Infor Talent Science

Pros

The thing I enjoy the most about Talent Science (as an administrator) is the results we get to see for ourselves in our daily operations. Our hiring managers are using Talent Science ratings or scores to secure potential employees. As we got the opportunity to recalibrate our profiles, we got our hiring managers engaged in knowing their future applicants would be tested against their top/best employees.

The ease of using the software has been one of the top things our managers have enjoyed. It is easy to navigate and easy to understand where everything is located. As an administrator, the ease to run reports and such is really great.

Overall, I believe Talent Science has only made our company better as we continue to strive to do so!

Cons

At the beginning of our journey with Talent Science, the main thing we were worried about was the time it took candidates to take the assessment and the drop off rate. We believed we were losing candidates because of this. Over time, however, Infor heard our feedback and minimizes the assessment to a smaller completion time. We have now seen more completed assessments than preciously and we hope to continue to see that improve.

Pros

The software portal is extremely easy to use and is very navigator friendly. Reporting is colorful, clear, easy to understand and has several options to choose from to give you the information you need in the way you want it. It integrates well with our ATS and onboarding was fairly easy. What I really appreciate is that the account managers dig deep to learn your business and are able to customize the tool to the organization's needs. They provide regular training for users and hiring managers and evaluate the predictiveness of the tool. If its not providing the results you are looking for, they will review the data and make necessary adjustments to fix the gap.

Cons

The report information sometimes is repetitive or short. Hiring Managers typically put too much emphasis on the score and can become biased if the information is shared too early. They also equate scoring to standard testing in education where its not the same. The validation of the performance of the assessment takes longer than some leaders would like to see.

Pros

I like that a candidate only has to take the assessment one time and then Talent Science does that work to score that against various profiles, instead of candidate having to take an assessment for each job they apply to. I like that there are opportunities for development and career pathing with the assessment information. I like that there are probing questions provided to help mitigate any opportunities a candidate may have for the role they are applying to.

Cons

I don't like how long the assessment takes. At 75 questions, it's still lengthy when you think of a retail candidate that might only be working 6-8 weeks with us for the holidays. I'd love if there were games or other aspects that would engage the candidate in a different way but still measure the appropriate behavioral and cognitive skills that we are looking for.

Pros

Product is easy and simple to use. Flexible; profiles can change profiles as the business needs and positions needs change. Provide validation and recalibration studies. Reports available to Recruiters, HR and Hiring Leaders ( assessment report, onboarding report, development report, interview guides etc) are very beneficial. Have use of their many off the shelf assessments if a custom profile is not an option.

Cons

There is a lot of information available from the tool to Recruiters, HR, HM's as mentioned above and can be difficult to leverage and use, simply because we do not have the people resources to administer them.

Pros

Insightful tool that helps us make smart hiring decision an reduces turnover.

Cons

No cons to speak of, one of the best vendor partners we have.