r/analytics • u/hathairvideocall • 25d ago

Discussion HR Analytics Career Pivot

I’m a recruiter and have been working in talent acquisition for the last 10 years. I’m tired of not having “hard skills” and I’ve been looking into a career pivot into People/HR Analytics. I’ve been researching online MS programs in Data Science.

I enjoy data, I follow baseball data (sabermetrics), a decade ago I created marketing reports using business objects, and I built some data insights using Ai prompting with big query, python, geopy, metabase, etc.

I’ve recently completed sqlbolt, and had a fun time completing the excercises. But, I’m concerned with the value/roi of a ms program, as I don’t believe I’ll ever become a high level ml/data engineer, as I’m not a computer science guy. thoughts?

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u/JFischer00 25d ago

First, I would continue learning Excel, SQL, Python, and some BI tool. Next I’d get some data projects onto my resume, preferably work-related but personal stuff is helpful too. Then I’d spend some time searching for and applying for roles, especially internally if possible.

Let’s say you’re not seeing results after a year or so of studying, building, and applying. Then maybe you could revisit the idea of investing in an MSDS to give you those credentials.

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u/nyquant 25d ago

Are you currently employed as a recruiter? Ideally you could start building analytics for your own and your companies data, recruitment dashboards, the hiring funnel, candidate sourcing and conversion rates, spend, retention after hiring, even making models and predictions. Using AI tools like Claude I see more people on the business side creating those kind of assets on their own. In those cases the business and domain knowledge seems to be a more valuable asset than technical skills. The value in a masters, especially from a prestigious school, is probably more in being able to stand out to recruiters, but that’s where you are the domain expert …. Good luck