There are plenty of dependable Human Resources (HR) tech tools for a successful business digital transformation. Cutting-edge HR technologies are an invaluable solution to accelerate business processes, minimize risk, and reduce manual effort. As your company prepares...
The technological revolution is an ongoing process. Every day more and more tech is introduced into all sorts of different fields, from sports therapy, to film production to sales departments. The adoption of these technological tools is usually dependent on the sorts...
Technology has revolutionized the way we work. This is nothing new, as technology revolutionized farming practices in the 17th and 18th centuries, and it was the driving force behind the first, second, and third industrial revolutions. The role of technology today is...
One of the most important components of a company is its culture. When you have a culture that encourages employee happiness, it can make a massive difference to how your company performs. As studies have found that companies with happy employees outperform the...
In the modern workplace, technology is the real game changer. The majority of businesses today are inclined towards investing in automated systems that are powered by artificial intelligence. The idea is to access data in real-time that boosts employee productivity....
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technology have advanced so much, that it has touched both the personal and professional lives of people. Even if you are only using an eCommerce software or a mobile application, there is a good chance that you...
Now that people have become so dependent on technology, it is being integrated into almost every aspect of life and business, even making a debut in HR. We know that artificial intelligence has been used for the hiring process, like scanning cover letters and...
What once started as a far-fetched idea on the pages of sci-fi novels and as a dream in the laboratories of Silicon Valley is now the main talking point in almost every industrial field. From the cutting-edge technology that introduced the virtual assistants now found...
Larger companies call for more employees. And more employees mean that there’s a whole lot of employee data to manage and use. So, your HR team is probably frazzled with a lot of extra work to do. With a single team of people managing so many different functions, they...
Companies all over the globe are embracing the big data revolution at a staggering pace. The latest data indicates that 53% of companies had adopted big data platforms by the end of 2017. That figure represents a 36% increase over a span of just two years. That giant...
Employee well-being is a major concern for organizations, especially when those entities are concerned about productivity. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics published a report revealing that in 2016, there were 2.9 million reported workplace-related injuries...
Many IT professionals find, far too often, data management responsibilities consume large percentages of their workdays. Although those tasks are crucial, there are effective ways to do them more efficiently with automation, thereby freeing up more minutes — or hours...
Human resources play the key role in company development. However, this profession is not only about interviews and resumes anymore. In a world filled with all sorts of information, HR teams are finding new ways to improve their results and efficiency. This is...
Regardless of the industry, big data is beginning to play a vital role for decision makers in business. Companies are investing in big data tools to help them collect more information and make better decisions. Once data is collected, it is then analyzed in detail and...
‘Big Data’ and associated technologies have been penetrating the business world at a rapid pace. The explosion of huge data volumes growing at an exponential speed has the potential to bring business value for a wide range of industries. Considering, the speed at...
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Did you just lose out on the promotion you were expecting and are now thinking about how you can take your career ahead? You could wait for the next promotion, but that would take some time. If changing a job is your next step, then this is the right time to explore...
Gone are the days when you’d make demands for tasks to be completed on time. The millennials, as we know it, are changing the work force dynamics quite rapidly. They no longer feel the need to stick around in an organization as an obligation. No provision to learn and...
Zaloni's fantastic book, Creating a Data-Driven Organization, is a very well narrated in this book and I like to share our learning with our big data & IoT community. Many organizations think that simply because they generate a lot of reports or have many...
I understand the title is super dramatic but there is a hidden fact in this article. So Keep reading… Being a big data enthusiast, I always adhere to its roots of bringing goodness to the technology but you should also think where this is taking us. Every day we...
Big Data offers huge opportunities to improve both our professional and personal lives. It allows us to draw conclusions that we would not previously have been able to quantify and gives certainty to decision-making where there was previously doubt. There is, however,...
I must confess that big data analysis wasn’t exactly on my radar when I started engineering at IIT Roorkee. In fact, I started out as a paper and pulp technology major. I soon lost interest in my regular classes and started to work on other projects instead. My first...
Are you looking for tech professionals with right Big Data skills? Then you should know where to look to find professionals that hold these coveted skills. According to Dice’s Annual Salary Survey, the highest concentration of big data pros can be found in Seattle....
Doing more with less has become familiar to many of us—and our workforce is no exception. The World Bank estimates global GDP grew 2.3% in 2012, with expected continued moderate growth in 2013 (The World Bank, 2013). Much of this growth is driven by the human side of...
It used to be said that employers made up their minds whether or not to hire a prospective candidate within 5 minutes of sitting down to interview them. It’s hard to say if this is true or not, but many people in positions with responsibility for hiring would probably...
The value of analytics education is skyrocketing – thanks to the raising need for analytics professionals to process and analyze the vast amount of digital data being generated everyday by individuals and companies. Plenty of degrees, software tool trainings, online...
