What is a Talent Profile?

highlighting a colleague's career/work experience, educational background, certifications, skills, professional affiliations, and achievements. It makes an individual’s talent and qualifications more visible within the organization as their career grows.

Why develop a Talent Profile?

Your Talent Profile provides greater visibility of your background and skills to your manager and the organization. Your Talent Profile also assists in your professional development and aids in the achievement of career aspirations. Your Talent Profile can be used to identify you as a potential candidate for internal career opportunities. It can also be used to identify colleagues who could be aligned to a Leadership Development program or track.

How does Adtalem leverage Talent Profiles?

Adtalem leadership uses Talent Profiles to effectively manage talent and to extract insights that help them make critical talent decisions.

By having our colleagues create and upkeep their profile, we build “intelligence” on staff – work experiences, certifications and degrees achieved, professional affiliations, awards, and languages. With this information, leaders can plan for our future and fill critical roles in the organization with identified talent.

How can Talent Profiles help managers?

Managers who have a better, expanded understanding of colleague strengths, education, and accomplishments can use the Talent Profile to help guide talent development conversations with colleagues and identify opportunities for added experience when looking across their team.

When should I update my Talent Profile?

Talent Profiles are best reviewed and updated by August of each year, ahead of Talent Planning discussions. However, they can be updated in real time, especially as you gain experience or accomplish activities that can be added to your Talent Profile.

What is Adtalem’s Talent Planning Process?

Adtalem engages in an annual talent planning and succession planning process in September of each year. During that time, talent planning meetings are held to identify capabilities and development needs across Adtalem and provide leaders with the framework and tools to help them create their annual talent plan.

Business unit and functional leaders also meet to discuss the results of their talent planning discussions and agree on succession for mission critical roles across the organization.