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Progressive organizations increasingly view the ability to predict employee behaviors as critical to achieving their business objectives. However, leaders need better access to analytic techniques, modeling frameworks and data from a variety of sources, both internal and external, to build predictive solutions that actually link employee behavior, characteristics and performance to desired business outcomes. Our capabilities in this area include: attrition risk modeling, quality of hire modeling and people analytics strategy.

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Attrition Risk Modeling

The Challenge

Most organizations know when employees leave and who made the decision. But understanding the reasons for departure, beyond what a simple exit survey can provide – and using that information to keep other critical employees from leaving – is a different, more complex challenge. It is critical to not only know who left the organization, but also understand why they left and then be able to predict the attrition risks of current employees, especially those in pivotal roles.

Our Approach

We work with HR and business leaders to understand and model the root causes of employee attrition, and then predict and visualize attrition risks at both employee and aggregate levels. Aon’s Predictive Attrition Risk Modeling uses a 212 hypotheses framework and helps organizations predict factors behind employee attrition behavior and identify who is likely to leave in the next 6 to 18 months.

Client Impact

Reducing voluntary turnover, especially among employees in pivotal roles, brings significant economic advantage to any organization. Focusing on planned vs. unplanned attrition allows leaders to identify both where in the organization employees are unexpectedly leaving, as well as where in the organization headcount is being rationalized according to established plans. Healthy turnover is often a mix of voluntary and involuntary actions. The critical information for a business leader is whether or not that turnover is being executed in a way that is anticipated and in line with the business strategy.

 

Quality of Hire Modeling

The Challenge

The demand for quality hires is increasingly acute as departing and retiring employees leave big holes to fill. At the same time, with increased voluntary turnover, organizations face growing pressure to hire quickly, often resulting in a greater number of poor hires. One of the biggest challenges to landing high-quality hires is the inability to pinpoint the characteristics of a successful employee, as well as identifying the key aspects of a work environment that lead to success for any given role.

Our Approach

Aon’s Predictive Quality of Hire Analytics uses statistical modeling techniques to increase recruiter efficiency, bringing fact-based hiring profiles and behavioral assessments to find new hires perfectly suited to their respective roles. We use our proprietary frameworks to build predictive models using data on performance, engagement, HRIS characteristics, post-hire assessments and candidate preference models.

Client Impact

Organizations can vastly improve the effectiveness of recruiting by understanding who within their current workforce is successful and why, and the sources of talent that produce better hires. Additionally, organizations that use modeling outputs to customize their pre- and post-hire assessments, especially for people in pivotal roles, see reductions in both overall turnover and first year of service attrition.

Learn more about Predictive Talent Analytics.

 

Bring Your People Analytics Strategy to Life

CHROs and senior HR leaders are constantly looking for ways to drive better business results using their people data. We work with clients at various stages of their people analytics journey to quickly improve the effectiveness of their people analytics operations. Our goal is to optimize the value of people data and connect it to hard business metrics around revenue growth, cost optimization and risk management.

The Challenge

The world of people analytics is growing at a rapid pace, and it can be overwhelming for organizations to find the best strategy to optimize people data and connect it to measurable business outcomes. Clients often need help defining their desired people analytics service delivery model, identifying high-value analytics questions, and setting the right data governance strategy in place.

Our Approach

Discover: First, we assess the current state of your people analytics maturity and determine key gaps in relation to your targeted end state.

Design: Next, we develop a best-fit people analytics service delivery model for your business, including staffing plans, capability requirements, data governance strategies and technology optimization plans.

Action Planning: From there, we develop a pragmatic action plan to help you transition from your current to target state, broken down into quick wins and short-term and long-term goals over three years.

Capability Building: Finally, we'll implement a training curriculum for your people analytics practitioners and HR business partners, identify pilot projects, and provide hands-on capability building support for advanced analytics or predictive modeling projects.

Client Impact

With the right support, you'll gain clarity and alignment on your desired people analytics strategy, as well as achievable goals over a three-year period to share between your HR leadership team and people analytics practitioners.

 

Case Study: Desigining and validating a success profile to recruit future talent in a technology company

A large technology company wanted to quickly recruit large volumes of quality employees in their inside sales organization: personnel who would stay with the organization and deliver consistent performance. Several role-specific predictive models were built that tested 73 pre- and post-hire characteristics such as education, commute time, prior experience, manager quality as well as 18 external factors such as industry growth and inter-industry mobility. Using the model, the company gained insights on predictors for employee success, and built employee profiles to be used in the recruitment process.

Case Study: Building people analytics capability in a leading manufacturer

We worked with a leading manufacturing organization to assess their people analytics maturity and identified several significant gaps that needed to be addressed before the team could meet its goals. Our findings were shared with the HR leadership team and a priority list of initiatives was laid out. Our team then worked closely alongside the firm's people analytics team and the HR leadership team to support key initiatives over a 12-month period, working to build capability within the analytics team and to develop a sustainable people analytics function.

 



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