The latest webinar from The HR World, sponsored by Cognisses Talent Analytics, part of the DeepLearn Group, brought together three experienced individuals on HR data and analytics to discuss how talent analytics could up the game for HR on early careers and more general talent management. Understanding Your Talent Needs Before The Search gave an insight into ideas and practices for HR which would make the most of the data their departments already generate resulting in smoother talent management practices.
Cian Short, Early Years Career Manager for the Irish company Kepak explained how his business had already started to engage with analytics in order to identify the potential of newcomers to the company as well as beginning to map out their training needs and career path across the organisation. Johanna Reategui, Client Services Director from Cognisess was on hand to explain the process behind using analytics while Ross Crook, Chief Revenue Officer at Lifetime Training gave a view from the senior end of the HR spectrum, outlining the strategic thought and investment that needed to supporting the effective implementation and use of talent analytics across organisations.
Between the three of them the panelists demonstrated how HR already has copious amounts of useful data that can be drawn upon to give insight into many aspects of talent management – identifying skills and skills gaps before they are required – rather than simply recording what has already occurred.
Organisations already engaged in this work are driving towards being able to strategically plan their workforces, reflecting and tying employees into the needs of the business as that changes and develops. It was also noted that sometimes accessing and carrying out the necessary analytical work can cause a pause in the recruitment process but it can sometimes be more desirable to take that time and ensure you are recruiting the right talent in the right way and onboarding or managing that talent effectively, than simply bringing in the most likely looking candidate as soon as possible.
Whatever stage you may be on the road of talent analytics this webinar provides a comprehensive and valuable insight into how companies can make analytics work – from every perspective. As AI takes an ever larger role in the recruitment process analytics will continue to play an important role in supporting the human decision maker whose responsibility it is to ensure the organisation always gets the talent it requires.
