Describing Key SAP SuccessFactors Career Development and Mentoring 2H 2025 Features and Enhancements

You can now transfer an individual’s talent data from their inactive to active employment all at once using the Manage Individual Talent Data Transfer tool.

Data supported for transfer is determined by your company's product licenses and enabled modules. You can transfer all or none of a person's talent data records. Partial transfers are not supported. Besides, you can search for transfer records by subject person, data category, and time range on the Transfer History page to track results.

To explore detailed information on module-specific transfer behaviors, please refer to the Guide topic in the Related Information section.

Employees with at least one inactive employment and one active employment can benefit from this data transfer tool, such as rehires or those who have completed a global assignment or concurrent employment. After transfer, employees can access past talent data directly from their current employment in both the web and mobile applications, and shape continuous insights into performance and growth.

Users can now view assignments and learning opportunities that match skills and attributes selected for their development goals. They can also choose to link assignments of interest to their development goals.

The feature is only available on users' own goal details page. If users have selected skills or attributes for a development goal that match those required by assignments or learning, the assignments and learning are recommended in the Opportunities to Grow section on the goal details page. A Go to Opportunity Marketplace link is available for them to explore more opportunities in Opportunity Marketplace.

Users can bookmark recommended assignments and learning opportunities. After bookmarking, they can go to Opportunity Marketplace to review these items. If users aren't interested in certain recommendations, they can mark them as not interested. They can also link assignments to development goals. Once linked, assignments appear in the Linked Assignments section. Users have the option to print linked assignments along with development goals.

For learning opportunities, users can view those not linked to development goals. If they want to pursue a learning opportunity with a development goal, they can add it through the Linked Learning section on the goal details page.

Here's a screenshot of the Linked Assignments and Opportunities to Grow sections.

This feature offers employees opportunities that align with their development goals within the organization, thus supporting skill-focused career development.

Users can now view in-progress opportunities on their current or target role's details page in the latest Career Worksheet.

In-progress opportunities that have skills or attributes associated with the selected role are shown in the Opportunities in Progress section, including assignments and open jobs. When users select an opportunity card, users are directed to its details page. Here's a screenshot of the feature.

We built this feature to let users view the actions and progress they've made in developing their current or target roles.

You can now purge performance and development goals by goal ID through legacy purge requests.

In the Data Retention Management admin tool, you can now select the Purge by goal ID option in the Purge Goal request for performance goals or in the Purge Development Goal request for development goals. You can download the template file and then upload a file of goal IDs to set up a purge request.

This feature is from customer idea 304266 and customer idea 334566. It offers customers more flexibility when purging goals of users.

What's Changed

In the current version, the Purge method field lists two options for purging goals: Purge by goal plan template and Purge by goal ID.

In the previous version, there was only one option for purging goals, that is, purging goals by goal plan template.

You can now upload new XML templates, update existing ones, and download them using the Manage Templates admin tool. The XML templates include performance form templates, 360 form templates, goal plan templates, and development goal plan templates.

On each module tab in Manage Templates, you can do the following:

• Upload new templates if you have the required permission.
• Update existing templates if you have the required permission.
• Download templates for offline editing.
• View template revisions to learn about the change history of a template.

In addition to the new features, we've also enhanced several labels and messages in the tool.

This feature is from customer idea 211002, customer idea 333744, and customer idea 336846. It gives customers more ownership and reduces the need for editing templates through implementation partners, therefore speeding up the template build process.

What's Changed

In the current version, you can upload, update, and download XML templates in Manage Templates.

Previously, you couldn't upload, update, or download XML templates in Manage Templates.

Attributes which are linked to a development goal are now directly synchronized to the employee's Growth Portfolio.

Attributes can be linked to the development goals. When an employee associates an attribute to a development goal, and if that attribute isn't present in the Growth Portfolio of the employee, the attribute will automatically be synchronized to the employee's Growth Portfolio. The Timeline section of the attribute in the Growth Portfolio will indicate that the attribute was added from a development goal.

We've made this enhancement to ensure synchronization between attributes available in the development goals and the Growth Portfolio.

