Talent mapping is a strategic service that is used by businesses to plan for short, medium and long-term talent acquisition.
Talent mapping is a technique that charts individuals’ skills and abilities, assesses their performance and potential and matches them with human resources planning strategies to balance an organization’s talent and needs.
Talent mapping enables an organization to determine strategies for future talent acquisition, including internal promotions, likely short- and long-term talent acquisition needs and development of existing talent to meet future talent needs.
Mapping for the future
Using talent mapping is important to an organization’s talent management strategy because it looks beyond the current recruitment and organizational structure to envision what will be needed at various future stages. In order to be ready to meet future challenges, the type of assessment provided by talent mapping is vital.
If an organization seeks to grow in size as well as improve its talent management strategies, talent mapping can provide an effective way to prepare for growth, to foster it, and to help it along.
Benefits of Talent Mapping
• Clarify the likely/possible requirements of your business, and who the most suited candidates are in the market for those positions
• Create candidate profiles for your organization based on the actions of competitors in the market
• Research the company structures of growing businesses and the people in them, to understand their strategies and how they are driving growth
• Understand the incentives used to attract top talent
• Set realistic and achievable standards and benchmarks based on the market
• Identify all the potential hires for a specific role
• Refine your view of who your competitors for talent are and how this landscape is likely to change