Talent Design powering TA and TM
Purpose
This article lists the impact of well-defined roles in Talent Acquisition (TA) and Talent Management (TM) modules.
Audience
Talent leaders, Talent admins, HRBPs
Overview
Roles, defined through Talent Design, power both TA and TM capabilities. By integrating roles into hiring and internal talent processes, organizations achieve consistency, precision, and scalability in managing both external hiring and internal workforce development.
Talent Design is tightly integrated with TA and TM, driving hiring, assessments, upskilling, and internal mobility.
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Positions Calibration using Roles
Once roles are set up, they can be used to auto-calibrate or manually calibrate positions. This ensures consistent and well-defined definitions for positions. |
Assessments
The role is the source of truth for assessing skills on an employee's profile page. All skill names and their corresponding benchmarks are derived from the associated role. |
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Skill suggestions using Skills Design
The user is prompted to use standard skills within TA when skills are added to requisitions or search filters. This achieves consistency. |
Career Navigator
Employees receive personalized career path recommendations based on their skills, experience, and interests, along with clear insights into skill gaps and development opportunities for targeted roles. |
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Upskilling
Based on gaps in skill benchmarks from role design, employees are nudged to create development plans. |
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Succession Planning
Identify internal successors with AI-powered matching algorithms, using your roles as the benchmark. |
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Internal mobility
Role calibration enhances internal open positions calibration to find the best employee matches for roles and the best jobs for employees. |
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Skill standardization
For previously claimed profiles, customers enable one-time standardization of skills for noise-free analytics. |
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Skill suggestions
Across the TM product, Skills suggested in dropdowns will be as per Skills Design. |
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Talent analytics
Gain AI-powered insights into organizational skills at both individual and team levels. |
Talent Acquisition
Calibration using roles
Once roles are set up, you can enable auto-calibration or manual calibration of positions. This ensures consistent and well-defined position definitions, improving the quality of hiring decisions.
Some of the actions include - copying calibration from Roles in Global Dataset and adding skills from Top Rising Skills.


Skill suggestions enhanced by Skills Design
Throughout TA workflows, users are prompted to use standard skills when adding skills to requisitions or search filters. This ensures consistency across the organization’s hiring processes.

Talent management
Assessments
Roles act as the single source of truth for skill benchmarks on employee profiles. All skill names and their corresponding benchmarks are derived from the associated roles based on job_code matching.
Employees and managers can:
- Assess role-related skills and set proficiency levels
- Review manager's assessments for skills tied to the role
- Add and assess additional skills outside of the role
- View detailed skill definitions
Career Navigator
One of the important attributes for career paths suggestions is employee skills match to role skills. These recommendations leverage data such as title, seniority, next title predictions, and career interests.

Additional features include:
- Spotlight roles and predefined next roles using the role architecture.
- Skill gap analysis to show the skills an employee needs to achieve a desired role.
Upskilling
Employees are prompted to create development plans based on gaps in skill benchmarks defined in Roles Design. If roles are not defined, employees can still add skills to their profiles and create upskilling plans. Managers can assess these skills to support development.

Succession planning
AI-powered matching algorithms use roles as benchmarks to identify internal successors. Role-based calibration refines these recommendations, ensuring accurate succession planning.


Internal mobility
Role calibration enhances position definitions to match internal job openings with employees. This improves the accuracy of job-to-employee and employee-to-job matching, supporting career growth and organizational needs.
Job marketplace
Role calibration enhances position calibration, allowing employees to explore and match with roles best suited to their skills.
Skills standardization
For previously claimed employee profiles, organizations can enable one-time standardization of skills, leading to cleaner data and improved analytics.
Skill suggestions
Skills suggested in dropdown menus across TM workflows are aligned with Skills Design, ensuring consistent skill usage throughout the organization.

Talent analytics
AI-driven analytics provide actionable insights into organizational skills, offering both granular employee-level data and broader organizational views.