Solutions Review’s listing of the best talent management companies is an annual sneak peek of the solution providers included in our Buyer’s Guide and Solutions Directory. Information was gathered via online materials and reports, conversations with vendor representatives, and examinations of product demonstrations and free trials.

Regardless of the number of features, a talent management solution boasts, it’s still built off of a core idea; to ensure the highest percentage of employee retention and engagement. Talent management companies offer core HR software solutions with the addition of some key features designed to manage and support employees. Recently, Human Capital Management (HCM) suites have become popular as well, as they support core HR, payroll, talent management, workforce management, and HR service management.

For HCM suites, the importance of the overall user experience cannot be understated. As live conversations with HR administrators decrease, the need for a compelling and personalized user experience continues to grow. We’ve noticed that usability, process transparency, and real-time analysis are critical components to an effective user experience. Additionally, we’ve found that artificial intelligence features separate the leaders in HCM from the followers, and a technology divide is starting to grow between these groups of vendors.

Selecting the best talent management company to work with can be a daunting task, and we’re here to help. That’s why our editors have compiled this list of the 24 best talent management companies to consider if you’re looking for a new solution.

Check out our online talent management best practices section for even more guides, advice, and how-to content.

Note: Companies are listed in alphabetical order.

The Best Talent Management Companies

ADP provides business processing and cloud-based solutions, including payroll, talent management, human resource management, benefits administration, and time and attendance services. Their talent management offering, ADP Workforce Now, is an integrated HR solution designed for businesses of all sizes and across all industries. The software comes equipped with benefits, payroll, talent management, and time & attendance features. ADP is also notable for its mobile support and a mobile HTML offering that works well with Android, Blackberry, and other mobile platforms.

ApplicantStack is designed to assist companies with applicant tracking and onboarding, specifically for the needs of small to mid-sized businesses. This affordable software gives organizations the tools to help develop employment applications, create and post new open positions, share positions through social media, and build screening questionnaires to accompany online applications. ApplicantStack simplifies the review process, allowing HR departments to easily view which candidates are a good fit for the position. In 2019, the vendor was acquired by SwipeClock.

Arcoro, (formerlyBirdDogHR), provides integrated human resources and workforce management solutions within software modules that simplify employee hiring, tracking, and compliance challenges in high-risk industries. The vendor’s cloud-based HR software solutions enable organizations to scale and grow effectively and efficiently. Arcoro offers a range of services, including onboarding, benefits, compensation, performance management, succession planning, and legal services, among others. In early 2021, the provider won a gold Stevie Award for Contact Center of the Year and a silver Stevie Award for Most Valuable [COVID-19] Response by a Customer Service Team.

Cegid offers integrated, cloud-based talent management and HR solutions that provide businesses with the tools for communication between employees, managers, and candidates. The vendor’s comprehensive talent management suite is designed to complement existing systems while bringing deep functionality to critical aspects of talent acquisition, performance management, succession planning, compensation, talent profile management, and learning and development. In the past few years, Cegid has completed many acquisitions of other organizations, including Meta4, Koalaboox, Dhatim, ACA, and TalentSoft. In early 2021, the vendor also raised an undisclosed amount in Private Equity from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

Ceridian is a global human capital management (HCM) software company offering HR, payroll, talent management, benefits, and workforce management solutions all in the cloud. Dayforce, the company’s flagship cloud HCM platform, provides human resources, payroll, benefits, workforce management, and talent management capabilities in a single solution. The platform helps users manage the entire employee lifecycle, from recruiting and onboarding to paying people and developing their careers. Ceridian provides solutions for organizations of all sizes, from small businesses to global organizations. In 2021, Ceridian acquired Ascender Japan and Ideal for undisclosed amounts.

Originally founded in 2004 as HRM Direct, ClearCompany started as a pioneer in cloud-based talent management systems. Today, driven by a vision of a world where organizations perform optimally with empowered managers and engaged employees, ClearCompany is a fast-growing Talent Management Platform. The provider’s talent management solution delivers applicant tracking, onboarding, performance management, employee engagement, and workforce planning capabilities.

Cornerstone OnDemand presents a powerful and fully customizable cloud-based Talent Management Suite comprised of an integrated package of modules designed for large businesses. This suite handles all the matters related to recruitment, employment, and training. The vendor also presents a trimmed-down version as well, which caters to the needs of small to midsized businesses. This version contains performance and learning modules, while the full version contains seven modules. Each application with Cornerstone is built using a single code base that gives users one centralized talent management system. In early 2020, Cornerstone acquired Saba Software for $1.395 million.

Deltek has offered its talent management software since 1999, bolstered by its acquisition of HRsmart in 2015. Their talent management solution is available as a modular system that allows companies to choose what functions they need. Each solution included in the suite is available as either a best of breed or as a standalone, while also being compatible with other modules. With this option, clients are not only able to choose the solution they need but also replace existing software with ease.

HealthcareSource presents a talent management suite focused entirely on the healthcare industry with a number of features including applicant tracking, onboarding, learning management, performance management, and much more. HealthcareSource recognizes that the key to providing quality patient service is to find the ideal candidate for the job. This vendor prides itself on bringing together software, service, content, and analytics to help healthcare organizations build a highly trained workforce. Recently, HealthcareSource was acquired by symplr for an undisclosed amount.

iCIMS offers software solutions and tools to unify all aspects of talent acquisition. With iCIMS, companies can manage their entire talent acquisition lifecycle within a single SaaS application. With recruiting, offer management, onboarding, and relationship management tools, the flexible, scalable, and easy-to-use iCIMS Talent Acquisition Software Suite supports organizations of all sizes, in all industries. iCIMS delivers faster integration activation with less reliance on IT resources and their industry-leading integrations refine your recruitment processes without disrupting mission-critical hiring workflows. In late 2020, iCIMS acquired Altru for $60 million.

Intersog provides ROI-driven, full-service custom software development and staff augmentation solutions to companies of all sizes. The vendor delivers a range of services and solutions, including product ideation, user experience and user interface designs, integrations and APIs, quality assurance test automation, and support/hosting, among others. In late 2020, Intersog was named a Top Developer in Illinois by the B2b market research company, Clutch.

Meta4, a Cegid Company, is a privately held corporation that offers on-premise and SaaS solutions for HCM and payroll. While the software has traditionally focused on human resources, they’ve made broad steps in the talent management arena adding a number of features including recruitment, compensation, and performance management. The vendor has also strengthened its software solution by offering third-party software products that directly integrate with Meta4. In August of 2019, Meta4 was acquired by Cegid.

