Why one needs to assess his or her strengths? Why one needs to identify the core elements that make them tick? Why one needs to identify the negative shades in their lives? Why one needs to identify who they are?
In today's world, which is the true reflection of the phrase "dog-eat-dog", it is important for one to identify and reconnect with oneself. It is critical for one to identify what it is that will make them stand by the winds of change.
With changing times, employers are becoming more and more demanding. They are looking for quality traits in individuals that will stand by the tide of times. They are scanning the intrinsic and extrinsic behavioral patterns and aligning it with their organizational goals. Human capital is so much more important for them.
Uncertain times have challenged the very existence of the strategies, which were sacrosanct for talent acquisition till date. What was OK yesterday is no more Ok with the top management today. They are looking at ways to reduce the incapability and inconsistency burdens in their organization layers. They are looking for true sets. By true sets they are clear about what they need. They are clear about what values the true sets will bring in. They are clear about the receivables and deliverables, and to add they are clear about the time period in which these true sets needs to perform.
My experience shows that well-qualified candidates are always in demand. Today the issue for employers is two-fold (1) having enough qualified candidates and (2) selecting the candidate who best fits both the culture and the specific business situation.
Apart from changing times the cost of selecting the wrong person for the job is potentially devastating for an organization. For example, conservative estimates put the cost of replacing a manager at three to four times that person's annual salary. Multiply those across several instances and you have a huge expense that is mind boggling.
Today’s organizations are facing a market with not enough qualified employees to fill necessary job roles. In order to stay afloat and gain competitive advantage, these companies are becoming and getting prepared for future performance with a “ready now” workforce. Companies no longer view human capital as a commodity but as an asset, and they recognize the criticality of investing in a talent acquisition strategy, as a way to identify, attract and engage high performers.
Organizations are not leaving any stone unturned to negate the wrong identification process. Across the industry, across each and every sector employers are looking for talents that can fit in to their situations and can be able to multitask and perform when times are demanding.
That's why it has become so much more important for one to identify their uniqueness, their strengths, their latent energies and negative shades. It is important for one to identify their strengths and motivations toward work. They need to outline their learning style, communication style, management style and leadership preferences. These are the traits the employers are searching for today.
Whether one is a mid career professional, an executive or else starting their career, it is important for the one to establish, re-establish and hone the skills that will make one tick.
It is important for one to assess oneself and identify the areas that they need to improve upon and areas that can be harnessed for better tomorrow.
However to do this one need to have solution partners who will engage in a one to one model with the individual and will formulate a basic and advance level plan that will help the individual to excel.
Internet offers many tools and solutions online where one can actually fill some forms and can get a basic report about who they are and what they are capable off. But this is highly debatable. These interfaces do not offer the assessors to understand the people in totality. First these assessors are algorithm and number based systems, which are tuned to generate only limited sets of results and it does not verify the other important element like people in actual. The people in actual is lot different from the one online.
For today's demanding talent marketplace one needs to find organization which can offer a blended solution i.e. tests and one to one interactive engagement model to individuals for their assessment needs.
In Kolkata a boutique strategic human resource management company call ILS is doing this to the perfection. They are able to offer individuals with blended results based assessment solutions. They are focused and their consultants have spent quality number of hours doing and perfecting this system.
If you are looking for some thing of this sort, you can possibly get in touch with Kaustav the consulting partner for more details.
The company’s website is http://www.ilsnetwork.org
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