We’re guessing that as an HR professional, you likely identify more as a “people person” than a “numbers person.” However, improving an organization from the inside requires aptitude with both homo-sapiens and data analysis. Whether or not you’ve mastered the homo-sapiens side of things, it’s integral to pay attention to the data component in order to equip HR departments and hiring managers with the information they need to keep the org evolving forward.

HR Brew sits down with Microsoft’s Head of People Analytics, Dawn Klinghoffer, to discuss how to identify, organize, and leverage employee data consistently and effectively. We’ll talk about how collecting both quantitative and qualitative data—especially over time—is integral to making informed HR and hiring decisions and how you can tackle the opportunity even with limited resources. We also sit down with Beamery, our event sponsor, on the importance of dynamic, contextual skills data in the flow of work when attracting, redeploying, retaining, and reskilling talent.