How RSS feeds and News Readers can help Compensation & Benefits

Today I want to share a little bit of web advice, in the form of RSS feeds and how to use them in Compensation & Benefits. What is an RSS feed and how to use it ? RSS feeds allow you to stay up to date with the latest news and updates from your favourite…

Percentiles – an easy way to “figure it out”

This Sunday Skills is about percentiles. It is a very useful concept in Compensation & Benefits, yet I have struggled to find an easy-to-understand definition of it and how to easily “calculate” it. This article in Connexions explains that today there is not an agreed definition of percentile, in the sense that it can be…

How to use Concatenate in Excel

In the previous instalment of Sunday Skills, I shared how to use Text to Columns in order to “split” columns of information. Today, let me demonstrate the “opposite”, using the Concatenate function in order to “merge” multiple cells, with text and/or numbers, into a single cell. This will be useful if you have a first…

How to use Text to Columns in Excel

The text to column function in Exel lets you “split” a column of organised data into multiple ones. Let’s take the example of participating to a compensation survey. You need to provide employee name, employee title and employee date of birth. The date of birth should be in format YY, ie only 2 digits for…

Compensation Data vs Compensation Intelligence

A few months ago at the request of one of my HR colleagues, I did a little informal presentation on the topic of “Data is not the same as Intelligence” to her team. Her challenge was that her department was tracking a lot of information, but no-one was finding it relevant or useful. They were…