Data-driven recruiting: 5 metrics you should care about
You already know that social recruiting can supercharge your talent pipeline, but without the right data, it’s easy to feel like you’re flying blind.
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HR Data Science: 8 Ways to Develop HR Data Analytics Skills
The typical HR department sits on a vast amount of data. From recruitment data and career progression data to social media data and sentiment analysis data, data is constantly being collected from a wide range of sources. Unfortunately, for many companies, the process just stops there. However, without processing and extracting information from the data to inform HR decisions, the only good the data is providing is simply taking up space.
Big Data and Recruiting: HR's Newest Trend
You’ve seen it on Twitter with the hashtag #BigData. You stumbled across it in The Wall Street Journal, complementing your morning grapefruit and cup of coffee. And it’s certainly going to be a topic for discussion at one of your next company staff meetings.
The amount of data in the world has been exploding – so much so that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. The trend has been widely covered over the last few years as the next frontier for innovation in technology, but only recently have those in the recruiting and talent acquisition fields taken a closer look and realized the massive opportunity for HR business decisions as well. Here’s a quick overview of what our community has been discussing and how it may soon affect your business: