A Flashlight, Not a Hammer: How to Leverage HR Data

HR professionals have a complicated relationship with data. In an earlier article, I referenced my own experiences with HR data dating back 15 years. At...

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A More Practical Approach to HR Analytics

HR analytics invokes images of big data sets and smart data scientists. There’s a place for that, but it’s difficult to do in any...

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How to Get Clean Data for Your HR Reporting

David Creelman All the talk about people analytics has led to a resurgence of interest in better HR reporting. Unfortunately, most of the advice on...

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Escape from Big Data

By David Creelman You probably feel under some pressure to do something with “Big Data”. What you should actually do is probably far less clear....

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An HR Transformation to be Proud of

By David Creelman If you studied science or engineering (back in the day), you probably still find the standard practice of HR a bit odd....

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Will Analytics End Your HR Career?

By David Creelman If you loved math then there is a good chance you would have ended up in finance or engineering. Instead your skill...

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‘Numbers People’ and ‘People People’

By David Creelman There is a huge movement towards HR analytics and that is a good thing. However there is a risk that this will...

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The Unbearable Vagueness of HR Analytics

By David Creelman HR is undergoing something of a revolution with the influx of analytics people. It’s true that compensation has always been steeped in...

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