HR Executive Online, June 3, 2013, Monday

HR Executive Online

June 3, 2013, Monday

HR Executive Online (full article)

Rise of the Quants

John Hausknecht knows a thing or two about the growing appetite among employers for analytically talented HR staff.

"For the last few years, we've seen a huge surge in demand for workforce-analytics roles -- recruiters coming in here and searching for individuals who will exclusively do analytics work in HR," says the professor of industrial/organizational psychology at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations.