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…

By  Pasha Roberts, Chief Scientist & Co-founder, Talent Analytics, Corp.

Over the years, our firm has had many discussions with employers on the eve of a new talent analytics project. Often, it is the firm’s first deep-dive look at employee data. Sometimes we act as a strategic sounding board, and sometimes we can help them move directly forward into predictive analytics. It is always interesting.

This article will discuss two analytics approaches that we have…

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,…

By Greta Roberts, CEO, Talent Analytics, Corp. @GretaRoberts

Program Chair, Predictive Analytics World for Workforce

What is an employer’s most business-critical corporate process? At or near the top of this list has…

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…