This article explains how to build a career path on Deel.
What is a career path?
A career path is a progression route within a career framework that outlines the specific roles an employee can move through over time. It defines the competencies, skills, and expectations for each role within a team or department.
Each role comes with specific competencies and skills required, creating a transparent and clear pathway for employees to follow. This not only aligns individual goals with team and company objectives but also helps in planning employee development and growth in a structured manner.
How are career paths linked with career frameworks?
Career paths are part of the broader career framework. While the career framework provides the overall structure and levelling, career paths specify the detailed progression routes. For example, within a career framework for the Sales department, there might be separate career paths for Sales Associates, Senior Sales Associates, and Sales Managers. Each role in the path has specific competencies and skills required, creating a transparent and clear pathway for employees to follow.
This alignment helps in setting individual goals, meeting team and company objectives, and planning employee development and growth in a structured manner.
Why are career paths important?
Setting career paths in an organization has many benefits including but not limited to:
1. Clarity: They clearly define each employee's competencies, skills, and expectations within the company.
2. Transparency: They create transparency around what is expected at each level and how employees can align with team and company goals.
3. Guidance: They help in creating relevant growth plans for employees that are in line with business expectations.
Before you begin
- Must be a Deel Engage admin.
- Must have Deel Engage enabled on organization.
- Must have Career turned on under Deel Engage.
- Must have set up a career framework, if this isn't done yet, check out our article on how to do that What is A Career Framework and How to Set It Up On Deel
How to build a career path
After creating a career framework, the next step is to create a path within that framework. To do that
✅ Step 1 - Open the desired career framework
In this chosen career framework, click on the add career path button
✅ Step 2 - Add career path
In the popup modal, enter path name - which is required, choose a levelling framework and add an optional description.
Choosing a levelling framework is necessary to properly structure different career paths. For example, in Product Design, there might be separate paths for individual contributors and managers. The levelling framework ensures that each path is organized correctly. Once the path is created with the chosen levelling framework, a tag will appear. This tag helps identify the path, and additional cards will open to let users add specific job levels within that path.
Use the create button in the modal to complete this process.
✅ Step 3 - Add a job level
In order to add a job level to a career path, provide the following information in the popup modal: name, label, seniority level, link, url and description.
By clicking on the three dots, Deel Engage admins will be able to edit a job level, path or a framework as well as delete them.
In the main path card, an overview of the number of job levels and competencies added to a particular path will be visible.
Next Steps
After successfully building career paths for an organization, there's now the need to create competencies and link them to these paths. Check out our article on How to Add Competencies and Link them to Career Paths on Deel
Frequently Asked Questions
[ACCORDION] Is there a limit to how many career paths can be created?
No, there is no limit to how many career paths can be created.
[ACCORDION] How can a level assignment be changed?
Unfortunately, there is currently no direct way to change the level assignment. The current assignment will have to be deleted and the employee reassigned to the desired level.
[ACCORDION] Can an employee be assigned to two career paths?
Yes, an employee can be assigned to multiple career paths.
[ACCORDION] Can an employee be assigned to multiple levels?
Currently, an employee can only be assigned to a single level under a career path, but they can be assigned to multiple career paths and take another level.
[ACCORDION] Can the career level assignments be automated?
No, it is currently not possible to automate career level assignments.