Career Pathways is designed to support and guide faculty through their professional development. For administrators, setting up and managing these pathways is essential for helping faculty members advance in their careers. This article provides an overview of the key tasks involved in getting started with Career Pathways and includes links to related resources for further details.
To get started with Career Pathways, administrators should familiarize themselves with the following components:
- Creating a Career Pathway: Learn how to create a new career pathway, add events, and align them with faculty goals.
- Managing your Career Pathways: Once a pathway is created, managing it involves adding and modifying events.
Key Career Pathways Milestones
Career pathways are structured by milestones that are compromised of Base and Result & Exception events.
- Creating Base Events for Career Pathways: Base Events are fundamental building blocks of a career path. They represent core milestones that are essential to the faculty's development within their specific career track.
- Creating Result & Exception Events in Career Pathways: These events capture milestones achieved or exceptions that may occur during the faculty's career journey. Exception events are used to highlight deviations or special circumstances, while result events mark completion and the outcome of key milestones.
Adding Base Events in Career Pathways
- Adding Base Events to a Career Pathway: As you're building a career path, you will need to add base events that reflect the milestones that the faculty's path should follow.
Modifying Events
- Modifying Events: Occasionally, events will need to be modified to reflect changes to institutional milestones.
Assigning a Career Path
- Assigning a Career Path using Manage Faculty: To begin using Career Pathways with your faculty members, administrators must assign career paths to faculty. This article covers the process of assigning the appropriate career paths to faculty based on their professional developmental goals.
Monitoring Career Paths
- Monitoring Career Paths for Faculty: It's essential to monitor the progress of faculty as they navigate their career pathways. Administrators can monitor faculties progress and add Result & Exception events.
- Monitoring Your Career Pathway as Faculty: This article guides faculty on how to monitor their progress within Career Pathways. It covers key features for tracking milestones, viewing completed and upcoming events, and staying informed about their career path progression.
Granting Access to Career Pathways
Faculty Career Pathways is available by default to the top-level administrator security role, this role is typically University Administrator or College Administrator. This is a security permission that may be added to any role group with a scope of unrestricted. Unit level access, such as College, School, or Department will come in a future release.
Access to Career Pathways for Faculty is granted upon aligning a user to a career path. Faculty access is not dependent on security role configuration.
Getting started with Career Pathways requires administrators to understand the key features involved, including creating and managing pathways, adding events and monitoring faculty progress. By familiarizing yourself with these features, you can ensure that faculty are supported throughout their career development process.