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Talent management

As workforce demographics change and the labor pool shrinks, the competition for talent is increasing. Attracting, hiring and retaining top talent is now critical to a company’s success.  Companies that effectively manage talent can not only achieve bottom line savings on employee-related costs such as hiring and turnover, but also can drive powerful top-line results as well. By aligning their sourcing activities with corporate objectives, organizations can ensure that they have the right employees to execute and help the organization achieve its goals. For many organizations, however, talent management exists as a series of fragmented processes with little connection to overall corporate goals and objectives. Without that connection, companies are missing an opportunity to strengthen their human capital and are putting themselves at a strategic disadvantage in the marketplace.

Empagio service: understanding top performer competencies

Empagio Talent Management gives companies the tools to they need to align their employee sourcing and staffing activities with corporate goals and objectives. The system clearly links open positions to required competency sets, and those same competency sets to organizational goals. With competencies linked to positions, companies can use Empagio’s integrated talent management tools to identify, source, and evaluate candidates based on those competency sets. This ensures that companies are sourcing the right competencies to support current and future business initiatives. Furthermore, with Empagio’s integrated system, hiring managers can review performance data of top performers for each position, capture the competency sets of top performers, and use those competency sets as templates for new hires. This not only ensures that new hires will have the skills to meet corporate goals, but also that they have the skills to truly excel. Empagio Talent Management achieves this through a complete set of integrated tools that cover the entire candidate lifecycle, from requisitioning to orientation.

We provide the following solutions:

• Job requisitioning – define and manage job requirements and skills/competencies
• Internal and external applicant sourcing – advertise available jobs and match candidates to positions
• Online job application – apply for jobs online
• Applicant tracking – track job applicants through the hiring process
• Applicant screening and interviewing – preliminary online screening and evaluation tools
• Pre-employment testing – test applicant skills and competencies
• Employment offers/selection – send out employment offers to selected candidates
• Background checks/drug tests – provide criminal, driving and educational record checks and drug testing for employment candidates
• Employee orientation – e-orientations, employee handbooks and guides for new employees
• Succession planning – ability to develop succession plans for key leadership positions within the organization and identify viable successors

As a complement to our talent management solutions, we offer a full range of services designed to allow our clients to maximize the value of their talent management investment. Our consultants work with clients to configure their system to meet unique client needs and develop client-specific requirements. The services we offer include:

• Position – competency matching
• Job requirement development
• Position development
• Developing competency models

Flexible and extensible

Empagio Talent Management can be used as either a stand-alone module or as a part of Empagio’s integrated Human Resource/Human Capital Management suite. For customers who chose to begin with Talent Management, adding additional Human Capital Management modules is simple. Since the suite is fully integrated, the competencies and positions developed in Talent Management flow seamlessly into all other modules, shortening the implementation time and learning curve of additional modules and allowing you to easily extend your investment in your company’s human capital.