Attract and retain top talent by advancing pay-for-skills
Agile workforce management requires identifying, keeping and moving skilled talent. Advancing pay-for-skills practices can secure top talent at competitive rates and help future-proof businesses.
Challenges
- It’s difficult to attract and retain the skills required to transform for the future.
- Our traditional compensation methods are not aligned with new workforce requirements for agility and flexibility.
- The lack of transparency in our compensation programmes is an obstacle to building employee trust with the organisation.
- We don’t know which skills are most valuable, and we’re concerned we’re over- or underpaying for the wrong skills.
Rethinking compensation plans is a top-five agenda item for HR, with 36% of respondents citing it as a top priority.
Mercer’s Skills-Edge Suite can help you advance pay for skills
Pay-for-skills practices can lead to increased attraction and retention of critical skills. In addition, they can strengthen and reinforce other people initiatives, such as workforce planning, performance management and career development. Mercer products that can support pay-for-skills initiatives include:
Skills library
Lay the groundwork for skills-based decision-making.
Skills pricer
Determine which skills are most valuable to your organisation.
Skills pay planner
Reinvent your rewards with pay for skills.
Watch our interviews on approaches to skills-based pay
In this interview series, several Mercer consultants talk with IBM executives about the journey IBM has taken to plan and adopt a skills-based pay approach.
Only 12% of respondents indicate that they formally monitor market demand for skills, but this figure is rapidly increasing with access to new data sources and technology.
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