Talent Assessment
Precision in Knowing Your People's Capabilities
Unlock Workforce Potential with Talent Assessment
With TalentGuard’s Talent Assessment software, gain precise insights into your employees’ capabilities.By evaluating a wide range of factors—including skills, competencies, behavioral indicators, experiences, qualifications, certifications, and work-style preferences—TalentGuard’s Talent Assessment helps you leverage current talents effectively and strategically plan for future growth, ensuring your workforce is always aligned with your business goals.
Increase Skill Acquisition Rate
Increase the skills acquisition rate by over 50% in just 6 months by implementing targeted upskilling programs that focus on the most in-demand skills. By aligning training with business needs, employees acquire the competencies that are critical to your organization’s success, driving faster and more effective skill development.
Increase Upskilling Impact
Increase upskilling impact by 60% with a platform that enhances employee skills directly contributes to business productivity. By delivering personalized learning experiences and real-time skill assessments, the platform ensures that upskilling efforts translate into measurable improvements in business outcomes.
Boost Job Readiness Index
Boost your organization’s job readiness index to 70% within 6 months with targeted and personalized development programs. These programs are designed to equip employees with the skills and competencies required for their next career steps.
TalentGuard Product Features
With TalentGuard’s Talent Assessment solution, understand your employees talents and ensure their potential is fully realized.
Talent Assessment
Evaluate skills or behavioral indicators, experiences, qualifications or work-style preferences.
Assessment Verification
Allow managers to verify employee skills and provide feedback for coaching.
Gap Analysis
Identify skill gaps based on employee and manager assessment ratings.
Coaching Conversations
Track skill history and employee and manager conversations focused on skill and career development.
Skill-Based Learning
Prescribe curated learning paths based on true skill gaps. Automatically serve up a single view of training aggregated across multiple learning platforms.
Talent Insights
Deep insights and reporting for employees, managers and HR to support data-driven workforce decisions.
Explore the TalentGuard product features that will shape your talent—discover our Talent Assessment features in detail and unlock employee potential.
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Talent Assessment
Assessment Types
- Assess skills, experience, qualifications, certifications and preferences.
- Assess skill types including technical, soft and leadership.
- Gain insight into various skill types:
- Job skills (skills related to an employee’s current job
- Key skills (skills an employee gained throughout their entire career)
- Aspirational skills (skills an employees wishes to develop)
Role-Based Assessment
- Employees can assess their skills and competencies against their current job role, ensuring alignment with organizational expectations and performance standards.
Skill Evolution Tracking
- Innovative tracking of skill and proficiency evolution over time, providing proactive recommendations to meet future demands and market changes.
Target Level Comparison
- Employees can assess whether their skills are above, below, or at the target level set for their job role, providing clear insights into areas that require development or enhancement.
LinkedIn Integration
- By adding their LinkedIn profile, employees can seamlessly import their professional data. TalentGuard’s AI then infers additional skills from the LinkedIn profile, providing a more comprehensive skill assessment.
Check-In Flexibility
- The self-assessment tool allows for regular check-ins, enabling employees to monitor their progress and make adjustments as needed. This continuous self-evaluation supports proactive career management.
Manager Verification
Manager Verification
- Skills are verified by managers to highlight any gaps between self-perception and manager ratings.
Skill Status
- Easily track the status of skills, including those that are updated, agreed upon, pending, or marked as disagreed.
Ongoing Feedback
- Regular feedback from managers helps employees continuously improve and stay aligned with organizational expectations.
Alignment and Goal Setting
- The process identifies areas for alignment and facilitates goal setting, ensuring employees’ development plans are strategic and effective.
Development Insights
- Provides clear insights into the skills and behaviors that need development, helping employees focus on their growth areas.
Gap Analysis
Current and Future Skill Needs
- The gap analysis identifies not only the current skills required but also anticipates future skills that will be crucial for your organization’s success.
Industry Benchmark Comparisons
- Compare those ratings to industry benchmark targets of “like people” in the role.
Personalized Upskilling Recommendations
- Based on the identified skill gaps, employees receive personalized recommendations for upskilling. A skills ‘gap’ is the difference between a person’s current level of proficiency and that required by their profile.
Career Progression Insights
- The tool provides valuable insights into career progression opportunities. Employees can see clear paths for growth within the organization, supported by the skills and capabilities they need to develop.
Capability-Based Learning
Learning Paths
- Recommended learning paths based on true skill gaps. Serve up a single view of training aggregated across multiple learning platforms and vendors to close gaps and improve employee development.
Aspirational Skill Marking
- Employees can mark specific skills as aspirational, indicating their desire to develop these skills further. This feature helps employees be considered for gigs, assignments, or projects that managers assign to foster skill development.
Visibility for Development Opportunities
- Employees with marked aspirational skills are easily identifiable by managers for relevant gigs, assignments, or projects designed to develop those skills.
Targeted Development
- By identifying critical skills for different roles, the tool directs employees’ development efforts towards areas that have the greatest impact.
Empower Your Most Critical Talent Decisions with Precision
In today’s fast-moving business environment, choosing the right talent can differentiate between stagnation and breakthrough growth. Talent assessment tools powered by TalentGuard Assess give you the precision you need, combining quantitative skill assessments with qualitative behavioral indicators. Our talent assessment platform empowers you to replace intuition with data-driven insights—so every hiring, promotion, and development choice is grounded in solid evidence.
Our talent assessment platform seamlessly integrates with your existing HRIS and LMS systems to create a unified view of each employee’s capabilities. TalentGuard flexes to match your priorities—technical know-how, leadership promise, or cultural cohesion—so you can cut turnover, speed up onboarding, and assemble top-tier teams in no time.
