Keynote: People Analytics

Event Overview

Human resources has always been about people, and that will never change. But data is driving more decisions than ever before and impacting the way HR decisions are being made. The ever evolving field of people analytics is already playing a large role in HR departments across all types and sizes of organizations. This will continue to expand as the digital transformation picks up even more speed, meaning that HR professionals who obtain analytical skills will be in high demand in the workplaces of tomorrow.

What You'll Learn

Learn to source, analyze, and visualize HR data to inform decisions and recommendations.
Strengthen your analytical acumen to make decisions through analysis and storytelling.
Realize how people analytics can be applied to common HR challenges like hiring top talent, engaging the workforce, managing retention, and evaluating workforce diversity.
Discuss the current landscape of people analytics and the ways in which the field is projected to grow and change.

Speaker

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John Hausknecht

Professor

Cornell ILR School

Professor of Human Resource Studies, Cornell University

John Hausknecht is a Professor of Human Resource Studies at Cornell University. He earned his Ph.D. in 2003 from Penn State University with a major in industrial/organizational psychology and minor in management. He received the 2004 S. Rains Wallace Award for the best dissertation in the field of industrial/organizational psychology. Professor Hausknecht’s research primarily falls within the domain of staffing and has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Personnel Psychology. Recent papers have examined applicant persistence in selection settings, reactions to company hiring practices, and predictors and consequences of collective-level absenteeism and turnover. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Personnel Psychology.

Professor Hausknecht teaches undergraduate and graduate-level courses on human resource management, staffing organizations, and HR analytics. He received the ILR School’s MacIntyre Award for exemplary teaching in 2008. Prior to academia, he worked as a consultant to Fortune 500 firms in the areas of leadership assessment, talent management, and organizational change. Professor Hausknecht is a member of the Academy of Management, American Psychological Association, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and Society for Human Resource Management.

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