Data Science on HR Service

Validity

Unstructured interview – 0.31Structured interview – 0.62Ability tests – 0.54Work sample test – 0.55

Google's Head of HR: It Doesn't Matter Where

Candidates Went to College

“We found that brainteasers are acomplete waste of time,” said Bock.“How many golf balls can you fitinto an airplane? How many gasstations in Manhattan? A completewaste of time. They don’t predictanything. They serve primarily tomake the interviewer feel smart.”

Instead, Google uses search queries of their users to

spot right candidates

Moneyball

Oakland A's played as good as New York Yankees but Yankees were spending $1.4 million per game while A’s – only $260 000

Stanford researches show that Facebook profiles predicts job

performance

Hewlett-Packard has “Flight Score” for each of 300 000

employees

Target knows you are expecting a baby before you

tell anybody

Our models learn by themselves, all you need to do is to give them enough

examples

Intelligent systems can really help HR managers in everyday

work