Describing Key SAP SuccessFactors Career Development Planning and Mentoring 1H 2026 Features and Enhancements

You can now search for assignments and link them to your development goals in the Linked Assignments section on the goal details page.

You can now use the new Linked Assignments button that is added to the Linked Assignments section on the development goal details page. When there is no assignment recommendation in the Opportunities to Grow section or you find the assignment recommendations unsuitable, you can choose the new button to search for and link assignments. You can link assignments to development goals directly from the search results. Once an assignment is linked, it is added to the Linked Assignments section.

This enhancement allows you to efficiently find and link relevant assignments, thereby improving goal tracking and achievements.

• You have enabled the latest Goal Management.
• You have configured the competencies field in the development goal plan template.
• You have read or write permission to the competencies field.
• You have enabled assignment opportunities in Opportunity Marketplace.

In the current version, you can search for assignments and link them to development goals directly from the search results.

In the previous version, you could not search for assignments or link them directly to development goals in the Linked Assignments section on the development goal details page.

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Assignment recommendations in Opportunity Marketplace→Broaden Your Experience now consider users' target roles.

The system calculates a target role match score using binary logic: if any of the employee's target roles matches the assignment's job role, the score is 1; otherwise, it's 0. This score is combined with existing factors such as skills and location to generate a final recommendation score. The final score is calculated using the following formula: ((Total Attribute Points + Target Role Points) / (Number of Required Attributes + 1)) * 0.8 + (Location Match Score * 0.2).

This enhancement was introduced to improve the relevance of assignment recommendations.

In the current version, assignment recommendations in the Broaden Your Experience section consider the user's target role.

In the previous version, assignment recommendations in the Broaden Your Experience section didn't consider the user's target role.

Opportunities and Recommendation Logic of Sections in Opportunity Marketplace

Administrators can now add a geographic filter and a custom job level filter to open job recommendations. Users will only receive open job recommendations that match the geographic filter and the custom job level filter rule defined by the administrator.

In Admin Center→Manage Opportunity Marketplace, the new Recommendation Filters button is added to open jobs, which allows administrators to configure the pay grade filter as well as the new geographic filter.

• For the geographic filter, administrators can configure the filters to recommend only open jobs that match the user's country/region or location.
• For the job level filter, administrators can upload filter rules in a CSV file to match the user's pay grade with a custom job level field.

This enhancement gives administrators greater control over open job recommendations. It also provides users with more relevant recommendations.

In the current version, the new Recommendation Filters button allows administrators to configure pay grade and geographic filters for open jobs.

In the previous version, open job recommendations could only be controlled by pay grade.

Configuring Geographic Filter for Open Job Recommendations

Configure Job Level Filter Based on Pay Grade for Open Job Recommendations

Configure Job-Level Filter Based on Custom Fields for Open Job Recommendations

Assignment owners and co-owners can now add users as candidates and invite them to apply for assignments.

The newly added Candidates tab appears on the assignment details page. The assignment owner or co-owner can search for users, add them as candidates, and invite them to apply for the assignment in the Candidates tab.

The assignment owner or co-owner can select a candidate's name in the candidate list to view the candidate's matching details.

Users who are invited by assignment owners or co-owners receive email notifications of the invitation. If the latest home page is enabled, an invitation card is featured at the top of the latest home page for invited users. Assignments with invitation information are displayed as top recommendations for the invited users in the Broaden Your Experience section on the Opportunity Marketplace landing page and the Opportunities to Grow section in Growth Portfolio.

Administrators can create Stories on assignment invitations and purge invitation data using DRTM Opportunity Marketplace Assignments Purge.

This enhancement helps assignment owners and co-owners actively source and engage qualified candidates.

You need to enable the latest home page to view the invitation card.

Broadening Your Experience with Assignments

Opportunity Marketplace on the Home Page

New cards for learning, open job, and assignment recommendations from Opportunity Marketplace are now featured at the top of the latest home page.

New recommendations appear as cards on the latest home page based on the following rules:

• If intelligent opportunity recommendation is enabled, these cards appear when there are new recommendations for learning, open jobs, or assignments.
• If intelligent opportunity recommendation is not enabled, these cards appear when there are new recommendations for learning, open jobs, or assignments, and you have not visited Opportunity Marketplace for at least two weeks.
• Only one card for each opportunity type is displayed at a time. The system displays the most recent opportunity of each type.
• Each card remains visible for 30 days unless a newer recommendation replaces it within that period.

