HR Analytics: An Overview - Analytics in HR

HR Analytics is a topic that’s rising in popularity among HR professionals. Analytics in HR aims to be the leading platform about this subject. Below you can find all the articles we ever published. Our articles are written by a set of dedicated writers with experience in applying analytics within companies. Check the different kinds kinds of articles below:

Explainers:
Our basic explainers explain what HR analytics is all about, like what is HR analytics? and an extensive article on what predictive analytics are and how they can be applied in HR. This article includes 7 case studies and a tutorial!
Business cases:
We also write about business cases. These articles show the relevance and added value of analytics, like our business case on employee turnover and absenteeism.
Case studies:
Besides business cases, we publish case studies like how hr analytics reduced workplace accidents and how it increased sales performance by utilizing smart psychometric tests. Lastly, we also write practical tutorials, like how to analyze employee churn by using R. Other practical articles are about HR metrics (part 1 and part 2).
Learnings from projects:
Lastly we love to share our learnings with you. An interesting read is our article on 5 Reasons Why HR Analytics Projects Fail. The article will help you prevent the most common traps in analytics projects.

We also compile a list of the top HR analytics articles written every month. You can see these posts here:

You can find a full list of our HR analytics articles below. Enjoy!

Trust: The Achilles Heel of People Analytics

It might have started off slow, but things in the world of People Analytics are now accelerating. The number of conferences, experts and blogs have exploded. On top of that, the promise of People Analytics has begun to deliver, and we’ve started seeing real, concrete...

Candidate Experience – What is it and how to survey it?

Candidate experience is an increasingly hot topic in data-driven HR. If you care about conducting an effective recruitment process, you surely care about the experiences of the candidates during the recruitment process. In this post, I’ll tell you what candidate experience is and how you...

Taking HR Analytics from Micro to Macro

The field of HR Analytics has come a long way in recent years: not only have more and more organizations recognized the value of data-driven HR, but HR analysts themselves have delved into a wider variety of data sources to provide their insights as well....

Top 5 Trending HR Analytics Articles of May 2017

Employee privacy, tracking employees, HR analytics tools, common sense and Alec Levenson: this month’s top HR analytics articles provide a great overview of what’s been going on in the analytics field. We will start at #5 and work our way down to number 1! Here...

Inclusion and Employee Diversity: Here are the Numbers

What is HR Analytics?

The question “what is HR analytics?” is asked by a lot of HR professionals who want to get started with analytics. In this post, we will explain what HR analytics is and how it will shape businesses in the future. What is HR analytics? Human...

Top 5 HR Analytics Tools

This article looks at the five most used HR analytics tools. Adopting HR analytics is a big step for many people and organizations. Indeed, I often get asked: “What are the best HR analytics tools to use?” This blog will reveal the answer. Here’s a...

Top 5 Trending HR Analytics Articles of April 2017

We’re back! The last few month’s we’ve been very busy preparing the brand new HR analyst course and we had to skip our Trending Articles post. However, we have now finalized the analytics course and are ready to bring you the top 5 articles again....

How HR Analytics Boost Productivity and Profitability

Analytics in HR is quickly emerging as a trend in the corporate world due to its in-depth processes which provide the framework in formulating solutions for various issues. According to a report from Modern Distribution Management, company leaders are relying on analytics to gain more...

5 Examples of How HR Analytics can Help to Improve Bottom Line Performance

HR analytics is used in many businesses worldwide. The use and integration of HR analytics into a business structure offers significant benefits, with more and more businesses seeing a better return on their investments. So how can HR analytics help with improving your bottom line?...

Predictive Analytics in Human Resources: Tutorial and 7 case studies

How Natural Language Processing can Revolutionize Human Resources

9 HR Analytics terms you should know

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