Define and Manage Career Paths

As an HR specialist, you can create and manage career progression paths for employees that allows them to explore lateral, diagonal, and vertical career opportunities in each step of the path. This feature is different from the existing job progression path that you define using the Define Jobs and Positions task list in Setup and Maintenance. The existing feature allows you to define only a linear one-to-one job/position progression and is tied to the compensation structure. However, this new feature enables you to define multiple job or position profiles for each step of the career progression path and is independent of the compensation structure. 

To create a career path: 

  1. Go to My Client Groups > Profiles > Career Paths. 
  2. Click Add. 
  3. Enter a name and description for the career path. These fields are required. 
  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. 
  6. Add each step of the career progression:
    1. Enter a step name. For example, if the career path is Software Development, you can define the progression steps as Software Development Associate, Senior Software Developer, Principal Software Developer, Software Development Lead, and so on. 
    2. Associate one or more job or position profiles with each step. 

Note that the Associated Profiles drop-down 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.

Add Steps in a Career Path

Add Steps in a Career Path

  1. Click Apply and repeat step 6 as needed. 
  2. Click Submit.

After creating a career path, you can do the following on the Career Path listing page: 

  • Filter for career paths based on their status. 
  • Search for a career path from the filtered results based on the career path name or description. Note that you need to apply a filter first and then use the Search bar. 
  • Activate or deactivate career paths from the Actions menu. 
  • Edit and delete career paths. Note that you can only delete inactive career paths.

List of Career Paths

List of Career Paths

Business benefit: This feature enables you to communicate about the different career development opportunities available in your organization, which aren’t constrained by compensation considerations.

Steps to Enable and Configure

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Access Requirements

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.