Survival of the Best Fit is a webgame that simulates what happens when companies automate their recruitment and selection processes. You – playing as the CEO of a starting tech company – are asked to select your favorite candidates from a line-up, based on their resumés. As your simulated company grows, the time pressure increases,…
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Books for the modern, data-driven HR professional (incl. People Analytics)
With great pleasure I’ve studied and worked in the field of people analytics, where we seek to leverage employee, management-, and business information to better organize and manage our personnel. Here, data has proven valuable itself indispensible for the organization of the future. Data and analytics have not traditionally been high on the list of…
Checklist to Optimize Training Transfer in Organizations
Ashley Hughes, Stephanie Zajac, Jacqueline Spencer, and Eduardo Salas wrote a recent research note for the International Journal of Training and Development. The research note is build around an evidence-based checklist of actionable insights for practitioners that will help to enhance the effectiveness of training interventions. These actionable insights would help to prevent ‘transfer problem’, meaning that…
Privacy, Compliance, and Ethical Issues with Predictive People Analytics
November 9th 2018, I defended my dissertation on data-driven human resource management, which you can read and download via this link. On page 149, I discuss several of the issues we face when implementing machine learning and analytics within an HRM context. For the references and more detailed background information, please consult the full dissertation. More interesting reads on ethics in machine learning can be found here….
Predicting Employee Turnover at SIOP 2018
The 2018 annual Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) conference featured its first-ever machine learning competition. Teams competed for several months in predicting the enployee turnover (or churn) in a large US company. A more complete introduction as presented at the conference can be found here. All submissions had to be open source and the…
HR Analytics: Een 7e zintuig voor de moderne HR-professional
Wat gebeurt er in Nederland op het gebied van HR Analytics? Dit nieuwe boek laat zien wat enkele Nederlandse organisaties de afgelopen jaren daadwerkelijk hebben ondernomen. De verschillende auteurs, waaronder ik mij mag scharen, geven een kijkje in de praktijkwereld van het onderbouwen van HR-beslissingen aan de hand van diverse databronnen en analysetechnieken. Ze verklaren…
Job-Switching Behaviors in the USA
Nathan Yau – the guy behind the wonderful visualizations of FlowingData.com – has been looking into job market data more and more lately. For his latest project, he took data of the Current Population Survey (2011-2016) a survey run by the US Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics. This survey covers many topics, but Nathan specifically…
Simpson’s Paradox: Two HR examples with R code.
Simpson (1951) demonstrated that a statistical relationship observed within a population—i.e., a group of individuals—could be reversed within all subgroups that make up that population. This phenomenon, where X seems to relate to Y in a certain way, but flips direction when the population is split for W, has since been referred to as Simpson’s…
