Online talent assessment: @Bee Resources

EIPM Talent Assessment Model

@Bee Resources is a simple and rapid self-assessment process, enabling simultaneous assessment of various levels of purchasing professionals worldwide

Based on a complete Job Reference Frame, covering 12 job Positions in Purchasing
The Reference frame covers 30 activities and 60 Competencies

Why is Talent Development becoming a critical issue?    

One of the greatest obstacles to your company’s growth is “Finding and Retaining Talent”. The challenge now is to attract the right people, retain them and develop each individual in your team to their full potential.

This “War for Talent” is a common challenge experienced across all organisations today.

However, do you have:

• The right organisational structure?
• The right person for the right job?
• A systematic and objective assessment method?
• A clear ‘Job Vision’ of each job profile?

Our aim is to help the global purchasing organisation to assess existing capabilities, identify critical competencies and gaps for recommending a customised development and improvement plan. With 20 years of expertise in Purchasing we have developed a comprehensive Skills Assessment based on a complete Job Reference Frame that identifies clearly job profiles, activities, skills and competencies in the overall Purchasing function. We have created standard job profiles for various job positions, stating clearly the associated activities and matching competencies and skills. Companies may customise the method by working on our standard job profiles. Customisation involves adding company specific activities, skills or simply modifying the terminology.

What are the benefits and the results?   

To the Manager

• Measure and define existing job positions in order to assess the competency level of different buyers.
• Assistance with organisation and re-organisation of the sourcing team.
• Provide with a realistic benchmark, a target for improvement based on today’s strengths/weaknesses.
• Provide a benchmark against other EIPM existing clients.
• Customisation of an appropriate development plan.
• Support for the year End Appraisal.

 To the Individual

• Assessment of current job.
• Instant results which are confidential and anonymous. Clear graphs to help position the individual’s level of competency in their group.
• Identification of competency gap between current job and desired future job.

What do we measure?    

 

Knowledge:

Theory, Procedural Knowledge

Know-how: 

Application, Experience

Know how to be:

Behaviour and Decision Making

Why trying a pilot session?   

• Better clarity of how the Skills Assessment works and the type of results you can get as a manager and individual participant.
• Save time, instead of taking months working on a job description, assess a group of your buyers based on EIPM Standard Job Profile which already defines activities and competencies.
• Determine if customisation is necessary: After a Pilot, you will have a better feedback if there is a need to customise the job profile.
• Step by step guidance: From pre-communication, actual assessment to results reporting, you will be guided on how to launch a Skills Assessment in your team.
• Results for Manager and Individual: You will receive a complete Manager Report for a job position and each individual will receive their own Individual Report.

You may launch a Pilot session from a minimum of 5 participants onwards.

Conclusion    

Talent Assessment is a continuous process and this requires senior management focus.
Deploying and nurturing talent creates value for the Company and this is a critical success factors in succeeding in today’s competitive global arena.

This can contribute to the recruitment function, assess competencies of different levels of buyers, identify appropriate training programmes and facilitate organisation plans to re-organise people for better positioned profiles.

The essential advantage of the Talent Assessment Model is its simple and rapid assessment process compared to face-to-face; users may guard their anonymity and finally as its internet bases it enables multiples users worldwide to be assessed at the same time.
 

@Bee Resources is a simple and rapid self-assessment process.
@Bee Resources enables simultaneous assessment of various levels of Purchasing professionals worldwide.

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