What's Changed

In the current version, the goal-based attributes are added to the Growth Portfolio automatically and the timeline section of the attribute indicates that it has been added from a development goal.

In the previous version, the goal-based attributes weren't added automatically to the Growth Portfolio.

If you've enabled the latest Career Worksheet, you can now choose to disable the legacy version.

The Disable the Legacy Career Worksheet setting is available in the Career Development Planning Feature Settings admin tool. When the legacy version is disabled, the Career Worksheet tab isn't available in the Development module. If you don't use the Career Path, Mentoring, or Career Explorer feature, the Development module is no longer available in the main navigation menu.

If you haven't enabled the latest Career Worksheet, the Career Development Planning Feature Settings admin tool isn't available in your system.

The option to disable the legacy Career Worksheet enables you to manage version change at your own pace while leveraging the advanced capabilities of the latest version.

Users can now view their development goals on a role's details page in the latest Career Worksheet.

They can only view development goals from the default development goal plan that have skills or attributes associated with the selected role. The system sorts the development goals in descending order by the last modified date. On the page, users see the goal name, associated skills or attributes, and status (if configured in the development goal plan template) for each development goal. To view more information, they can select a goal to navigate to the goal details page. Here's a screenshot of the feature.

If there are no related development goals, the tag for showing development goals isn't available on the page.

We built this feature to achieve feature parity with the legacy Career Worksheet.

If you've enabled the AI-assisted goal creation feature, users can now use generative AI to create development goals based on a current role, target role, or skills and attributes.

Here are the details:

Here's a screenshot of the feature:

This feature enables users to create personalized goals using AI that align with specific career roles or skill interests, facilitating tailored career development pathways.

Leveraging generative AI capabilities, employees can gain insights into development actions that help them progress in their current role. Previously, the feature was only available for target roles.

In the latest Career Worksheet, employees can access the feature by choosing the Generate button in the new Unlock your potential with AI-powered insights! section on a current role's details page. Generative AI produces insights by considering employees' current role and Growth Portfolio information, including the following:

• Role name and description
• Skills and attributes associated with the role
• Current and expected proficiency levels for these skills and attributes
• Skills and attributes added to the employee's Growth Portfolio

The insights are organized into sections to help employees grasp the most important aspects of their development:

• Summary: Provides a high-level overview of the employee's current role.
• Suggestions for Improvement: Identifies two growth areas for upskilling and career development, and for each area, provides achievable suggestions in the following aspects:
• • Skills and attributes in this category
  • Keywords of learning courses
  • Ideal mentor's position
  • Suggested development goal. Employees can use the link provided to directly create a development goal from scratch or with the help of generative AI.
• Career Directions for You: Outlines tailored career roles and provides a link to explore recommended job roles in the organization.

Such generated insights cannot be saved on the page. If users refresh the page or return after leaving it, they can generate content again.

Here's a screenshot of the feature.

By integrating AI technology into the Career Worksheet feature, employees can unlock a wealth of knowledge and recommendations to accelerate their career development journey.

Administrators can request feedback for completed assignments from stakeholders.

For each assignment type in Configure Assignments, administrators can choose whether to request feedback from assignment applicants, applicant's manager, or assignment owner. When feedback request is enabled for a particular role, administrators can set the timer on how many days after the assignment completion to send the feedback request email notification. In addition, they need to fill in the URL of the survey, which is then automatically included in the email notification template Assignment Feedback Request Notification.

We built this enhancement so that administrators can request feedback from assignment stakeholders in order to improve overall quality of assignments and employee's experience.

What's Changed

In the current version, a new section Feedback Request is available for each assignment type and a new email notification template Assignment Feedback Request Notification is available in Email Notification Templates.

In the previous version, there was no capability in Opportunity Marketplace to ask feedback from assignment stakeholders.

The description of Opportunity Marketplace Assignments now supports rich text format.

As assignment owners or co-owners, you can now format the description of assignments with different types of markups using the rich text editor.

We built this enhancement so that the backgrounds and requirements of assignments are presented in an easily understandable format.

What's Changed

In the current version, assignment owners and co-owners can use the rich text editor to format the description content.