When you select a card, the opportunity detail page opens. Administrators can configure the card image in Admin Center→Manage Home Page→Featured Cards→New Recommendations from Opportunity Marketplace. Each recommendation card is specific to a person, rather than to an employment. If you bookmark, mark as uninterested, apply, or change the status of the opportunity, the featured card is removed for all employments associated with that person.

An assignment recommendation card looks as follows:

This enhancement provides users with timely, visual recommendations, improving engagement with learning, open jobs, and assignments directly from the home page.

You need to enable the latest home page and at least one opportunity type in Opportunity Marketplace.

Opportunity Marketplace on the Home Page

Learning recommendations based on the user's skills and attributes are now available in the Learn New Skills section in Opportunity Marketplace, and in the Opportunities to Grow sections in Growth Portfolio and the latest Career Worksheet.

Learning items associated with a greater number of user's skills are prioritized. Items with a lower level than the user's current skill level are excluded.

In the Learn New Skills section in Opportunity Marketplace, learning recommendations based on the skills and attributes replace personalized recommendations. Admin and peer recommendations continue to be available and are displayed before the skills-and-attributes recommendations.

In the Opportunities to Grow section on the skill detail page in Growth Portfolio, in addition to the general recommendation logic, only learning recommendations associated with that skill are displayed, and are listed before personalized recommendations based on machine learning technology.

In the Opportunities to Grow section on the role detail page in the Latest Career Worksheet, in addition to the general recommendation logic, learning recommendations are shown only if associated with the skills and attributes required for that role, and the target level of those skills and attributes is higher than the user's current level.

This enhancement benefits employees by providing personalized learning recommendations that align with their skills and growth areas, facilitating continuous learning and development.

In the current version, learning recommendations based only on user's skills and attributes are available.

In the previous version, only learning recommendations based on machine learning technology were available in the Opportunities to Grow sections.

Opportunities and Recommendation Logic of Sections in Opportunity Marketplace

Opportunity Recommendations in Growth Portfolio and Latest Career Worksheet

As an administrator, you can now use a number-type custom field to define role levels, ensuring employees receive recommendations for roles at or above their current level.

In the Career Development Planning Feature Settings admin tool, you can select a number-type custom field to represent the role level. Roles with a lower value than the employee's current role are regarded as lower-level roles and excluded from recommendations. The feature doesn't require pay grade configuration and supports organizations that use custom fields for role hierarchy. The custom field-based role level filtering applies to role recommendations in the following areas:

• Suggested Roles in Legacy Career Worksheet
• Latest Career Worksheet:
  • Personalized path roles on the Career Paths tab of the Explore Recommended Roles page in Growth Portfolio
  • Top Matches section on the Recommended Roles tab of the Explore Recommended Roles page in Growth Portfolio
• Opportunity Marketplace when Suggested Roles is the role recommendation source:
  • Explore Career Options section
  • Recommended for You section in the Home tab of the SAP SuccessFactors app in Microsoft Teams

If you use the Career Paths feature, these roles are always included even if their levels are lower: next roles for the current role on the organizational career path, peer roles for the current role, and next roles for those peer roles on the organizational career path.

The recommendation logic of other sources in the latest Career Worksheet remains unchanged. Specifically, the Next Career Move section and Organizational path roles on the Explore Recommended Roles page follow the career paths set by customers, the Trending Roles section recommends roles with open positions, and the Roles of People Like You section uses role recommendations from the Career Explorer feature.

Administrators benefit from greater flexibility in role recommendations, especially if pay grade is not configured, ensuring employees only see relevant advancement opportunities.

• You have enabled the latest Career Worksheet. Note that you've migrated from Job Profile Builder to Talent Intelligence Hub.
• You have created a number-type custom field for the Role entity in Configure Object Definitions.
• You have enabled the Exclude lower-level roles from recommendations based on a custom field setting and selected a custom field in Career Development Planning Feature Settings.

You have the Administrator Permissions→Manage Career Development→Career Development Planning Feature Settings permission.

