Talent Pools allow you to group your successors into "pools," and offer an alternative approach to succession planning. A common practice is to nominate individuals, name successors to top-level positions, and to associate Talent Pools to lower-level positions.
Talent Pools offer the following organizational and functional benefits for Succession Planning:
- Identify high-potential employees for critical roles
- Ensure business continuity for key positions
- Group talent for non-succession related needs (for example, development plans, rotation programs, or high-potential pools)
Nominations to Talent Pools are:
- Able to include a readiness level with comments/notes
- Effective-dated
- Approved or rejected using Role-Based Permissions
- Capable of allowing participation to multiple Talent Pools
- Created dynamically using Job Profile Builder
- Integrated with other SAP SuccessFactors modules
- Reportable
Talent Pools enable organizations to scale their succession planning effort and begin identifying, tracking, and preparing candidates for future roles even before a specific target position has been defined. Managers can nominate an employee to a Talent Pool at any time.