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The Story Behind the Stats: Influence With Talent Insights

Your dashboards are full of numbers—but it’s the story behind those numbers that drives change. This mission teaches you how to translate time-to-hire, pipeline health, conversion rates, and other talent metrics into clear, human stories. You’ll discover how to use narrative to highlight risks, opportunities, and trade-offs so stakeholders understand the “why” behind your data and feel compelled to act.

Skills

Communication

Use Case

Interviewer Recruiter

Presenters Presented By

Salma El-Wardany

SocialTalent Expert

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Salma El-Wardany

SocialTalent Expert

Salma El-Wardany is a business owner, 2x TEDx speaker, and writer. Her work centers around diversity and inclusion and she fights to change the narrative of marginalized groups. She is the founder of Digitally Human, a marketing business that works with companies to attract diverse talent and build inclusive employer brands.

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Learning Outcomes

By the end of the Mission you will be able to:

Diagnose why dashboards and reports often fail to influence stakeholders, and replace them with story-led explanations of your data.

Analyse recruiting metrics to find patterns, friction points, and opportunities that form the backbone of a clear, compelling narrative.

Build data stories that link numbers to business impact, using structure and context so your insights are easy to understand and act on.

Present talent insights in conversations, emails, and meetings in a way that builds credibility, drives decisions, and keeps people engaged.

Courses in this Mission

Dashboards don’t persuade people on their own—this course explains why. You’ll unpack the gaps between what you see in your recruiting data and what stakeholders hear. Then you’ll learn how to move beyond charts and tables by framing your metrics as a narrative: what’s happening, why it matters, and what needs to change.

In this course, you’ll learn how to find the story hiding inside your talent metrics. You’ll practice spotting patterns, tension points, and opportunities in your data, then translate them into simple, human stories that leaders can quickly understand. The focus is on turning time-to-hire, conversion rates, and pipeline health into messages that capture attention and motivate action.

This course gives you a practical toolkit for telling better data stories, again and again. You’ll walk through templates, prompts, and habits that help you shape insights into clear narratives for emails, meetings, and presentations. By the end, you’ll have repeatable frameworks for turning any recruiting report into a data story that lands with confidence and impact.