lundi 30 décembre 2013

Useful Information About Talent Management Companies

By Harriett Crosby


Talent management companies do the work of recognizing talent and skill to help employers recruit only those individuals they desire in their organizations or firms. Talent management in this case should not be confused with management of entertainers. Apart from recruitment, these companies also help in retaining, developing and rewarding of employees.

Since they assist in recruitment, there are many people out there wondering what aspects these management companies look for in people. There are certain traits they consider greatly in people they seek to recruit. To begin the list is knowledge and skills. Obviously, an individual ought to have certain level of education say a degree in order to be chosen. The degree can be in a specific area of study or any area.

Knowledge and skills are two different things. Knowledge covers the education part while skills refer to the practical aspects of what one has been taught. Accompanying the skills is experience. Therefore those individuals who have some experience in certain areas say accounting or auditing, they are better placed during selection than those who have no proven experience.

The other thing always considered is personal traits of a person. Persons who are passionate, confident and express themselves are better placed than those who show no enthusiasm and are not confident in expressing themselves. An individual must therefore stand out in order to be noticed in a group of people with competitive aspects.

The above factors are the most important ones often searched for by these professionals. Other than these qualities, they do require persons to sit for some tests before being recruited. The tests are known as aptitude tests and they test the intelligence levels of an individual. Therefore the questions asked will be mostly to gauge how one can handle himself when faced with a particular situation among other things that test the intelligence levels.

Therefore if a person performs well in these aptitude tests, he or she will be called for the second part of recruitment where the fore mentioned factors are analyzed. At this level, competition among candidates is still not very high since there are so many of them. But when the list is narrowed, competition becomes intense since the few individuals remaining have almost all that is required by an employer.

Other than assisting in recruiting new talent for organizations or firms, these companies also do provide career advice to students to help them realize their full potential. This they do by holding seminars and career talks in institutions of higher learning to capture the attention of young upcoming students. They also train individuals who have been selected because of their qualities and performance.

Talent management companies therefore assist the human resource department in hiring only those individuals needed by an organization. Other than this, they can assist a firm to determine which employees to retain and which ones to let go. They do this by assessing the current performance of workers and how well they can do in the future. When they assess and realize that some employees do not have potential for future performance, their advice accordingly.




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