For the average person, data without a narrative is like a trip into the wilderness without a compass: overwhelming and disorienting. But when the facts are tied together by a good story, an otherwise intimidating journey turns into an enriching experience….
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Time to Fill Drops, But All Indications Are It’s a Blip
It took an average of 27.6 working days to fill a job in May, according to the latest data from career site publisher DHI Group. That’s the fewest days since January, and almost 3 days less than it took in…
How to Sell the Need For Employer Branding
You already know employer branding is a must in today’s competitive market for top talent, but if you’re struggling to get your executive team on board it’s difficult to know where to start. The overall goal is to prove the…
5 Challenges to Getting Your HRMS Do Real Analytics
Leaders across the organization recognize that making workforce decisions based on facts and data — instead of intuition alone — is a key route to increasing their impact on the business. Now, more than ever, business leaders need strategic insight and…
Is Your Diversity Recruitment Struggling? Maybe You’re Making These Mistakes
Lack of workforce diversity has placed a magnifying glass on the hiring practices of organizations in all industries. It’s about being more thoughtful in granting everyone equal access to employment opportunities and also opening your doors to a wider range…
Tech Insights: Can Analytics (or Culture) Really Trump Politics?
Ten years ago, one retailer was far ahead of the curve on analytics. It built a skilled analytics team the likes of which most of us would envy today. However in the end the team was disbanded. The organization’s leaders…
The Challenges in Building a Strong Function Around People Analytics
Over the past few years, People Analytics has really found its way. Major publications like The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Economist, and The Atlantic have all written about this new trend. Whether they’ve called it “People…
OK, You’re an HR Leader and Have HR Data. Now What?
It’s no secret that HR organizations traditionally have lagged their finance and sales brethren in their use of data analytics. According to analyst Josh Bersin, only 4 percent of companies currently are using predictive analytics due to two primary challenges: Many…
The Top 4 Talent Management Trends You Should Watch For in 2016
Editor’s Note: It’s an annual tradition for TLNT to count down the most popular posts of the previous 12 months. We’re reposting each of the top 25 articles between now and January 2nd. This is No. 5 of 2016. You…
Employee Engagement? It’s Just a Meaningless, “Feel Good” Business Metric
My company helps customers decrease turnover or increase employee performance using predictive analytics. During these assignments we identify existing employee data that can be used to help us understand patterns and predict top/bottom performers or job candidates with a low…
Tech Insights: 4 Keys to Help Embrace Evidence-Based HR
Ten years ago, one retailer was far ahead of the curve on analytics. It built a skilled analytics team the likes of which most of us would envy today. However in the end, the team was disbanded. The organization’s leaders…
LinkedIn’s Recruiting Survey: The Big Question – Why So Little Data From the U.S?
There’s no denying that Linkedin is a 600 pound gorilla in the talent acquisition space. But as I write that, I wonder in what space exactly Linkedin is. Wikipedia says Linkedin is a business-oriented social networking service. Linkedin says it’s…
Making HR the Hero: Using Predictive Analytics to Solve Real Business Challenges
Today’s business executives are increasingly applying pressure to their HR departments to use “predictive analytics.” This pressure isn’t unique to Human Resources as these same business leaders are similarly pressuring Sales, Customer Service, IT, Finance and every other line of…
HR Tech 2015: Technology Is Not Only Coming After Recruiters, But Sourcers, Too
I keep hearing about companies that are increasingly struggling hiring the talent they need currently and for future growth. The one solution that continues to be thrown out is adding a sourcing function within their talent acquisition department. Adding sourcing…
The Unbearable Vagueness of HR Analytics
HR is undergoing something of a revolution with the influx of analytics people. It’s true that compensation has always been steeped in numbers, but in general HR has been staffed by “people” people; and in some cases by people who…
Big Data, Small Data — The Challenge Collecting and Protecting Employee Data
In the wake of a massive data breach at the Office of Personnel Management, the largest federal employees union is suing OPM for failing to protect its employees’ data. The lawsuit alleges that the breach compromised personally identifiable information from…