Give your people a roadmap for professional growth

Career management software like Engage is a comprehensive system that assists both workers and employers in managing career growth and progression. It includes all features of career development software, such as:

• Skills assessments
• Development plans
• Goal setting
• Progress tracking

And it also incorporates broader career management functions like:

• Succession planning
• Talent management
• Performance tracking

The goal is to align individual career aspirations with organizational needs, fostering a mutually beneficial relationship. Thus, career management software is broader than career development, encompassing individual career growth and organizational talent management.

Engage allows you to customize career paths to align with your organization’s specific job architecture. For example, you can create different career tracks for individual contributors and leadership with custom leveling.

Additionally, you can customize the number and types of competencies for your  competency models. For example, your leadership tracks can have additional competencies compared to the individual contributor tracks. For highly technical positions, you can also include more technical competencies and fewer core competencies. You have complete freedom to tailor career frameworks according to your organizational structure, needs, and strategic goals.

With Engage, companies create clear career pathways for every organizational role and career track. These paths are highly flexible, but usually include:

• Competencies needed for every role: core, functional, technical, or leadership competencies
• Competencies required to take the next step
• Detailed descriptions to understand expectations at each level
• Concrete desired outcomes as measurable results

This way, the organization can approach career progression from a competency perspective, resulting in more horizontal and vertical mobility. With connected 360° feedback and skills assessments, workers see where they stand. They also see what is expected to progress in their current role or other roles within the company. Lastly, they also get access to learning resources that help them reach the next level of their careers.

Employees can use Engage to explore various career paths and view the required competencies and steps for advancement. This feature allows them to understand what skills and experiences they need to acquire to advance their careers and plan their development accordingly.

Yes, with Engage, admins, managers, and workers track and analyze career progression, skills development, and goal achievement. Detailed analytics and reporting features will help everybody in the organization understand progress, identify areas for improvement, and make informed decisions about career development.

The implementation process for your career development process can take between 4-12 weeks, depending on various aspects, such as the existing competency database, the number of employees onboarded, and the complexity of career pathing and leveling.

The steps are:

1. Meet stakeholders to assess the status quo, review requirements, and align on the desired “go live” date
2. Review existing material (e.g., competency data, organizational levels, etc.)
3. Define the career framework structure: focus on the goals and structure of the framework (e.g., number of job family groups and job families, number of career tracks, choice of competencies: core, functional, technical, and leadership, etc.)
4. Define the leveling framework and career tracks (number of seniority levels, types of tracks—individual contributor and leadership)
5. Create competency frameworks: create a competency library and link competencies to specific jobs (individual roles or job families) 
6. Create a communication plan to introduce career paths to employees
7. Onboard employees to the platform
8. Launch the career development software company-wide and assign workers to career paths and levels
9. Conduct additional manager training to help employees develop and align their career development and strategic organizational goals

Note that the longer process applies to organizations with limited content on competencies, leveling, and career pathing. For organizations that have content ready, setting up Engage will take less time.

No, Engage is only sold as an all-in-one system. Engage is a product bundle that includes reviews, goals, surveys, development plans, learning, and career management. There's no requirement to use all, but they are more powerful when used together to create one coherent talent management strategy.