Excel for HR Professionals Course in Singapore

This Excel for HR course in Singapore turns raw people data into clear, defensible insight. Over two hands-on classroom days, you will learn to clean, manage, analyse and visualise workforce data in Microsoft Excel 365 — moving HR teams beyond static spreadsheets to genuine people analytics that managers can act on.

Designed for HR professionals, the programme covers HR metrics, PivotTables for workforce analysis, interactive dashboards and even basic hypothesis testing to validate your HR strategies. From employee turnover trends to recruitment funnels, you will leave able to deliver data-backed answers on headcount, attrition, payroll, leave and hiring.

What You Will Learn

• Understand the key HR metrics — turnover, absenteeism, cost per hire, training ROI — and how they drive data-driven decisions.
• Clean and prepare messy HR data with text functions such as TRIM, PROPER and SUBSTITUTE, plus Flash Fill and de-duplication.
• Apply essential formulas for people analytics, including IF, XLOOKUP, COUNTIF, SUMIF and AVERAGEIF, to pull and calculate employee details.
• Use descriptive statistics — average, median, mode and standard deviation — to summarise salaries, ages and training hours.
• Build PivotTables with grouping, binning and slicers to report on headcount, attendance and attrition by department, gender or employment type.
• Create charts and interactive dashboards with KPIs and slicers to visualise workforce trends for management.
• Protect sensitive HR data with cell, sheet and workbook locking, and enforce clean entry with data validation.

Who Should Attend

This course suits anyone who works with HR data and wants to present meaningful, accurate information to management.

• HR executives, managers and business partners.
• HR analysts and people-analytics practitioners.
• Talent acquisition and recruitment specialists.
• Compensation, benefits, reward and payroll professionals.
• Admin professionals and anyone performing HR functions day to day.

Prerequisites

• Comfortable using a computer and navigating Windows.
• Basic, everyday familiarity with Microsoft Excel.
• Some HR background or exposure to HR work is helpful but not essential.

Course Outline

Day 1 — Foundations of Excel for HR Analytics

• Introduction to HR analytics — the role of people analytics in workforce planning, and the key HR metrics Excel helps you measure.
• Excel refresher for HR teams — efficient navigation, data entry and formatting, plus time-saving shortcuts tailored to HR scenarios.
• Managing and cleaning HR data — formatting text, numbers, dates and currencies; tidying messy records with text functions, Flash Fill and de-duplication.
• Sorting, filtering and conditional formatting — sort tenure within departments, filter for expiring contracts or certifications, and highlight absenteeism or contract expiry visually.
• Descriptive statistics for HR — apply AVERAGE, MEDIAN, MODE.SNGL and STDEV.P to ages, salaries and training hours.
• Core formulas for HR analysis — IF, COUNTIF, SUMIF and AVERAGEIF, when to choose XLOOKUP over VLOOKUP, and an introduction to trend analysis.

Day 2 — Advanced Analytics, Reporting & Dashboards

• PivotTables for HR reporting — analyse headcount, turnover and attendance; group and bin by age, service or salary; add slicers and run simple hypothesis testing on HR data.
• HR data visualisation — choose the right chart type and build trend charts for attrition, headcount growth and budget-versus-actual training spend.
• Building HR dashboards — design interactive dashboards with PivotCharts, slicers and form controls for recruitment, engagement and manpower planning.
• Protecting and sharing HR data — lock cells, sheets and workbooks, and use data validation dropdowns for roles and departments.
• Real-world case studies — turnover and exit-trend analysis, an appraisal summary with VLOOKUP and PivotTables, and a filterable recruitment dashboard.

Funding & Certification

This is a WSQ-funded, SkillsFuture-eligible programme for those who qualify, and NTUC members may use UTAP to offset part of the remaining fee. Training is led by Intellisoft’s founder and Master Trainer, Vinai Prakash. Corporate runs for teams of 15 or more can be arranged at your premises or ours.