“Trust in Talent”, a recent study conducted by Kienbaum, revealed that only every second European company seems to have their own talent strategy and over 80 % of HR responsibles see a strong need for effective talent management (Kienbaum Institut@ISM 2018).
Overall there is no doubt about the fact that there is still some kind of difference and gap between models and approaches in the business world and the (VET) education systems in Europe. Out of our experience from representing and supporting of business and companies we can clearly see that the megatrend Talent Management:
- has not fully entered especially the world and thinking of smaller enterprises (SMEs) and
- has the huge potential to act as a translator between business world and education world
- Talent Management can be seen as huge potential to bridge the gap between business and education systems.
Aims
The Talent 4.0 Project wants to achieve four aims
- Analysis of the current situation of talent management especially in SMEs in Europe with a special focus on identifying overlaps and synergies with European VET policies and instruments (e.g. ECVET instruments, EQF/NQF descriptors, learning outcome approach etc.) and deduction of needs and requirements on the level of training and (web 4.0 based) instruments
- Development of knowledge, skills and competences in SMEs about talent management and talent analytics (web4.0 based) as well as European VET policies and instruments which support the talent management process
- Development of a collection of instruments and tools about talent management and talent analytics (with special focus on web 4.0 based instruments for talent analytics)
- Achieving a better understanding on company level for European VET policies and instruments via the “translation tool” of talent management