Talent Assessment
Decision-Grade Talent Assessment
Measure capability in a way leaders can trust. TalentGuard combines skill and behavioral assessments with manager verification, role-based targets, and readiness signals so mobility, development, and succession decisions are grounded in transparent evidence, not intuition.
What Makes an Assessment Trusted
Make Skills Measurable, Verifiable, and Current
- Evidence-backed inputs: capture skill, competency, and behavioral indicators alongside experience, qualifications, and certifications.
- Verification workflows: managers verify, disagree, or confirm—closing gaps between self-perception and observed performance.
- Currency over snapshots: track skill evolution over time to keep capability data current.
- Decision clarity: see target-level alignment and gaps tied to role expectations.
KPIs You Can Prove (Not Just Promise)
- Verification coverage: % of critical skills verified by managers
- Agreement rate: % skills agreed / disagreed (calibration signal)
- Readiness coverage: % employees at/above target level for role
- Time-to-readiness: time from gap identified → target achieved (by role/skill)
- Skill currency: % skills updated in last 90/180 days (choose window)
TalentGuard Talent Assessment Features
With TalentGuard’s Talent Assessment solution, understand your employees talents and ensure their potential is fully realized.
Role-Based Assessment
Assess employees against role-specific skill expectations and target proficiency levels so “ready” means the same thing across teams.
Manager Verification
Managers confirm or challenge skill ratings with clear statuses (updated/agreed/ pending/disagreed) to separate trusted signals from assumptions.
Gap Analysis
Compare employee and manager ratings to pinpoint the highest-impact gaps tied to role performance and next-role readiness.
Skill Evolution Tracking
Track skill progression over time with trendlines that show growth, stagnation, or regression to keep capability views current.
Skill-Based Learning
Recommend targeted learning paths based on verified gaps and consolidate learning options from multiple systems in one place.
Talent Insights
Turn assessment and verification data into decision-ready dashboards for mobility, development prioritization, and succession planning.
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
- Employees can import profile data to accelerate setup. Imported and AI-suggested skills are treated as signals and should be reviewed and verified before being used in talent decisions.
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.
Turn Assessments Into Readiness Signals
Use assessment + verification + targets to:
- Improve internal mobility matching using role-based capability
- Identify readiness for next-role and leadership pathways
- Focus development spend on the highest-impact gaps
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