"Our employees take ownership of their careers, and our business creates value and drives innovation for our customers."

"We've been early adopters of various softwares, hardwares, and cloud platforms for awhile. But we had never really invested in anything which would digitally self-enable our people, and that was the very concept at the heart of our approach to careers."

"We had to think about more impactful, more up-to-date, more contemporary ways that would encourage our employees to grow their skills and meet our future needs."

“The benefit of the talent marketplace has been the fact that opportunities are more democratized. People are able to put their hands up for opportunities that before they just wouldn't have seen.”

"With Unlocked [powered by Gloat], we can collaborate across regions, uncover new ideas, and challenge assumptions. [Gloat] is allowing us to open up the boundaries of our teams and expand our talent reach–to ultimately grow and develop with each other."

"We have 5000 people at Spark. All of these people could potentially move internally. While this hasn’t been done at scale previously, there is now a burning platform to make the most out of the talent already in the business, both in terms of retaining skills, but also in terms …

“We are starting to see careers a climbing walls, instead of vertical ladders, that enable employee agency while strengthening skills within the company.”

"From a people strategy perspective, we asked ‘how do we maximize everyone’s potential?’ And that’s where the concept of the talent marketplace fits in very beautifully."

"We’re giving people a view to the possibilities. To be able to say, these are the skills I have, these are the skills I aspire to build, where in the organization can I go using my skills as fuel? That’s much more valuable than having a perfectly planned out linear …

“We’ve seen people apply and be considered for work that they’ve never heard about. They’re seeing and being seen and that’s a huge employee engagement driver. And now on the other side of it, on the demand side of it, we’ve seen work owners now accessing talent that they never …

"The Talent Marketplace is an opportunity to evolve talent practices. It helps us break bureaucracy and silos. It makes the process of applying for career experiences, more democratic, more self-service, and more agile."

"We wanted our employees to be empowered to collaborate and drive their own skills and careers, to prepare them for the world both within and also beyond HSBC, developing confidence, curiosity, and competency."

"This partnership is a further step in building an organisation that is future fit. We have listened to what our colleagues are telling us around career progression, development opportunities and employee experience and have brought in a solution that offers upskilling and reskilling opportunities, while for the Bank, making it …

"Gloat's talent marketplace is an enormous opportunity for D&I. We're creating an inclusive environment where we can get diversity of thoughts from a variety of different people and introduce them into our projects, while uncovering hidden talent that we would never have known existed before."

"First and foremost, anyone using a talent marketplace will be immediately able to discover hidden talent --candidates and skills they didn't know existed. And they'll be able to experience how diverse, valuable, and capable these discovered candidates are."