What interesting things have people done with people analytics or what would be some interesting things to do with people data?
I remember a book called Social Physics containing experiment and data about this. It was a while back though
Amazon also has a team called People science for warehouse employees
It's more about how to hire great talent, retain talent and provide good upward mobility and reduce attrition numbers. Although this CIA stuff looks quite interesting :)
Can you be more specific? Essentially, whole industries exist around this, from internet advertising, to insurance, to just in time product manufacturing and ordering.
Yea definitely so I'm looking on the staffing cycle - recruiting, talent performance, turnover. So for example what are the factors that determine if someone will be a high performing employee (do interviews really even make a difference?). For talent what's the best way to determine the next role for an individual? For attrition how can the numbers be reduced and what factors can be used to prevent turnover?
Sounds like an HR analyst. Very interesting.
Staffing cycle is easy, to include determination of potential performance you need to put candidates evaluation system in place. E.g. top-grading. High-performing employees - the easiest way to start is measuring sales performance as more or less all regular predictive metrics for sales are already invented.
I have done some of it. It quickly boils down to privacy regulations. People, management hierarchy,calendars and other data sets like commit logs,defects,scrum velocity,etc can be used to define productivity index.
So you've been looking into productivity? That's a hard one, one team I spoke to was trying to do it based on lines of code which wasn't a good basis since sometimes less lines of code is better. What are commit logs? What happened did you stop or are you still doing analysis?
I do predictive analytics for retention and people performance.
Oh nice any insight you can share? I am interested in doing these type of analytics. Any books or sites you used
Use Python or R?
What is the career trajectory for people analytics? Do you think it’s a good career prospect?
Yes it's really picking up lately. It's a hard one, so much easier to analyze machines or other data. People data on the other hand..
Awesome, thanks for the reply! Do you think other teams across the company respect the role? I ask because most ppl hold very negative attitudes toward HR (I myself have had negative experiences w HR), so I think perhaps getting buy ins from other stakeholders across different teams might be hard. Do you think your work has tangible impact, and does the HR department actually do anything about the findings? Coming from engineering/data science, I’m also a bit afraid that a role in people analytics won’t help further or strengthen my technical or stats/analytics skills. The reason I’m asking these questions is because I’m currently considering an offer for a people analytics role at a tech company, and I just don’t know much about the field and where it’s headed. Any information you can give is hugely helpful. Thank you so much.
(This is assuming that people analytics is housed under HR or work directly w HR, which is the position I am currently considering right now).
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Worried that our top performer is an attrition risk. How do managers handle this?
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Haha I'm sure IBM has a whole team working on this type of work :)
Many types of data is about people. Advertising profiles, algorithmic cancer detection, credit scoring, insurance scoring. LexisNexis even has a product that scores you overall as a person including data about credit, employment, criminal records, and more.