Crowdsourcing ADB Expertise Locator from ADB Employees

Create a collaborative employee network to help connect ADB Employees!

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This challenge is open to ADB employees including staff, consultants and interns. 

ADB teams cannot be mixed with external participants to apply to this challenge. 

Overview

The Asian Development Bank currently employs over 3000 full-time employees, external contractors and interns. As such, it is difficult for our staff to personally know one another on a grand scale. This is especially true during the time of Covid-19 where most operations are done remotely. It is also complicated for new recruits to get to know their indirect colleagues - individuals who are not on their team.


Additionally, the current employee database at ADB is a simple tool that essentially indicates a person’s name and job title but does not give any information about their past projects, specific skills or areas of interest.


As a result, teams and employees spend a considerable amount of time on certain tasks/projects and do not know how to find people with the adequate knowledge and expertise to help them. 

With a well designed, comprehensive, and collaborative networking tool, it would be possible for ADB employees to easily find the people they need, with the relevant experience, skills and expertise to help them solve specific issues. This will result in increased work efficiency and create more bridges between the employees of different backgrounds in these times when remote work is a norm and nurturing interpersonal relationships at work is a challenge.

 

Currently used tools at ADB to record employee data

There are currently various digital tools that are used by ADB to record, store and access employee data. They collect varying types and levels of information and are not well integrated. These tools include:

  • People Finder

    This tool allows staff to search ADB’s employee directory to access basic contact information, designation and location.

  • MyCareer

    This online talent management platform that enables staff and managers to manage their career and allows the organization to search for talent required for specific projects.

  • HR4U

    A portal empowers staff with a search tool for human-resources-related topics and serves as a single system to address human-resources-related inquiries and concerns.

  • Consultant Management System:

    This online consultant recruitment and management system hosts an online database of experts and retains extensive consultant data, such as consultant profiles with personal information, expertise, work experience and credentials.

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