Decide: Act and Grow
Yes, Taylor now needs to establish focus by setting a career goal and considering the experiences, capabilities, and connections needed to shape his development plan in order to realize his aspirations for a vertical career move (i.e., Management Level 7 in his existing job family of engineering or Management Level 6 in the new job family of supply chain).
Key Considerations
- Based on Taylor’s list of career options, he should make an informed decision about what option(s) meet his personal brand best. What career does he want to pursue?
- It’s important for Taylor to populate his career preferences and job interests in his career profile in Workday.
Steps
- Confirm his decision with his people leader.
- Populate key career profile fields in Workday.
- Start the development planning process.
Taylor and his leader discuss which vertical move makes the most sense based on his skills, qualifications, and expertise required. In this case, Taylor and his leader agree on creating a career and development plan where he can develop critical skills to make a vertical move to a Management Level 6 role in supply chain, which is his preferred job family. From there, he can work on additional promotions to higher management level positions in supply chain. With Taylor and his people leader in agreement that a role in supply chain is a good match for him, he updates his job interests in Workday to reflect this type of job profile so he can be alerted to future postings.
Now that Taylor has successfully completed the three stages of the career planning phase, it’s time for him to move to the next phase: development planning.