Namely offers an all-in-one HR platform for mid-sized companies that covers essential HR needs, including payroll, talent management, benefits management, time management, and core HR. Namely acts as your singular system of record, powering your entire company. The company’s talent management suite allows businesses to conduct paperless onboarding, track goals, conduct performance reviews and features performance management, ongoing feedback, and more. Namely acts as your singular system of record with open API, powering your entire company.

Oracle’s Talent Management Cloud provides talent acquisition, performance management, and learning management software for businesses that are looking to source and hire talent with maximum employee performance. Oracle’s Talent Management Cloud software is designed for organizations both large and small across a variety of industries. Their performance management, goal management, and succession planning tools are designed to help companies get the most out of each hire: optimizing ROI, and promoting better business results.

PageUp Unified Talent Management is a strategic human capital management software solution, capable of delivering outcomes across the entire employee lifecycle, via technology built for a mobile and social world. It comprises recruitment and application tracking, onboarding, performance management, learning management, and succession planning modules, with in-depth HR analytics capabilities running across the entire suite. PageUp provides a single platform for you to deliver and manage your talents’ journey, ensuring you spend your time working on outcomes, not with inputs.

The PeopleAdmin talent management offering, SelectSuite, provides users in education and government verticals with the tools required to maximize operational effectiveness and minimize risk. Organizations can simplify and automate their hiring process and monitor employee performance, while also building and retaining compliant audits. The solution is recommended for organizations related to education and government with more than 100 employees. PeopleAdmin’s SelectSuite provides a fresh look at talent management effectiveness with your data being interpreted into actionable and easy-to-use information.

PeopleFluent presents a cloud-based talent management suite that’s complemented by applications for vendor management, workforce planning and diversity, and analytics. Total Talent Management includes recruitment, performance management, compensation, learning, and succession. PeopleFluent is able to be integrated with almost any core HR/HCM system through its data integration managed service. The software combines video, analytics, mobility, and collaborative social technologies into one product. In January of 2021, PeopleFluent acquired Reflektive for an undisclosed amount.

Saba Software delivers a cloud-based talent management solution used by organizations to drive talent development initiatives and to increase employee engagement. Born from learning, built on collaboration and designed to be simple, the Saba Cloud solution offers a wide range of capabilities in learning, performance, engagement, recruiting, compensation, succession, and workforce planning. Saba was acquired by Cornerstone OnDemand for $1.395 million in February of 2020.

SAP SuccessFactors is the global provider of cloud-based HCM software. The vendor’s suite integrates onboarding, social business and collaboration tools, a learning management system, performance management, recruiting software, applicant tracking software, succession planning, talent management, and HR analytics to deliver business strategy alignment, team execution, and maximum people performance to organizations of all sizes across more than 60 industries.

SilkRoad’s talent management software, Talent Activation, is a full comprehensive cloud-based solution that contains a number of HR tech solutions. Users can choose the entire suite or specific module to match their company’s needs. SilkRoad is also integrated within Microsoft’s Active Directory which allows users with a Single Sign-On so that employees are able to transition between each of the SilkRoad modules. Each of the modules are contained in the SilkRoad portal, which is designed to increase engagement, collaboration, and user adoption.

TalentQuest provides an innovative Talent Management software suite that empowers companies to more effectively hire, manage, develop and retain the best talent. Their solutions leverage the traits, tendencies, and learning styles to help organizations maximize the potential of each employee. TalentQuest’s cloud-based talent management solutions are used by leading organizations worldwide. The TalentQuest platform is powered by behavioral science and the provider’s proprietary TQ Talent Insights.

Talentsoft provides cloud-based talent management software with a number of in-house options. Talentsoft manages employee recruitment, learning, performance, competencies, careers, and compensation. This centralized talent management solution keeps employee information in one easy-to-access place. Talentsoft allows users to analyze and act on human capital, build their human resource plans, and manage career and succession planning from one place. In April of 2021, Cegid acquired Talentsoft for an undisclosed amount.

UKG provides human capital management, payroll, human resources service delivery, and workforce management solutions. The vendor offers a range of solutions, including its flagship solution, UKG Pro, UKG Dimensions, UKG Ready, and UKG HR Service Delivery. UKG Pro is an HCM suite that delivers payroll, recruiting, onboarding, document management, benefits administration, workforce management, and people analytics, among other services. In June of 2021, UKG acquired EverythingBenefits for an undisclosed amount.

Workday presents a full HR suite that covers everything from administration, talent management, recruitment, and time tracking for medium and large enterprises. This vendor is renowned for its commitment to customer service. Workday is also a highly flexible solution that allows you the ability to take the data stored within their HR talent management suite with you. Other solutions may lock up the data with them, keeping you from accessing it if you ever decide to leave. It allows for easy downloading of all of your information with no additional fee. In January of 2021, Workday acquired Peakon for $700 million.

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Solutions Review is proud to release its new resource for comparing talent management and human capital management software, the

Top providers highlighted include ADP, ApplicantStack, Arcoro, BambooHR, Cegid, Ceridian, ClearCompany, Cornerstone OnDemand, Deltek, HealthcareSource, iCIMS, Intersog, Meta4, Namely, Oracle, PageUp, PeopleAdmin, PeopleFluent, SAP, SilkRoad Technology, TalentQuest, TalentSoft, UKG, and Workday.

The process for evaluating talent management and human capital management platforms can be complex. These complexities grow more obvious when one considers the convergence of product capabilities offered by traditional human resources software and vendors in this space.

The marketplace for talent management software is mature and crowded with a variety of solution providers, tools, and products to meet even the most advanced needs. There are companies we refer to as ‘mega-vendors’ who offer enterprise-class tools while others tout cutting-edge capabilities designed for niche verticals. Still, there are also talent management vendors that integrate with popular open-source technologies and feature robust user communities. 

This resource features five important questions to ask during the buying process, five key capabilities to consider, and full, one-page vendor profiles that provide a solution overview, three key features, contact information, and our own ‘Bottom Line’ analysis. Companion research can be found at solutionsreview.com. 

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The editors at Solutions Review highlight the updates found in the latest iteration of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Workforce Engagement Management and provide an analysis of the new report.

Analyst house Gartner, Inc. has released its 2021 Magic Quadrant for Workforce Engagement Management. The researchers define workforce engagement management (WEM) software as “a collection of technologies that expands on those of the mature workforce optimization (WFO) market by addressing functions that help increase employee engagement within customer service departments.” Core capabilities for providers in this space include evaluation and improvement, time management, metrics and recognition (sometimes referred to as performance management), assistance and task management, voice of the employee (VoE), recruitment, and onboarding.

