Workforce Analyst
Ensure a company has enough staff to maintain optimal operations.
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What's it like to be a Workforce Analyst?
Workforce Analysts work in many industries and are responsible for managing the schedules of workers to ensure a company operates effectively and efficiently. They help to make sure a company has scheduled enough staff to meet daily demands.
Tasks and duties
- Assisting the Strategic Workforce Manager with the preparation of an organisational Workforce Action Plan.
- Building up a function with requirements, plans, key skills and data integrity.
- Analysing and manipulating data used to ensure an efficient workforce.
- Creating road map reports including timelines and deliverables.
- Managing stakeholders.
How to become a Workforce Analyst
To become a Workforce Analyst you typically need to complete a bachelor degree in human resources or analytics. A good understanding of analytical software may be beneficial.
- Complete a bachelor degree in human resources or another related discipline, such as data analytics or business analytics.
- Consider undertaking a postgraduate course in analytics. The ability to translate data into business insights is useful in this profession.
- Gain experience working in a project-orientated environment.
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Latest Workforce Analyst reviews
May 2021
Experience
1 – 4 years
Organisation size
Large (200+ employees)
Specialisation
HR
The good things
Some thought-provoking work at times. Ability to work unsupervised and remotely. Good work-life balance
The challenges
Well underpaid compared to the managers you give this information to. They know significantly less for significantly more. It may not be this way everywhere but is in government
Systems not up to da...
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Feb 2024
Experience
1 – 4 years
Organisation size
Large (200+ employees)
The good things
numbers based analysis of workforce, deep dive analysis of issues to find out the root cause analysis and correlating it with other aspects of the business
The challenges
career progression is limited. At times you will find yourself in a situation where there is not enough data to perform your analysis
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