In the previous version, the description field of assignments only supported plain text.

Administrators can customize the interfaces of the Create Assignments page and the Assignment Details page by adjusting the status and display order of standard fields.

In Configure Assignments, administrators can configure the status of standard fields as required, optional, or hidden. The status of standard fields Type, Assignment Name, and Total Openings is required and can't be changed. These two standard fields can't be hidden: Co-Owners and Capabilities. The configurations for the status of standard fields apply across all assignment types.

For each assignment type, administrators can adjust the display order of both standard and custom fields.

Both of these configurations will result in a customized interface of the Create Assignments page for each assignment types when assignment owners and co-owners create or edit assignments. Additionally, these configurations will customize the About This Assignment section in the Assignment Details page.

We built this enhancement so that administrators have more control over assignment creation workflow.

What's Changed

In the current version, administrators can configure the status of standard fields and customize the display order of all fields.

In the previous version, the status of all standard fields weren't configurable and only the display order of custom fields could be changed.

Administrators can customize templates for different assignment types in Admin Center→Email Notification Templates Settings for all assignment related email notifications.

Administrators can customize email templates for different assignment types for the following email notifications:

• Offer Received Notification for Applicants
• Assignment Canceled or Hiring Closed Notification for Applicants
• Application Declined Notification for Applicants
• Offer Accepted Notification for Assignment Owner and Co-Owners
• Offer Rejected Notification for Assignment Owner and Co-Owners
• Assignment Applied Notification for Assignment Owner and Co-Owners
• Co-Owner Added Notification
• Assignment Published Notification for Non-Publishing Owners
• Assignment Start Notification for Applicants, Assignment Owner, and Co-Owners
• Assignment End Notification for Applicants, Assignment Owner, and Co-Owners
• Assignment Feedback Request Notification

We built this enhancement so that assignment users can get more relevant and targeted communication.

What's Changed

In the current version, administrators can customize email templates for different assignment types for each email notification.

In the previous version, only one email template was shared among all assignment types for each email notification.

You can now re-apply for Opportunity Marketplace assignments where your previous applications were declined or not approved, or your offers were rejected or not approved.

Applicants can find those assignments listed on the expanded Broaden Your Experience page, in the search results, and in the History page.

New applications from the same applicant appear as new records in the Applicants list in the assignment details page for assignment owners and co-owners. Previous applications from the applicant remains as history records.

We built this enhancement to provide flexibility for applicants to update their qualifications and re-engage.

In the Broaden Your Experience section in Opportunity Marketplace, assignments are given priorities in recommendations, when their required attributes or skills are marked by the user as being passionate about or being tagged as critical.

We built this enhancement to provide more relevant recommendations.

When assignment owners or co-owners add or update job roles for assignments, skills and competencies associated with the selected job role are automatically populated in the Attributes field.

When updating the job role for an assignment,

• Existing skills or competencies won't be deleted and new skills or competencies associated with the new job role will be added.
• Proficiency levels of skills will be auto populated.
• Custom attributes associated with the selected job role won't be added.

We built this enhancement to reduce manual data entry for assignment owners and co-owners and enforce consistent application of attributes.

Administrators can add pay grade-based filters to control which open job opportunities are recommended to employees in Opportunity Marketplace.

For open job opportunities, administrators can choose to add one of the following three pay grade-based filters in Manage Opportunity Marketplace:

• Same pay level and all higher levels: this is the default setting
• Same pay level and up to one level higher
• Same pay level and up to two levels higher

As the result, users only receive open job recommendations that match the defined pay grade limit in Opportunity Marketplace.

The enhancement helps organizations control the visibility of open job opportunities by aligning recommendations with pay grade structures.

What's Changed

In the current version, administrators can choose a pay grade limit for open job recommendations.

In the previous version, administrators couldn't choose a pay grade limit for open job recommendations.

The Spell Check feature reached End of Maintenance on May 17, 2024 and will be Deleted on May 14, 2026.

The legacy version of Goal Management reached End of Maintenance on May 17, 2024 and will be Deleted on December 31, 2026.