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8 things to consider before you purchase HR technology
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...
The modern workplace: ways how we work differently
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...
Healthy work culture: tools to create efficient employee schedules
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...
Using artificial intelligence to transform employee productivity
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....
How to improve your productivity with AI and Machine Learning?
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...
How Artificial Intelligence is helping decrease employee burnout!
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...
Artificial Intelligence in human resources: Key innovation trends
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...
Top 10 HR Analytics tools in 2018
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...
Three ways to close the big data skills gap from within
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...
The pros and cons of using big data for employee wellness
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...
4 workflow automation tips for managing your data at workplace
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...
Big data is the key to strategic HR decisions
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...
Using big data in corporate training and engaging your employees
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...
How to use data to improve customer satisfaction in call center business?
‘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...
Top 12 interesting careers to explore in big data [Infographic]
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...
Are you ready for the millennial takeover at your workplace?
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...
What do we mean by a big data driven organisation – Part 1
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...
“Big Data Tsunami”- are our jobs at stake?
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 bata, wearable tech and productivity in a workplace
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,...
Top 6 reasons why I love data and analytics as a fresher
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...
Dice’s Salary Survey: 5 job markets for big data pros
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....
Busting three myths of employee engagement and leadership (Whitepaper)
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...
How Big Data is changing recruitment forever
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...
Three steps to become an “Analytics Superstar”SAUR
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...
Top 7 myths about Data Analytics Outsourcing in India
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? Big Data knows it before you do
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...
Top 5 things recruiters should ask their Big Data
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...
How does employees’ personal data transform HR?
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...
Find your dream job: Top 10 Big Data job websites
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....
Does your HR department have a data scientist?
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...
Deploying Big Data To Recruit And Retain Talent
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...
Deploying Big Data To Recruit And Retain Talent
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...
Not Using Big Data for Hiring? You May Be Missing Out on the Best Candidates
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...
Will Big Data End Your Career Prematurely?
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...
Big Data Renders College Diplomas Worthless; Billionaires Nonplussed
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...
Master the art of big data job scheduling
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...
The One Hidden Skill You Need to Unlock the Value of Your Data
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...
The One Hidden Skill You Need to Unlock the Value of Your Data
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...
From Talent Wars to Big Data: 5 Trends Affecting Incentives
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...
Big-Data Hiring: 5 Facts From The Field
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...
Good data scientist hunting – the sexiest job of the 21st century
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...
Should big data analytics decide whether you get promoted?
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...
4 best ways you can use Big Data in your job hunt
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,...
Companies Offer Big Data Tools to Predict Teacher Candidates’ Impact
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...
How Big Data is Replacing the Job Interview
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...
Big Data Success Means Investing in Talent and Tech
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...
Big Data in Human Resources: A World of Haves And Have-Nots
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...
LinkedIn connects big data, human resources
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...