Define Multiple Steps in a Career Progression Path

A career progression path consists of multiple steps. Each step is associated with one or more job profiles or position profiles, which could be lateral or vertical positions across your organization.

For example, if you’re an Associate Software Engineer in Software Development and are interested in the Product Development or UX Design tracks, two lateral career progression paths could be possible:

• Associate Software Engineer > Product Manager > Senior Product Manager > Director of Product
• Associate Software Engineer > UX Designer > Senior UX Designer > Director of Design

This example shows you how to create these career progression paths.

Before you start

This feature is secured by the same Functional Security Privilege that’s applicable to Profiles, which is HRT_SEARCH_TALENT_PROFILE_PRIV. This privilege is included as part of the ORA_HRT_WORKFORCE_PROFILE_SPECIALIST_DUTY duty role.

Here's what to do

1. Go to My Client Groups > Profiles > Career Paths.
2. Select Add.
3. Enter a name and description for the career path. These fields are required. For example, the name could be Career Progression for Associate Software Engineer.
4. Set the career path as active or inactive.
5. Add the job functions and/or families that you want to associate with the career path. For example, you could select Software Development and Software Engineering.
6. Add each step of the career progression, starting from the highest to the lowest in the hierarchy:
   1. Enter a step name. For example, Step 4. You can name the remaining steps as Step 3, Step 2, and Step 1.
   2. Associate one or more job or position profiles with each step. In our example, associate the job profiles, Director of Product and Director of Design, with Step 4. For Step 3, associate Senior Product Manager and Senior UX Designer. Step 2 is Product Manager and UX Designer. And Step 1 is Associate Software Engineer.

   Only active job and position profiles are available for associating with each step. The Associated Profiles list will display either job profiles, or position profiles, or both, depending on the value set in the profile option, ORA_OM_CAREER_ROLE_PROFILE_DISPLAY.

7. Select Apply.
8. Repeat step 6 as needed.
9. Select Submit.
   Note: It's recommended to include a job profile or position profile in only one career path, and not in multiple career paths. In this example, because you've created two different career progressions for the Associate Software Engineer role, it's recommended that you don't include it in any other career path. To add more career progressions, you can add them to the steps in the existing career path instead of creating a new one.