According to Gartner, workforce engagement management has not yet been widely embraced by most businesses. Many organizations look at investment in WEM solutions as a way to improve operational performance without taking into account that these solutions can be crucial to enhance employee engagement. However, the rise in working from home due to COVID-19 increases the need for optimized employee engagement management.

Gartner adjusts its evaluation and inclusion criteria for Magic Quadrants as software markets evolve. Jacada and WalkMe were dropped for 2021 because they no longer met the criteria for inclusion. Conversely, Lifesize was added to this year’s report.

In this Magic Quadrant, Gartner evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of seven vendors that it considers most significant in the marketplace, and provides readers with a graph (the Magic Quadrant) plotting the vendors based on their Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. The graph is divided into four quadrants: niche players, challengers, visionaries, and leaders. At Solutions Review, we read the report, available here, and pulled out the key takeaways.

NICE is the overall leader in this year’s report, winning out in both ability to execute and completeness of vision. NICE recently introduced an Enhanced Strategic Planner (ESP) for long-term planning involving any channel, goal, or SLA, enabling users to improve their customer experience while simultaneously optimizing processes. The only other leader in this year’s Magic Quadrant is Verint, a customer engagement software provider that offers CEC and WEM functionality through SaaS, hosted, on-prem, and managed services. The vendor promotes engagement with the unique features of its CEC portfolio, including knowledge management, virtual assistant, and employee community capabilities.

The visionaries quadrant is the most populous section of this year’s report, containing Calabrio, Genesys, and Aspect Software. Calabrio is the closest to the X-axis in this section, and according to Gartner, it has achieved significant revenue growth over the past two years. The vendor also offers free post-implementation consultancy through its Calabrio Uplift program. Calabrio’s closest competition is Genesys. The provider’s products are already established in many contact centers, making it easier to train new call agents. Rounding out the visionaries section is Aspect Software, which primarily serves large enterprises around the world. Additionally, Aspect delivers standard connectors for competing contact center platform, payroll, and customer engagement center providers.

No challengers were named in this year’s Magic Quadrant, leaving the two remaining vendors in the niche players section. Eleveo (formerly Zoom) provides an established solution for agent evaluation and coaching that is enhanced by interaction analytics. The vendor also offers competitive and flexible pricing models. Rounding out this year’s report is Lifesize, which is focused on expanding its Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) platform in order to include greater WEM functionality as the market continues to adapt to the emergence of new agent working environments. According to Gartner, the provider’s suite is a cost-effective option that effectively addresses basic WEM functions.

Read Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Workforce Engagement Management.

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The editors at Solutions Review highlight what’s changed since the last iteration of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises and analyze the new report.

Analyst house Gartner, Inc. recently released the 2020 version of its Magic Quadrant for Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises. According to Gartner, “cloud human capital management (HCM) suites deliver functionality that helps organizations attract, develop, engage, retain, and manage their workforces. These solutions support a range of HCM capabilities (to varying degrees), including HR administrative functions (admin HR), HR service management (HRSM), talent management (TM) applications, and workforce management (WFM).

A leading factor in the selection process is the overall user experience (UX). According to the researcher, as enterprises support workforces with continually rising connectivity expectations, in-person conversations with HR admins are being replaced by interactions with applications and devices. This move to digital HR administration drives the need for personalized UX, while applications become the face of HR departments. Additionally, user interface (UI) options for HCM suites are increasing with the integration of chatbots and/or virtual assistants. This integration enables users to complete basic transactions and retrieve information without leaving their corporate chat windows.

As a strategic planning assumption, Gartner projects that by 2023, 60 percent of large enterprises will have invested in a major initiative to improve their manager experience by automating administration of worker-related HCM tasks. Additionally, it’s predicted that by 2025, 60 percent of global midmarket and large enterprises will have invested in a cloud-deployed HCM suite for administrative HR and talent management. However, they will still need to source 20 percent to 30 percent of their HCM requirements through other solutions.

In this Magic Quadrant, Gartner evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of 11 providers that it considers most significant in the marketplace and provides readers with a graph (the Magic Quadrant) plotting the vendors based on their ability to execute and their completeness of vision. The chart is divided into four quadrants: niche players, challengers, visionaries, and leaders. At Solutions Review, we read the report, available here, and pulled out the key takeaways.

Gartner adjusts its evaluation and inclusion criteria for Magic Quadrants as software markets evolve. As a result, ADP (Vantage HCM) and Ramco have been dropped from last year’s report.

Placements are largely the same this year as they were in the previous report. The only major change is that Ceridian is a leader this year after being a challenger in the previous year. This shift is possible since the vendor has expanded its global footprint. Ceridian was also praised for its understanding of the HCM market. Leading the pack in this category is Workday. Significant enhancements from the provider this year include expanded use cases and efforts around skill analytics, enhanced employee profiles, credentials, and developing an internal talent marketplace.

Workday’s strongest competitor this year is Oracle, which beat the former out in terms of completeness of vision. The vendor differentiates itself by having over 200 transactions that managers and employees can complete through a mobile device, supporting its strong UX scores. Ultimate Software, which recently merged with Kronos to form the Ultimate Kronos Group (UKG), has expanded capability for suite extensibility and has been able to bring in third-party system data for reporting. The final leader this year, SAP, scored the highest of all the vendors in this report for its global capabilities. The provider supports local best practices and compliance in 99 countries.

There are no challengers or visionaries in this year’s Magic Quadrant, making the remaining six vendors niche players. ADP Workforce Now is placed closest to the x-axis and is mainly used by businesses with 500 employees or fewer. The provider plans to integrate other ADP products, such as ADP Standout, for employee engagement. Kronos (UKG) is in closest competition with ADP. After its merger with Ultimate Software, Kronos is likely to continue to target enterprises with fewer than 2,500 employees because of its strong adoption and experience in the lower midmarket. Trailing close behind is Talentsoft. After adding TalentsoftHub, the provider now has core HR functionality to expand into a full HCM suite option. Talentsoft has also supported customers through an e-learning platform in response to COVID-19.

Cornerstone OnDemand is also a niche player this year. The vendor’s HR suite will be enhanced with improved organization visualization and modeling capabilities originating from its acquisition of Saba Software in April 2020. Infor and Cegid (Meta4) are the final providers in this year’s Magic Quadrant and are also each other’s closest competitors. Infor continues to maintain its strong industry vertical knowledge, emphasizing functionality for healthcare and manufacturing, and has added other industries over the years. Cegid, which acquired Meta4 in 2019, is making enhancements to its process automation and onboarding functionality.

