Last date for submission of paper: unknown; Contact person: Beatrice Kairu; Human resource (HR) executives, managers, and specialists need a set of tools to show how to connect HR to the business, how to predict the value of HR projects and programs, and how to optimize the value of human capital. HR analytics is a talent management process that allows the HR executives, managers, etc., to identify the capabilities or core competencies they want and need in their business. Once they know those capabilities are; they can analyze their current staff members to see if they have any capability gaps. Knowing what skills, they need and what they already have in their business via analytics process can alert them to issues they may not have been aware of so they can retrain or support individuals to close those gaps more effectively.