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The 21st Century Human resource Management is becoming more efficient with the best utilization of advancements in technology and automation of data. Organizations are now striving for much intelligent decisions right from finding a talent to retaining a talent. And the automation of data which in other words is known as HR Analytics has played an instrumental role in helping HR managers take intelligent as well as informed decisions. HR departments generally collect a vast data of their employees but many times it happens that the collected data remains unused and does not serve the purpose for which it is collected. HR analytics leads to the correct usage of this data and makes the HR department data driven. With the help of HR analytics the decisions can be taken based on numbers and logical reasoning rather than intuitions as it helps to convert data into information and information into insight. HR analytics if applied accurately to various functions of HR, can predict some really effective outcomes. In the mentioned context the paper aims to understand the concept of evidence based HR, concept of HR Analytics along with its importance, benefits and barriers and various types of HR Analytics. It was concluded that if HR professionals are equipped with the knowledge of analytics and if all the types of HR Analytics are practiced with utmost precision then an organization can overcome all the barriers to its implementation and gain a lot of benefits from this process and add on to its productivity as well as profitability.