I have several years experience in business and analysis, using tools such as Excel, Access, SQL, as well as BI tools. I'm learning predictive modeling and how to use R. I begin about a year ago with both. My goals are to more accurately predict who will retire or voluntarily resign from my organization. I am interested in both accuracy at the aggrregate level (total number of retirements or resignations by various demographic attrributes such as department and job type) and at the individual level (probability that a person will retire or resign).