Like these businesses, federal departments and agencies must effectively manage a large number of candidates and a complex variety of employees, applicants, and hiring processes. In addition, you have unique requirements driven by tight regulations and laws. Based on our Taleo Enterprise Edition platform, Taleo for Federal Government offers the highly scalable, proven talent management solutions and self-service tools you need to effectively manage all of your talent efficiently and effectively.

Much more than a resume database, applicant tracking system, or limited technology augmented by a portfolio of services, Taleo is a comprehensive, integrated suite of talent management technology solutions. Rated in the leaders quadrant by Gartner and recognized as the Most Innovative Product at the 2006 hrGOV conference by leading government HR practitioners, Taleo is the leading Commercial Off The Shelf solution for talent management.

Solution Highlights

Taleo Enterprise Edition is the talent management solution of choice for more than 850 organizations. Taleo for Federal Government gives you a host of strategic advantage:

Assess Your Talent Needs, Opportunities and Processes

• Assess your talent needs: Support competency management of Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSA) using Taleo Talent Master. Analyze skills gaps and precisely define the skills candidates will need to be the best fit for your open positions.
• Assess your talent pool: Match candidates with precision to your mission and talent needs with power screening and assessment tools. Set your evaluation criteria with ease, precisely match all candidates quickly and objectively, and automatically get to a short list of the best qualified candidates.
• Assess your talent processes: Track performance metrics, regulatory compliance, and staffing trends using powerful reporting and analytics capabilities.

Acquire the Best Talent to Fit Your Culture and Mission

• Establish your evaluation approach: Use skills and competency libraries to build KSAs you are looking for and assign scoring and ranking values right into your vacancy announcement.
• Market your employment brand: Build effective internal and external career sites that are fully Section 508 compliant with self-service employment branding tools.
• Post your position announcements and source candidates: Go through multiple channels including direct posting to USAJobs, campus recruiting, print media, veteran organizations, referrals, online talent networks, and more.
• Evaluate candidates: Base your decisions on criteria set by your department or agency with advanced scoring and ranking capabilities, flexible candidate lists, and certificates of eligible candidates.
• Track candidates: Use the best commercially available applicant tracking system available.
• Hire and onboard new employees: Bring new hires aboard quickly and efficiently using interview scheduling, offer management, and the Taleo Onboarding™ module.

Develop Future Leaders and the Overall Skills of Your Employees

• Manage ongoing employee performance and development: include feedback and development, reviews and rewards, career planning, and leadership and succession planning.

Align the Right Talent with Your Mission and Initiatives.

• Increase employee collaboration: Work together on issues related to business goals, satisfaction, and retention.
• Effectively Match Your Employee: Align her existing capabilities and future career preferences with the job requirements.

Strategic Talent Management Platform

The key to successful talent management in the future will be a full suite of talent management tools, built on a single platform. The advantage of this approach is that all solutions from applicant tracking to performance management will share common components to leverage competencies, reporting, analytics, integration and self-service configuration tools. Taleo for Federal Government delivers:

• Secure, scalable, and reliable on-demand software: Our solutions are delivered on the industry's best on-demand infrastructure.
• Easy, flexible integration: Use federal job boards, back-office systems, and on-demand service providers for background checking, drug screening, sourcing, and more.
• Self-service tools: Easily and flexibly configure Taleo to your agency's unique organization structure, process flows, regulatory requirements, and integration needs.
• Talent Master™: Establish a system of record for all talent that houses KSAs and competencies for all candidates.
• SmartOrg™: Configure the solution to match your organizational structure, which means that your hiring managers and HR personnel get the information they need, when they need it, and how they want to see it.

Learn more about Taleo federal government services.