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This research, conducted by 3Sixty Insights in collaboration with Eightfold AI, explores the misalignment between HR leaders and business strategies and the short-term and long-term issues that result from it.

We partnered with 3Sixty Insights to deploy two surveys:

• An HR Leader Survey taken by 500 HR leaders, VP level and above, at companies with 5000+ employees across six countries.
• An Employee Survey including/covering 1200 respondents who are employed full or part-time across six countries.

Our findings show a high recurrence (82%) of misalignment in businesses where HR departments are not in lockstep with the overall business. This was exemplified primarily in three areas:

• Business strategy development and execution - Only 53% of HR leaders report involvement from the outset in developing and executing their company’s overall business strategy.
• C-suite collaboration - 47% of HR leaders report that their HR department is absent from regular collaboration with the C-suite on long-term strategic initiatives.
• Talent strategy - 56% say their talent strategies do not align with the overall business objectives.

Only 18% of the leaders surveyed execute all three of the above strategy areas effectively. This has downstream effects on the efficacy of talent strategy, the HR organization, and general business needs.

With 69% of respondents to the Leader Survey concerned about their ability to keep up with their company’s rapid changes and the ever-evolving HR needs of their employees, this number will only continue to grow the longer HR remains misaligned.

This report will outline how leaders can solve these problems by aligning HR goals with business goals and prioritizing understanding skills and capabilities to overcome internal and external staffing challenges. We will examine how those who encourage internal mobility, reskilling, redeployment, retention, and employee growth have higher employee satisfaction. The report also looks at the use of AI and technology in HR practices and the positive changes harnessing AI can bolster. This report shows how companies making strategic investments in technology enhance and transform their ability to meet future needs, achieve business goals, and streamline their tech stack.

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Change requires a deeper understanding of talent in the context of work. Right now, we are faced with choosing a path for the future at the intersection of business, digital, and talent reinvention.

Unfortunately, too many of us are still using systems, processes, and procedures to manage talent that were built for a world of work drastically different from the one we are facing today.

We need to think beyond process and talent optimization and embrace transformation through skills-based strategies. We need to gain a dynamic understanding of skills mapped to talent in the context of work.

This is an approach that can only be realized through an AI-native Talent Intelligence Platform built using talent-centered design.

In this mini e-book on talent-centered design you will learn:

• Why skills are the key to unlocking your workforce’s potential.
• How AI-native talent intelligence gives you a dynamic, real-time understanding of your workforce and their skills.
• Why pairing people with work based on their skills sets them up for success — and helps your business thrive.

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Today’s conditions are the most challenging in decades, and yesterday’s talent practices aren’t enough. Most HR tech stacks aren’t up to the task of surfacing real-time data and skills insights to inform talent decisions. And they don’t deliver the best experiences — or results — for candidates, employees, HR teams, hiring managers, and business leaders.

To build a world-class organization with the right skills for the future, you must understand what skills employees have today, and what they could learn given the right training and career opportunities.

You must use new solutions to gain a complete understanding of your entire talent ecosystem to drive organizational success. Welcome to the new talent code.

Read this e-book to learn how to:

• Harness AI-powered talent intelligence to recruit top talent faster and enhance employees’ careers
• Deliver a streamlined and improved candidate experience, giving them a faster, smoother, and more transparent hiring experience
• Discover ways to find alternative talent to fill the skills gaps, including contingent workers and project staffing
• Improve DEI and equity with talent intelligence that mitigates the potential for bias