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Faced challenges

Detecon International, a global management and technology consulting company, turned to HRForecast to improve its client’s workforce skills assessment process. Detecon wanted a flexible assessment solution tailored to its clients’ unique needs, focused on identifying critical skills gaps for targeted training and external recruitment. As a result, the HRForecast team has developed a solution specifically for consulting firms that use HRForecast applications for their client’s projects.

Questions to be clarified:

Which employees emerge as suitable candidates for open job positions within the company based on a comprehensive assessment of their skills and the requirements of these roles?

For which job positions does the analysis reveal a necessity to engage in external sourcing activities, indicating a potential shortfall in the current talent pool’s ability to meet specific job requirements?

Which skills have been identified as having the largest gaps, signaling a need for targeted training programs or talent acquisition through external sourcing to bridge these deficiencies?

“The HRForecast tool and team offered remarkable flexibility in their skills assessment methodology and content delivery. The configuration was straightforward thanks to extensive import functions and intuitive, user-friendly admin panel design. HRForecast provided excellent onboarding experience with efficient set-up and rapid ad-hoc support whenever needed. The intuitive design of the application minimized user support requests, and the extensive dashboards and analytics functionalities analyzed our large data set very intuitively. Overall, smartPeople offers a great user experience and enhanced our efficiency and effectiveness during project delivery.”

Silvia Flachowsky, Principal and Tribe Head Organization, People & Change at Detecon International

Project approach

1. Setting up the evaluation process and configuring the tool

The HRForecast team provided its smartPeople platform to present an individual approach to setting up the skills evaluation process. This involved fine-tuning the platform to the specific requirements of Detecon’s client, such as integrating the job hierarchy. smartPeople has been configured to present only relevant functionality, optimizing administrator and user experience. This customization emphasized the platform’s adaptability and effectiveness in addressing specific organizational needs, tailoring the content to the relevant industry and ensuring accuracy and convenience in the assessment process.

2. Full integration of job and skill taxonomies

The smartPeople platform’s provides job and skills classifications and automated matching to the client’s job hierarchy. This exemplifies its ability to integrate quickly and easily and significantly reduced the groundwork to create a coherent structure for the job hierarchy. The result was a well-organized and highly automated job and skill mapping process, thereby speeding up the setup phase and increasing the project delivery speed significantly.

3. Providing users with self-assessment tools

The smartPeople platform allows individual users to access the platform to self-assess their skills profiles. Its user-centric workflow minimizes the need for one-on-one support during this process and allows it to perform the assessment accurately and rapidly.

4. Advanced matching and analytics capabilities

With a suite of dashboards and analytics tools, smartPeople offers a robust engine for analyzing large data sets for effective candidate selection. This feature became part of the platform’s informed decision-making strategy, enabling Detecon to identify candidates for open positions effectively based on a data-driven understanding of skills and job requirements. This approach increased the accuracy of the selection of positions and contributed to a more strategic and well-founded workforce planning process.

Key insights & added value for Detecon and its clients

The collaboration between Detecon and HRForecast resulted in significant advancements for its clients:

Improved productivity

Detecon has been able to assess skill profiles extremely quickly and match profiles with a higher accuracy than traditional approaches. This freed up capacities and allowed the reallocation of resources from administrative tasks to strategic initiatives such as workforce planning and talent development.

Data-driven outcomes

Transparent results based on tangible data insights enabled Detecon’s client to quantify the skills gap it is facing. This knowledge allows for better-tailored training programs and more effective talent initiatives.

Better employee experience

The improved user experience and high quality of the matching results gave employees better visibility into their career perspectives and opportunities, thus improving the overall employee experience.