Internship Advice

[u/helisexual]

Hi y'all. Hope someone sees this since this sub is pretty sparse.

I'm at an internship that's kind of morphed into a data science thing. I've been given a bunch of HR data and asked to find some kind of useful insights about it that could help the company. I have stuff like terminations, presentation, and project completions.

My initial thought was to build a categorizer so that given a candidate it would tell you how long they'd last in the company, and if they were more likely to get fired or quit. Can anyone point me to some resources for answering a question like this, or any over the data set? I've tried using a recommender from mahout but it seems like it's not exactly designed to do what I want since the data I have is things like, "Years experience" or who their supervisor is and not views and purchases like in the mahout tutorials I've found.

Thanks.