Python for HR — resume screening, HRIS exports, engagement analytics
Screening 400 resumes is not what any HRBP signed up for. Python reads them, ranks them, hands you the top 20.
HR sits on the richest people data in the company and the worst tooling to work with it. Every core system — HRIS, ATS, engagement survey vendor, learning platform — has an API nobody in HR uses because 'that's engineering'. So the analyses that would actually move retention (which manager cohort predicts attrition, which onboarding step correlates with 90-day performance, which comp band has the widest gender gap) never get run.
Python is the exit. Automation lessons: requests + REST API pulls from BambooHR/Workday/Greenhouse/CultureAmp, pandas for the join, openai/anthropic SDK for rubric-graded resume screening (blind-review structured output, not chatbot vibe-check), openpyxl for the deck. Foundations for the syntax underneath. First 15 lessons free, browser-based (no laptop admin needed).