10 innovations for more agile talent planning and productive HR teams

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10 innovations for more agile talent planning and productive HR teams

At Eightfold, we’re constantly refining our AI-powered Talent Intelligence Platform to make it more dynamic, agile, and flexible to meet the growing demands of effectively managing a modern workforce.

Our latest innovations are designed to improve talent acquisition and management processes, while creating an optimal work experience for the talent leaders who use them. With a skills-based approach, our products and solutions are focused more than ever to identify the key skills your organization needs to perform better — while also helping you and your employees plan for a better future with the in-demand and rising skills you’ll need next.

These 10 updates are designed to provide a superior view of your entire talent ecosystem, while also helping you plan for future talent needs — all with a new and improved user experience in our IX interface. 

We design and engineer all our products and solutions with a sharp eye on performance, usability, governance, and DEI, with the ultimate goal of providing the best possible experience for HR teams and employees. Whether you work for an enterprise or the public sector, there are multiple products and solutions that can meet, exceed — and grow — with your talent needs. 

Here are the latest product highlights:

 

Talent Intelligence Platform

Feature manager

10 innovations for more agile talent planning and productive HR teams

We’ve improved feature management so that admins can quickly learn about new feature details and manage releases in a single dashboard. 

Now, you can discover and manage monthly or quarterly releases at your leisure, with easy enable, disable, and defer options on features and enhancements in this clean, easy-to-read view.

 

Enhanced match scores

10 innovations for more agile talent planning and productive HR teams

When it comes to surfacing the right talent for the role, match scores are key. We’ve made it easier to increase the quality of candidates in your talent pipeline with enhanced match scores that include course, project, and skills relevance. Quickly identify candidates with the right skills gained outside traditional work experience.

 

Insights landing page

10 innovations for more agile talent planning and productive HR teams

Navigating your talent dashboard is easier than ever with our clean design. Intuitive categorization and bookmarking allow you to see all your talent functions on a single page. 

Related content: The future is all about hiring for skills. Learn more about how to apply a skills-driven approach to all your talent strategies. 

 

Talent Acquisition

Enhanced configurable fields

10 innovations for more agile talent planning and productive HR teams

Improving candidate-recruiter experiences is top of mind. This simplified candidate form makes it easy for people to apply for roles and join your talent network with just a few clicks. 

Recruiters can build their ideal application page by choosing from a variety of additional fields and configuration options for a highly customizable and effective experience. 

 

Job discovery via maps

10 innovations for more agile talent planning and productive HR teams

Location, location, location. With our improved location-based job discovery via maps, it’s easy for candidates or current employees to search for roles based on where they want to work. 

 

Scheduling and feedback enhancements

 

10 innovations for more agile talent planning and productive HR teams

Having a full view of a candidate’s background — including skills proficiency — is essential in any talent assessment process. 

Our scheduling and feedback enhancements make it simple, reducing effort for talent professionals in both scheduling and feedback modules. Now, we offer more choices for customization, an auto-selection function for the right scheduling template, and more granular downloading options for feedback forms. 

 

Workflow automation center

10 innovations for more agile talent planning and productive HR teams

Automating repetitive tasks within workflows can save recruiters precious time and resources. 

Our new workflow automation center allows you to apply tasks in your workflow to multiple positions and communities. Standardizing workflows across both position and community modules also keeps information consistent. 

 

IX Chrome extension

10 innovations for more agile talent planning and productive HR teams

We recently launched the Eightfold Intelligent Experience — or IX — to be insightful, easy, dynamic, and fun while still delivering the most advanced AI in the market.

As our customers’ talent needs will continue to grow and evolve, IX is designed to grow and evolve along with them. A refreshed Chrome extension for IX will provide an even better user experience in that browser. The new IX Chrome extension includes new sourcing and recruiting actions and additional access to necessary candidate information from within the extension. 

Related content: Learn more about our dedication to building products and solutions with Responsible AI.

 

Talent Management

IX: Profile activation flow

10 innovations for more agile talent planning and productive HR teams

There’s now a better way for employees to manage their Career Hub profiles. Our profile activation flow features on-screen prompts to make it easier to build rich, dynamic employee profiles. 

Employees can sync their data, determine their profile-visibility preference, and add career goals to drive profile recommendations, so they can map out their next move with confidence and precision.

 

Role-based succession planning

10 innovations for more agile talent planning and productive HR teams

Succession planning is one of the most challenging aspects in any organization — and for business and talent leaders alike. 

Our new feature allows you to create and retain succession plans through role-based planning. A simplified, user-friendly interface provides the details you need in a glance, while you seamlessly navigate and edit your succession plans. 

If you want to see the latest and greatest features, view it here in our Community.

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