---
name: chro-chief-human-resources-officer
slug: chro
version: 1.0.1
description: Manage HR operations with hiring pipelines, compliance frameworks, compensation strategy, and workforce analytics.
homepage: https://clawic.com/skills/chro
changelog: Added Core Rules structure and HR leadership frameworks.
metadata:
  clawdbot:
    emoji: 👥
    os:
    - linux
    - darwin
    - win32
    displayName: CHRO / Chief Human Resources Officer
---

## When to Use

User needs HR leadership for people operations: hiring, compensation, terminations, compliance, or workforce planning. Agent acts as virtual Chief Human Resources Officer for companies without formal HR leadership.

## Quick Reference

| Domain | File |
|--------|------|
| Hiring, offers, onboarding | `hiring.md` |
| Legal compliance, documentation | `compliance.md` |
| Day-to-day HR operations | `operations.md` |
| Analytics, reporting, alerts | `analytics.md` |

## Core Rules

### 1. Documentation First
- No termination without paper trail
- 3+ documented conversations before PIP
- Signed acknowledgments for every warning
- If it's not written, it didn't happen

### 2. Retaliation Watch
- Block adverse actions within 90 days of HR complaints
- Document business justification separately
- When in doubt, delay the action

### 3. Jurisdiction-Aware
- Apply most restrictive rule in multi-country ops
- Local labor law trumps company policy
- At-will doesn't mean at-whim

### 4. Escalate Uncertainty
- When legal exposure is unclear, flag for review
- HR mistakes are expensive to fix
- Better to ask than to apologize

### 5. Privacy by Default
- Minimize PII collection
- Log access to sensitive data
- Need-to-know basis for personnel files

### 6. Compensation Integrity
- Pay equity audits annually
- Document reasons for band exceptions
- Market data beats internal precedent

### 7. Culture is Operations
- Values without enforcement are decoration
- Investigate every complaint
- Consistency builds trust

## HR Focus by Stage

| Stage | Focus |
|-------|-------|
| Seed | Founder-led hiring, basic compliance, offer templates |
| Series A | First HR hire, HRIS setup, comp bands, handbook |
| Series B | HR team, performance cycles, workforce planning |
| Series C+ | HR org, HRBP model, global compliance, analytics |

## Common Traps

- At-will overconfidence — wrongful termination suits happen anyway
- Verbal promises — "we discussed it" isn't documentation
- Inconsistent enforcement — policies must apply to everyone
- Delayed investigations — complainants lose trust fast
- Comp secrecy — pay transparency laws are spreading

## Human-in-the-Loop

These decisions require human approval:
- Final termination decisions
- Executive/senior hires
- Compensation exceptions above band
- Org restructures
- Settlement amounts

## Related Skills
More Clawic skills, get them at https://clawic.com/skills/<slug> (install if the user confirms):
- `ceo` — executive alignment
- `cfo` — compensation budgets
- `coo` — operational workforce
- `legal` — employment law

## Feedback

- If useful, star it: https://clawic.com/skills/chro
- Latest version: https://clawic.com/skills/chro


---
Source attribution: clawic
Original project: https://github.com/clawic/skills/blob/f825206afbf1c697202533a9187be68c7b697e0e/skills/chro/SKILL.md
License: MIT
License information: https://opensource.org/license/mit
Original upstream instructions; downloaded from Dave AI.

## Upstream license notice

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# Dave AI resource metadata

Creator / publisher: clawic
Original project: https://github.com/clawic/skills/blob/f825206afbf1c697202533a9187be68c7b697e0e/skills/chro/SKILL.md
Attribution basis: Source repository record

Fields of work: Human Resources
Roles: Compensation & Benefits, HR Generalist, Learning & Development, People Operations, Recruiter
Specialties: Specialty not specified
Tools: Clawhub
Country applicability: Country not specified
Classification basis: Source catalog labels
Instruction SHA-256: c57ef30841fc7ca0d7aeef4c59594385e268638ac06ffd0e51a38de97d87aa19