Transform Your Talent Strategy with Assessment Insights
Talent assessment tools aren’t just for gauging current skills—they’re the cornerstone of a data-driven talent strategy. TalentGuard Assess shines a light on skill gaps, career goals, and readiness for what’s next—so you can build tailored development plans that drive each person’s growth in line with your organization’s big-picture goals.
Pair your assessment data with best practices from our Building the Best Team guide and watch engagement soar. By turning raw assessment outputs into actionable intelligence, you can deploy talent more strategically—whether that means upskilling high-potential employees, reallocating resources for critical projects, or identifying emerging leaders.
Design a Future-Ready Workforce with Insights from TalentGuard Assess
Creating a future-ready team begins with a clear picture of current capabilities and future needs. With our skill assessment software, you reveal hidden strengths and untapped potential, then design customized learning paths for every individual. The outcome is accelerated skill gains, lower turnover, and a culture committed to continuous growth.
TalentGuard’s talent assessment solution goes beyond point-in-time snapshots. Advanced analytics track skill evolution over months and years, giving you trend-line visibility into how competencies grow—and where new gaps may emerge. With this insight, you can proactively design career frameworks that adapt as your industry and business goals evolve.
HOW WE HELP YOU
TalentGuard Assess delivers an end-to-end talent management assessment toolkit designed to meet every stage of the employee lifecycle. From self-service skill checks to manager-verified ratings and AI-driven gap analysis, our platform turns complex data into explicit, strategic action.
Discover Comprehensive Talent Assessment Insights
Our talent analytics engine transforms hundreds of data points into intuitive dashboards and reports. Track progress against skill benchmarks, compare teams or departments, and spot high-potential individuals ready for stretch assignments. With skill assessment software built into every stage, you’ll never have to guess at talent readiness again.
Whether you’re rolling out company-wide competency models or fine-tuning niche technical skills, TalentGuard Assess adapts to your needs. Customizable scorecards and heat maps let you slice and dice data by location, business unit, or demographic—so your talent strategy always stays aligned with real-time organizational priorities.
Leverage Robust Assessment Data and Talent Analytics
Raw scores are just the starting point. TalentGuard aggregates self-assessments, manager ratings, and AI-inferred skills (via LinkedIn integration) into a unified competency map for each employee. Our talent assessment software then uses predictive analytics to recommend the best actions—targeted training, mentoring, or project assignments.
With this level of analytics sophistication, you can forecast skill shortfalls months in advance. Are you planning a digital transformation? TalentGuard Assess shows you exactly which teams need upskilling and which employees can lead the change—so you can allocate L&D resources where they’ll have the most significant impact.
Build Data-Driven Development Strategies to Improve Performance
Data without direction is just noise. That’s why TalentGuard’s gap analysis engine translates skill discrepancies into prioritized development plans. By tagging each competency with business impact, you’ll focus on closing the gaps that matter most to your bottom line.
Our platform surfaces weekly and monthly progress reports for every employee, giving managers the insights they need to coach effectively. Over time, these data-driven development strategies compound into sustained performance gains—and measurable ROI for your talent investments.
Leadership Identification and Development
Identifying future leaders is a critical competitive advantage. TalentGuard Assess’s leadership identification module measures your team against proven leadership traits—like strategic thinking, emotional intelligence, and change management—so your top scorers feed directly into your executive pipeline, complete with stretch assignments and tailored mentorship.
Coupled with ongoing readiness assessments, you’ll have a real-time view of leadership bench strength at every level. This empowers you to make succession decisions confidently and minimize risk during transitions.
Organizational Alignment and Agility
When your people’s skills are transparent and up to date, alignment between strategy and execution becomes second nature. TalentGuard Assess synchronizes skill data with corporate goals, so every department knows what capabilities to build next. This creates an agile workforce that can pivot swiftly—whether in response to market shifts, competitive pressures, or emerging technologies.
Dynamic dashboards let you monitor alignment scores across teams and geographies. Spot misalignments early and deploy targeted development campaigns to bring everyone back on track.
Ready to unlock the power of assessment data?
It’s never been easier to turn raw talent data into strategic advantage. Schedule a personalized demo of our talent assessment solution to see firsthand how TalentGuard Assess can revolutionize your workforce decisions.
Your Talent Strategy. Connected.
More than just a tool, TalentGuard unifies assessment, development, mobility, and analytics into a single platform—eliminating silos and powering a cohesive talent ecosystem that drives engagement and performance.
Unleashing Potential with TalentGuard Assess
The ultimate goal of any talent assessment platform is to unlock hidden potential. TalentGuard Assess gives you the flexible frameworks, robust data, and predictive insights you need to cultivate high-impact talent at every level of your organization.
Assess for Selection & Mobility
Make internal mobility as seamless as external hiring. Our talent management assessment tools allow you to match employees to open roles based on real competency data—not just resume keywords. This accelerates placements, reduces time-to-fill, and keeps your top performers engaged.
Assess for Readiness & Leadership Potential
How do you know when someone is ready to take the next step? TalentGuard’s readiness assessments evaluate current performance, growth mindset, adaptability, and influence. This multidimensional picture helps you cultivate resilient leaders who thrive in complex environments.
Assess for Targeted Career Development
Personalized career paths start with granular skill data. Our skills assessment software identifies each employee’s unique learning needs and career aspirations and recommends curated learning journeys across multiple platforms. The result? Higher completion rates, deeper engagement, and an evolving workforce.
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