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Overview

Learn essentials of people analytics from reputed faculty of Wharton University.

Duration

8 hours

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Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Beginner

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Credential

Certificate

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Highlights

  • Earn a certificate after completion of the course
  • Financial aid available
  • Assessments and projects for real world scenarios
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Course details

What are the course deliverables?

Learn new concepts from industry experts

Gain a foundational understanding of a subject or tool

Develop job-relevant skills with hands-on projects

Earn a shareable career certificate

More about this course

In this brand new course, three of Wharton’s top professors, all pioneers in the field of people analytics, will explore the state-of-the-art techniques used to recruit and retain great people, and demonstrate how these techniques are used at cutting-edge companies

They’ll explain how data and sophisticated analysis is brought to bear on people-related issues, such as recruiting, performance evaluation, leadership, hiring and promotion, job design, compensation, and collaboration

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Curriculum

Week 1: Introduction to People Analytics, and Performance Evaluation

Introduction to People Analytics

Goals for the Course

Course Outline and Overview

People Analytics in Practice

Performance Evaluation: the Challenge of Noisy Data

Chance vs. Skill: the NFL Draft

Finding Persistence: Regression to the Mean

Extrapolating from Small Samples

The Wisdom of Crowds: Signal Independence

Process vs. Outcome

Summary of Performance Evaluation

Week 2: Staffing

Introduction to Professor Bidwell

Staffing Analytics Overview

Hiring 1: Predicting Performance

Hiring 2: Fine-tuning Predictors

Hiring 3: Using Data Analysis to Predict Performance

Internal Mobility 1: Analyzing Promotibility

Internal Mobility 2: Optimizing Movement within the Organization

Causality I

Causality II

Attrition: Understanding and Reducing Turnover

Turnover: Predicting Attrition

Staffing Analytics Conclusion

Week 3: Collaboration

Introduction to Professor Haas

Basics of Collaboration

Describing Collaboration Networks

Mapping Collaboration Networks

Evaluating Collaboration Networks

Measuring Outcomes

Intervening in Collaboration Networks

Week 4: Talent Management and Future Directions

Talent Analytics: The Importance of Context

Interdependence

Self-fulfilling Prophecies

Reverse Causality

Special Topics: Tests and Algorithms

Prescriptions: Navigating the Challenges of Talent Analytics

Course Conclusion: Organizational Challenges

Course Conclusion: Organizational Challenges 2 and Future Directions

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Faculty details

Cade Massey
Cade Massey is a Practice Professor in the Wharton School’s Operations, Information and Decisions Department. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago and taught at Duke University and Yale University before moving to Penn. Massey’s research focuses on judgment under uncertainty—how, and how well, people predict what will happen in the future.

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    Jan 17, 2025
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    Riya Sharma
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    5
    Learning Experience: This course introduced theory of people analytics andThis comprehensive HR analytics certification will teach you how to start using data to further improved, fact-based, people-decisions that will benefit both your organization and colleagues.
    Faculty: The first course focuses on practitioners who will participate in or manage HR analytics projects. This course provides more of a high-level overview of HR analytics and some of its basics. Its divided into four module and The course includes (among other things) over 30 video lessons, numerous quizzes, assignments, interviews with industry experts
    Course Support: Of course I got career support but no job support. Still good resources are used, you can inhance your knowledge
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    Nivedita Lakhera
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    Learning Experience: Learning experience was good
    Faculty: Instructors taught well Curriculum was relevant and comprehensive
    Course Support: Career support was helpful
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