‘It helps a lot that the employees recognize themselves in the description. They say for example: ‘It is so right. Only I would have never expressed it that way’. If the report has an effect on the employee, he’s more open to a conversation’. Kamphuis finds that the positive tone of the report does, however, demand extra attention from the HR staff member. ‘He or she has to be clear-cut on points that have been formulated in a very friendly manner.’
Kamphuis regards the collaboration with TMA as pleasant. ‘You notice that it is a relatively small company. The employees are well-motivated and rapidly respond to comments. I am a critical user, therefore I sometimes have comments. For example, concerning the way a question is formulated. They do something about it pretty quickly.’
Atos Origin, which employs 49 thousand people worldwide, uses TMA for career coaching. ‘Such a career interview can be conducted on the initiative of the line manager, HR or the employee himself. We let the employee first fill in a TMA assessment. The report is a fine starting point for the conversation.’ Also, those employees who are looking for a job in a different department within the company have to fill in the TMA questionnaire. ‘Sometimes people find they get to know themselves better by filling in that assessment,’ Kamphuis comments. ‘For example, someone who has become a line manager and remained on that position because it was all going pretty well and the status was also attractive and then he realized during the talent interview that he was actually happier as a project manager. The assessment helps to bring that to the fore.’