Predictive analytics is full of tools and approaches enabling it to reveal key insights in almost any area. We already discussed the impact of Data Analytics in HR and we are delivering further.
Recent blog post by Toshi Takegushi, part of MathWorks team reveal in an interesting and comprehensive way how a predictive analytics model can be triggered on job-related data sets for scoring which employee is planning to quit its position. He relied on machine learning algorithms for predicting future events by utilizing historical data.
Solving HR problems with Big Data and Analytics
If someone has told you that data analytics is something relatively new in Human Relations, do not believe them. The truth is that a big part of the HR work is to plan. You cannot have proper planning without accurate forecasting, something we have already discussed at this analytics blog. Well, it turns out that HR people and their industry as a whole are still far of maturity in terms of utilizing its data (trust us, they have a lot) into predictive analytics. Recent Deloitte survey of business and HR leaders shows that companies exploiting HR analytics are extremely small fraction of the market – 4% in 2015 vs 8% in 2016. The study highlights that this number is going to increase due to a shift of HR professionals expectations.