It’s also important to understand that you can’t impress a CEO with a large volume of tactical recruiting metrics. Instead, you must focus on metrics that demonstrate a direct impact on what CEO’s really care about, the firm’s strategic goals. MORE

These books can change your career: People Analytics and HR-Tech reading list. There are too many professional books one can read in a lifespan. This list of People Analytics books is not exceptional. Total kindle books mentioned: 24). Lyndon Sundmark (2017). MORE

This powerful data-driven recruiting approach requires you to shift from the traditional intuitive and past practice-based approach and start tracking metrics beyond the popular quality of hire and time to fill. And in the book, he clearly outlines Google’s data-driven practices in detail. MORE

At one factory complex in Washington, workers check out books from a company library, reports this recent WSJ article. If you work in HR for the manufacturing sector, you may be wondering if your company should be following suit: By 2025, over 2 million manufacturing jobs could go unfilled. MORE

These books can change your career: People Analytics reading list. There are too many professional books one can read in a life span. This list of People Analytics books is not exceptional. Digital HR: A Guide to Technology-Enabled Human Resources. Be careful! MORE

It’s not about saving human resources (HR) jobs per se: while many of them can and will be automated, the types of intuition and emotional intelligence HR requires will help ensure that humans remain relevant to the HR function. MORE

Does HR drive more effectiveness and organizational performance by improving traditional HR value propositions, such as compliance and services, or by improving decisions? Decisions: Adding value by improving decisions inside and outside the function. HR function performance. MORE

A question on the minds of many heads of human resources these days, including members of i4cp's Chief HR Officer Board, is how HR can move more quickly to respond to the ever-changing needs of the organization. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman writes in his latest book , "Thank You for Being Late," that we are living in an "age of acceleration," where the pace of change in technology, markets, and nature is doubling every year. MORE

It follows, then, that the roles and responsibilities of senior HR leaders are incredibly important. . Indeed, an apt description of the senior HR role comes from Christine Hayward , executive director at global executive search organization IIC Partners. MORE

While there, we had the opportunity to talk to Christopher Klimek, vice president of global finance and HR technology at Aon plc, and Mike Hite, director or finance technology at WeWork, about the business impact of their Workday Financial Management deployments, and why you shouldn’t replicate your current business model in a new financial management system. On the HR side, the catalyst was the total cost of ownership. MORE