Overview: Career Mapping is a key feature for learning managers that allows them to ensure that their team has all the tools they need to progress in their career journey.
Career Mapping
Career Mapping is a powerful tool designed to help organisations define clear career paths for their employees, promoting professional growth and talent retention. By establishing well-structured career maps, you can guide employees through potential trajectories within your organisation, ensuring alignment with both individual aspirations and organisational needs.
Key Steps to Career Mapping
Identify All Roles Within Your Company: Begin by cataloguing all the roles within your organisation. This foundational step ensures that every potential career trajectory is accounted for.
Create a Hierarchy Between Roles: Establish logical progressions between roles, considering vertical promotions, lateral moves, and cross-functional opportunities. Departmentalising your career map can make this process more manageable.
Develop Job Role Descriptions: Write concise descriptions of about 50 words for each job role, focusing on the primary responsibilities and expectations. Including a high-quality thumbnail image can enhance clarity and engagement too.
List Relevant Competencies: Identify 3 to 10 competencies related to each job title or role. Tagging these competencies appropriately will help the system suggest relevant learning resources.
Integrating Career Mapping with Other Features
Creating Competencies: Develop specific competencies that align with each role. Ensure these competencies are tagged appropriately in Explore Learning to facilitate targeted learning recommendations.
For step-by-step instructions, visit Create Competencies.
Defining Job Roles: Establish detailed job roles with clear descriptions and representative thumbnail images. This visual and descriptive clarity aids employees in understanding various positions within the organization.
For help with defining roles, refer to Build a Job Role.
Building Career Maps: Construct career maps by organizing roles and competencies into structured pathways. It's advisable to approach this process departmentally, building comprehensive maps over time.
Learn more about building maps in Build Career Map.
Accessing Career Maps in Mapal One: Employees can view the career maps through the Mapal One platform, gaining insights into potential career paths and the competencies required for advancement. Proper tagging of competencies ensures that learners receive relevant learning suggestions.
To access you career map, see View career maps in Mapal One.
Utilizing Bitesize Content: Incorporate concise learning resources to address specific competencies. These bite-sized materials facilitate quick, focused learning, supporting continuous development.
To know more about how to access this content, refer to Discover bitesize resources with Explore Learning.
Adding Additional Learning Resources: Enhance the career mapping process by integrating supplementary learning materials, such as external links, PDFs, and images. These resources provide diverse learning opportunities tailored to individual development needs.
To add additional learning, see Create additional learning.
Best Practices for Career Mapping
Departmentalise Your Approach: Start small by focusing on individual departments before expanding to organisation-wide maps. This makes the process more manageable and adaptable.
Iterate and Improve: Career maps evolve as roles, skills, and organisational needs change. Regularly review and update your maps to keep them relevant.