Onboarding faces persistent challenges. But its current importance is unquestioned, and organizations should recognize it if they are to build a balanced, healthy, and equitable workforce.
Recruiting
Closing the gap between People Analytics and Workforce Development
There’s an interesting phenomenon where adjacent fields or industries adopt their own vocabularies and ideas around solving essentially the same problems. A simple example is econometrics and data science – listening to an economist and computer scientist speak about these […]
Artificial Intelligence and Ethics
We often bring up the topic ethics when evaluating various strategies for people analytics. My post is focused on pushing the discussion further by raising though questions (such as how much are we willing to sacrifice? and is it worth it?) we as a society have to deal with as we accept people analytics to make better decisions.
A Cloud of Skills – Workday’s Attempt to Redefine Jobs
Workday Skills Cloud uses machine learning to identify core skills for enterprises to pursue and develop. Its use cases and the implications on talent decisions require closer examinations to truly support employee and organizational growth.
People Analytics à la Française
In a few of our class sessions this semester, we have asked whether and how people analytics differs across cultural contexts. I have found these questions interesting, so I thought I would dig into some examples from France. I would […]
AI as Talent Scout
Using analytics to identify nontraditional job candidates who are as qualified and high performing as traditional candidates