Talent Navigator
Talent Navigator® is a web based tool that enables you to provide practical assistance to your employees to help them manage their careers more strategically.
With an increasing prevalence of those managing ‘portfolio careers’ where individuals are quick to move from company to company to gain new experiences, efforts to retain these employees can be hit and miss at best.
The Pathbuilder tool allows employees to explore progression options from a current role - selecting an option adds it to the current path and calculates further progression options.
Talent Navigator® identifies individual development needs for each step in their career path and between roles. This can be used at appraisal time to create focussed development plans and to highlight to managers where they need to create learning experiences for their people.
The About Me tool allows you to build a profile of your skills, experiences, qualifications and work preferences, which is compared with role information.
Through greater internal mobility, employers can reduce their spend on recruitment and other new hire costs. Time to competence and cultural orientation is also reduced with internal promotion. Even if employees aren't always 'moving up', cross functional movement creates more rounded employees and the relationships developed fosters greater team working.
Talent Navigator can help to stimulate their thinking about their next move and encourage them to make it internally.
The Pathfinder tool calculates possible progression paths to a chosen role.
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According top a recent employee satisfaction and retention survey conducted by Salary.com, the second most common reason for employees leaving was a lack of career advancement opportunities.
Talent Navigator® provides individuals a way to explore other roles in their own organisation, highlighting the gaps that may exist between their current level of skills, qualification and experience and those required by the role. In organisations where internal movement is highly competitive or even a role is highly sought after, those using Talent Navigator can identify how they can improve their chances of being offered a promotion by acting on the gaps identified.
As an employer, Talent Navigator can help you enable employees take more responsibility for planning their careers by suggesting options and career paths that they might not normally consider. This information, when used at appraisal time, can bring sharp focus to progression for an individual and provide structure around development planning and expectation setting.
In difficult times, reallocation of personnel to high growth areas is often a better route than redundancy. Talent Navigator can help employees in low growth or at risk areas identify for themselves how they could stay with the business.
Talent Navigator includes all of the management screens to allow for the input of your competency, qualifications and experience statements that would normally be found in role descriptions, plus anecdotal information about the role. In addition to this primarily ‘hard’ data, Talent Navigator also includes a ‘Preferences Inventory’ where factors such as work-life balance, autonomy, team working can be added to both roles and an employees self assessment. When using Talent Navigator to identify potential career options, these ‘softer’ factors also come into play.
Talent Navigator has been designed and developed primarily as an employee-oriented tool where they can experiment with career options and plans as they wish in confidence. However, Talent Navigator also provides the employer with information such as the number of active users, the most favourite career destination and the most favoured roles saved by users in their profiles. From this information, you can see in overview, how your employees are making use of the tool and how many aspiring CEOs you might have!
Of course not everyone wants to reach the top but to seek new opportunities to learn and develop their skills and experiences. Talent Navigator will allow users to search for role that provides just the opportunities that they are looking for.
With many organisations launching Talent Management initiatives and trying to engage employees by giving them the freedom, information and tools to manage their careers for themselves, Talent Navigator personalises to their role and preferences and allows them to make the sort of career planning decisions that you would encourage them to make for themselves.
Features for HR Administration
- Fully customisable frameworks for Skills (Competences), Qualifications, Experiences and Preferences
- Fully customisable role profiles and progression paths
- Dashboard to monitor usage and identify popular areas
- Supports structured progressions such as those used in the public sector e.g. Police
- Supports ‘matrix-managed’ organisational structures through use of organisational groupings such as Business Units or Areas
- Ability to integrate Talent Navigator® with an existing HR database to avoid unnecessary duplication and data entry, with Microsoft's Active Directory and with Talent 180® and Talent 360® to make a complete assessment and development planning suite.
Features for Users
- Own ‘MyPage’ for profile information, favourite roles, potential career paths
- Interactive and visual Path Builder tool to manage step by step career planning
- Path Finder tool to search for and recommend paths based on profile, preferences and search thresholds
- Role finder tool to search for: potential career destinations roles that develop certain skills, provide certain experiences, or gain qualifications.
- Development needs highlighted in reports generated for use in career planning
- Career options driven by employee-set work-life preferences
Talent Navigator® is quick and easy to set up and is available as either software for installation within your IT environment or as a ‘no-hassle’ hosted application.
Support for Talent Navigator® is only a phone call or a click away.
