HR Analytics: Making Sense of HR Data

As HR professionals, you deal with massive amount of data as part of your work. Leading companies such as Google, Xerox and Wal-Mart have adopted data-driven approach to its people management practices. For instance, Google developed an algorithm to predict candidates with a high probability of success which not only cut down the hiring time but also improve its success rate.

Being able to use analytics to make sense of the data will help differentiate you and the ability to think strategically about people metrics will help you provide senior leaders with data driven insights to support decision making and evaluate the impact of HR investments.

After the workshop, you will be able to:
- understand data analytics and the possible applications in everyday lives
- acquire the basic skills and knowledge to apply data analytics to HR context

What you will learn:
Overview of HR Analytics
- Common HR challenges that can be answered with analytics
- Benefits of HR Analytics
- The Analytics process

Linking HR to Business
- Measures of HR effectiveness vs efficiency
- Lag & Lead indicators

Introduction to basic data analytics method
- Types of data
- Types of analytical methods

Explore patterns in HR Statistics & Reporting
- Identification of data sources and metrics
- Preparing your data
- Basic trend analysis

Presenting Insights
- Choosing the right visualisation
- Common pitfalls
- Creating a HR dashboard

Who Should Attend?
HR professionals seeking to collect and use quantitative data for decision making.

Methodology
Participants are guided through the concepts using a combination of lectures, case studies and group discussions. There will be hands-on practice with the use of laptops for some of the exercises.