Introduction
Companies invest a lot in attracting external hires and still struggle to get positions filled. But what about your internal talents and internal development opportunities (INTERNAL MOBILITY)? Do you do enough to make them stay and grow?
- Do you provide personalized learning and growth opportunities, easily available at any time and from anywhere for all employees?
- Do you publish project opportunities or internships internally and try to staff them with internal skilled and interested colleagues? Do you encourage internal talent mobility?
- Do you provide mentoring programs for everybody to participate as mentor or mentee?
SAP SuccessFactors Opportunity Marketplace offers an easily available and intelligent platform for internal development and growth on which projects and collaboration opportunities, mentoring & coaching programs, learnings, future career options and dynamic teams are recommended to the employees based on their skills and interests.
Opportunity Marketplace (OPM) technically brings together SAP SuccessFactors Learning, SAP SuccessFactors Performance & Goals SAP SuccessFactors Succession & Development with Mentoring, internal Job postings from SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting and individual Growth Portfolio from Talent Intelligence Hub enriched with the option to create Assignments (Project Opportunities, Internships, etc) to an easily available and accessible marketplace with AI-powered recommendations (SAP Business AI as recommendation engine).
Please read the highly interesting blog from @RinkyKarthik to learn more about the AI recommendations and how OPM interacts with other modules, Profile and User-Behavior in SF: SAP SuccessFactors Opportunity Marketplace & SAP Business AI-powered Recommendation
Opportunity Marketplace as the central hub for learning, development, project opportunities and assignments
In Opportunity Marketplace (OPM) users can select areas of interest and view Assignments (Broaden your Experience), Learnings (Learn New Skills), Mentorings (Connect with people), Career Development Recommendations (Explore Career Options), Dynamic Teams and internal job postings matched to your interests, competencies and skills. With the support of SAP Business AI, OPM will now recommend assignments (Top Picks for you!), learning, positions and jobs to employees based on available data from these modules as well as profile information and user behavior.
Please note: To benefit from the Top Pics you need to enable Intelligent Recommendations which is only possible once you have > 100 active assignments, > 1000 bookmarks and >100 active users of OPM.
With Talent Intelligence Hub activated in your system, the Skills ("I am interested in") come from your Growth Portfolio. There you can define which areas you are interested in. By select specific skills when visiting the marketplace, matching assignments, learnings etc. will be recommended to you.
Interesting Use Case: Create an assignment, publish it and receive applications
Imagine your company is about to implement SF Opportunity Marketplace together with an SAP Partner. As an internal Project Lead you want to find two internal Key Users with passion for and experience in development topics to support the project and work together closely with the Partner.
Based on your permission settings (Opportunity Marketplace is controlled via RBPs) you create a Project Opportunity as assignment and publish it in on to the marketplace. You can also share it directly with colleagues via the new Share-Button.
Your assignment will be recommended to colleagues with matching interests and skills and they can apply for it.
Applications can be assessed based on provided attachments and on matched skills, offers can be sent and assignments can be easily filled with internal talents or applications can be declined.
Mobile Features in SAP SuccessFactors Mobile App
Development and Growth Opportunities must be available at any time and from anywhere for employees to benefit from them. Hence Opportunity Marketplace offers great functionality in SAP SF Mobile App.
Users can view and apply for opportunities and associated capabilities fully mobile, screen applications and send offers as an opportunity owner.
Conclusion
Opportunity Marketplace is a great tool to promote employee development, establish a modern and agile project-based work culture in the company and encourage internal talent mobility.
It can help transform work in your organization into a state-of-the-art collaboration environment in which you speak of projects and skills, not of jobs and roles. By that, work will become more efficient by being divided into projects, employees can unlock their potential and value, develop themselves and explore their interests and silos will be broken down and cross-organizational participation will be fostered.
This blog showcases some insights and use cases in the new Opportunity Marketplace. All screenshots are taken from a Demo System. Names and pictures have no relation to real people.
SAP SuccessFactors Opportunity Marketplaceis a separately to be licenced SAP SuccessFactors Modul.
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