In 2001, the Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) industry in India had only 9,000 professionals and it generated approximately USD 260 million in revenue. By 2007, it grew over to 75,000 professionals and in 2014, to 166,000, generating annual revenue of USD 6.21...
Are you planning to quit? Think twice before you actually quit, because Big Data already knows it and can inform your boss before you do it. How is that possible? Workday, a company sells cloud-based HR and finance softwares, is in the final process of launching a new...
Recruiting rockstars is almost as critical to the future of a business as having an amazing product offering that meets a critical market need. The human capital of any company truly is one of its most valuable assets. But unlike the technological advances in...
Big data will soon become an important part of the HR toolkit, according to a new report by the PwC consulting firm, bringing to workforce management the kind of data profiling many businesses currently use to zero in on customers. That may make privacy advocates...
If you are looking for a job in big data space, this would be the most important post for you... After all, jobs are something we all ultimately look for, right! So, here is a list of job websites for Big Data professionals. 1. AnalyticTalent.com 2. BigDataJobs.com 3....
According to a recent report by SilkRoad, 65 percent of human resources professionals surveyed said one of the biggest problems faced by companies that don't have HR tasks "integrated with automated systems" is a lack of critical data and analytics. To solve this...
Big Data is the buzzword of the year. Every leader — whether they’re managing a small team or are at the helm of a multinational corporation with thousands of employees — is wondering how they can use Big Data to better get to know their people, to create a setting...
Big Data is the buzzword of the year. Every leader — whether they’re managing a small team or are at the helm of a multinational corporation with thousands of employees — is wondering how they can use Big Data to better get to know their people, to create a setting...
According to a survey by Silicon Valley Bank, 90 percent of startups believe finding talent is their biggest challenge. Yet, a solution to this problem could lie with Big Data -- massive amounts of structured and unstructured data that's difficult to process using...
In 2001, I wrote a book called Making It Personal that predicted a growing tension between privacy and personalization. To illustrate potential developments, I included a number of fictionalized but plausible scenarios, including this one. Here's my question: could...
It used to be accepted without question that a college degree was necessary to get a good job, and over the course of a lifetime, you would make more money with a college degree than without one. But not so fast. Despite the propaganda put out by colleges who hope to...
Almost every department and business function in the enterprise has a big data application. Consequently, the need to centralize and harness big data assets has led more organizations to move big data responsibilities and assets to the corporate data center. This is a...
Data scientists are a hot commodity in today’s data-abundant world. Business leaders are relying on data scientists to improve how they acquire data, determine its value, analyze it and build algorithms for the ultimate purpose of improving how they do business. While...
Data scientists are a hot commodity in today’s data-abundant world. Business leaders are relying on data scientists to improve how they acquire data, determine its value, analyze it and build algorithms for the ultimate purpose of improving how they do business. While...
These major shifts are having an impact on corporate incentives, according to the Incentive Research Foundation. 1. The Battle for Talent Despite the unemployment figures, hiring events abound, companies are poaching A-players from their competitors, and the Baby...
IT recruiting always has to have a bright, young, new thing. The data science role has been hogging the spotlight for months now, with recruiters citing strong demand and CIOs griping about where to find big data pros. One key question: Should you be hiring from the...
It may be the “sexiest job of the 21st century”, but beyond that there isn’t a great deal of consensus on how to define a data scientist. Part of the reason it’s so hard to pin down a meaningful definition of a data scientist, is because the scope of what a data...
Although some organisations are more political than others, a fully apolitical organisation seems unthinkable, at least for anybody who's ever had a job. However, in the age of big data, where supercomputers and machine-learning algorithms track, predict and influence...
Job hunters beware: Social recruiting is the next big wave to influence the hiring process. Shon Burton, founder of HiringSolved, says his company has analyzed and created profiles of up to 100 million people by scouring their unblocked online activities on Facebook,...
Can big data and predictive analytics help school leaders hire better teachers? That's the new pitch being made by two companies: TeacherMatch, from Chicago, and Washington-based Hanover Research. Both claim that their new algorithm-driven teacher-selection tools can...
Recruiting has always been seen as an art. Employers and recruiters spend hours writing job descriptions, scouring over resumes and conducting interviews to try to judge which candidate will be the best fit for a position. Many of the factors these businesses use to...
With all signs pointing to greater Big Data spending by businesses, the question is: Do you want to get the most out of your investment? To do so, experts say businesses shouldn't just invest on Big Data technologies, but on Big Data talents as well. Gartner, an...
I've written several times about the Datafication of HR and BigData in Human Resources, explaining the tremendous business opportunity companies have to leverage their employee data to improve operational performance. This week we introduced research conducted over...
Every second, more than two more people join LinkedIn's network of 238 million members. They are head hunters in search of talent. They are the talent in search of a job. And sometimes, the career site for the professional class is just a hangout for the...