Conventional employee profile applications have promised much, but failed to deliver real business value.
According to analyst Leighanne Levensaler from Bersin and Associates: "While profile management may seem like just another "bell or whistle" feature set promoted by marketing teams, we believe it is a critical aspect of this juggernaut called integrated talent management... Profile management is a key system feature to support integrated talent planning and management." She says "Halogen customers will not have to worry" about the current problems with existing employee profiles; Halogen "does a great job!"
Your Talent Profiles should allow your professional service organization to:
- Capture any and all data that’s important to your firm – not just a limited number of preconfigured fields
- Create highly secure and flexible views of your profiles so everyone in your firm sees (edits) the appropriate information
- Create workflow around profile completion and upkeep to ensure information is kept current
- Easily find exactly what you're looking for with advanced and intuitive searching and comparison capabilities
Learn About Your Employees' "Hidden" Talents
Unlike other employee profile offerings on the market today, Halogen's next generation Talent Profile's are completely configurable, so you can gather any and all data that's important to your firm, including things like:
- Career aspirations
- Past appraisals, talent assessments, training and compensation history (with content pulled from Halogen modules)
- Formal education, professional certifications and language skills
- Work history
- Community involvement, hobbies and interests
- Photos
- And any thing else that's relevant to your firm!
Keep Talent Profiles Up-to-Date and Engage Your Workforce
To be truly useful, talent profiles need to give you the information you need, and be complete and up-to-date - something traditional employee profiles have failed to deliver. With Halogen eAppraisal Professional Services' Talent Profiles, your firm can:
- Include a step in your appraisal or talent assessment process, or create a separate process, inviting or requiring employees to update their Talent Profiles
- Send automated email reminders to those who haven't yet completed the task
- Easily track the level of completion of profiles
Firm employees get an easy to use, self-service interface where they can communicate their broad capabilities and experience, career aspirations and more. HR, firm management, team leaders and decision-makers get one-stop access to relevant, current information to support important talent decisions.
Share Information While Maintaining Confidentiality and Security
Because of security limitations, most employee profile systems provide firms with only two profile views: a “public view" that is searchable by all employees but provides very limited information, and an administrator/manager view that shows sensitive, detailed talent information not appropriate for others to see.
Halogen eAppraisal™ Professional Services' robust security model lets you:
- Create as many customized views as you want/need
- Define exactly which profile categories each role or individual can view, update or search
- Make the value of your talent profiles available to project leaders, succession managers, mentors, hiring managers, various levels of administrators, etc.
- Ensure the confidentiality of the employee data
Identify the Best Internal Candidate Every Time
Creating a new project team that requires special knowledge or skills? Dealing with language or culture issues with an important client? Trying to identify the best candidate for an open position? Organizing a charity run?Halogen's role-based search functionality lets you easily search your Talent Profiles for a match. Searchers can:
- Search using keywords
- Easily set up more advanced and highly intuitive queries using particular categories to narrow results
- Do side-by-side comparisons of profiles, or groups of profiles
- Save the results or export them to another application for further analysis
Make More Informed Talent Decisions
Easily couple Talent Profile information with data from your talent management processes, and get the information you need to make more informed talent decisions - all from one central location. Because our suite is tightly integrated, managers can access Talent Profiles from any module, wherever they need to.
Gain a deeper and broader understanding of your employees' engagement in your firm and in their careers, as well as the experience, background and interests of your top performing employees.
Build organizational bench strength with better information on individual and organizational competencies, skills and gaps so you can define targeted development plans and chart your firm's success.