Read Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises.

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The editors at Solutions Review curated this list of the best talent management TED Talks for practitioners in the field.

TED Talks are influential videos from expert speakers in a variety of verticals. TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment, and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from business to technology to global issues — in more than 100 languages. TED is building a clearinghouse of free knowledge from the world’s top thinkers, and their library of videos is expansive and rapidly growing.

Solutions Review has curated this list of talent management TED Talks to watch if you are a practitioner in the field. Talks were selected based on relevance, the ability to add business value, and individual speaker expertise.

Why the best hire might not have the perfect resume — Regina Hartley, TED@UPS

Regina Hartley is a human resources expert who has been working in talent acquisition, succession planning, learning and development, employee relations, and communications for 25 years at UPS. Currently, Hartley is Vice President of HR supporting IT and Engineering for UPS, making human connections with employees immersed in technology. Additionally, she is a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) from the HRCI.

In this talk, Hartley argues that given the choice between a candidate with a perfect resume and one has experienced adversity, human resources professionals should give the “Scrapper” a chance. Hartley believes that the more underestimated candidates often have the ability to succeed under difficult circumstances, allowing them to persist in an ever-changing workplace.

Why working from home is good for business — Matt Mullenweg, The Way We Work

Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of the open-source blogging platform, WordPress, as well as the CEO and founder of Automattic. Mullenweg has been recognized for his success and leadership by multiple publications, including Forbes, Bloomberg Businessweek, Inc. Magazine, TechCrunch, Wired, and Fortune.

In this talk, Mullenweg shares his thoughts on the benefits of work from home policies. Remote working allows workforces to collaborate across cities, countries, and even time zones. Mullenweg also shares his secrets that will allow all employees to feel connected when working remotely.

How too many rules at work keep you from getting things done — Yves Morieux, TED@BCG London

Yves Morieux is a senior partner and director of the BCG Institute for Organization. He considers how overarching structural changes can improve employee motivation in the workplace. He refers to his approach as “Smart Simplicity,” and using six key rules, it encourages employees to work together in order to solve long-term problems and maximize engagement through all levels of an organization.

During this Talk, Morieux emphasizes the idea that modern work is about solving new problems every day in a collaborative and flexible manner. Because of this, Morieux posits that an overload of rules and processes can prevent employees from doing their best work, and conversely, that cooperation is the driving force of productivity.

Forget the pecking order at work — Margaret Heffernan, TEDWomen 2015

Margaret Heffernan was formerly the CEO of five businesses and today focuses on human thought patterns that can lead businesses and managers astray. Her book, Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril, which looked at how our beliefs, behaviors, and rules can blind us, was named one of the most important business books of the decade by the Financial Times. As lead faculty for the Forward Institute’s Responsible Leadership Programme, Heffernan mentors CEOs and senior executives of major global businesses.

In this talk, Heffernan observes that social cohesion, (when an employee asks another for help, for example), over time leads to a more high-achieving workforce. Instead of placing value on star employees, Heffernan argues that organizations should rethink how their reward systems are structured in order to stimulate growth and motivation in the workforce.

4 ways to build a human company in the age of machines — Tim Leberecht, TEDSummit

A self-described “business romantic,” Tim Leberecht currently runs the strategy consulting firm, Leberecht & Partners, and was previously the chief marketing officer at NBBJ, and Frog Design. Additionally, he co-founded the “15 Toasts” dinner series, which aimed to create safe spaces for people to have conversations about difficult topics. Leberecht also wrote the book, The Business Romantic: Give Everything, Quantify Nothing, and Create Something Greater Than Yourself.

During this talk, Leberecht argues that in the age of artificial intelligence and machine learning, the modern workplace needs to celebrate authenticity rather than efficiency. He also proposes four principles for building what he refers to as “beautiful organizations.”

For more talent management TED Talks, browse TED’s complete topic collection.

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Regardless of the number of features a Talent Management solution boasts, it’s still built off of a core idea; to ensure the highest percentage of employee retention and engagement. Talent Management companies offer core HR software solutions with the addition of some key features designed to manage and support employees. Recently, Human Capital Management (HCM) suites have become popular as well, as they support core HR, payroll, talent management, workforce management, and HR service management.

For HCM suites, the importance of the overall user experience cannot be understated. As live conversations with HR administrators decrease, the need for a compelling and personalized user experience continues to grow. We’ve noticed that usability, process transparency, and real-time analysis are critical components to an effective user experience. Additionally, we’ve found that artificial intelligence features separate the leaders in HCM from the followers, and a technology divide is starting to grow between these groups of vendors.

Selecting the best talent management company to work with can be a daunting task, and we’re here to help. That’s why our editors have compiled this list of the 24 best talent management companies to consider if you’re looking for a new solution.

Check out our online talent management best practices section for even more guides, advice, and how-to content.

Note: Companies are listed in alphabetical order.

ADP helps you develop your workers so both you and they grow together in the long run. Their talent management offering, ADP Workforce Now, is an integrated HR solution designed for businesses of all sizes and across all industries. The software comes equipped with benefits, payroll, talent management, and time & attendance features. ADP is also notable for its mobile support and a mobile HTML offering that works well with Android, Blackberry, and other mobile platforms.

ApplicantStack is designed to assist companies with applicant tracking and onboarding, specifically for the needs of small to mid-sized businesses. This affordable software gives organizations the tools to help develop employment applications, create and post new open positions, share positions through social media, and build screening questionnaires to accompany online applications. ApplicantStack simplifies the review process, allowing HR departments to easily view which candidates are a good fit for the position.

BirdDogHR simplifies talent management for hard-working organizations by providing recruitment and applicant tracking, onboarding, performance, learning management, succession planning, benefits management, payroll, ACA compliance and time and attendance tracking. BirdDogHR specializes in high-consequence and government contracting industries since they have unique needs. Companies from other industries can use the BirdDogHR talent management solution too, but the solution is built with the most rigorous compliance needs in mind.

Cegid offers integrated, cloud-based talent management and HR solutions that provide businesses with the tools for communication between employees, managers, and candidates. The vendor’s comprehensive talent management suite is designed to complement existing systems while bringing deep functionality to critical aspects of talent acquisition, performance management, succession planning, compensation, talent profile management, and learning and development.

Ceridian is a global human capital management (HCM) software company offering HR, payroll, talent management, benefits, and workforce management solutions all in the cloud. Dayforce, the company’s flagship cloud HCM platform, provides human resources, payroll, benefits, workforce management, and talent management capabilities in a single solution. The platform helps users manage the entire employee lifecycle, from recruiting and onboarding to paying people and developing their careers. Ceridian provides solutions for organizations of all sizes, from small businesses to global organizations.

Originally founded in 2004 as HRM Direct, ClearCompany started as a pioneer in cloud-based talent management systems. Today, driven by a vision of a world where organizations perform optimally with empowered managers and engaged employees, ClearCompany is a fast-growing Talent Management Platform. Their unique approach puts company mission and vision at the center of over 2,000 clients’ talent processes, providing a strategic understanding of hiring, onboarding, and employee performance.

Cornerstone OnDemand presents a powerful and fully customizable cloud-based Talent Management Suite comprised of an integrated package of modules designed for large businesses. This suite handles all the matters related to recruitment, employment, and training. The vendor also presents a trimmed down version as well, which caters to the needs of small to midsized businesses. This version contains performance and learning modules, while the full version contains seven modules. Each application with Cornerstone is built using a single code base that gives users one centralized talent management system.

Deltek has offered its talent management software since 1999, bolstered by its acquisition of HRsmart in 2015. Their talent management solution is available as a modular system that allows companies to choose what functions they need. Each solution included in the suite is available as either a best of breed or as a standalone, while also being compatible with other modules. With this option, clients are not only able to choose the solution they need but also replace existing software with ease.

HealthcareSource presents a talent management suite focused entirely on the healthcare industry with a number of features including applicant tracking, onboarding, learning management, performance management, and much more. HealthcareSource recognizes that the key to providing quality patient service is to find the ideal candidate for the job. This vendor prides itself on bringing together software, service, content, and analytics to help healthcare organizations build a highly trained workforce.

iCIMS offers leading software solutions and tools to unify all aspects of talent acquisition. With iCIMS, companies can manage their entire talent acquisition lifecycle within a single SaaS application. With recruiting, offer management, onboarding and relationship management tools, the flexible, scalable, and easy to use iCIMS Talent Acquisition Software Suite supports organizations of all sizes, in all industries. iCIMS delivers faster integration activation with less reliance on IT resources and their industry-leading integrations refine your recruitment processes without disrupting mission-critical hiring workflows.

Kronos offers the industry’s most powerful suite of tools and services to manage and engage your entire workforce from pre-hire to retire. The company’s HCM software provides an end-to-end employee lifecycle management solution, and because workforce needs are constantly changing, Kronos solutions are designed to evolve with you to help meet the challenges you face every day, regardless of your industry or where you do business. Designed for small and medium-sized businesses, Kronos HCM solutions help organizations increase employee engagement for stronger business results to strengthen customer satisfaction, increase revenue, improve patient care, and deliver quality products.

Meta4 is a privately held corporation that offers on-premise and SaaS solutions for HCM and payroll. While the software has traditionally focused on human resources, they’ve made broad steps in the talent management arena adding a number of features including recruitment, compensation, and performance management. Meta4 has built a number of partnerships around the world including consultancies, technology firms, and global integrators. The vendor has also strengthened its software solution by offering 3rd party software products that directly integrate with Meta4.

Namely offers an all-in-one HR platform for mid-sized companies that covers all of your essential HR needs, including payroll, talent management, benefits management, time management, and core HR. Namely acts as your singular system of record, powering your entire company. The company’s talent management suite allows businesses to conduct paperless onboarding, track goals, conduct performance reviews and features performance management, ongoing feedback, and more. Namely acts as your singular system of record with open API, powering your entire company.

Oracle’s Talent Management Cloud provides talent acquisition, performance management, and learning management software for businesses that are looking to source and hire talent with maximum employee performance. Oracle’s Talent Management Cloud software is designed for organizations both large and small across a variety of industries. Their performance management, goal management, and succession planning tools are designed to help companies get the most out of each hire: optimizing ROI, and promoting better business results.

PageUp Unified Talent Management is a strategic human capital management software solution, capable of delivering outcomes across the entire employee lifecycle, via technology built for a mobile and social world. It comprises recruitment and application tracking, onboarding, performance management, learning management, and succession planning modules, with in-depth HR analytics capabilities running across the entire suite. PageUp provides ONE experience and ONE platform for you to deliver and manage your talents’ journey, ensuring you spend your time working on outcomes, not with inputs.

The PeopleAdmin talent management offering, SelectSuite, provides users in education and government verticals with the tools required to maximize operational effectiveness and minimize risk. Organizations can simplify and automate their hiring process and monitor employee performance, while also building and retaining compliant audits. The solution is recommended for organizations related to education and government with more than 100 employees. PeopleAdmin’s SelectSuite provides a fresh look at talent management effectiveness with your data being interpreted into actionable and easy to use information.

PeopleFluent presents a cloud-based talent management suite that’s complemented by applications for vendor management, workforce planning and diversity, and analytics. Total Talent Management includes recruitment, performance management, compensation, learning, and succession. PeopleFluent is able to be integrated with almost any core HR/HCM system through its data integration managed service. The software combines video, analytics, mobility and collaborative social technologies into one product.

Saba Software delivers a cloud-based talent management solution used by organizations to drive talent development initiatives and to increase employee engagement. Born from learning, built on collaboration and designed to be simple, the Saba Cloud solution offers a wide range of capabilities in learning, performance, engagement, recruiting, compensation, succession, and workforce planning. Saba acquired Halogen Software in 2017, which was an important milestone and part of the company’s strategy to become a leader in talent development.

SAP SuccessFactors is the global provider of cloud-based HCM software. The vendor’s suite integrates onboarding, social business and collaboration tools, a learning management system, performance management, recruiting software, applicant tracking software, succession planning, talent management, and HR analytics to deliver business strategy alignment, team execution, and maximum people performance to organizations of all sizes across more than 60 industries.

SilkRoad’s talent management software, Talent Activation, is a full comprehensive cloud-based solution that contains a number of HR tech solutions. Users can choose the entire suite or specific module to match their company’s needs. SilkRoad is also integrated within Microsoft’s Active Directory which allows users with a single sign-on so that employees are able to transition between each of the SilkRoad modules. Each of the modules are contained in the SilkRoad portal, which is designed to increase engagement, collaboration, and user adoption.

