Diversity hiring is about much more than ticking boxes. Being a hot topic, workplace diversity gets a lot of mentions in HR trend lists for 2018. But rather than simply creating the perfect male/female ratio, there’s a strong business rationale behind diversity hiring. In today’s article, we’ll take a closer look at hiring for diversity…
Today’s world is more interconnected than ever before, across continents, companies, institutions, generations and cultures. But how do we handle the increased speed and pressure that accompanies this interconnectedness? In this article I will review the topic of culture and launch the concept of cultural analytics using multiple examples. When leveraged correctly, cultural analytics can…
Talent management metrics are tools to measure the inflow, throughflow, and outflow of talent in your organization. This article will explain the use of talent management metrics and why they should be tracked by any HR department. This article is part of a four-part series, which also includes an article about the talent management dashboard.…
Did you catch our article last week? If you did, you know we spoke about talent management dashboards. One of the things recruiters and hiring managers use a dashboard for is succession planning. While it’s important to have a succession plan in place for when one of your (senior) people leaves, retires or even worse,…
Is gender equality real? Many studies point in the opposite direction. Women receive lower salaries, are promoted less frequently, and are heavily underrepresented in C-level positions. Does it have to do with job performance or gender biases? There’s a very limited amount of data about why career prospects are worse for women. Available data collection…
As an HR professional, a talent management dashboard (TMD) can be an important tool to understand your workforce and plan for the future. This can be quite a challenge with today’s ever-changing workforce. Time to have a closer look at the talent management dashboard: functions, examples, and a how-to. What is a Talent Management Dashboard?…
Turnover analytics is an often mentioned topic in HR. However, there’s not much written about how to do it. In this article we will explain one of the most commonly used analyses for turnover, the survival analysis, using a real dataset. Note: for this article a minimum knowledge about survival analysis is required. We therefor…
“People analytics should be used to build insight rather than simply removing the human aspect from building strategy. After all, you can make data alone prove any fact!” My 2018 wish for you is that you become more of a troublemaker in your business. Yes, you read right. With the increasing demands coming in from…
Many organizations have embraced the importance of onboarding. With a proper onboarding process, employees feel welcomed and supported in their new job. However, when employees change positions, get promoted or move to a different location, they usually don’t get the same type of support. Why is this? They’re still in a new environment, with new…
Last HR Tech World (now Unleash), we interviewed some of the leading experts in the field of people analytics. One of the questions we asked was: what are you most excited about in HR analytics? This is the first piece of a four-part video series. In this series, we spoke to different experts, including David…