Talent Management Project Plan Overview
This paper provides a description of Human Resources (HR)Æs current talent management problems, including such issues as applicant tracking and onboarding, and describes how the project will address the process of evaluating software systems that could satisfy the functions that are currently manual or not performed at all. It describes the elements of the high-level project scope, explains how the success of the project will be measured, and details best practices and learning points that will be applied to the future of the project plan.
This project will address HRÆs problems with talent management and propose a web-based talent management solution. HR has encountered numerous problems with various aspects of talent management, such as applicant tracking, onboarding, compensation management, performance management,
career development, and succession planning (ôSmart Solutionsö).
Applicant tracking, for example, is being done manually, which results in missed follow-ups, failure to match applicants with all available jobs for which they qualify, and an inability to automatically generate acknowledgment emails or ad hoc reports. Furthermore, many processes that would be faster if automated or that can only be done in an automated system are affected: requisition approval, candidate sourcing, employee referral, quick-posting to job boards, resume processing, and prescreening.
The onboarding process has been lengthy and cumbersome for both the new employee and HR, requiring the employee to fill out numerous forms and requiring HR to input the data from the forms into the HR system. Since onboarding is currently a manual process, it is not possible to input information once and have it populate all forms, and there is no way to generate federally mandated forms (ôOnboardingö). Further, without an automated process, approvals must be provided in hard copy rather than b...