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New eBook!!!

Essential Skills for a Career in People Analytics

Where to buy? 

Purchase the eBook as either an epub file that can be directly sent to your Kindle or ebook reader of choice or as a PDF file through my gumroad shop here: https://heatherwhiteman.gumroad.com/l/uksrf 


Price = whatever you want! This book serves two purposes 1) to help those interested in a people analytics career find helpful insights and information, and 2) to support the new Society for People Analytics (SPA) that seeks to bring together those interested in a people analytics career. Please feel free to name the amount that is comfortable for you, knowing that profits from the sale of this eBook will go to support the SPA. (Can't donate at this time but want a copy? Let me know.)

 

Really prefer to use Amazon to buy your books? You can order that version: here. (Sorry, but they don't allow a 'choose your own price' feature.) 

BONUS FEATURE!

Essential Skills LIVE

As a bonus, everyone who purchases a copy of the eBook “Essential Skills for a Career in People Analytics” will be invited to this special series. Each session features a different people analytics leader who will share their career insights and teach an essential skill. 

You will also have an opportunity to interact live with the featured guest and join interactive breakouts with other people analytics professionals to network and make connections. 

Invites are automatically sent to anyone who purchases the eBook at  https://heatherwhiteman.gumroad.com/l/uksrf 

Learn more about the sessions, watch past sessions, and see who's joining next HERE.

Resources Referenced in the Career Guide

How-To's or Information Items Referenced

  • ISO 30414:2018 "Human resource management — Guidelines for internal and external human capital reporting"  The standard guides on what and how to measure people in the workplace. It applies to all organizations, regardless of the type, size, nature or complexity of the business, whether in the public, private or voluntary sector, or a not-for-profit organization. It provides guidelines on reporting on core areas relevant to people analytics, including compliance and ethics, costs, diversity, leadership, organizational culture, organizational health, safety and well-being, productivity, recruitment, mobility and turnover, skills and capabilities, succession planning, and workforce availability. 
  • If you're interested in understanding the various terms and approaches surrounding employee attrition, here’s a short video where I talk more about it: [Attrition, Turnover & Retention: What's the difference? Plus How to Calculate Attrition.] 
  • MyHRFuture has my favorite People Analytics Blog (and tons of learning resources if you sign up). https://www.myhrfuture.com/blog


Recommended Books (Technical and General)

  • Huge shout out to Keith McNulty for making these great technical guide books freely available to all: Handbook of Regression Modeling (https://peopleanalytics-regression-book.org/) and Handbook of Graphs and Networks (https://ona-book.org)
  • Naked Statistics: Stripping the dread from the data by Charles Wheelan 

Recommended Books (Ethical People Analytics)

Books providing a great ethical foundation for those who analyze data about people: 

  • The Equality Machine by Orly Lobel
  • Invisible Women: Data bias in a world designed for men by Criado-Perez, C. (2019) 
  • Data Feminism by D'Ignazio, C. & Klein, L. F. 
  • Weapons of Math Destruction: How big data increases inequality and threatens democracy by Cathy O’Neil
  • Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine by Hannah Fry
  • Factfulness: Ten reasons we’re wrong about the world - and why things are better than you think by Rosling, H., Rosling, O., & Rönnlund, A. R.
  • Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Noble
  • Automating Inequality: How high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor by Virginia Eubanks

Articles, Sites, or Studies

If you are looking at potential jobs in the People Analytics space please check out the:
One Model PA Job Listings. It is updated regularly and lists hundreds of job openings!!!! 

eBook Materials

Looking for a list of all the skills mentioned throughout the many different 'self-discovery' activities? Download this editable document to create any tables or templates that are useful to your self-discovery journey! 

Editable Skills List (docx)Download

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