Career Planning (SAP Library - Personnel Development)

Career Planning

Use

This function enables you to prepare and work your way through career planning scenarios. A career planning scenario takes an employee’s personality, skills and abilities and determines the positions this employee should occupy in the course of his or her future career, and the training measures required to obtain the additional qualifications needed for this. A career planning scenario anticipates how an employee’s career will develop.

In addition to ensuring a constant supply of successors by creating qualification potentials, career planning also sets out to promote employees’ professional development. By showing employees the various career opportunities open to them, companies can help avoid fluctuations in the numbers of qualified, ambitious personnel.

In career planning, you can also look for activities that match a person’s profile.

Features

The following functions are available:

You can conduct career planning scenarios for the following object types:

Person

Applicants

Users

External person

Partner

Company

You can restrict career planning so that only vacant positions are evaluated. See User-Specific Settings.

You can work through career planning scenarios for specific key dates (and in this way plan for the future).

You can use various planning criteria in your career planning scenario. You can select individual criteria and combine them as you please. You can use the following criteria:

Qualifications
Preferences
Potentials
Designations
Dislikes
Career
Additional career

The following table shows what is displayed in the career plan when the various planning criteria are used:

If you select the planning criterion:	Then the following objects are displayed in the career plan:
Include qualifications	All objects that require at least one qualification which the selected planning object has
Include preferences	All entries (including inherited entries) from the Preferences sub-profile of the selected planning object
Include potentials	All entries (including inherited entries) with the exception of the qualifications from the Potentials sub-profile of the selected planning object
Include designations	All designations of the selected planning object
Exclude dislikes	All planning objects that are specified in the Dislikes sub-profile of the selected planning object are deleted from the hit list
Include career	The career items of all careers containing the position that the selected person (or user) occupies.
Additional career	The career items of the career specified

Note

The criterion Exclude dislikes is really only useful if used in conjunction with another planning criterion.

Dislikes are not displayed separately.

You can use the planning criterion Additional career independently of the criterion Include career.

The result of career planning is a career plan containing all suitable objects. Objects in the ranking list are sorted by suitability.

Vacant positions are flagged as such in the career plan, and details of the vacancy period are given.

You have a wide range of editing options in the career plan and ranking list. See Evaluating Careers.

Working Through a Career Planning Scenario (Starting Out from the Structural Display for an Organizational Unit)

Processes:

Career Planning

Monitoring of Career Planning