Hi Alex,

It’s become a bit of a tick box exercise with people expecting a promotion when they can ‘do everything’.

We are Tech company so there was a big push from the business for more detail to support progression discussions, and that has resulted in a combination of skills, knowledge, competencies & behaviours and a complex scoring and weighting system.  We’ve lost the actual conversation in the process.

Happy to chat more if you want to contact me directly.

Vicky

We’ve got a high technical population that has also been pushing for such frameworks but where they’ve been done historically at my current employer but also frankly at every employer I’ve ever worked at, they really don’t work.

Careers are personal things and frameworks frankly limit people’s ownership of the true breadth that a career can encompass.  How many people who are perceived as successful do you know that have followed a linear career?

We’ve challenged our technical population to think differently about this now and pulled together a project team of tech representatives from a few different locations and roles to find a solution – I don’t know what it will look like but I’ve refused to let them come out with a career framework – I’m interested to see what their solution is.

Hi all,

This is something I have been also working on for several years at my tech company and like Vicky, been trying to avoid a rigid framework and complicated weighting systems.

Rather than showcase a path, I like the approach of letting people ‘see’ all the jobs/roles in a company and build their own path towards that job. They can also tweak their current job to add in additional skills and competencies to support their learning. This is not moving the goalposts but trying to also get them to see the growth that can occur in their current role rather than feeling they need to constantly ‘level up’ or change role to get growth.

Would love to chat to any and all about this and share our collective knowledge.

Neil

Hi Neil,

Thank you for your insights. This is absolutely the approach we are trying to take, I would love to hear any lessons learnt or key approaches to your design. My email is amymillington@nbnco.com.au

Thank you
Amy