Halted in the here & now?

Over the years, at some point or another, we’ve all read why companies should be approaching both the acquisition and management of talent proactively. I know I’m not alone when I say that phrases such as ‘future-proofing’ or ‘talent pooling’ have been forever ingrained in my mind. 

The industry has been flooded with content on proactive recruitment for some time now and we are all well aware of its benefits, so we produced a survey to find out whether companies had made progress in reshaping their talent strategies to become more future-looking (i.e. proactive) and less focussed on the here and now (i.e. reactive).

We asked a large group of senior HR, Talent, In-House Recruitment and Learning & Development professionals to anonymously rate their organisation’s own approaches to talent management. This worldwide survey was conducted across 13 different sectors and questions ranged from candidate attraction through to talent development.

Firstly, we wanted to benchmark what respondents felt about the capabilities of the organisation’s current workforce and how they would score their existing talent acquisition and management practices. Below are the results: