Karl S Craven BSc. (Hons), EMEM, SHRM-SCP, founder & HR Director, shared his thoughts on the vitality of ISO 30414 after attending the “Competent in ISO 30414 Human Capital Reporting Standard” by HR Metrics, “Having learnt more about the standard, I recommend that every HR professional make reporting of these HR metrics in their top 5 priorities. Data analytics is the future of HR, especially in the new workplace environment and HR needs to speak the same language as the rest of the business. The ISO 30414 standard helps you achieve this; it provides you with meaningful business economics and puts HR issues front and foremost when developing an organizations future strategy.” Additional benefit of applying ISO 30414 is the transparency it allows the organization to cultivate for their shareholders. This is possible since using the qualitative and quantitative methods provided by the ISO 30414 enables the organization to have increased accountability and enhanced forecasting techniques.

HR Metrics, a consulting and training firm, is a pioneer in leading human capital analytics advisory techniques. HR Metrics provides the following services of competency-based SHRM certification, ISO global HR Standards Certification and audit, HR data, analytics, diversity & inclusion management tools to optimize organizational performance. The ISO 30414 Human Capital Reporting Guidelines Standard introduced by HR Metrics provides the following organizational gap analysis audit services on human capital reporting standard, consulting and training on human capital reporting standard, technology solution to implement human capital reporting standard. Karl Craven attended the session “Competent in ISO 30414 Human Capital Reporting Standard” after which he commented that “It is not very often that a training program can fundamentally change the way you approach your professional life in such a positive way, but after undertaking this course on the ISO 30414 guidelines for internal and external human capital reporting I will now be making significant changes to the way I measure HR successes in business.”

Karl has spent two-thirds of his career residing in expatriate HR roles often with a wider geographical region responsibility. With a 20+ year long career focused in international human resources, he is one of the most experienced individuals in the field of HR. Working primarily within the natural resources sector but also in chemicals, security, media and construction industries. Having graduated university in 1997 with a BSc in Biological Sciences with Mathematics, he started his career in Human Resources with Halliburton on an international pensions project but over time broadened his exposure to cover all the main HR disciplines. Strongly believing in continuous development and Karl has self-financed most of his own education up to and including his Executive Masters program with premier management schools in Norway and France (BI, IFP & ESCP). An active member of many HR professional charters who recently obtained the Senior Certified Professional qualification with the Society of HRM (SCP-SHRM). Karl’s passion is to transfer best practices to HR service delivery and to bring transparency to otherwise complex processes. Culturally astute, innovative and he approaches HR from a win-win perspective first.