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Talent management software

Discover talent management software solutions to attract, develop and retain employees. Effectively drive and manage performance whilst empowering your people to develop skills and foster career growth.

Find solutions to recruit and onboard talent, support learning and career development, deliver succession planning and performance management, and drive feedback and recognition. Our talent management software will help to accelerate growth, build a future-ready talent pool and enhance your employee experience.

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Features of our talent management solutions

Talent management software solutions

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Performance management and appraisals

Drive performance and behaviours and measure goals and objectives. Configurable appraisal forms and detailed data and reports provide the insights you need to build a culture of continuous high performance.

Available via self-service, appraisal updates can be made in real-time by both employees and managers, enabling you to define growth areas and reward good performance.

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Self-serve employee talent profiles

Automate the collation of talent and performance information in an employee’s talent profile.
Let employees view and administer their objectives, reward and recognition, career development, training history, development plans and continuous professional development (CPD).

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Succession Planning

Leverage succession management tools like our nine-box matrix to help assess the risk of talent leaving and make provision for key roles becoming vacant.
Systematically build your talent pipeline with a manager view of employees’ talent profiles.

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Employee recognition and feedback

Peer-to-peer recognition and meaningful methods of reward have never been easier to implement. Enable colleague recognition and continuous feedback with people-centred platforms and initiatives.
Let your employees know they’re valued in an instant and align performance with culture by filtering feedback into your formal appraisal process.

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Digital learning solutions

Develop a continuous learning culture and meet both personal and organisational training needs with our digital learning solutions.
Deliver top-down learning management with desktop and mobile learning and gamification via our leading learning management system. Drive a self-directed learning experience with personal, professional and compliance-based skills training.

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Career development

Deliver personalised career coaching at scale and foster career growth for your employees with our career development tools.
From personalised CV feedback, interview training, career assessments and frameworks to map, celebrate and encourage progression, our career development solutions help accelerate growth and drive internal mobility.

Talent management is a part of our extensive HR suite

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Why use talent management software?

Rising turnover is increasing competition for talent. In a recent survey, 91% of HR leaders said they were significantly concerned about employee turnover in the next few months1. In fact, poor talent strategy was revealed as the top emerging risk-worrying organisation this year2. 

According to a recent CIPD report, nearly two-fifths of organisations (38%) are now increasing efforts to meet their talent requirements by developing more talent in-house and 60% are upskilling existing employees to combat recruitment difficulties3.

Managing talent and performance in a strategic way supports the development of your people and delivers business value in regard to employee experience, engagement, succession planning and ultimately retention.

Benefits of talent management solutions

  • Better understand employee turnover rate – the UK average is approx. 15% a year4
  • Increase talent retention and reduce turnover costs – research shows the average cost of turnover per employee (earning £25,000 or more) is £30,614
  • Take a strategic approach to workforce planning and empower HR to proactively develop future talent strategies
  • Create a high-performance culture and drive development and growth
  • Align skills and competencies to manage talent pipelines and support succession planning
  • Support employees to proactively own and develop their careers
  • Enable continuous assessment and feedback
  • Make smarter talent and retention decisions using data-driven insights.

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Integrated talent management solutions

Connect your talent strategy with integrated HR recruitment software and onboarding solutions.

Talent management begins with attracting and securing the very best candidates and ensuring a positive onboarding experience. With our end-to-end HR software, PeopleXD, you can integrate your talent management solutions with HR recruitment solutions and employee onboarding software to create a winning people experience at every touchpoint.

Talent acquisition and recruitment tools will streamline the hiring process, helping you manage and process candidates in less than half the time, while our HR onboarding software will provide a more tailored experience for your new starters. Seamlessly switch to engagement and retention with your talent management solutions.

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“Although our principle driver for a move of HR and payroll software and services was a financial one, the results of this change have far surpassed simply a monetary value.”

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“The feedback we have received so far has been very positive and employees generally feel happier that we have made a difference to their working day. Commercially we will achieve the return on investment in two years. However, in real terms the hours saved for each manager are significant.”

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“The ability to centralise a number of siloed systems had a profound impact on the effectiveness and efficiency of our HR team - especially as a multinational conglomerate. After the project, we saw significant improvements in key areas of the business, like employee retention and GDPR compliance.”

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Talent management FAQs

What is a talent management system?

A talent management system (TMS) helps organisations to plan, source and develop the talent needed to achieve business goals. It helps to streamline key talent management processes and gives HR teams the tools to track and manage recruitment and hiring, onboarding, performance management, learning and development and succession planning of employees and candidates.

Unlike many talent management systems on the market, ours is an integrated solution which sits as a module within our scalable suite of HR software, helping to connect your people processes from end to end. It is designed to support the complete employee lifecycle all in one place -  driving employee engagement and performance whilst supporting growing organisations to future-proof their approach to managing talent.  

What is talent management?

Talent management is the strategy businesses use to hire, develop, engage and retain top talent. It is ongoing and should cover the whole of the employee lifecycle. Managing talent proactively helps to retain engaged employees and create a high-performance culture.

What are the key components of talent management?

Talent management can encompass a number of components, including talent acquisition and recruitment, applicant tracking, onboarding, appraisals and performance management, recognition, mentoring, training and development, succession management and more. These components all contribute to the wider talent management strategy, creating the best possible people experience.

What is the relationship between talent management and performance management?

Talent management focuses on the full employee lifecycle, from recruiting and onboarding to development and career progression. Performance management is an important part of talent management, focusing on measuring and developing the performance of employees to improve and grow the company.

Why is performance management important to talent management?

Performance management is important to talent management because it is a way to understand how employees are performing, allowing managers to give recognition and feedback as well as identify growth areas. Performance management nurtures talent and ensures employees are aware of and working towards the strategic objectives of the organisation.

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Our HR and payroll software solutions support every aspect of your people strategy, from recruitment and onboarding right through to training, talent management, payment and rewards.

Talk to one of our experts to find out how we can help you unite, integrate and optimise all of your people processes to maximise the success of your employees. 

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1Gartner Survey - 91% of HR Leaders Are Concerned About Employee Turnover

2Gartner Survey - Poor Talent Strategy is the Top Emerging Risk Worrying Organizations

3CIPD report

4Monster - What is the ideal employee turnover rate?