TalentQuest provides an innovative Talent Management software suite that empowers companies to more effectively hire, manage, develop and retain the best talent. Their solutions leverage the unique traits, tendencies, and learning styles to help organizations maximize the potential of each employee. TalentQuest’s cloud-based talent management solutions are used by leading organizations worldwide. The TalentQuest platform is powered by behavioral science and the provider’s proprietary TQ Talent Insights.

Talentsoft provides cloud-based talent management software with a number of in-house options. Talentsoft manages employee recruitment, learning, performance, competencies, careers, and compensation. This centralized talent management solution keeps employee information in one easy to access place. Talentsoft allows users to analyze and act on human capital, build their human resource plans, and manage career and succession planning from one place.

UltiPro HCM presents an end-to-end solution that includes payroll, human resources, and a talent management system that is delivered as a SaaS solution. Ultimate Software’s UltiPro HCM software suite provides businesses under 1,000 employees with full visibility of the entire employee lifecycle from recruiting to retirement. UltiPro HCM can be scaled to meet the demands of businesses of different sizes in a number of different industries and is able to reduce administrative workloads by automating all of the company’s HR processes.

Workday presents a full HR suite that covers everything from administration, talent management, recruitment, and time tracking for medium and large enterprises. This vendor is renowned for its commitment to customer service. Workday is also a highly flexible solution that allows you the ability to take the data stored within their HR talent management suite with you. Other solutions may lock up the data with them, keeping you from accessing it if you ever decide to leave. It allows for easy downloading of all of your information with no additional fee.

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This is a directory of the best talent management events and conferences. We do our best to provide readers with buyer and practitioner resources, including the Solutions Review Buyer’s Guide. Sometimes though, you need extra exposure, the kind you can only get in person.

The editors at Solutions Review have created this list of the year’s most anticipated talent management events to attend. We’ve scoured the web, consulted with conference representatives, and identified where the industry’s top brass will be spending their time. If you are looking for top-notch keynotes, interesting sessions, best practices demos, and legitimate networking opportunities, mark your calendar.

All of the conferences listed are organized by independent analysts, researchers, and media outlets. We have not listed solution provider or vendor-centric user demonstrations. The talent management events are listed in chronological order and may include additional dates. Clicking More Information directs you to the event home page.

HRPA2020

Date: January 22-24

Location: Toronto, Canada

Description: The HRPA Annual Conference & Trade Show brings together the people and companies redefining human resources to offer the industry’s boldest and brightest ideas, innovations, solutions, tools, resources and best practices. Featuring 8 world-renowned keynote speakers, 75+ HR professional development sessions, tons of networking opportunities, and over 250 exhibitors showcasing cutting-edge HR products and services, the HRPA2020 Annual Conference & Trade Show is Canada’s most influential event for HR leaders & professionals who want to stay ahead of the curve.

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North American HR Executive Summit 2020

Date: January 27-28

Location: Orlando, FL

Description: Human Resources professionals are faced with constant change as their organizations work to advance goals, develop projects, and shape the corporate culture of senior management and its workforce. It falls to them to implement strategies from the top down, and also to understand feedback and input from grassroots and frontline workers.  The North American HR Executive Summit brings together the “who’s who” of industry executives, cutting edge service and solution providers, and media partners from across North America to network, benchmark, share, and learn real-world solutions to universal challenges that face every HR professional in their daily work.

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Hiring Success

Date: February 11-12

Location: San Francisco, CA

Description: Founded by an HR Tech startup, Hiring Success was developed on the premise that technology can revolutionize Human Resources and Talent Acquisition. The Hiring Success 2019 conference has a variety of sessions that explore core HR Tech topics, such as blockchain in recruiting and augmented reality. Attendees can look forward to the best industry speakers, exceptional content, the latest innovations including a Hackathon and Recruiting Startup of the Year competition, hands-on learning and working sessions, and opportunities to network with the brightest minds in Talent Acquisition.

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HR West

Date: March 9-11

Location: Oakland, CA

Description: The HR West Conference has convened annually for 36 years in the San Francisco Bay Area, attracting professionals from across the country, with a heavy presence from the Silicon Valley companies and their HR experts. These HR experts represent some of the most seasoned HR professionals who deliver on some of the biggest HR demands in the profession, since they practice HR in California and around the world.

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2020 People Analytics & Workforce Planning Conference

Date: March 23-25

Location: At HCI’s 2020 People Analytics & Workforce Planning Conference, you will learn how to integrate your people strategy with your business strategy from a hand-picked group of thought leaders, practitioners, and experts. Get peer-to-peer networking, workshops, and hands-on practice to support your people analytics initiatives across the talent lifecycle. Learn how to develop, adapt, and execute workforce plans when your environment is constantly changing.

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SOAHR 2020

Date: March 23-25

Location: Atlanta, GA

Description: At SOAHR 2020 you can experience 50+ in-depth, trend-forward sessions and workshops. You’ll leave the conference with pages and pages of actionable tactics that you can apply the minute you get back to the office, plus tons of strategies that you can bring back to your team. You’ll hear key insights and inspiring takeaways from leading experts and top-notch brands, including Google, Turner, Panasonic, Georgia Power, Metro Atlanta Chamber, Randstad, ADP and more.

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Modern Business Experience 2020

Date: March 23-26

Location: Chicago, IL

Description: Forge relationships with your colleagues in finance, supply chain management, and customer experience to help champion change. Connect one-on-one with your HR peers and colleagues to discuss best practices, lessons learned, and roadmaps to results. Hear expert perspectives on the future of work, and learn about the forces shaping future HR strategies. Be inspired by HR leaders and practitioners, and gather tactical takeaways to apply within your organization.

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SHRM Talent

Date: April 20-22

Location: Orlando, FL

Description: New recruiting strategies and tools are reshaping the competition for talent. Learn about the tactics and technologies that are helping leading organizations and top brands secure and retain the best and brightest. Return to your workplace with practical tools to forge a more competitive and innovative talent strategy.Poorly defined hiring criteria can hold your organization back from realizing maximum productivity and human potential. Where talent shortages exist, new talent pools must be tapped. Attend SHRM Talent for cutting-edge strategies and creative recruitment ideas that will help you explore non-traditional sources for your future workforce.

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Unleash America 2020

Date: May 12-13

Location: Las Vegas, NV

Description: At UNLEASH America 2020, join the work revolution and a rapidly expanding network of leading pioneers sharing their own workplace technology strategies that have helped transform their organizations’ success in a unique, interactive and exciting two-day event. Opening the door to the next decade, this unique event brings a new era of HR Technology insights, also offers unparalleled access to best practice, trends, tools, and techniques from Fortune 500 companies and start-ups on what’s working, what’s not and learn a clear, actionable strategy for introducing and cultivating new ideas and practices in your organization.

