"When COVID hit, we saw FLEX become even more relevant. We saw part of our business become overstretched, while, on the other hand, there were employees who suddenly had more capacity because projects were reprioritized. To ensure business continuity, we all had to work as one Unilever and FLEX Experiences …

"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 …

"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."

"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."

"The leader in the market is Gloat. Gloat helps people find the best possible work for the skills they have and the skills they want.”

"Future-fit skills are the currency that get you meaningful experiences for a purposeful career. With InnerMobility we can further accelerate our transformation towards a more agile, innovative and empowered organization."

"We identified early on this need for more talent mobility, more flexibility, and continuous learning. Everyone was talking about the importance of lifelong learning, so we decided it was time to scan the market for tools and ideas that we could implement to make an impact within our organization."

"Agile ways of working are allowing us to redeploy both temporary and permanent resources to support our strategic priorities. Our talent marketplace has helped us to re-prioritize 500,000 worker hours towards more than 3,000 business-critical projects."

"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."

"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'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."

"The internal talent marketplace can deliver a broad range of benefits across talent acquisition, mobility, and management, transforming the workforce and improving organizational agility. It can enhance workforce performance and productivity, facilitate creation of more nimble teams, and improve workforce capabilities.”

"COVID has opened up a whole different way to look at our workforce, our workplace, how we engage, and how we collaborate. COVID is telling us that there is a way to really exponentially change engagement."

"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."