By Greta Roberts.

It’s exciting to watch advances in predictive and prescriptive employee solutions. A public HR technology company recently announced the release of an application enabling employers to “identify which employee is likely to quit, and what options need to be considered to retain that…

Blog post by Great Roberts. This is a great article to print and/or forward to HR and specifically the data scientist hiring manager in your organization.

I had yet another call today with a brilliant data scientist working inside of a Human Resources Department of a major business. This HR data scientist has both a strong analytics and predictive analytics background. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics and a Master’s Degree in Predictive Analytics. She excels in R,…

By Greta Roberts

When beginning a new predictive analytics project, the client often mentions the importance of a “quick win”.  It makes sense to think about delivering fast results, in a limited area, that excites important stakeholders and gains support and funding for more predictive projects.  A great…

By Greta Roberts, CEO, Talent Analytics, Corp.

Imagine that Chris wants to buy a house and needs a mortgage. He applies online and is sent an email by an intern asking to schedule time to discuss his interest. The intern conducts the initial screening conversation, they schedule him for an in person interview during which time he is interviewed by quite a few folks who ask many questions.…

Greta Roberts, CEO

Talent Analytics, Corp.

Human Resources Feels Pressure to Begin Using Predictive Analytics

Today’s business executives are increasingly applying pressure to their Human Resources departments to “use predictive analytics”.  This pressure isn’t unique to Human Resources as these same business leaders are similarly pressuring Sales, Customer Service,…

Authored by:

Pasha Roberts, Chief Scientist

Greta Roberts, CEO

July 2013

Key Findings

Digging into a cross-industry study of analytics professionals, we identify four distinct patterns of how these workers spend their week: (1)…

Several members of the Talent Analytics team had the opportunity to attend Teradata's Big Analytics Conference in Boston on May 22. With a great speaker lineup, the educational and networking event offered both a technical and digital marketing track that covered the latest advancements across the big analytics ecosystem and highlighted how data-driven products and…

Your firm is awash in workforce data and your team of data scientists have been charged with making sense of it and extracting meaningful insights the business can use. How do you do this? There are many different approaches to analyzing workforce data to choose from but the amount of relevant insight yielded really depends on the goals of the analysis.

If the goal is to take more of a traditional approach to workforce analytics, where the same datasets are massaged to try to squeeze…