Assigning a Career Path

SkyHive’s Career Path tool allows you to assign new career opportunities, helps you identify hidden and adjacent skills, skills gaps to desired career goals, and targeted learning pathways to bridge those gaps, ultimately supporting an employee to upskill and advance their career.

Suddenly, this makes the employee feel more valued as they can visualize career advancement while upskilling and becoming an asset to your organization. 

Step 1: You can assign Career Paths to specific employees by selecting the blue ASSIGN NEW CAREER PATH at the top right of the Career Path Overview page.

Step 2: Select the employee and sort by Name, Email or ID, Position, or Department.

Note: If an employee currently has an Ongoing Career Path and you decide to select them, the new Career Path will override their ongoing one. 

Step 3: Selecting the blue arrow on the employee's left hand will reveal a dropdown displaying their Common Skills and Skills Missing.

Step 4: Once you select the employee, click the blue NEXT button at the bottom of the page.

Step 5: You can select a path from the following options:

• Suggested Positions: These are recommended by SkyHive based on labor market data
• Enter your own: You can enter your specific title or search for a position defined within your company where skills have already been set. You can also enter a position where it's currently a Job Opening posted by your company. 

Exploring options under the Suggest Positions drop-down menu will display a percentage show of how closely their skills match this Suggested Position. 

Green: 80%-100%: 

Orange: 0%-80%:

Alternatively, you can enter the desired role to see the associated skills for that particular career path.

Note: To add a position, click on the text box and start to fill it out. Wait a few seconds for the generated list. If it doesn’t exist, you can manually add it in.

• Positions marked with this icon are defined within your company and have skills set by the management. (Org Chart icon)
• Positions marked with this icon are Job openings posted by your company and have skills set by the hiring manager and HR. (Briefcase icon)

Step 6: You can then see how well their skills match with the selected role, along with the skills in common that they already possess and the skills they can train to become more qualified for the future career.

In the example below, the Director of Recruiting was selected from the Suggested Positions tab.

Skill Match %: Match between skill profile and labor market requirements for this position.

Shared Skills: Display the skills they already have with the desired position. 

Skills to Train: Contain Current and Future skills, based on present-day labour market demand for the position.

Partial Skills: Display where employees can be trained to improve their proficiency in a skill they already have. The insufficient level will be revealed compared to the required level for the selected position. If they are enrolled in training programs, the Skills In Training section will show the skills they are currently learning that can (partially) fill the skills gaps in their selected career pathway.

You may find that they do, in fact, already have some of the skills listed in the Skills to Train section. In that case, you can add these skills directly to their profile by clicking ADD TO PROFILE.

Under Skills to Train, SkyHive will highlight top skills related to the Career Path they have chosen to explore.

Step 7: Select Build Career Path to explore training opportunities to help them bridge their skills gap and better qualify them for their desired position.

Step 8: SkyHive then lists relevant training opportunities for their chosen Career Path.

• Sort by Skill match (set up by default) (in descending order from top skill match to low)
• Sort by Price - in acceding order (from lowest to highest price)
• Other filters include: Training Provider, Maximum Price and Duration 

The training in SkyHive when building the Career Path will also list the skills they train. You can search through the list of training and select ADD to add training courses.

As training opportunities are added, the skills being covered by the training will be highlighted green to show that they have been appropriately covered in this Career Path.

Optional: You may also search for courses in your course catalog by 'title' when building a career path by selecting the Search Course option. Once you have located your chosen course, select the Add option. 

Step 9: Before clicking Save, there's also an option to rearrange the order in which the courses are taken by clicking and dragging to reorder. 

Selecting the "Training should be completed in order" will present the courses in your chosen order.

Step 10: When happy with your selected training, click Save to start an employee on their learning journey.

Step 11: A timeline will be generated that displays the planning training, skills gained, what type of training they are taking (internal/external), and the cost associated with the Career Path.

The employee will be notified that a new Career Path has been assigned.

How Can I Use This Information?

SkyHive’s Career Path building capability lets you begin upskilling your workforce immediately. You can curate specific career paths for employees and see all relevant courses in a consolidated location. By seeing skill matches, you can understand how best to upskill their workforce into the most relevant roles or better understand if interesting roles are viable options to upskill your workforce into.

Updated April 08, 2024 23:18