Last week when I was in Boston meeting with a client, Metro Manila was hit by a Typhoon. I was really concerned both about how the timing might impact the business conversations and too about my teams safety.
Given the nature of our work, most of it being home based I was hoping our productivity wouldn’t be too impacted. As we got news of power outages and property damage impacting some of the team, I was so impressed with our clients level of genuine concern for the team.
As for my management team I was even more impressed with how they jumped into action and continued to work even with significant internet and power outages. Their devotion to the team and our business was remarkable. Our escalation procedures worked well and we kept communication flowing the whole time.
Most of the team itself stepped up even more as the storm left and the power came back. Their eagerness to make up hours to make sure our client was taken care of was utterly amazing.
In a time of adversity I can say I’ve never been prouder of a team for stepping up and taking care of each other.
I came across this awesome TED talk about a big data analysis project to determine what country does the most good in the world.
I imagine this is the process that Simon went through to go from a general curiosity to giving an enchanting TED talk.
I have a question. What country does the most good in the world?
I identify the data I need and then I look for that data.
Some of it already is being gathered and is easy to find. Some data I even have to create through surveys and research projects.
I pull together all the data and start to inventory it. To put it into smaller chunk for both analysis and story telling.
As I analyze the data I see many things I expected to see, but I make also lots of discoveries I didn’t expect.
I share the data with other experts to fine tune the story I want the data to tell.
I then am ready to share the data with the intended audience, in this case the world!
Some day soon, that is my dream. To share some amazing data and use it to tell a story worthy of a global audience!
I just participated in a seminar conducted by my good friend Janette Toral who was demonstrating the power of LinkedIn as a recruiting tool. She also shared recruiting strategies for FB and G+.
People continue to undervalue the power of LinkedIn and really do not use it effectively for either recruiting or job searches. Janette posted her presentation on slideshare. Check it out!
This is something I am asked all the time and I generally go back to something I came across awhile ago. I have yet to find a better one…
“I am convinced that the most important metric and the only one I care to follow is; how long did the person I place stay with my client company? Are they still there, or did they leave? Were they promoted? Or were they Fired?”
So, the metric we should be interested in improving is that of the success and tenure of our placements. How long do they stay? How well liked are they? How well do they fit in with the rest of the team? Do they get promoted? This is the true test of “Added Value” which is why companies hire recruiters.
I have hired over 150 people over the past few years and many of the best ones are still going strong, so we must be doing something right. 🙂
If you need help in your recruiting process, DMAIPH can help! My expertise with recruitment analytics makes me uniquely qualified to help you measure your most important requirement metrics.
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When I first set up my business, one of my mentor’s told me to find three people who could be like mini-mes, who would be my disciples when it comes to sharing my love of analytics. I can truly say I have found one!
Its been a while since I wield a pen & put my thoughts in writing, but guess slowing it down & having my thoughts recollected never failed to recharge me, thats why I’m having a new post after a long hiatus w/ this new home.
I attended an Analytics Training w/ the guru, Dan Meyer (who is also my boss now) last week & little did I further realize that I unconsciously applied the principles in one of his topics in the training (4 Keys of Decision Making) in my life 6 months before I dive in an offer to work for him & his company,DMAI.
2013 has not been a good or bad year either. It just made me realize further what i want, the challenge though is how i will be able to have it. I want to free myself from being a corporate…
Like the one from my hero Guy Kawasaki above, LinkedIn is running a series of blog posts from online influencers. After reading several of them and thinking about it for a bit, here is what I would recommend to my 22-year-old self.
Can you find me?
1. Travel More. 23 years later I have traveled a lot, but there are so many times I turned down chances to see new parts of the world. Nothing teaches you more than being immersed in a new environment.
2. Spend More QT with loved ones. Once they are gone, they are gone. As you get older you really will regret not spending more time with those you love.
3. Use Money More Wisely. Now I think about how much more good I could do in the world with the amount of money I’ve spent in my lifetime on needless things.
4. Treat People A Little Better. When you need to be a jerk be one, but when you don’t try to keep that impatient temper in check a little more often.
5. Keep one eye on the future, one eye on the present and know your past. Embrace the way you have always lived and will always live being able to shift perspectives and open yourself to the notion that anything is possible.
6. Just Keep Doing It. I’ve had many failures and frustrations in life, but in the end they have all added to my knowledge and my experience and made me who I am today.
However, given the blessing I enjoy and the life I have, I’d conclude with don’t change too much. You are gonna turn out pretty well!
Awhile back, I was a guest speaker for a business analytics class at the College of St. Benilde. I had been asked to talk about how DMAIPH uses analytics in our business.
When it comes to sizing up an analytics project, I tend to use a methodology I learned from a couple Stanford professors several years ago. It is pretty simple concept that is applicable across all kinds of projects; (1) identify the data you will need, (2) bring it in to your analysis tools, aka inventory it, (3) and then integrate it into a larger story or context.
I tend to use MS Excel for the majority of my analysis, but when I need to build a map, or prototype a business dashboard or need some high-powered visuals to present my data, I use Tableau Public. In the past I have used a wide range of analytics tools, but they are always specific to a certain type of data I needed to access.
One of my favorite infographics
I am going to show three examples of how we use analytics:
How we built and maintain a competitive landscape looking at the current trends in analytics here in the Philippines. Who is using what, what they are doing and where the talent is coming from.
How we built and update a demographic profile based on resume and LinkedIn data for the various types of analyst jobs we are currently employing.
And, how we built a business dashboard using Google Drive for the management team to use when looking at who on the team to coach and what to coach them on. It’s a simple way to share KPIs.
In all three cases I will explain how we identified the data we needed, how we inventory it so we can look at historical trends as well as a current snapshot and how we integrate these analytics solutions into our business strategy. It should be a pretty good presentation followed by some great Q+A!
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