Metrics for Talented Employees

What is the most important task of any HRprovide them with adequate learning and growth
department? I think the one thing they can do is to findopportunities. Keep them interested in your company,
and keep talented people within company. Thenot just because you pay money for the job, but let
problem is that these people are usually not like othersthem work with some interesting projects. If you have
(that's why you want to hire they!), they do not payan education courses, suggest them to visit courses
much attention to salary you suggest, they don't wantthey like. Also, consider some "don't"-s. Don't make a
to have stock options and don't think in terms of profitusual rotation you might willing to do for others. If you
and loose. You goal is to find these people, hire themfind talent, then I'm sure you don't need him or her to fill
and keep them in company as long as you can. Thatlike brick in your company building. These people are
is the main goal of any HR department.more sensitive to that kind of changes.
Let's discuss how to manage talents in your company.The best option for talented people is
The first task is to find gifted people, I'm sure youlearning-on-the-job, suggest them to learn some
know how to find people to hire, but the task here is totechnology, or pay attention to some market tendency,
find talented? How to do it? Well, I cannot advise muchsuggest them to learn a foreign language.
here, you will need to talk with hundreds to find theActually, training opportunities are the one metric which
one, more over you will probably need to provideshould be considered as a "talents" indicator. Ask
some people with test job to find the right person. Butpeople you why they are interested in position you
there is an indicator that you are performing well: if yousuggested, the good answers are, "because of I can
will find something that is not usual and is extraordinary,work here with X technology and help you to develop
pay attention to this person.Y product", I'm sure you are talking to gifted person or
In terms of finance talented people are easy to hire."I like your training opportunities", again, you are talking
Typically, you will no need to pay huge salaries or payto the person, who will learn faster than you can
someone to abandon their job. The turnover rate withinimagine. This is a great business investment.
this kind of people is below average, as the onlyThe good idea is to combine some talented oriented
reason why they change their job is they cannot findmetrics into the set of metrics, key performance
something new and interesting. When hiring talentedindicators or scorecards, so that you can always
person you will need to hire some ordinal persons andcompare your current HR strategy against "searching
probably fire them later, so you should carefullytalented" strategy and answer the question - if you are
consider what the impart of bad hire might be.performing well.
The most important thing about talented people is to