Talent Advisor (My Team) - AI Agent

The Talent Advisor (My Team) is an AI-powered digital assistant built for managers, simplifying every step of the talent review process for your team. This digital worker combines structured talent data with conversational intelligence, enabling you to access, interpret, and summarize employee performance, development needs, and achievements—all in one secure location.

Built on Oracle’s AI Agent framework and powered by advanced large language models (LLMs), the agent interprets your natural language questions and delivers accurate, role-based information within your security permissions. 

Use this Talent Advisor (My Team) agent to perform these tasks:

  • Instantly access comprehensive performance evaluations for any team member—including goal progress, competency ratings, and reviewer comments.

  • Summarize check-in meetings and action items between you and your team and ensure follow-through on development conversations.

  • Review all feedback a team member has received, grouped by their strengths and areas for improvement.

  • View all recognitions awarded to a team member and identify their achievements and contributions to the team.

  • Track recent development and performance goals to know what’s been accomplished and what still needs attention.

  • Identify who your star performers are, with proactive insights and readiness for next steps.

These are the features of this assistant:

  • Preconfigured: Ready to use immediately—no setup or configuration required

  • Secure: Managerial access strictly follows your data access and role privileges

  • Context-aware: Remains in sync with your reporting hierarchy, and each individual report's talent data.

  • Conversational: Responds to your requests in natural language, making it easy and intuitive to find information

By centralizing performance, feedback, and recognition data, the Talent Advisor saves managers time, increases confidence in talent decisions, and sharpens your focus on developing every team member.

You can use this agent through a guided journey.

Here are some example questions that the Talent Advisor can answer:

  • What’s Sam’s performance summary this review period?

  • How has Riya progressed on her development goals since last year?

  • Has Tom been recognized for anything this year?

  • What improvement areas have been highlighted in Jean’s recent feedback?

  • When was the last check-in I had with David, and what were the action items?

  • Has Jack completed his high priority performance goals?

This agent provides these benefits:

  • Empowers managers with instant talent insightDelivers rapid access to performance reviews, development progress, and goal attainment and reduces time spent searching across multiple systems and reports.
  • Enhances talent retention and engagementEnables managers to identify high-performing and at-risk team members early. This supports the formulation of targeted retention strategies and having personalized career conversations.
  • Boosts employee recognition and motivationMakes it easy for managers to track and acknowledge employee achievements and recognitions. This strengthens employee engagement and fosters a culture of appreciation.
  • Enhances promotion decisionsAggregates multi-source feedback, performance ratings, and competency achievements to help managers make informed and equitable promotion decisions.
  • Identifies compensation and salary improvementsIntegrates structured review data with talent insights, empowering managers to recommend merit increases, bonuses, or other rewards based on transparent, data-driven evidence.
  • Reduces turnover-related costsBy recognizing, developing, and rewarding employees more effectively, organizations minimize costly turnover and preserve critical skills within the team.
  • Accelerates talent review and calibrationStreamlines talent review cycles by consolidating feedback, recognitions, performance ratings, and check-in outcomes, thereby speeding up ratings preparation and data-driven discussions.
  • Enables informed career development and succession decisionsEquips managers with actionable insights on team strengths, growth, and skill gaps. This helps to identify future leaders and development needs early.

Steps to Enable and Configure

Your environment must have the appropriate services for Oracle Applications Platform deployed. For more information, see FAQ2521 on My Oracle Cloud Support.

Set these profile option values as indicated in the table.

Profile Option Name Profile Option Code Value
Enable Security Console External Application Integration ORA_ASE_SAS_INTEGRATION_ENABLED Yes
Enable VBCS Progressive Web Application User Interface ORA_HCM_VBCS_PWA_ENABLED Y
Redwood Guided Journey Setup Page Enabled ORA_PER_GUIDED_JOURNEYS_SETUP_REDWOOD_ENABLED Y
Agent Task Type Enabled for Guided Journeys ORA_PER_AGENT_TASK_TYPE_GUIDED_JOURNEYS_ENABLED Y

For more information about setting profile option values, see How do I enable a profile option?.

Enable permission groups for appropriate roles. For more information, see Access Requirements for AI Agent Studio.

To learn how to set up AI agents, see Create AI Agents Using Preconfigured Agent Team Templates.

Create a guided journey task for the Talent Advisor (My Team) AI agent. For more information, see Configure Agent Task Type in Journeys. Note the guided journey code and add it to the guide journey page property of the page from which you want to invoke this AI agent. For example, on the Team Activity Center page you can add the guided journey code to the Set Guided Journeys Code at the page level page property. For more information, see Extend Application Page with Agent Guided Journey.

Key Resources

Access Requirements

The agents you can view depend on the roles and privileges assigned to you. To access this agent, your role must be explicitly granted access to it by an AI Studio Administrator. See How can I give users access to AI agents and Access Requirements for AI Agent Studio.