge to the next level and given me a deeper understanding of the roles I hire for. I'm excited to share that l've completed the TechMap Certification.
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Irinka Toidze AI Program Manager
I wish I had taken TechMap at the beginning of my career. It was very helpful for understanding engineering concepts, technologies and how engineering works.
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Aleksandr Vernikov Senior Talent Partner
My knowledge of all the tech topics and jargon are finally making sense. It resulted on my work as a TA partner in making candidate screenings more accurate, building more trustful relationships with hiring managers and better designing and planing hiring strategy
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The Team

Who's behind TechMap

TechMap is the technical recruiter training built and designed by the Whatever Group, a UK EdTech company founded in 2020.

The team behind TechMap have accumulated over 30 years in Tech Education having ran Europe’s first coding bootcamp, Makers.tech. The team is made of ex Head of Education, Chief Commercial Officers and Software Engineers.

We believe in fun, hands-on, social learning with simple, clear explanations using a clear visual language and examples. We’re so excited to be helping a new generation of non-technical professionals like tech and IT recruiters, sales people or program managers feel more powerful everyday in your work.

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What will I learn?

How to think and speak like a techie.

TechMap covers the who, the how, and the why of tech.

You'll learn how to understand complex technical requisitions, giving you a creative edge when sourcing candidates.

And you'll learn how techies think and what they care about, helping you screen and filter applicants better.

Once you've learned the basics, you can dive deep into specific areas, like CI/CD, DevOps, Data Engineering, Embedded Software, and many other specialisms. All for a single license.

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