Describing SAP SuccessFactors Career Development Planning and Mentoring

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to describe SAP SuccessFactors Career Development Planning and Mentoring.

Introduction to Career Development Planning and Mentoring

SAP SuccessFactors Career Development Planning and Mentoring (CDP), part of the Talent Management area of the SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite, enables employees to benefit from a wide range of career development activities. CDP also provides managers with standardized methods to track the success of their direct reports.

Career Development Planning provides many important benefits, such as:

  • Focusing on engaging and retaining top talent by helping employees build career development plans and track progress.
  • Allowing for personal growth as employees take on development activities that are relevant and actionable where the follow-through is recorded.
  • Empowering employees to plan their careers by identifying job roles that are of interest and researching the competencies and skills necessary to do those jobs well.

CDP also opens the door to fully customizing the development plan and integrations with other SAP modules, such as SAP SuccessFactors Learning or SAP SuccessFactors Succession.

Career Development Planning & Mentoring offers employees advancement opportunities through integrated development goals, competencies, learning activities, future roles, career paths, and mentoring.

The tools within this area vary based on module version, template permissions, and Role-Based Permissions (RBP). These tools allow managers and human resource departments to assist employees looking to advance their careers.

This screenshot highlights two key areas from the Main Navigation Menu to access Career Development features in the system.

Career Development Planning and Mentoring (CDP) Tools

The latest Career Development Planning & Mentoring tools have user-friendly features, such as:

  • Development Plan
  • Career Worksheet
  • Career Path
  • Career Explorer
  • Mentoring

As we progress, each CDP feature will be further detailed. Please note that the screenshots may vary based on whether your instance is integrated with Employee Central, Talent Intelligence Hub, Job Profile Builder, Opportunity Marketplace, or our Learning Management System.

The development goal screen is shown with the menu open and Goals highlighted.

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