Application Guide

How to Apply for People Analytics Analyst

at AECOM

🏢 About AECOM

AECOM is a global infrastructure consulting firm that stands out for its commitment to sustainable development and innovative solutions across transportation, water, energy, and environmental projects. Working here means contributing to legacy-building projects like the Los Angeles Metro expansion or London's Crossrail, with a company culture that values technical excellence and social responsibility. Their remote-first approach allows professionals to impact global infrastructure while maintaining work-life balance.

About This Role

This People Analytics Analyst role serves as the operational backbone for AECOM's employee experience measurement, specifically managing their Qualtrics platform to gather insights that shape HR and client experience strategies. You'll transform raw survey data into actionable visualizations that influence decisions about employee engagement, retention, and process improvements across a global workforce of 50,000+. This position directly supports AECOM's strategic goal of being an 'employer of choice' in the competitive infrastructure sector.

💡 A Day in the Life

Your morning might begin by reviewing Qualtrics helpdesk tickets from APAC colleagues, then programming a multilingual pulse survey for a major infrastructure project team. After lunch, you'd analyze last month's engagement data to create Tableau dashboards for HR business partners, followed by testing a new integration between Qualtrics and AECOM's HRIS before documenting the process. The day typically ends with a virtual stand-up with the global People Analytics team to align on priorities.

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🎯 Who AECOM Is Looking For

  • Has hands-on Qualtrics administration experience including survey programming, user access management, and UAT processes—not just survey design
  • Can demonstrate specific examples of transforming HR or employee data into Tableau/Power BI visualizations that drove business decisions
  • Shows experience managing data integrations between HRIS systems (like Workday or SAP SuccessFactors) and experience management platforms
  • Possesses project management skills for moderately complex tasks like system integrations or process improvements, with documentation examples

📝 Tips for Applying to AECOM

1

Quantify your Qualtrics experience: mention specific survey volumes (e.g., 'programmed 15+ employee pulse surveys reaching 5,000+ respondents monthly') and integration projects

2

Highlight infrastructure/engineering industry experience if you have it—AECOM values understanding their technical workforce's unique needs

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Include a portfolio link showing 2-3 data visualization samples relevant to HR analytics (anonymized if necessary)

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Reference AECOM's 'Sustainable Legacies' strategy in your application materials to show you've researched their corporate priorities

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Emphasize remote collaboration experience since this role supports global teams across time zones

✉️ What to Emphasize in Your Cover Letter

['Your specific Qualtrics administration experience including technical skills like API integrations, survey logic programming, and user permission management', 'Examples where your data analysis identified trends that improved employee experience or operational efficiency in previous roles', "How your skills align with AECOM's sustainability focus—perhaps through analyzing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) employee metrics", 'Experience managing moderately complex projects while maintaining data integrity across multiple systems']

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🔍 Research Before Applying

To stand out, make sure you've researched:

  • → AECOM's 'Sustainable Legacies' strategy and their 2023 ESG report to understand their employee engagement priorities
  • → Their major infrastructure projects (like high-speed rail or water management systems) to appreciate their workforce composition
  • → Recent news about AECOM's workplace awards or HR initiatives to reference in interviews
  • → Their technology stack mentions in job descriptions to understand potential integration points with Qualtrics

💬 Prepare for These Interview Topics

Based on this role, you may be asked about:

1 Walk me through your process for programming a complex employee engagement survey in Qualtrics with skip logic and multiple languages
2 Describe a time you identified a data quality issue in HR systems and how you resolved it while maintaining compliance
3 How would you approach integrating Qualtrics with AECOM's existing HR systems while minimizing disruption to global operations?
4 Share an example where your data visualization helped stakeholders understand employee sentiment trends and led to specific actions
5 How do you balance the need for detailed employee feedback with survey fatigue in a technical organization like AECOM?
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⚠️ Common Mistakes to Avoid

  • Only discussing survey design experience without demonstrating Qualtrics administration skills like user access management or system integrations
  • Presenting generic HR analytics examples instead of specific, quantified impacts on employee experience or business outcomes
  • Failing to acknowledge the remote nature of the role and not demonstrating experience with virtual collaboration tools and self-management

📅 Application Timeline

This position is open until filled. However, we recommend applying as soon as possible as roles at mission-driven organizations tend to fill quickly.

Typical hiring timeline:

1

Application Review

1-2 weeks

2

Initial Screening

Phone call or written assessment

3

Interviews

1-2 rounds, usually virtual

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