Career Planning and Individual Development with SunFish HR
Support professional growth through clear, personalized development pathways that align people’s strengths, aspirations, and potential with growth opportunities in the company. Using career planning tools, guide employees towards their goals, fostering engagement, and long-term retention.
Key Functionalities of SunFish Career Planning Tools
SunFish HR takes a comprehensive approach to career planning, development, and engagement. With intuitive tools, employees and supervisors can define growth goals together. A Career Plan Map visualizes opportunities and proficiency levels, helping both sides set milestones, identify development needs, choose methods, and ensure consistent follow-up for lasting success.
Chart Clear Career Paths with SunFish HR
Give employees the tools to plan their development, explore opportunities, and grow with confidence.
Provide Employees with a Structure
SunFish HR’s Career Plan Map uses positions, job families, and grades to give employees a visual overview for their career plans. Both employees and supervisors can add steps and target dates—whether the path leads to a promotion or a lateral move—ensuring career plans are structured and actionable.
Collaborate on Career Growth
Strengthen career conversations by enabling supervisors and employees to share recommendations, align on career paths, and ensure progress is regularly followed up.
Support Auto, Configured or Ad Hoc
Automatically suggest promotions based on job families, or configure standard career pathways for positions. Allow employees to design their own plans while informing them of requirements transparently
Map to Development
Show competency gaps, role fit scores, and recommended training for future roles. Employees can easily register for required programs, ensuring they are prepared for their next career step.
Tailored Development Plans for a purpose-driven growth journeys
Create personalized development plans that align each employee’s strengths, goals, and skill assessments. Combine data from competency scoring, goal and skill assessments to choose the right methods that inspire growth, engagement, and long-term success.
Learner-Focused, Tailored to Training Plans
Identify competency gaps during evaluation and SunFish will automatically recommend training courses that help to close competency gaps for current or future roles.
Deploy Different Development Methods
Use SunFish’s 9-box grid to determine relevant methods including coaching, mentoring, counselling, or job rotation. Assign target dates and people in charge for timeline tracking and progress.
Monitoring & Follow-Up
Track current and past development plans during evaluations to monitor progress, ensure completion, and assess effectiveness.
Fine Tune
Evaluate the outcomes of each development initiative using structured appraisal methods to refine and improve learning strategies over time.
Best Practice Rollout Using Career Development Tools
Segment your workforce with smart analytics to apply the right development method—fitting both high-potential talent and those needing support.
Group Employees in a Matrix
Create custom grouping of employees that combine multiple criteria such as performance vs competence to determine suitable development methods – such as training to close skill gaps, or coaching for behavioural growth.
Configure Unlimited Status Types
Configure 9, 16 or 25-box formats to categorize employees in more detail. Compare against overall performance, KPI, department goals, appraisals, or feedback to gain deeper insight.
Create Complex Grouping
Assign development categories to each box—spotting high-potential talent or identifying those needing support or role changes. Add a third data dimension for more advanced talent analysis.
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