The People Analytics Revolution is Coming - Are you Ready? | Oz Rashid | TEDxSantaBarbaraSalon

Companies have long been focused on traditional workforce performance metrics, including attrition, engagement, and tenure. Still, new methods of measuring human potential and productivity are revolutionizing how job candidates are identified, hired, and retained across industries.
Welcome to the People Analytics Revolution, where predictive analytics that leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning play a significant role in deciding the fate of job candidates and employees. That being said, the nuance of applying these tools is still very much in the hands of human hiring managers.
Oz Rashid has devoted his career to understanding where the balance lies between data and human intuition and how heavily to weigh one variable versus the other when deciding someone’s fate in the job market. In this TEDx Salon interview, Oz takes us on a journey exploring the new metrics companies are utilizing to analyze candidates and employees and how to decipher this brave new world of data.
From measuring productivity in work-from-home settings and hybrid models to real-time mental health assessments, people analytics are changing how companies hire and manage their workforce. For example, analyzing the hiring experience of job candidates has profound implications for the health and well-being of organizations, not to mention the perception of a company among key stakeholders.
Hiring managers often focus on how an individual may contribute to an organization without having access to data that demonstrates the role a candidate may play from a sum-of-the-parts perspective. Oz Rashid is the chief executive officer and founder of MSH, a global talent solutions, technology consultancy, and SaaS provider empowering people and enterprises to thrive. He is manifesting a hiring revolution by combining leading-edge tech and data science to provide organizations with the high-quality, vetted candidates they need to succeed in 35+ markets across three continents. Oz held leadership positions throughout different industries, observing how hiring experience, a unified culture, and a customer-centric approach are critical to an organization’s success. As a minority business leader, Oz believes in disrupting the status quo to achieve excellence in identifying, attracting, and retaining top talent. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@andracoisbored]

Great content! Let's stop talking about generations and start talking about career level.

[@chameleonquest]

Once in a while I'll find someone who embraces analytics in a measured way, understanding they can be misleading etc. But those people usually underestimate that others will not see these analytics as clearly. If you introduce analytics into your processes, you will inevitably have a majority of the middle-management misusing them as levers for their agendas.

[@simonebellisario3682]

I don't know if it is just me, but it seems that there are way more people talking about people analytics than people doing people analytics

[@djw8888]

"People analytics" is an oxymoron! I don't want to work for a company that relies on this methodology...plus the analytics might not be favorable to me. Not everything an employee brings to work can be measured. My prediction: Lots of subtleties will be lost. People can look great on paper but turn out to be duds as employees. The converse is also true.

[@TogomoSama]

That is the big question here, you are right, not everthing employees brings to work can be measured