Month: August 2015

Training Analysts: And The Tasks Keep Getting Bigger

Wrote this over two years ago… its still relevant!

When I first came to the Philippines in 2012 to set up an analytics training business I was ahead of my time. No one was really talking about analytics and most people didnt really get what I was trying to do.

I saw  a huge opportunity to be at the forefront of a shift in services that would propel the Philippines forward as a place where analytics outsourcing would be successful.

After a few years of doing seminars, speaking engagements and training manily to build awareness, things are really start pick up steam.

Attendance is way up in our public training offerings, I am getting invited to more and more schools and companies are starting to really look for analytics training to both enhance their own decision-making as well as exploring offering analytics as a service.

This goes hand in hand with a memo by CHED (Commission on Higher Education) published two years ago that schools are now trying to figure out how to implement.

I have worked with a few schools already by doing a one day overview of how to meet some of the course objectives outlined in this memo, and now I am looking to expand that to a five day training. Here is what it might look like.

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This five day training will need to be eventually expanded into a semester/trimester long class.

Which is precisely what I had in mind when I did my very first Introduction to Analyitics training back in May 2012.

And now that dozens of schools need this, so my tasks keep getting bigger. I couldn’t be happier.

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Analytics Education – Facilitating a mastery of the fundamentals of analytics is what DMAIPH does best. As a key parnter of the Data Science Philippines Meetup Group, DMAIPH champions the use of using data. All across the world, companies are scrambling to hire analytics talent to optimize the big data they have in their businesses. We can empower students and their instructors with the knowledge they need to prepare for careers in analytics. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly so we can set a guest lecturer date, On-the-Job Training experience or other analytics education solution specifically tailored to your needs.

Tomorrow I Will Be Facilitating A Data Analytics Workshop > I Love Data!!!

I love data!

And with that love of seeing the numbers behind things and the stories the data tells, I get to do what I do best… train people to use the data in their business to drive better decision-making.

Topics covered in the training include:

  • What is Data Analytics?
  • Overview of Data Analytics in the Philippines
  • Self-Assessment of our own Data Analytics
  • Finding, Mining and Presenting Data
  • Big Data and Data Warehousing
  • Descriptive, Predictive, and Prescriptive Analytics
  • Business Intelligence and Business Dashboards
  • Using Data Analytics to Drive Decisions

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The first three parts of the training set the foundation we currently see in most organizations concerned with data analytics. Knowing who are analysts and learning more about the world wide talent gap helps get us in the mind set that we have to do more with less.

The next section is all about using methodologies to be more efficient and optimal in finding, mining and presenting data. This is targeted to building better reports that do more then just report, but actually influence decision-making.

The next two sections are the heart of the class… talking about Big Data and the 3 types of analyitics. This is an area most people coming to the training really gain a lot of useful insight from.

Sections 7 and 8 are all about adding value to take a good analyst and empower them to be a great analyst.

I’m expecting 12-15 people which is the idea size for a group discussion with a lot of give and take about how data analytics is being used and what can be done to raise the bar.

Nerd alert. I love this stuff!!!

It Will Be An Awesome Recruitment Analytics Training on August 4th.

Going to be training tomorrow on Recruitment Analytics with over 30 participants.

Topics covered in the training include:

  • What is Recruitment Analytics?
  • Recruitment Analytics in the Philippines
  • Self-Assessment of your Recruitment Analytics
  • Finding the Right Data at the Right Time
  • Applicant Tracking Systems
  • Big Data and Recruiting
  • Business Intelligence and Data Visualization
  • Making Data-Driven Decisions

A definition of recruitment analytics is simply the metrics and analysis that relates to recruiting.

However, we all know its actually a lot more challenging in practice.

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New technologies like social networks, applicant tracking systems and business intelligence applications are fundamentally changing the entire recruitment process from sourcing to placement.

The pressure to deliver results has never been greater.

HR and Recruitment managers are now more then ever required to demonstrate the return on investment their efforts are contributing to the bottom line.

The class size is maxed out, but I will be doing another session on September 1, 2015.