Employee referrals can add substantial value – and they are on the rise. All the more reason to get started with that employee referral program if you haven’t done so yet. Today we’ll highlight some of the benefits of employee referrals and a few elements every employee referral program should include. Employee referrals and why…
Digital HR has garnered a lot of interest from HR professionals and business leaders for the way it is changing how we manage people. This change enables a better HR service delivery but also impacts how we do HR on a day-to-day level. To many of us, digital HR seems fascinating but do we really…
What’s the difference between people analytics and HR analytics? When we started our Analytics in HR blog, we had to pick a name. Because everybody was talking about HR analytics, Analytics in HR made sense. It was simple, recognizable, worked well for traffic from Google and everybody would understand the website would be about HR…
As we all are aware of the fact that the online environment is so active in the digital age, we can now keep track of a lot of things. Analytics is collected everywhere and gives us a valuable insight into user behavior and the efficiency of various processes. If we talk about eLearning as part of…
Today, data science touches every aspect of business functions. It enables greater speed, accuracy, and quality of business decision making. As an inherent part of core business operations, “people functions” hasn’t been immune to this development. The best data science practices are known to combine management tools with statistical- and machine learning insights. These combinations…
Employee wellness and wearables are hot. Not necessarily in a good way though. In February for example, a lot has been written about Amazon’s idea for employee-tracking wristbands and the concerns this raises. Although the idea isn’t implemented yet and aimed at employee productivity rather than wellness, it made me wonder about the combination of…
At HR Tech World in Amsterdam (now UNLEASH), I asked four leading people analytics expert what HR analytics will look like in 5 years. The answers provide a window into the trends that they are seeing on how analytics is developing. In the video, Laura Stevens, Tom Haak, David Green, and Luk Smeyers see a…
Imagine you’re about to engage on your first HR analytics project. You want the project to be a success – obviously. How do you make sure you have the right people and the right skills to start quickly and finish the job successfully? The skills matrix, or competency matrix, is your best friend. What is…
Whether you’re a People Analytics beginner or a seasoned professional, having all the relevant resources from the field of People Analytics in one place offers a lot of value. That’s why we’ve created a list of key HR analytics resources, divided into several categories: books articles academic papers reports HR standards and data definitions people…
Brian: You’re all different! The Crowd: Yes, we ARE all different! Monty Python’s Life of Brian Can you segment employees as we do with customers, so that activities like talent development improve and correspond to each employee’s profile? In this post, I show you in a very practical example how we’ve brought a classic marketing…