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RecruitCon

Date: May 13-15

Location: Denver, CO

Description: Does your recruiting program have what it takes to beat out the competition for top talent? RecruitCon 2020, will continue to help talent acquisition & management executives and leaders uncover new and emerging recruiting practices – while also offering access to new-tech, cutting-edge analytics, streamlining hiring as a process, and delivering data as a foundation for decision making.

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2020 Strategic Talent Acquisition Conference

Date: June 22-24

Location: Everett, MA

Description: At HCI’s 2020 Strategic Talent Acquisition Conference, you will learn to rethink and prioritize your approach to talent acquisition at every touchpoint. Consider how process design can improve talent outcomes. Learn from industry experts, leading practitioners, and your peers in the audience to identify, attract, and acquire the top talent you didn’t know existed.

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HR Tech Conference

Date: October 13-16

Location: Las Vegas, NV

Description: As the industry’s leading independent event for 20+ years, HR Tech features an unrivaled cutting-edge agenda for HR and IT professionals from businesses of all sizes! With a primary focus on driving HR success through technology, the HR Technology Conference is intended for those looking to continuously optimize usage of current HR systems as well as those looking to buy. It’s where you’ll gain the insight needed to help you make critical HR system decisions that will fuel your business while supporting your organization’s unique needs.

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ReimagineHR Conference

Date: October 26-28

Location: Orlando, FL

Description: The “future of work” conjures up images of robots, automation, and artificial intelligence. But there are some more subtle underlying trends that HR executives need to recognize and exploit — trends that will fundamentally change how work gets done. Join ReimagineHR Conference 2020 to get a critical update on the future of work, and the progressive practices you need to build your HR action plan. Uncover emerging trends and gain insights from Gartner’s exclusive research that will enrich your strategy and deliver more significant business results.

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Analyst house Gartner, Inc. recently released its 2019

Cloud HCM suites support a range of HCM capabilities, such as HR Administrative Functions (Admin HR), HR Service Management (HRSM), Talent Management (TM) applications, and Workforce Management (WFM). Primarily, HCM suites are used to manage full-time and part-time employees. However, some providers have recently added functionality dedicated to contingent and/or freelance workers. A current trend in the market is to use as much of an HCM suite as meets the user’s needs; but, exceptions are expected and pursued when business aspirations cannot be met. This strategy based on exceptions is often assisted by advanced integration technologies, including Integration Platform as a Service (iPAAS) or HRSM platform features to mitigate data and process flow challenges.

In this Magic Quadrant, Gartner evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of 13 providers that it considers most significant in the marketplace, and provides readers with a graph (the Magic Quadrant) plotting the vendors based on their ability to execute and their completeness of vision. The graph is divided into four quadrants: niche players, challengers, visionaries, and leaders. At Solutions Review, we read the report, available here, and pulled out the key takeaways.

This year’s Magic Quadrant features three new vendors: ADP Workforce Now, Cornerstone OnDemand, and Talentsoft. The addition of ADP Workforce Now likely comes as a result of its consistent user experience that offers straightforward interfaces for professional users. Cornerstone OnDemand, formerly a leader in the now-retired Magic Quadrant for Talent Management Suites, is named a niche player in this report. The provider’s status is possibly because of its strong product quality, system performance, and integration capabilities within the HCM. The last new vendor this year, Talentsoft, is a well-established talent management provider that offers administrative and WFM functionality, as well as payroll services.

The leader quadrant of the graph is populated by Ultimate Software, Workday, Oracle, and SAP. Oracle, which had the strongest completeness of vision, recently added an Experience Design Studio and expanded the use of digital assistants, mobile responsive design, and alternative user experiences. Ultimate Software has the highest ability to execute. This is possibly the result of its solution’s highly rated ongoing account management, available training, and enhancement request processes. Workday, placed in the middle of Oracle and Ultimate Software, is the first of the large-enterprise HCM vendors to offer multiple cloud deployment options. The final provider in the leader category is SAP, which offers the most extensive features for extending or customizing its applications through the SAP Cloud Platform (PaaS).

The only challenger in this year’s Magic Quadrant is Ceridian. Though the provider’s deployments outside of North America are limited aside from stand-alone WFM implementations, Ceridian’s WFM capabilities, including labor scheduling and optimization, makes the solution well suited to North American businesses that require tight integration of WFM to admin HR. This includes payroll and benefits administration, as well as emerging and global needs. Additionally, the vendor recently announced that its roadmap now offers Flexible Earned Wage Access (FEWA) for its payroll offering.

The most populous section of this year’s graph is the niche player quadrant. The eight providers listed in this category are ADP Workforce Now, Talentsoft, Cornerstone OnDemand, Kronos, ADP Vantage HCM, Meta4, Infor, and Ramco Systems. Kronos’ solution is best suited for North America-based mid-market businesses with primarily hourly workforces, such as those in healthcare, retail, or manufacturing. Placed slightly below Kronos, is ADP Vantage HCM. This vendor has strong business operations and is well funded, which fuels significant research and development activity. Meta4 was also a niche player this year. The company’s placement is possibly due to its focus on targeted geographies and industries, compared with tools from Meta4’s competitors. Infor, placed the lowest among the other niche players, likely earned its placement because its customer base has grown, but not at the same rate as some competitors. Finally, Ramco Systems possibly gained its status because its focus on the adoption of TM modules is quite low.

No vendors were listed as visionaries in this Magic Quadrant. However, Gartner listed three providers as honorable mentions, namely, Works Applications, CDP, and Talentia.

Read Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises.

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Talent management software is a type of technology that HR professionals use to manage employees in order to gain a competitive advantage. It can refer to standalone applications from a niche vendor that specifically addresses one part of the process, such as a learning management system, or it can refer to a completely integrated software suite.

The main purpose of talent management software is to help companies and organizations manage their current employees, from performance management to benefits. Some talent management software encompass the hiring phase, and go as far as tracking employees as they prepare to leave a company. However, these phases of the employee lifecycle often have their own, dedicated software tools that stand alone.

So, how do you know what the basic features even are? With so many options available today, it’s hard to set apart which features and capabilities you actually need and which are just talked up by software vendors. Don’t worry, we are here to help. Below are a list of the must-have features you should expect to see when examining any talent management solution.

