Certification Course in HR Analytics

In today’s data-driven workplace, HR professionals are expected to go beyond intuition and use data to make strategic, evidence-based decisions. This comprehensive HR Analytics course is designed to help you turn raw people data into meaningful insights that improve hiring, retention, performance, and overall employee experience.

This course takes a hands-on, practical approach, using MS Excel and real HR metrics to show you how HR analytics works in the real world—no prior analytics background required.

What You’ll Learn

Data Analytics Fundamentals

• Understand the basics of data collection, cleaning, analysis, and visualization

• Learn how data is used to identify patterns, trends, and business insights

HR Analytics Demystified

• Learn what HR Analytics is and why it matters

• Apply analytics to recruitment, retention, performance management, and training & development

• Understand how HR data supports better workforce planning and decision-making

MS Excel & Google Sheets for HR Analytics

You’ll build strong Excel foundations and apply them directly to HR use cases, including:

Core Excel Functions

• MAX, MIN, UNIQUE, TRANSPOSE, ROUND, RANDOM, RANK, SORT, QUERY

• IF, AND, OR

• COUNT, COUNTA, COUNTIF, COUNTIFS

• SUM, SUMIF, SUMIFS

• AVERAGE, AVERAGEIF, AVERAGEIFS

Statistical Concepts

• Central tendency

• Percentiles

• Data spread and variability

Data Handling & Analysis

• Text and Date functions

• Outlier detection

• Handling missing values

• Data validation

• Conditional formatting

Visualization & Reporting

• Charts and graphs

• Pivot Tables

• VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP

• Master data creation

• Building HR dashboards

Key HR Metrics & Case Studies

• Employee attrition and turnover analysis

• Time to hire and cost per hire

• Recruitment metrics

• Training and development metrics

• Real-world HR case studies using Excel

• Hands-on project to apply metrics and create insights from master HR data

Who This Course Is For

• HR professionals who want to build data literacy and make data-driven HR decisions

• HR managers, recruiters, and HR business partners looking to use analytics in daily work

• Business professionals interested in understanding HR analytics and workforce data

• Beginners with no prior experience in data analytics or Excel who want a practical starting point

By the End of This Course, You’ll Be Able To

• Analyze HR data to identify trends and workforce issues

• Use Excel confidently for HR analytics and reporting

• Interpret key HR metrics and explain their business impact

• Build basic HR dashboards from master data

• Communicate data-driven insights clearly to stakeholders