With tech skills evolving rapidly, Deloitte’s research shows employees spend 50% more time learning new skills. To thrive in today’s tech talent landscape, organizations must prioritize talent activation—developing existing employees with the skills they need—over solely focusing on talent acquisition.
Understanding the strategic shift to skills-based hiring will highlight how your organization can:
- Focus on talent activation by leveraging and upskilling your current workforce.
- Use Eightfold’s Talent Intelligence Platform for insights into your talent pool’s skills.
- Recognize that a skills-based approach makes organizations more likely to achieve business outcomes.
To thrive in today’s competitive tech talent environment, organizations need to prioritize a forward-thinking talent planning strategy. That means putting talent activation over talent acquisition.
What is talent activation? It’s tapping into existing employees in your organization who can easily learn the skills you need—then taking the necessary steps to help them gain those skills.
Deloitte’s research shows workers are spending 50% more time learning new skills compared to last year, underscoring the urgency of upskilling as the half-life of tech skills continues to shrink. Eightfold’s Talent Intelligence Platform can provide visibility into your talent pool’s skills, helping you make informed decisions on the internal talent you already have, and upskilling or reskilling them accordingly.
Organizations that take a skills-based approach are 63% more likely to achieve business outcomes than those that don’t. When you see what’s possible beyond traditional recruiting, you open the door to discovering everyone in your talent pool.
