5 ways people analytics can level up your employee experience strategies

In our data-driven era, it only makes sense for us to leverage insights derived from employee data to improve the employee experience. By doing so, organizations can better serve their employees without wasting time, effort, and money on strategies that don't work. When your employee experience strategies target specific needs, employees will look forward to coming to work every day and offering the best service to your customers.

Here are five different ways you can make use of people analytics to level up your employee experience strategies:

1. Leveling up recruitment efforts

Analyzing recruitment data can uncover a myriad of insights required to provide a wonderful interview experience to your candidates. For instance, analyzing the feedback provided by your new hires and candidates can help you figure out which aspects of your recruitment strategy works well and which require improvement. Similarly, analyzing the performance data of your high-performing employees can help you identify the skills and attributes to look for in your potential employees, reducing time-to-hire and improving the quality of hire. Further, with recruitment analytics, you can track key metrics like time-to-fill and offer acceptance rate that'll help you see if there are any discrepancies in your recruitment process.

2. Providing a personalized working experience

The majority of millennial and Gen Z employees like to personalize almost every aspect of their life, from music to food. Providing them with a personalized working experience can go a long way toward keeping them engaged and productive. Using people analytics, HR teams can analyze an employee's onboarding, performance, training, and feedback data to understand what best suits them. For instance, you can offer a personalized training experience to get new employees up to speed more effectively. Analyzing training data along with your new hire's feedback about onboarding can help you discover which topics to cover, which style of learning would be suitable to them, and what kind of resources they require.

3. Improving employee engagement

Employee engagement levels show how much your employees value their association with your organization and their commitment to its success. Analyzing the employee engagement survey responses, interactions among your employees, productivity levels, absenteeism data, career growth graph, and compensation and benefits data could give you a clearer idea about employee engagement levels. For instance, analyzing the absenteeism data of your employees could highlight the underlying issues associated with employee well-being and even your paid time off policy.

4. Providing a personalized learning experience

Training opportunities are a huge part of employee experience since they help employees advance in their careers and learn new skills regularly. People analytics can ensure employees learn the way they want. For instance, analyzing your workforce's performance data can provide you with an idea of the skills and competencies your employees are lacking so you can offer meaningful training opportunities. Similarly, you can stay on top of which teaching style is best received among your employees, which courses are performing well, which course instructor is popular among your employees, and a lot more.

5. Facilitating bias-free reviews

Using people analytics as part of your performance appraisal process can help employees streamline their performance. For instance, implicit bias in performance reviews can be prevented altogether. Simply running an analysis on employee goals can provide you with a clear picture of how employees have progressed. Similarly, HR analytics can also provide a complete overview of all the skills employees are proficient in to facilitate reviews. All of these insights help managers provide objective feedback that is useful to employees.

Wrapping up

Unlocking the power of employee data with people analytics can truly help your organization take its employee experience strategies to the next level. Strategically applying the insights gathered from data is the way forward. We hope this blog post gave you a clear idea of how people analytics can improve the employee experience!