Measurement
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HR Technology Conference Reactions: Predictive Analytics
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I’ve always thought I was pretty good at analytics.Not being a practitioner who is sitting in the middle of data all the time, I get more time to just think about the type of analytics that it takes to really…
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Real Time Activity Analysis
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Not only am I a geek, I’m a workout geek. The latest geeky gadget I’m lusting over is a Withings E-Scale. For just $165, I can get up in the morning, weigh myself, stand on the scale for a few…
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Better Measures for Engagement
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Is it Gallup that has the “Do you have a best friend at work” question? We’re so into doing employee surveys to measure employee engagement. They provide us with a statistically validated measurement of our workforce once or twice a…
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Serendipity versus Decision Support
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Would I be where I am today if I had all the facts every time? I’m actually confident that if it were up to me, I would be digging ditches for a living somewhere (not to demean ditch diggers). Let’s…
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Recruiting Effectiveness Measurement
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Last post I wrote about recruiting efficiency measures. From the effectiveness side, we’re all used to things like first year turnover rates and performance rates. Once again, we’ve been using these metrics forever, but they don’t necessarily measure actual effectiveness. …
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Recruiting Efficiency Measurement
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If you look through Saratoga, there are all sorts of metrics around measuring our HR operations. For recruiting, these include all the standard metrics like cost/hire, cost/requisition, time to fill, fills per recruiter, etc. Unfortunately, I’m not a fan of…