Talent Mapping/Assessment: Picturizing Talent in Organization

This paper highlights talent mapping/assessment and the need of ensuring talent availability in organization to support individual, group performances, and organizational success. The availability of appropriate number of talent, people with high performances and potentials, at the right time for the right positions, is required to support current achievement and face future changes, with speed and flexibility. The availability of talent is expected to support organization to be adaptive, continuous learning, and continuous improvement in facing the faster and faster rate of global environmental changes. This research descriptive approaches are used in this paper supported by literatures studies, published documents/reports of the company pointed as a case in this paper, and some other resources of secondary data. And interview with Heads of Regional Offices, Divisions, Branches, and Supporting Offices, conducted in Jamkrindo, helps provide a picture of historical contribution of the employees. The results is talent mapping/assessment helps organization to set clear standard/criteria and goals for employees' performances and potentials and talent mapping/assessment also gives organization a framework to assess employees while encouraging open discussion and managing succession planning.