In the current version, you can use a number-type custom field for the role level and filter out lower-level roles from recommendations.

In the previous version, role recommendations could only be filtered by pay grade, and there was no option to use a custom field for role level filtering.

• Enabling Latest Career Worksheet
• Configuring the Object Definition
• Excluding Lower-Level Roles from Recommendations Using a Custom Field

In Admin Center→Manage Templates, a new configuration setting named Do Not Generate Cards on Home Page has been introduced for Goal Management.

With this setting, you can choose which goal state values will not generate cards on the home page. To apply the changes, you must save the template and choose the Refresh button. This makes the setting effective and updates existing goals with those statuses so they no longer appear on the home page.

To prevent configuration conflicts, the same state value cannot be selected for both Do Not Generate Cards on Home Page and Trigger Completion. If they overlap, you will be prompted to adjust the selections before saving.

Previously, it wasn't possible to exclude specific statuses from generating cards, meaning statuses like Cancelled or Postponed could still generate cards and distract users.

This feature is based on customer idea 327626 and customer idea 286635. It gives you greater flexibility to control the visibility of goal cards on the home page and helps users focus on what's relevant.

Apart from the configuration setting in Manage Templates, you can also set no-generate-card="true" to one or more state values in the goal plan template to complete the configuration.

Goal Management Overview

Important Notes About Goal Management on the Home Page

Internal hires can now view and manage their upcoming job role as an Upcoming Role in their Career Worksheet.

When an employee's job code changes in the system, the new job role is available both in the latest and legacy Career Worksheet. In the latest Career Worksheet, when employees open the Growth Portfolio, the new job role appears in the Roles and Aspirations section as Upcoming Role, positioned after the current role and before any target roles. Employees can use a direct link to navigate to the role details page. All available actions for the upcoming role are the same as those for target roles. Here is a screenshot of the feature:

In the legacy Career Worksheet, the upcoming role appears on the Job Roles I'm Considering tab. Here is a screenshot of the feature:

This enhancement helps internal hires easily identify and manage their new job role during onboarding, supporting career development activities.

You have enabled SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central. Users do not need Employee Central permissions to view the upcoming role in the Career Worksheet.

Feature Comparisons Between Legacy and Latest Career Worksheet

Managers can now view role details of employees' current and target roles in the latest Career Worksheet.

In the Growth Portfolio→Team View→Summary, managers can not only see employees' current and target roles, but also drill down to each role's details by selecting an employee name. Here's a screenshot of the feature:

On an employee's role details page, managers can view the following information:

• Role name and job family
• Role readiness for target roles
• Linked development goals
• Role description
• Current employees in this role
• Job openings for this role
• Skills and attributes the employee has achieved or needs to improve
• Career paths of this role

They can also take the following actions:

• Mark skills or attributes as passionate
• Edit proficiency levels of skills or attributes
• Create development goals
• Evaluate role readiness
• Remove the target role
• Share the role

This feature was introduced to achieve feature parity with the legacy Career Worksheet.

• You have enabled the manager view in the latest Career Worksheet.
• Some information and actions available to managers on the employee's role details page require template configurations and permissions. For more information, refer to Feature Comparisons Between Legacy and Latest Career Worksheet.

Enabling Manager View in Latest Career Worksheet

Overview of Latest Career Worksheet

Users can now view the complete job profile for a job role through a link on the role details page in the Latest Career Worksheet.

To view the full job profile, select a job role and choose the link at the very end of the role description. The full job profile includes all available details such as responsibilities, required qualifications, relevant skills, and potential career paths. Here is a screenshot of the feature:

This enhancement enables users to make better career decisions by providing comprehensive information about job roles, ensuring feature parity with the legacy Career Worksheet.

• You have enabled the latest Career Worksheet. Note that you have migrated from Job Profile Builder to Talent Intelligence Hub.
• You have not configured the <switch for="disable-jpb-profile-in-cws" value="on" /> switch in the default Career Worksheet template.

In the current version, users can view the entire job profile for a job role, including all detailed information beyond just the description.

In the previous version, users could only view the role description and not the full profile for a job role.

Feature Comparisons Between Legacy and Latest Career Worksheet

Managers can now view the top five skills and attributes their team members are most passionate about, including the number and names of team members interested in each skill or attribute.

