Managing Recommended Roles and Career Paths

The Career Worksheet is designed to help employees find roles they'd like to work toward as they develop their careers. When searching for new roles, employees can use Browse All Job Roles to search through all roles in the organization, or they can select Explore Recommended Roles to explore roles recommended to them based on their experience and ratings.

Upon choosing Explore Recommended Roles, there are two views available: Career Paths and Recommended Roles. Career Paths are detailed later in this lesson.

The Recommended Roles view explores role recommendations that are organized into different sections:

• Top Matches
• Next Career Move
• Trending Roles
• Roles of People Like You

Employees who do not find the role they're looking for under Recommended Roles can choose Browse All Job Roles to select roles from amongst all job roles in the organization.

Career Paths enable the creation of unique and complex organizational career paths. HR managers or other assigned roles can create multiple career paths, associate them with a given role, and restrict access as needed throughout the organization.

When Explore Recommended Roles is selected, the first screen that opens is the Career Path View. The Career Path displays information about the expected path for a role. An employee's current role is the starting point of the chart, followed by recommended roles including the "Organizational path" roles from organizational career paths and the "Personalized path" roles that are highly matched with the employee.

• On the "Organizational path" role card, users can check a role's peer roles, if any.
• On the "Personalized path" role card, users can learn about why a role is recommended to them. The recommendation reason could be one of the following factors according to their influence on the match score:
  • Matched skills
  • Same job family
  • Progression role
  • Open positions
  • Popular

When an employee is viewing the details of a specific current or target role from their Career Worksheet, if they choose View Career Paths only organizational career paths are shown.

Decisions within Career Paths include creating the object, designing the career path, and configuring the nodes.

The screen below includes the options for creating an organizational career path. Each node displays the following unless the configuration is modified:

• Number of competencies needed for taking the job role
• Number of skills needed for taking the job role
• Number of people holding this role
• Number of Talent Pools
• Job Family
• Job Code

Based on the content in this section, please review the list of implementation decisions your company may need to make before implementation begins and discuss them with your stakeholders, project team, and SAP SuccessFactors implementation consultants. In this way, you will be better prepared to begin the implementation.

• Are Career Paths defined for your organization?
• Do you have job descriptions, competencies, and the number of people in each role tracked? Are you using Job Profile Builder or Position Management with Employee Central?
• Do you intend to manually create the career paths or import them into the system?
• Who will decide how the Career Path will be implemented? What roles will create paths?
• What information would you like to display on the role node?
• What fields would you like captured in the Career Path object?

• Career Paths allow employees to visualize career progression and transitions using a structured path for roles within the organization.
• Career Paths can display competencies, skills, role holders, talent pools, job families, and job codes for each position.
• Employees access and update career paths via the Career Worksheet, adding roles or viewing additional details.