Talent Search

The Talent Search functionality allows recruiters or managers to create reusable internal candidate searches in order to fill open positions within the organization. They can search employee profiles by specific attributes such as skill sets, competencies, prior roles and experience, employee potential, retention risk, and willingness to relocate. Both basic and advanced searching features are available to enable highly configurable searches.

Note: When utilizing competency ratings in Career Profile or Talent Search, competency ratings from competency assessment tasks and Competency Assessment performance review sections are available because they both use the rating scale from the competency model. However, competency ratings from Competency Rating performance review sections are not available because they use the performance review section rating scale.

To create a custom talent search, go to Succession > Talent Search. Click the Create New Search link and select Create Custom Search.

PERMISSION NAME PERMISSION DESCRIPTION CATEGORY
Candidate Search Grants ability to create, save and manage Candidate Searches, a search for users by various criteria such as performance and succession ratings, resume data, etc. The constraints that are applied to this permission determine the users that are available within a candidate search. This is an administrator permission. Talent/Succession - Administration

  1. Search - Can search All Searches or My Searches. If All Searches is selected, you cannot modify the public checkbox, edit or remove searches from other users.
  2. Create New Search - Click to create new search.
  3. Public - Check to make search public.
  4. Run Search - Click to run search.
  5. Edit - Click to edit existing search.
  6. Delete - Click to remove existing search.

Define Search Criteria

  1. Go to Succession page.
  2. Click Talent Search link. The Candidate Search page opens.
  3. Click Create New Search link.
    • Create Custom Search - Allows you to create a custom search from scratch.
    • Search by Model Employee - Allows you to search for candidates based on a specific employee.
    • Search by Job Profile -Allows you to search for candidates based on a job profile.

Create Custom Search

  1. Title - Enter a name for the candidate search.
  2. Criteria - Click add icon to add at least one criteria item. Talent Search uses OR logic when multiple attributes are provide. However, the quality of each match is clearly indicated on the page. For example, if a candidate only matches one of two criteria, then this candidate is displayed as a 50% match.
    • Select attribute from drop-down list. Based on the attribute type selected, a series of fields display where the attribute can be defined. For each field, an operator drop-down will appear along with a value field. Date fields contain a Calendar icon .
  3. Candidate Pool - Click the drop-down in the Select Criteria field to choose the pool of candidates to run the search against. If not defined, the search will run against all users.
  4. Click Search button. All results will display. If there are more than 100 results, pagination will occur.
    • An administrator can mark attributes as more or less important, and this impacts the match percentage.

Note: When utilizing competency ratings in Career Profile or Talent Search, competency ratings from competency assessment tasks and Competency Assessment performance review sections are available because they both use the rating scale from the competency model. However, competency ratings from Competency Rating performance review sections are not available because they use the performance review section rating scale.

Search by Model Employee

  1. Title - Enter a name for the candidate search.
  2. Employee - Click to select model employee. Once the employee is selected, the Criteria section will populate with all of the model employee's attributes from their Resume and Competencies.
    • Importance - Select from drop-down menu.
  3. Criteria - Click to add additional criteria. Attributes can be selected and defined.
  4. Candidate Pool - Click to choose the pool of candidates to run the search against. If not defined, the search will run against all users.
  5. Click Search button.

Note: When utilizing competency ratings in Career Profile or Talent Search, competency ratings from competency assessment tasks and Competency Assessment performance review sections are available because they both use the rating scale from the competency model. However, competency ratings from Competency Rating performance review sections are not available because they use the performance review section rating scale.

Search by Job Profile

  1. Title - Enter a name for the candidate search.
  2. Job Profile - Click to select Job Profile. Once selected, the Criteria section will populate with the job profile attributes from their Resume and Competencies.
    • Importance - Select from drop-down menu.
  3. Criteria - Click to add additional criteria. Attributes can be selected and defined.
  4. Candidate Pool - Click to choose the pool of candidates to run the search against. If not defined, the search will run against all users.
  5. Click Search button.

Note: When utilizing competency ratings in Career Profile or Talent Search, competency ratings from competency assessment tasks and Competency Assessment performance review sections are available because they both use the rating scale from the competency model. However, competency ratings from Competency Rating performance review sections are not available because they use the performance review section rating scale.

Frequently Asked Questions

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