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Recruit Key Talent At Scale With Talent Assessment Tools

Talent acquisition and hiring methods should be skills and industry specific. Use the right screening and assessment metrics to build a workforce that maintains your competitive edge. 
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Assessment solutions powered by people science

Mercer is a global leader in delivering talent foresight for an organization’s most pivotal people decisions.

Through a combination of assessment products, technology, and expertise, we guide your talent acquisition, recruitment, transformation, development and workforce sustainability decisions, ensuring your talent strategy and skills measurement plan supports your success. You will benefit from our robust assessment tools and extensive expertise, giving you the people insights that truly matter in the context of your specific and evolving business challenges.

This is how Mercer Assessments can deliver foresight to fuel your talent engine.

Delivering unprecedented talent foresight in four key areas

Quickly and accurately hire future-fit talent, including:

  • High-volume and graduate hires
  • Experienced hires
  • C-suite and executive positions

Our comprehensive suite of assessments covers the breadth and depth of roles and levels, evaluating factors such as personality, motivation, cognitive aptitude, business mindset, technical/domain skills, coding skills and overall potential.

Nurture and enhance the capabilities of your workforce. Our development assessments span executive leadership, global leadership, succession planning and high potential populations through:

  • 360 feedback
  • Development centers
  • AI-powered coaching

Prepare your organization for transformation by:

  • Assessing cultural readiness for change
  • Managing M&As, divestitures and restructuring
  • Conducting an enterprise skills gap analysis
  • Implementing technical skills credentialing

We can help model your “future of work” needs and ensure readiness for new ways of working.

Foster a resilient workforce by cultivating a sustainability mindset, building a skills-powered organization and promoting positive well-being outcomes. Our offerings include:

  • Total well-being assessment
  • Cybersecurity risk assessment
  • Career framework design
  • Capacity modeling
  • Enterprise resilience evaluations

Featured solution

Skills measurement

Understanding skills within your workforce is more critical than ever. Mercer’s comprehensive approach to skills assessment empowers organizations to identify gaps, enhance employee development and drive strategic workforce planning.
Learn more about Mercer’s Skills Gap Analysis Tool

Identify the right talent, with the right skills

When talent is scarce, people development, upskilling and reskilling become the keys to organizational competitiveness and sustainability. Upskilling, reskilling and flexibly deploying skills are only possible if jobs are deconstructed into skills. Skills are the new currency of work. Skills flexibility provides business resilience and agility.

Mercer’s talent assessment solutions evaluate the current state of your internal labor market and quantify the talent gaps needed to future-proof the business. Mapping and analysis can help you focus on critical populations to answer essential questions about the potential for talent supply and demand in your organization. Future projections can then model how specific initiatives may be able to support your goals.

We can help an organization deliver on their reskilling strategies and investments by reflecting them in the broader talent management strategy, including learning and development, performance management, and total reward practices with pay-for-skills and pay-for-development innovations. 

58M

evaluation metrics for contemporary jobs added in 2022

54%

of employees will require significant reskilling to meet evolving business needs by 2022

Identifying and hiring the right talent for the job at scale

How can companies restructure their hiring process to attract talented individuals?

How can HR professionals handle the juggling act of managing large talent pipelines, balancing hiring costs, and minimizing talent attrition, all while screening the best candidates for each position? Data analytics can help take the guesswork out of hiring by removing bias and providing an objective assessment yardstick.
3000+

skills tested

1 M+

questions

200+

job roles

25+

industries

4000+

global clients

Our approach to talent assessment

Mercer proposes a strategic and integrated assessment approach. This means considering the different phases of the talent management strategy and integrating them in a continuous iteration process that places people at the center in relation to business needs and corporate strategies. This process feeds the pipeline for current and future critical skills and roles and directs resources toward targeted growth, allowing you to steer your company toward success.

We leverage data and analytics to measure individual and organization success. Our strategic and integrated approach consists of four main steps:

How we tackle the skills transformation challenge

Embark Discover Shape Drive
Phase: Envision and articulate the future vision of skills Phase:Understand the current state through research insights and benchmarks Phase: Create bold solutions with measurable outcomes toward the future state skill vision Phase: Deliver sustainable results and bake the skill transformation into the fabric of the organization
Focus: What's the real business challenge we're trying to solve with this shift - from an employer and an employee perspective? Focus: Where is the work going right and wrong from a productivity and an employee experience perspective? Focus: What changes to work will simultaneously improve productivity and the employee experience of work? Focus: How do we create a way of working that's productive, compelling and sustainable?

More HR resources for candidate screening and talent acquisition

  • Talent marketplace

    Unlock skills and build future capacity by understanding what employees can do now and what they can do in the future with targeted development. A talent marketplace platform will match them to business needs at scale and speed.

  • Skills-based talent strategies

    Mercer Skills-Edge Suite offers consulting, technology and data to give you the insight to advance skills-based talent and pay practices across your company.

  • HR training (Mercer Learning)

    Equip your employees with e-learning courses and virtual workshops that will help them command the future. Or create a custom series targeted to your talent needs. 

Mercer’s assessment solutions

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