Talent Mobility Measured

The sharp upswing in adoption of mobile technologies makes it seem like everyone is on the move. But is that same level of mobility also reflected in current internal talent mobility programs and supporting talent management software?

A Taleo survey of 500 HR decision makers in large UK businesses identified both challenges and opportunities for using talent mobility initiatives to drive business performance and growth.  Click here for the full report.

Among the key findings:

  • 61% of respondents believe they are effective at the vertical movement of people compared to 52% for horizontal movement of people between departments or business functions and just 29% for the geographical movement of people into different sites, regions or countries.
     
  • Only 58% of growth companies think they have the best people in the right places to drive growth. On average 40% of employees in growth companies could be deployed effectively elsewhere in the company, taking into account their capabilities and career aspirations.
     
  • The top three barriers to improving talent mobility relate to technological and systematic shortcomings – specifically, a lack of visibility into talent gaps and opportunities (31%), a lack of systems / technology to support talent mobility initiatives (31%) and the quality and reliability of employee talent data (30%).
     
  • One-half (51%) of organizations has no individual talent profiles and more than one-third (37%) have talent profiles that include post-hire data only.
     
  • Those companies that reported having excellent talent mobility technology also report advantage on a number of key business measures, including the quality of leadership pipeline (76%), employee engagement rates (76%) and ability to drive change / business growth (75%).
     

Talent Mobility Technology and Business Metrics

Talent MobilityAs the 2011 Talent Mobility in the UK survey showed, those organizations that have strong talent mobility technology are significantly stronger in key areas of business impact. Effective talent mobility is an important lever for organizations to improve retention, employee engagement, and productivity. Yet many companies lack good information and Talent Intelligence on the people they employ.

Our streamlined mobile communications technology should be matched with strategic talent mobility practices supported by state-of-the-art talent management solutions.

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