Role Guides

Role guides enable organizational leaders to clearly define role expectations for a segment of employees and help guide those employees to attain the needed skills.

As organizational leaders, you might want to extend the canonical job requirements defined by the Human Resources department to drive upskilling of strategic resource pools to drive market competitiveness. To address this need, you can now create role guides to define the skills that employees must have in order to meet the requirements for their role and also include development resources that will help them attain those skills. Using role guides, you can drive the development of your employees in specific ways that your business requires, without having to push for job architecture changes or changes to job or position definitions shared by other businesses within your company.

The following features are provided by role guides:

• You can create the overall definition of a role guide. This includes its description, visibility (that is, who can see the role guide on the Role Guides listing page), and users who are authorized to collaborate on its creation.
• You can define capability guides within a role guide. A capability guide helps you group related skills and add the development tasks that need to be completed to attain the skills required for the role. You can also add supplemental development resources that may be helpful, but may not necessarily result in skill attainment.
• You can assign the role guide to a target list of workers, based on a predefined filtered list, which enables you to target specific jobs. Based on the worker security privilege of the role guide owner, a scheduled process can be run to assign the role guide to workers who meet the filtered list criteria. This process also reconciles the assignments when workers no longer meet the criteria of the filtered list.
• An assigned role guide will result in displaying a list of outstanding development tasks on an employee’s Grow page, in the Skills and tasks assigned by your leadership swim lane. Employees can also see the entire role guide on their Know Your Role page.
• A role guide can also be associated with either a job or position. When an employee looks at a career role whose associated job or position profile is the same as the job or position the role guide is associated with, they can view this role guide as part of that career role. For example, when they view their career role details in Opportunity Marketplace, they can view the role guide on that page.