What is Talent Mapping and why is it important?

Talent mapping is the gathering and coding of qualitative and quantitative data on targeted groups of talent. This data is used in the hiring process. Proactive talent mapping prevents the scramble to fill a position. It also eliminates sparing with your competition to attract the best talent, especially when there is a scarcity of a particular skill. Essentially, talent mapping bridges the gap between a company’s strategic goals and the personnel they must hire to realize them.

What are the benefits of Career Coaching?

Career coaching is one-on-one guidance by a development professional to help maximise your potential and growth. Some benefits of career coaching include, navigating difficult career decisions, defining your career path or strategy and identifying your strengths and skills. This is important when transitioning between jobs or careers and also when seeking fulfilment in your current position.

How important are Interim Appointments?

Interim appointments provide the necessary talent a company needs for a limited period of time. Whether this need arose from transformation, disruption or economic variables, the re-allocation of resources to tackle these changes can prevent growth and could have a potentially negative impact on stability. The bottom line is that getting by is at best, costly and unsustainable during pivotal moments. A recruitment firm that performs regular Talent Mapping can rapidly source an interim employee to optimize time and resources.

Who needs Transition Coaching?

Leaders transitioning between companies, industry or between corporate and entrepreneurship would benefit from transition coaching. A high percentage of leaders fail in their first few months. To avoid the resulting resource and reputational cost implications, it is important to get in front of these challenges with transition coaching in their first days.

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When done properly, transition coaching enables leaders to develop credibility, build momentum and fully integrate into the organization’s culture from the beginning of the onboarding process. Transition coaching helps leaders accelerate the value they bring to their new/the role.