FACTORS INFLUENCING TALENT IDENTIFICATION AND RECRUITMENT IN GLOBAL ENTERPRISES

Global company with integrated talent management should meet higher requirements for international competitiveness and better economic results. Talent management in global environment integrates strategy of the company, HR strategy, identification and recruitment, assessment, development, and retaining talents into complex process. The objective of this research survey was to explore the current state of applying the concept of talent management in the phases of talent identification and recruitment in companies operating in Slovakia. Paper is focused on the factors of talent identification and recruitment in Slovak organisations. Size of the company, ownership, foreign capital, economic situation, and existence of the HR department were selected as a researched factors influencing identification and recruitment in talent management process. A scaled questionnaire used in previous researches was applied as a tool for data collection in 381 companies operating business in Slovakia. The questionnaire was distributed online through Google documents system. Questionnaire reliability was verified by Cronbach's alpha and reached the level 0.799. To verify the existence of statistically significant differences between individual groups of respondents the Kruskal-Wallis test and Mann-Whitney U test were used. We found that existence of HR department is the most important factor of the talent identification and recruitment process in global enterprises, followed by foreign capital, and size of the company.