On the Growth Portfolio→Team View→Summary page, managers can access a new section, Skill Passions, that displays the top five skills and attributes their team members have marked as passions. The section lists each skill or attribute, shows how many team members are interested, and provides the names of those team members. The skills and attributes are ranked by the number of team members who have expressed interest. Here is a screenshot of the feature:

This enhancement enables managers to easily identify the skills their team is most passionate about, supporting targeted development and more effective team growth strategies.

You have enabled the manager view in the latest Career Worksheet.

Enabling Manager View in Latest Career Worksheet

Overview of Latest Career Worksheet

You can now configure whether the current role or target role is expanded by default in the Roles and Aspirations section on the Growth Portfolio landing page.

By default, the target role is expanded with the skills and attributes information. You can change this setting under Choose a role to expand by default in Growth Portfolio→Roles and Aspirations in the Career Development Planning Feature Settings admin tool.

This enhancement gives administrators flexibility to align settings with organizational preferences, improving the user experience for employees.

You have enabled the latest Career Worksheet.

You have the Administrator Permissions→Manage Career Development→Career Development Planning Feature Settings permission.

In the current version, you can configure whether the current role or target role is expanded by default on the Growth Portfolio landing page.

In the previous version, the default expanded role on the Growth Portfolio landing page was always the target role.

Enabling Latest Career Worksheet

As an administrator, you can now control the visibility of the Create from Roles and Create from Interests options during AI-assisted development goal creation.

Two new switches, Disable the Create from Roles option and Disable the Create from Interests option, are now available in the Career Development Planning Feature Settings admin tool. By default, both switches are off. This allows users with the appropriate permissions to select a current or target role to let AI create a career-specific goal, or select skills or attributes marked as passionate to let AI create a goal based on interests. When you turn a switch on, the corresponding option is hidden from users.

These switches help administrators and compliance owners better meet regulatory and governance requirements by controlling the rollout and visibility of AI features, reducing user confusion and support requests.

• You have enabled AI-assisted development goal creation.
• For Disable the Create from Roles option, you have enabled Career Worksheet and configured the default Career Worksheet template.
• For Disable the Create from Interests option, you have enabled Growth Portfolio.

You have the Administrator Permissions→Manage Career Development→Career Development Planning Feature Settings permission.

In the current version, you can use the new switches in Career Development Planning Feature Settings to globally disable or enable the Create from Roles and Create from Interests options.

In the previous version, you could not globally disable or hide these options, and they were visible to users who had the necessary permissions.

AI-Assisted Development Goal Creation Based on Roles and Interests

As an administrator, you can now configure completed development goals to be automatically moved to a specified category, streamlining goal management for users.

You specify which goal status is considered completed and select the target completed goals category in the development goal plan template. If the completed status is not explicitly configured, the system uses the last value in the status list. When users update a development goal's status to completed from the home page, goal plan page, goal details page, or attribute details page, the system automatically moves the goal to the specified completed category. Goals updated to completed by import remain in their original category unless the correct target category is also set in the import file.

This enhancement is based on customer idea 220264. Administrators and users benefit from reduced manual effort and fewer errors, as completed goals are automatically organized, improving efficiency and user experience.

• You have enabled the latest Goal Management.
• You have specified the completed status using Trigger Completion in the status field configuration in Manage Templates. If no completed status is configured, the system uses the last status value.
• You have specified the target completed category using Completed Goals Category in the status field configuration in Manage Templates.

In the current version, when a user marks a development goal as completed, the system automatically moves the goal to the specified completed category.

In the previous version, users had to manually categorize each completed goal.

Configuring Automatic Archiving of Completed Development Goals

When users create a development goal by copying an existing goal, they can choose not to copy linked learning by deselecting the option Include Linked Learning. Previously, linked learning items were always copied.

The Include Linked Learning option appears selected by default in the Copy from Goal Plan dialog when both of the following conditions are met:

• Existing development goals contain linked learning.
• Users have permission to add or create learning.

The following screenshot shows the feature:

This enhancement is based on customer idea 352705. It gives users more flexibility when setting development goals.

You have enabled the latest Goal Management.

Supported and Unsupported Features