When searching for an employer, the phrase "room for growth" is often at the top of candidates' minds. In the modern workplace, internal mobility has become increasingly important. It helps retain talent, foster employee engagement, and create a dynamic working environment. Did you know we offer solutions to enhance your current workers’ learning and development experience? With their career path in mind, AI will use potential future roles to recommend suggested courses and skills to leverage themselves in the talent community and advance their career’s trajectory.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays a transformative role in mapping personalized career paths for employees. By analyzing employee data—such as skills, experiences, and career preferences—AI can suggest tailored career trajectories. By leveraging machine learning algorithms, AI tools can match employees with potential roles or projects that align with their skills and career goals. In a world where the job market is ever evolving and new roles are needed as technology advances, knowing career path options can be incredibly beneficial in the workforce. How does AI play a role in this?
Depending on one’s current role, there could be a multitude of career paths and next steps available. As employees progress in their career, AI can nurture their aspirations by setting goals for their existing career paths or proposing new roles based on education, experience, skills, market trends, and more. This adaptive approach allows individuals to pivot their career trajectories effectively, ensuring they remain competitive and fulfilled in their professional journeys.
AI-driven internal mobility tools, such as Eightfold and HiredScore, enable organizations to assess employee skills comprehensively. By identifying gaps in skills necessary for advancement, organizations can help employees build the capabilities needed for their desired roles. AI analyzes current global trends for skills related to specific roles and uses those skill suggestions to ensure internal talent has the latest information on how to upskill and maintain an edge over the external talent pool. Not only can employees evaluate their current skillset, but managers can also provide feedback by assessing their direct report’s skills against the current benchmark, facilitating constructive feedback and targeted development.
Along with suggested skills, AI can recommend relevant learning courses to help employees progress to the next level in their career. Access to a comprehensive learning library empowers employees to enhance their knowledge or focus on courses directly aligned with the positions they aspire to move into. This continuous learning approach not only benefits the individual but also strengthens the organization as a whole.
Organizations are always looking to the future, aiming to nurture the development of their future leaders. Traditional succession planning often relies on past skills, performance, and experience, which can be insufficient for addressing all roles. Today, AI tools can predict future workforce needs based not only on historical data but current workforce trends as well.
This type of insight allows organizations to proactively develop internal mobility strategies and prepare employees for upcoming opportunities. With AI-supported succession planning, organizations can create and manage critical roles, compare potential talent, match successors based on recommendations, and provide a snapshot of critical roles and the strength of their pipeline.
Organizations using platforms such as Eightfold, can calibrate roles by selecting required skills, location, ideal candidates' profiles, education, experience, and more. AI processes these metrics to provide a ranked list of candidates who best match the criteria.
AI excels at identifying adjacent skills, allowing for a broader pool of potential candidates. For instance, if an employee lists “Recruiting” as a skill, but the open position requires “Talent Acquisition,” AI can recognize this related skill and include the employee in the candidate pool. This capability ensures that no talent is overlooked, leading to more diverse and qualified candidate lists.
As role requirements evolve, employees need visibility into role expectations. With AI, employees can assess their projects, skills, events, and experience with the benchmark set by their organization and ratings determined by their managers. If a desired role’s requirements change, they can quickly adapt by using real-time insights.
Along with data masking, AI can integrate equal opportunity algorithms to support role recommendations and enhance employee visibility to opportunities. Algorithms can sort through vast amounts of data to identify the best candidates for open positions. By evaluating factors such as previous job performance, skills, and even soft skills, AI can make more accurate and unbiased recommendations compared to traditional methods and remove diversity biases from the selection process.
This post only covers some of the extensive capabilities of AI in the workplace. With AI-enhancements, you can expect a streamlined internal job market, data-driven insights for recruiters and leadership, predictive analytics for workforce planning, better talent matching, skills analyses organization-wide, and ultimately an enhanced employee experience. With AI on your side, you can expect it to not only keep up with your organization’s requirements but to keep you two steps ahead.
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