Eightfold Profile

Eightfold is a technology company based in Northern California that specializes in applying deep-learning artificial intelligence (AI) to predict the next job in an individual’s career. Eightfold’s career data includes more than one billion unique talent profiles that cover a large and representative sample of the world’s workforce.3 Eightfold’s AI technology normalizes the information in a talent profile and uses AI to analyze its contents and add enrichment. As a part of this enrichment, Eightfold detects the career- related skills each individual has added over time along with the relative seniority level of each role they have held.4

1. Team composition and skills help drive the maturity of a people analytics function—but they also raise new questions.

Not surprisingly, people analytics practitioners’ skills and backgrounds are an important factor of people analytics success in organizations.5 In our most recent High-Impact People Analytics study, we found higher- performing organizations support the development of people analytics practitioners through specific career paths and focused learning opportunities. We also found people analytics teams comprised of individuals with more diverse professional and educational backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives tend to drive greater business- and workforce-related impact.6

These findings raise new questions, particularly about the specific skills and backgrounds of current people analytics professionals and how to enhance them. But instead of conducting another organizational survey,