Talent Pools

Talent pools are groups used by organizations to categorize people based on criteria such as performance, potential, or functional area. For example, an organization can group people based on their potential as Early Talent, Promising Talent, and High Potential.

A person can be a member of more than one talent pool. For example, an employee can be a member of both Promising Talent and Mid-Management talent pools.

Pool Details

You need to specify these details for a talent pool:

Name: Enter a name that uniquely identifies or describes the pool.
Status: By default, all talent pools are active. You can change the status to inactive if you don't want the talent pool to be added to a succession plan or talent review meeting.

You can mark a talent pool as a private pool. If you do so, then only the named owners can access the private pool. If you don't mark a talent pool as a private pool, then talent pool security profiles determine who can access the nonprivate pool.

The person who creates the talent pool is added by default as the owner of the pool. But you can select and add other owners.

You can also specify these attributes to define the scope of the talent pool:

Job
Grade
Job profile
Job family
Department
Business unit
Position

Note: These attributes aren't available by default. Your administrator needs to use Transaction Design Studio to show these attributes.

Members

You can add talent pool members in any of these ways:

Search for and select employees.
Use the Best-Fit feature to add members to a talent pool.
On the Find Best Fit page, you select a model profile, and specify the priority for each content section. By default, the best-fit analysis results show all profiles that have 90% match or greater than the selected source profile. But you can change the percentage of match that you want.

Note: The Best-Fit feature isn't available on mobile devices.
Add members from an analysis.
Note: You can see the option to add talent pool members from an analysis only if your administrator has specified the file path in the Default Reports Folder for Selecting Talent Pool Members profile option.

For each member of the talent pool, you can see these details:

Status
Date they were added as a member

You can also identify members who have inactive assignments.

When creating or editing talent pools, you can search for existing pool members. Use the search field in the Members section to do this. You can search by the first name, list name, or both. Initially, you can see 5 members that match the name entered, but you can load more. You can sort the members listed.

Tip: Did you know that for each member in the pool, you can record your assessment of the risk and impact of the worker leaving the enterprise? You can't see these attributes by default. Your administrator needs to use Transaction Design Studio to show these attributes.

Talent Pool Goals

If you're using Career Development, talent pool owners can add development goals to the talent pool. These goals appear in the development plan of each member of the talent pool.