Following a disheartening trend for organisations to recruit talent from the external job market rather than nurturing the talent already within their organisations1, it’s reassuring to see some organisations choosing to identify and appraise their existing talent through the use of in-house assessment centres.
Indeed, the 2017 CIPD Resourcing and Talent Planning Survey predicts that organisations “anticipate a greater focus on developing more talent in-house and an increase in focusing more on retaining rather than recruiting talent.”2
However, despite almost a fifth of organisations claiming that an assessment centre is one of their top 3 most used talent management activities, only 16% of organisations rated them as one of their top 3 most effective activities.3
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