Talent intelligence
and AI terms, explained
Talent intelligence
Responsible AI is the development and deployment of artificial intelligence systems in a way that is ethical, transparent, fair, and accountable. It ensures AI technologies are designed and implemented with consideration for their impact on individuals and society at large.
Talent intelligence is a new method that organizations use to collect and analyze data on internal and external talent, often with the help of AI. With talent intelligence, HR leaders can assess potential candidates, see skills in their organization and industry, and forecast future skill needs so they can align talent strategies to overall business success.
Workforce planning is the process of aligning talent strategies to support the business. It’s imperative that talent leaders focus on supply and demand, skills gaps, fulfillment, measurement, and action to determine whether they need to buy, borrow, or build talent with the skills they need.
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Talent management
Hyper-personalization uses AI and real-time data to inform and create highly targeted products, services, content, or experiences. Talent management professionals using hyper-personalized systems powered by AI, generally receive more targeted recommendations that resonate with their audiences.
Skills management is how an organization catalogs its workforce’s skills and maps them to its current and future needs. Through this process, organizational leaders should understand where to best deploy talent to support overall business goals.
HR systems architecture, where the talent profile is the foundational component and integrates skills, experiences, and interests to create a dynamic understanding of talent that can be used both within traditional constructs of jobs and new and evolving ways of work.
Talent experience (TX) is an employee-centric approach to managing talent. Using a talent management system that highlights employees’ skills and potential shows them learning and career growth opportunities that improve their experiences and instill purpose.
A talent marketplace is an AI-powered digital platform that aligns employees’ skills to new roles, projects, mentorships, and other opportunities within the organization. HR and talent management leaders use this talent marketplace to improve internal mobility and retention.
Talent acquisition
AI recruiting is any technology that uses artificial intelligence to support one or more aspects of the recruiting process. It leverages machine learning algorithms to automate and optimize various recruitment tasks.
AI-powered sourcing uses artificial intelligence to help source and select candidates. This is incredibly powerful in the talent acquisition process for recruiters, as they can surface best-fit candidates targeting their skills and capabilities from a larger talent pool.
Talent resource management
Skills-based project matching uses data to identify and present new projects to available employees. By using skills-based matching, resource and engagement managers can ensure they’re finding the best-fit matches to take on projects.
A talent marketplace is an AI-powered digital platform that HR and talent management teams use to match best-fit talent to opportunities based on their skills, capabilities, and interests. An AI-powered talent marketplace can more efficiently and effectively match talent to roles, projects, gigs, mentorships, and more.
Diversity and inclusion (D&I)
Workforce diversity means including and representing people from all backgrounds and experiences in terms of age, race, cultural background, physical abilities and disabilities, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. This inclusive environment should provide equal rights and opportunities for everyone.
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