Term: Talent Assessment

What Is Talent Assessment?

Talent Assessment is the process of evaluating an employee’s skills, capabilities, behaviors, performance, potential, and readiness to determine how well they fit current or future roles.

It gives leaders a clearer view of their existing talent and helps identify strengths, development needs, and potential gaps.

Why Is Talent Assessment Important?

Effective talent assessment can help organizations:

• Identify employee strengths and development opportunities
• Understand readiness for current and future roles
• Identify high-potential talent
• Uncover skills and capability gaps
• Support promotion and succession decisions
• Improve talent development and retention
• Make more informed hiring and talent decisions

What Does Talent Assessment Include?

Depending on the organization’s needs, talent assessment may consider:

• Job performance and results
• Skills and capabilities
• Behavioral styles
• Motivators and drivers
• Leadership capabilities
• Potential and readiness
• Role requirements
• Development needs
• Career aspirations

Using multiple perspectives can provide a more complete understanding of an employee rather than relying on a single assessment or metric.

Talent Assessment and Talent Planning

Talent assessment provides the insights, while talent planning turns those insights into actions.

For example, assessment may reveal that an employee has strong performance and leadership potential but needs development in a specific capability. A talent plan can then define the development actions, goals, and support needed to prepare that person for a future role.

How Does MyTalentPlanner Support Talent Assessment?

MyTalentPlanner brings together talent planning, behavioral science, performance information, and multiple talent assessment perspectives to help leaders understand their people and make better talent decisions.

These insights can support development plans, succession planning, role alignment, leadership development, and broader talent planning.