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Why CAVA is using personality assessments for talent development

HR Brew

HR teams might use personality assessments to recruit candidates , or develop current employees in their roles. The latter use case is of interest to Kelly Costanza, chief people officer at CAVA, who told HR Brew her team started using personality assessments this year for talent development and management.

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HR leader’s mental health counseling background helps her lead culture, engagement, and talent development at Fortune 500 company

HR Brew

That’s certainly the case for Michelle Reaux, VP of culture, engagement, and talent development at Insight Enterprises. Reaux started her career as a mental health counselor before transitioning into training, and then business development. That I am in a role that’s focused on policy or employee relations.

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How HR can usher talent development into the future of work

HR Brew

That we actually have to refocus and really begin to rethink potential, really to understand what human potential and employee potential looks like, and then really develop the workforce education. Your book discusses “agile talent strategy”—how would you describe that?

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How to Create a Talent Development Strategy

15Five

Many leaders assume that building their talent pool begins with hiring and ends with retaining the talent they have, but that approach ignores something crucial: talent development. By building up the talent you already have, you can get more out of your teams and shoot for bigger business goals. Here’s how.

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Why one HR pro turned to talent development to address her company’s shortage of telecoms professionals

HR Brew

We know we’re preaching to the choir when we say that the job of an HR professional hasn’t gotten any easier. Skills shortages , low employee engagement , and a deficit of workers have created headaches for most HR professionals in recent years—and they’ve had to get creative to address these challenges.

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What Workday learned by implementing a skills-based talent strategy

HR Brew

While most employers haven’t yet fully embraced a skills-based talent strategy, some are further down the road, including Workday. In the last 12 months, 500 account executives were hired under this strategy. “Skills-based” is one of the latest workplace buzzwords to take the HR world by storm.

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New report argues all of HR should take ‘ownership’ of L&D

HR Brew

Arrested (talent) development. Instead, the report argues, all parts of the people function—talent acquisition, DE&I, and people analytics, to name a few—should take shared “ownership” of talent development. Companies that don’t strategically invest in talent development could be leaving money on the table.