Talent Frameworks
Pave the Way for Digital Transformation
TalentGuard Talent Frameworks provide a readily deployable job taxonomy and competency library. With over 30 years of curation, it includes industry benchmarks for over 4,000 job profiles and 3,000 associated skills. This data can be customized by each company, serving as a foundational resource for swift implementation of talent management applications.
TalentGuard Talent Frameworks: Prepare for the Jobs and Skills of the Future
We recognize that a company’s human capital is its most valuable asset. Securing, developing, and retaining talent with the right skills is crucial for organizational success, on par with financial performance. Effectively leveraging employees’ knowledge and skills is key to driving company achievements. But in a constantly changing environment, how can you ensure you’re equipped with the necessary skills?
TalentGuard Talent Frameworks—a library of industry-specific job profiles that helps enterprises define, develop and hire people with the necessary skills for success. Based on 30 years of industry research, the solution outlines job description, core responsibilities, competencies and functional and technical skills, as well as suggested interview questions and coaching tips for managers. This rich, skill-focused content is curated with the help of TalentGuard WorkforceGPT Copilot, our advanced AI technology, to ensure accuracy and relevance to current industry standards.
Implementing a standardized framework for skills and competencies can greatly enhance both individual and organizational success. Furthermore, such a framework can accelerate the attainment of your talent management goals.
The benefits of TalentGuard Talent Frameworks extend beyond implementation. With a solid base of job profiles and competencies, organizations can maintain current role definitions and skill requirements, keeping their workforce competitive and aligned with industry trends. This dynamic framework supports ongoing talent development and management, empowering HR professionals and managers to make informed decisions about employee training, career advancement, and succession planning.
Standardized Taxonomy
A standardized taxonomy is a foundational element of effective talent management. It ensures consistency, clarity, and fairness across all HR processes, enhances employee development and engagement, and supports strategic organizational growth. A standardized taxonomy provides a common language for describing job roles, skills, and competencies across the organization.
This consistency ensures that everyone understands the expectations and requirements of each role, reducing confusion and miscommunication. It ensures consistency, clarity, and fairness across all HR processes, enhances employee development and engagement, and supports strategic organizational growth.
Accelerator Content
Our talent frameworks include content that improves employee engagement. Each skill includes 4 accelerators, including interview questions, coaching tips, development references and learning resources.
- Interview guides provide a guide for accurately assessing candidates.
- Coaching tips support managers in facilitating clear, objective performance reviews.
- SMART development statements give employees specialized, actionable practices to help them improve.
- Learning references provide a path for growth and development.
Ready-to-Use
TalentGuard provides the confidence, content, and coverage you need to jumpstart your transformation, leading to better results, faster. The robust content library, enriched with industry-specific job profiles, competencies, and skill descriptions, ensures that your HR practices are based on accurate and up-to-date information. This extensive coverage allows for a seamless implementation of talent management strategies across all levels of the organization, from recruitment and onboarding to performance management and career progression.
Talent Framework Architecture Overview
Our Talent Framework is comprised of the architecture components listed below. Check out our best practices for modifying the architecture to meet your organization’s needs.
Skills
Our competency and skill framework contains thousands of skills and competencies across dozens of industry segments. Each skill contains 4 levels of proficiency.
Job Content
Each job role includes a job title, job code, job description, four primary responsibilities, job family, job band, job focus, lead time, turnover percdent and 4 levels of competency proficiency.
Competency Types
Contains many types of competencies including: Foundational, Leadership and Technical.
Proficiency Descriptors
Each competency comes standard with 21 or more behavioral statements across four proficiency levels. This helps set clear expectations of what good looks like in specific job roles.
Learning References
Competencies are associated with suggested learning references including training experiential, web-based, group sessions and seminars.
Development Goals
Quantitative and qualitative SMART development statements are provided to facilitate employee learning and development.
Interview Questions
Interview questions are aligned to the competencies associated to the job role. This enables consistent selection over time for positions.
Coaching Tips
Provides managers with coaching recommendations on methods to improve behavior and experiences that need to be shared.
Job Grades
Offers levels of jobs by scope of responsibility using six broad bands (1-6). We use the same 6 bands across all frameworks and all jobs.
