Talent Acquisition & Sourcing

TA Portfolio Scorecard & Prune

Turn a TA function's pile of concurrent initiatives into a governed portfolio with one owner and real outcome metrics per initiative, plus pre-agreed scale/hold/kill thresholds and a retirement ritual that actually reclaims bandwidth.

Inspired by Blair Bennett·Senior Vice President, Global Talent Acquisition·PepsiCo

What this skill does

Inventories every active TA initiative, assigns a single accountable owner and two to three real hiring outcome metrics to each, sets a baseline and decision horizon, fixes scale/hold/kill thresholds in advance, then stands up a recurring review forum and a retirement ritual that formally reclaims the capacity of anything killed.

What's included

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Customization intake

A short set of questions about your process and data access.

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Step-by-step implementation process

The exact steps to build this from your own data.

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Definition of done

How to know the output is producing a usable, defensible signal.

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Common pitfalls

Where teams usually get this wrong, and how to avoid it.

The process

Step 1 — Build the exhaustive initiative inventory, including the half-finished and unowned work.

Step 2 — Classify each initiative by type and name exactly one accountable owner.

Step 3 — Attach two to three real outcome metrics per initiative, drawn from what leadership actually judges TA on.

Step 4 — Establish a baseline and a dated decision horizon for every row.

Step 5 — Write the scale / hold / kill thresholds in advance and get them agreed by the approval chain.

Step 6 — Run the first scoring pass and produce the ranked portfolio view.

Step 7 — Stand up the review cadence and the retirement ritual, including where freed capacity goes.

Step 8 — Offer to persist this context for next time.

The download also includes the full definition of done and common pitfalls.

Where this came from

Inspired by Blair Bennett, Senior Vice President, Global Talent Acquisition at PepsiCo

Heard on HR Leaders Podcast

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This skill was built by the Skills for People team based on Blair Bennett's public remarks — not written or reviewed by them.