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!

Big data, business intelligence, and HR analytics: How are they related?

Big data, business intelligence, and HR analytics are three buzzwords that are frequently talked about. Do you really know what they mean? And what added value does big data and business intelligence bring to the field of HR? This article will explain everything you need...

How to link Engagement to Business Performance in 3 Steps

We all know that engaged employees work harder and make fewer mistakes. Employee engagement is, therefore, one of HR’s best-known metrics. Because it is so important, many HR policies focus on improving this key performance indicator. However, the big question is: is it worth it?...

7 Reasons Why you Should Invest in the Professional Development of Employees

When the financial crisis started in 2008, a lot of accountancy firms either stopped or slowed-down hiring new accountancy student. These students normally started working at these firms while doing their university studies. The reason was simple: “we have too many people on our payroll,...

Top 5 Trending HR Analytics Articles of July 2017

We’re back again! People analytics trends, The Power of People, recruiting metrics, more ‘best of’ articles and a very practical case study by McKinsey: This month’s top HR analytics articles provide a great overview of what’s been going on in the HR analytics field. We...

17 Recruiting Metrics You Should Know About

A data-driven culture is a must-have for organizations. In this article, we’ll discuss the relevance of recruiting metrics. If you would keep track of every recruiting metric you can find on the web, you’d have no time left to do the actual recruiting! In a...

How to Rethink Change with the Three Percent Rule

Why organizational network analysis and people analytics are the ingredients for successful change initiatives You are responsible for making a success out of a change initiative at your organization. The books and articles you have read in the past make you a bit frightened with...

Top 5 Trending HR analytics Articles of June 2017

Some amazing articles were written last month. We searched the web and compiled a list of the five most shared HR analytics articles of June. It includes some great reads for you to enjoy! 5. HR Should Understand the Risk and Rewards of Using Data...

How to Get More out of Your Survey Using an Item Tracker

In HR analytics, we speak a lot about integration and alignment: of our HR (and beyond) systems, of data in our HR strategy, and of our HR strategy with our broader business strategy. One example we don’t often speak of is aligning our HR survey...

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...

14 HR Metrics Examples

How Natural Language Processing can Revolutionize Human Resources

Predictive Analytics in Human Resources: Tutorial and 7 case studies

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