Situation 

This federal government organization has been a PeopleScout client for more than ten years. Until recently, we served primarily as a talent technology partner—the client leveraged our talent technology suite Affinix™ to manage the job posting and application process for positions within their healthcare arm.

Because the government and public sector client had no visibility of the skills and talent across departments, talent scarcity issues—due to rapid technology advancements, widening skills gaps and shifting demographics—were exacerbated. Without a central view of the workforce, each department was managing their talent acquisition activities independently, some with the support of recruitment technology, and some without. Additionally, employees lacked visibility into cross-department opportunities with no easy way to explore openings.

To support an immediate need, the client asked PeopleScout to develop a redeployment solution within two weeks for 800 healthcare employees. In addition, they asked us to create a long-term internal mobility program to support ongoing talent initiatives.

Solution 

PeopleScout’s Internal Mobility solution leverages AI to automatically match employees with open positions, tapping into a talent pool of qualified and engaged candidates to expedite hiring and create a culture of growth and retention. Leveraging their Affinix suite, we helped streamline the client’s internal sourcing processes and created a comprehensive view of employee skills and competencies to effectively redeploy 800 employees within the healthcare department.

We also developed an internal mobility portal to proactively support ongoing redeployment across the entire government organization, thereby creating a more agile workforce where employees can quickly and seamlessly be reassigned to areas of greatest need. Our custom solution included four key modules:

• Internal Career Portal: We created a Workforce Mobility Hub to support surge, temporary and long-term redeployments. This custom branded, user-friendly platform enables employees to search for cross-department opportunities, self-manage their professional profiles and sign up for custom job alerts.
• Employee Expression of Interest: Candidates who want to be considered for short- or long-term internal opportunities complete expression of interest forms, which automatically adds them to talent pools.
• AI Matching and Search: Affinix AI technology automatically searches the employee database to match candidates to roles based on their skills, experience and preferences. Hiring managers use our AI-talent matching tool to create talent pools of workers which they then target directly using automated email campaigns in Affinix. Since its inception, over 5,000 employees have been added to a talent pool. 
• Skills-Based Assessments: Affinix integrates with best-in-breed screening and assessment platforms to evaluate employees’ skills and experience against the requirements of the role, ensuring candidate fit and promoting long-term career growth.

Results 

Our tech-powered Internal Mobility solution successfully supported not only the redeployment of 800 healthcare employees, but it also supports ongoing internal mobility initiatives across the entire organization. In fact, we empower their 66,0000 full-time employees to mobilize across 40 departments, future-proofing the organization with a skilled and agile workforce.