Purpose

This article explains the purpose of the Career Navigator feature and how you can use it to:

• Explore career paths
• Analyze your skill gaps
• Take the next steps needed to prepare for a role

Audience

This article is intended for employees with Career Hub and the Career Navigator feature enabled in their Eightfold environment.

Overview

Eightfold AI provides recommendations for future roles to consider in your organization, presented as career paths. These career paths are primarily based on employee profile experience, skills, current role, career interests

Career Navigator helps you to connect with mentors in desired roles, identify skill gaps, and access relevant courses to upskill or re-skill. It also enables direct communication for mentorship opportunities. You can explore career paths, gain insights into roles, and set personalized upskilling goals for career advancement.

You can access the Career Navigator from the top navigation bar on any Career Hub page.

Views

Switch between Views to access top recommendations, career paths leading to user’s Career Interests and your favorite career paths.

Recommendations

Top Recommended Career paths considering your profile skills and Career Interests.

Leading to Career Interests

From the career path recommendations, mark a role as a Career Interest to get tailored job and course recommendations.

Mark a role as Career Interest from Explore roles > to find a career path to that role

Once added, you can view all the paths to your career interests by switching to Leading to Career Interests. Some of the top paths leading to your Career Interests can be seen in View:Recommendations also.

Favorites

Career Paths marked as favorite (using the Bookmark button) can be viewed here.

Dismissed Paths

Employees can view previously Dismissed paths and can undo the action as well.

Path Filters

Path filters help in discovering paths and make job transitions easier with Open Jobs in next roles.

The career paths can be filtered by:

• Open jobs: The immediate next role containing open job opportunities
• Domain change: Paths involving a business domain switch.

Note: Career Navigator considers change in BusinessFunction in JIE > Role Tags as Domain change, by default. This can however be configured in Admin console to a more relevant Role tag.

• No domain change: Paths progressing in the same business domain as the current role
• Spotlight: Paths containing spotlight roles

Exploring Roles

Explore roles to discover job roles across departments and pursue opportunities aligned with your aspirations, beyond your current skill profile.

You can directly search for a role you are interested in by typing the role in the Search bar or by typing the skills associated with that role.

The Explore roles filters are configurable at Admin console > Career Navigator page > Explore roles container > Filters config.

They can also be filtered by:

• Skills
• Business Function
• Business Unit etc.

Note:

The filter values are configurable in the Admin console.

Roles can also be explored using Explore roles. It has two options to search roles:

• By Career Interests
• By Spotlight roles

By Career Interests

You can manage your career interests by searching the roles using the search bar. Existing Career interests are also listed here and can be removed by clicking the Target icon.

By Spotlight roles

Spotlight roles are important, quick-to-hire, or trending positions highlighted by your organization. They represent critical roles or current job openings your organization wants to focus on. Showcasing these roles helps to generate interest among potential candidates.

Selecting a role

Career Navigator helps you prepare for your selected role. Click on a specific role to view additional learning and preparation resources for this role.

Overview

This section provides overview and details of the Role such as Business function, Business Unit and Title.

Total number of open jobs for the role and the number of people working in this role are also displayed.

You can learn more about the role using See More. This opens the Role description providing details about the role like Role Overview, Job function and more.

Jobs

This section displays any current job openings for this role in the organization. You can click on a job to view the job description page or add it as a favorite.

Top career paths

In this section, you can see the progression of your career towards a specific role.

The Roles to get you here tab displays your current role and the future roles that lead to the role you have selected.

The Where this role leads to tab displays the different career opportunities that can proceed from this particular role.

Top skills

In this section, you can view the skill gap analysis. It helps in enhancing your readiness for the role by matching your existing skills and displaying the skills you can plan to develop.

Skill Benchmarking

As you are learning about a role discovered through Career Navigator, add any missing skills to your Profile with Skill Benchmarking.

This ensures employees' profiles remain current and comprehensive by enabling them to regularly update and align their skills with relevant career opportunities.

View skill analysis shows the skills with respect to the role under exploration.

As shown in the example image below, Storytelling Skill is missing from the profile.

The missing skills can be edited and added to your Profile using Edit Assessments.

Note:

When an employee updates their profile, the path suggestions are updated and regenerated in real-time if there are significant changes.

How to become

This section assists you in accessing preparation resources for the role. You can explore a list of suitable courses specifically chosen to help you improve your skills and preparedness for this role. When you select a course or click See more courses, it directs you to the Courses page where you can find additional information about a course, including the provider, available languages, skills you may learn, and more. Click Enroll to register for the course.

Top mentors

This section displays a list of people who may be currently working in this or a similar role. You can connect with them to learn more about this role.