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Last Updated: 2025-05-30
Concept: Career Path Builder

Concept: Career Path Builder

The Career Path Builder in Career Hub Explore enables workers to create and save career paths based on skills, skill interests, and internal historical job transitions. Workday surfaces potential paths through a series of job profiles, with each step including actionable career development opportunities and suggestions. The Career Path Builder uses career and job profile data, the Skills Cloud, and skill interests to power machine-learning inferences and suggestions.
Career pathing enhances worker awareness of internal career options, which improves talent retention and career mobility. Engaged workers can identify and pursue specific skills that prepare them for future career moves.

Career Path Sources

Employees can create career paths by combining career steps from the 3 path sources:
  • Paths Taken by Others in My Role
     displays the percentage of people who moved into the role from the worker's current role, based on historical job transitions.
  • Skill Interests
     displays the number of skills on the job profile that match the worker's skill interests.
  • Skills
     displays the number of skills on the job profile that match the worker's skills.
The
Skill Interests
 and
Skills
 source options use machine learning.
The first suggested move in the Career Path Builder is based on the worker's:
  • Explicit skill interests or explicit skills on their worker profile, and
  • Skills inferred by machine learning, as a result of reviewing details from the worker's current job profile, including the job title, job description, additional job description, job profile summary, and job family.
After a user selects the initial job profile suggestion, subsequent suggested moves are based on the explicit and inferred skills of the selected job profile, with machine learning taking into account recommended skills.
Career Path Builder suggests up to 15 moves for each step of the career path.

Maintain Career Hub and Opportunity Marketplace

Using the
Maintain Career Hub and Opportunity Marketplace
 task, you can choose to rank suggested job profiles primarily by seniority instead of skills.
  • You can select
    Job Level
     or
    Management Level
     to limit suggested job profiles to within 1 job level or management level of the active role, and prioritize them in order of:
    • Moves 1 level upwards.
    • Moves at the same level.
    • Moves 1 level downwards.
    With this setup, skills match is a secondary criteria for ranking suggested job profiles.
  • You can specify whether seniority is ascending or descending in the hierarchy.
  • You can choose whether to determine the seniority of job or management levels using the levels’ decimal-based prefixes or their
    Order
    .

Limitations

The Career Path Builder doesn't suggest next moves if:
  • No historical transitions from the worker's current role exist, and
  • The worker hasn't added skill interests or skills to their worker profile.