I'm with you, the past couple of years have been really tough and investing in a program like this can seem like taking a gamble.  But you see the same thing I'm seeing:  the field of HR is becoming more data-focused every day.  And the skills in this Certificate Program are the sort of skills that you can start using immediately in your job.  Knowing and using those skills will raise your profile as an HR practitioner. You'll be more valuable to your employer, and you'll be attractive to other employers, too.

Also, did you notice that this Certificate Program is approved for 17.5 SHRM PDCs?  In many cases, companies will reimburse employees for this sort of professional development and training.

I get it:  HR professionals are stretched really thin right now.  I'm going to ask you a serious question:  When will you have time?  Let's be honest:  we make the time for the things that are important to us.  How important is it to you to be able to be a part of the solution to The Great Resignation?  To pay equity across your organization?

Plus, have you considered that learning and implementing these skills will actually save you time?  No more relying on gut instinct to make decisions, only to find out weeks (or months) later that you should've taken a different path.  By using data to guide your decisions, you'll be cutting down on the amount of time that gets wasted on efforts that are some of the "same old, this is the way we've always done things" mentality.

Incorporating data into your decision-making process is the way to break out of that cycle, and to save time in the end.

Absolutely!

I'll share a secret with you:  I wasn't born with a calculator in my hand!  In college I double-majored in History and French Literature.  Neither of those required a calculator!  

It wasn't until I was in grad school that I hit a brick wall:  I needed to learn data science if I wanted to complete my program.

That wasn't a fun day.  But I took a deep breath, dug deep, and signed up for my first statistics course.  Many more followed, and here I am today, teaching HR professionals how to use data and analytics in their jobs to make better decisions and ultimately to help their employees.

We'll meet once a week for two hours via Zoom, and each session will be a mixture of short presentations and hands-on exercises in MS Excel.  We'll start Thursday, October 20 at 9:30 ET and we'll finish up on Thursday, January 5. [We'll skip a couple of weeks for the holidays!]  

If for whatever reason you can't make a particular meeting, you'll have access to the replay within 24 hours.  And not just the video replay:  you'll also have access to the audio as a private podcast feed, so you can listen on the go.  

As a participant in the Certificate Program, you'll also have access to my weekly Zoom room, "Coffee With The Prof," where you can ask questions and get additional support.

Yes and no.  Each week I'll give you some additional exercises that will help you nail down the skills we're working on that week.  You can choose to complete them or not.  It's up to you!  If you complete by Friday of the week we're in, I'll review and send you comments by Tuesday.  This will give you one more layer of support while you're ramping up your data analytics skills.

I sure do!  You can pay in four monthly installments of $525.

The important thing to remember when learning a new skill is to be consistent. The same applies with this program. In addition to our 2-hour classes, if you can set aside 15 minutes most days of the week to review what we talked about, or chip away at the homework exercise, you'll be amazed at the progress you make during our 10 weeks together.

This Certificate is more than just watching a prerecorded video and answering a few questions. This program gives you a live instructor who walks you through examples that deal with questions from HR. We won't be doing exercises on sales for a furniture  store. We'll be working through examples from things you encounter daily: Why is our attrition rate going up? What are the things that make our employees the happiest? How can we tell if our employees are more productive than they were last year? And you'll have the opportunity to drop in and talk with me weekly, to ask me to explain something again, or brainstorm how you might apply what we just learned to a question your manager asked.

I've got you covered!  All 10 modules will be recorded, and they'll be available to watch within 24 hours.  You can catch them on replay, and you can also join my weekly Zoom room, Coffee With The Prof, for any questions you might have.  

Nope, not at all.  The entire class is taught using MS Excel.  The most you'll need to do is install the Data Analysis Toolpak, which comes free with Excel but isn't pre-loaded.  I've intentionally structured this course so that you can use Excel, which you're probably already familiar with, for all the content.

Just drop me an email at:  julie_alig@jlaanalytics.com and I'll get back to you within 1 business day.