Our challenge is to make this more broadly accessible and to keep it current. I like to think about these sorts of databases as the recruiters gossip place. It is an online forum for chatting about competitors, successes, failures and for collecting bits and pieces of information that, alone, may not be valuable. However, when they are combined with other bits they represent a treasure trove. And finally, it becomes more important that ever to develop people to be high performers.
Talent agencies recognize talent and develop it for strategic purposes.
Mostly this will apply to the current employee population, but it could apply to people outside as well. The limits are our own vision and our ability to work the politics of our corporate environments. One way to find those with talent would be to open all our screening processes to anyone and then selecting those who seem likely to be successful. The Internet and our recruiting web sites make this very easy to do. The key is that recruiting is not only about finding talent, but also increasingly about developing it.