Employee Lifecycle Management

Also known as “employee tracking,” this is the most basic feature you’ll find in talent management software. The employee lifecycle begins when an employee starts working at your company. When they’re new and still learning the lay of the land, they’re in the onboarding stage. Then, as they grow and gain mastery of their job role, they move into employee development. Finally, when they’re ready to move on from the company, the employee enters the termination or transitional phase.

Lifecycle Management makes it as a must-have feature because talent management software helps you track an employee in all stages of their lifecycle and provides you an overview of their progress so you can help them reach their full potential at each individual stage.

Compensation Management

Are different employees bringing home different amounts of money? Depending on the size of your company or organization, this can be difficult to keep track of. How are you supposed to keep on top of who gets paid what and when? Compensation management helps you track these metrics and ensures your employees are being compensated fairly and on time.

It can also assist you with compliance and safeguard accuracy at tax time, so it’s a must-have feature. Some types of compensation management can even handle direct deposit and paycheck management.

Benefits Management

This goes hand-in-hand with compensation management, but instead of tracking compensation, benefits management tracks the perks and benefits an employee receives outside of their salary or wage. This can be anything from time off to a healthcare package, as long as it isn’t directly related to payroll.

In a similar way that compensation differs between employees, benefits packages are unique to each individual employee as well. Instead of relying on Excel sheets and file folders jam packed with employee information, a talent management solution can manage all of these benefits and track their use in one centralized place.

Succession Planning

In the same way you track the overall lifecycle of an employee, succession planning helps you follow an employee’s career as it winds down, including offboarding and even identifying a replacement to take over the emptied position. Some of the more advanced succession planning features also have capabilities to help you track a replacements hires onboarding process as they take over the job role.

This makes it as a must-have feature because it allows the offboarding process to be much easier for CEO’s, HR professionals and even the employees.

Finally, here are some of the nice-to-have features, that while not offered with every single talent management software platform, are fairly common and still useful.

• Performance appraisal: this allows you to track how well an employee is doing at their job, similar to performance review software.
• Employee portal: a function that allows your employees to log into your talent management system on their own accounts to handle their benefits and compensation – it can also save your HR department from having to answer minor questions like, “how many sick days to I have left?”
• Time tracking and scheduling: usually built into talent management suites, tracking and scheduling capabilities come in handy when dealing with paid time off and sick leave.

As you begin your search for the perfect talent management software, don’t let yourself get distracted with the fanciest features – really consider what you need. Our talent management buyer’s guide is a great place to start.

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Talent Management Software (TMS), generally speaking, is a technology tool used by HR professionals to manage employees within an organization. Closely related to HR software, Gartner Inc., defines TMS as an integrated set of applications that support an organization’s need to plan, attract, develop, reward, engage and retain talent. Such applications include workforce planning, talent acquisition & onboarding, performance appraisal/assessment, goal management, learning management, competency management, career development, succession management & compensation management. 

“These functional components align with the key human capital management (HCM) processes of plan to source, acquire to onboard, perform to reward & assess to develop. The talent management market is boosted by functionality to improve workforce engagement & collaboration, as well as to provide greater analysis and even predictive insights to improve decision making around workforce actions,” Gartner adds.

Reasons to buy….

With the current market becoming highly competitive for quality workers, otherwise known as the “war for talent,” companies are considering HR capital a top priority. And since companies are only as successful as the people within them, it’s important to find, hire and retain quality candidates and top performers. Implementing a strong and efficient talent management system can help with attracting and retaining top talent as well as making a bottom-line impact on productivity.

Obvious benefits of having a talent management solution are: streamlined HR operations and the integration with core HR software or HCM suites that provides a suite of functions for payroll, benefits, time and attendance, etc. But here are some others you might not have thought of:

Improve Hiring Techniques

A better, more educated and engaged workforce is most often times more productive and achieves greater results. Its for this reason you want to make sure you’re looking at only the best of the best when hiring new employees. Talent management software provides a number of ways to enhance sourcing and recruiting. For instance, the talent management system can help you recruit those really talented individuals by integrating asks such as posting job descriptions, tracking applicants and making it easy to manage job offers, resumes, etc. Ultimately, a talent management system streamlines your hiring process, giving you more time to focus on the candidates themselves instead of worrying about keeping track of their information.

Easily Develop Employees

Once you have retained top talent within your organization, it’s extremely important to keep them in order to build leaders for tomorrow. According to a study by Go2HR, 40 percent of employees who receive poor training leave their job positions within the first year. Organizations that fail to retain their top talent risk themselves to losing their competitive advantage. As such, employee growth within any career must be taken care of, and a talent management system can do just that.

A good talent management system should include options for employee learning and development (L&D) to enable employees to take courses, develop skills and other basic training. Having a talent management system in place to capture all of this data allow you to easily analyze, monitor and report on which employees need more developing.

Access to Accurate Data Leading to Smarter Business Decisions

Integrated talent management systems have the ability to align core HR processes throughout the HR lifecycle, from recruitment, to benefits management, ongoing performance assessments, and so forth. Talent management systems allow for data sharing/connecting across the entire organization, giving you an end-to-end view of employee information. In turn, this enables you more opportunities to make better-informed, strategic business decisions with all the information you’d ever need.

Improve Cultural Connections and Employee Engagement

In some instances, motivating and engaging employees go beyond just having a solid talent managemnet system in place. Meeting with your employees frequently for performance reviews, appraisals, whatever it may be, can give management an opportunity to create a true understanding of the company’s goals. When employees understand the culture, values and goals of the organization – they realize their connection to the development of the company and can find ways in order to help it’s growth while being valued for it.

However, a talent management system can help employees feel engaged by empowering employees and managers to interact with the employee’s professional career progression and encourages them to invest in the organization by aligning their daily work with business goals – all while focusing on their personal goals too. Employee profiles stored within talent management systems being when resumes are sourced and continues through the employees time at the company. This also allows you to maintain long-term relationships with top performers and could even lead to reduced turnover.

Retain Top Talent

Losing your top talent to competitors is something every organization should be on the lookout for, as replacing them can be very costly. A CAP study found that it cost 20 percent of annual salary to replace mid-level positions – this is something managers, CEOs and other C-suite executives definitely want to avoid. Luckily, with all of the employee information hosted on one talent management platform, you can track employee performance, review goals, skills and career aspirations to make sure your employees are engaged, happy, and on the right path.

Looking for more? Download our talent management buyers guide and check out the top-24 products available in the market with full page vendor profiles, key capabilities and questions to ask yourself and the vendor before purchasing a talent management solution. For those just starting the talent management software search process, this is truly the best resource to help get you going.

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