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Implementing a New HRIS System: Challenges and Benefits

17 Friday Jul 2015

Posted by Rory C. Trotter Jr in HRIS

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hr, human resources

Goldfish

Steve Seykora, Partner, Mercer, discusses how purchasing technology has changed, unexpected implementation challenges, causes for delays and benefits of new systems.

Happy Friday,

Rory

A Few Thoughts on Pre-Hire Predictive Analytics

16 Tuesday Jun 2015

Posted by Rory C. Trotter Jr in HRIS, Talent Management

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ats, hr, hris, human resources, predictive analytics

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…So I recently came across an interesting press release from a firm called Talent Analytics. The release says that the Company can feed its cloud platform into your ATS/HRIS/LMS etc., assessing how likely each applicant for any given position is to be a flight risk by looking at its current employee population and historical turnover data. For specifics around what data the predictive model needs to work you can request the white paper here, but I’m sharing because I thought it was an interesting approach to using predictive analytics to improve talent outcomes.

Companies like Google have used predictive analytics to identify triggers correlated with employee turnover and to improve its hiring and retention outcomes with women, and on a much (much) smaller scale I’ve leveraged ATS data to make predictive insights on how to lower fill times in the past… but leveraging applicant data to predict the likelihood that an applicant would stay in a role (if hired) before even interviewing them? The benefits are obvious in that an employer that can do this effectively saves on training costs, recruiting costs, yields a higher performing workforce, and spends less on administrative items such as onboarding (freeing HR up to do more strategic work).

^I don’t know how viable the model is, but it got me to thinking… if we can predict an applicant’s long-term viability based on their application alone… what else could we predict with the right data?

I’d love to get insights on this question from anyone leveraging similar platforms (internally designed or via external vendors) in the comments section below.

Best,

Rory

The Onboarding Process is a Headache, Right?

24 Wednesday Jul 2013

Posted by Rory C. Trotter Jr in HRIS

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ats, background check, drug screen, hr, human resources, onboarding, physical

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I just want to confirm I’m not alone here, but…

…Particularly at big, global companies with large employee populations I’ve observed that the on-boarding process is tedious at best and a nightmare at worst. Right? Right???

Clinics lose drug screen results (or don’t process them properly), background checks often take forever, and applicant tracking systems have some real issues talking to each other.

I’m sure that part of this is a human component and part is bad automation, but I can’t help but think that there has to be a way to streamline this process.

Tell me about your on-boarding processes. What ATS’s do you use? What works, and what doesn’t?

As always, please share your thoughts in the comments section below.

Best,

Rory

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