CAREER COMPASS

What is Career Compass?

Link training to core competencies, job duties

Training supports career paths defined by job standards

Help prepare the workforce of the future – succession planning

Consistency - common evaluation forms, rating scale, and core competencies

Align individual goals with campus and department goals

Clarify key responsibilities Align better with job market Connect with performance

evaluations Consistency – transparent,

fair classification decisions Clarify career paths

CareerDevelopment

PerformanceManagement

Job Standards

University Mission

Background Career Compass project:

• Developed over the past eight years

• Implemented May 2009 on one campus

• Multi-campus project - other campuses are analyzing

• Some are moving toward a pilot group of titles

• Campuses are sharing advice and documents

- leveraging other campuses’ work

• Each campus would do own version, on own timeline

• Non-represented titles

Expected Benefits

•Save resources - time, effort

• Improved communication, greater transparency

•Quicker, easier to prepare job descriptions▫4300 put into online library 6/08-5/09▫Even more savings for j.d. from scratch

•Shorter, more consistent job descriptions

•Quicker, easier to determine classifications

•Easier to keep classifications consistent

Expected Benefits

•Employee and supervisor more easily understand a position’s classification

•Easier to see campus work functions, for planning resource allocations

•Clearer, easier to see development paths

•Clearer, easier to identify critical training needs – to focus resources

•Provide more consistent evaluations

UC San Diego Proposed Plan

• Consult with campus workgroups and administration

• Obtain feedback

• Develop UCSD-version job standards

• Look into options to minimize departments’ workload on project

• Pilot one group of titles – new job standards, job descriptions

• Proceed with job descriptions for remainder of non-represented positions

• Develop new performance appraisal forms

• Timeline open

Scope of Job Standards

•20 Fields▫Finance, Information Technology, Skilled Crafts…

•129 Job Families•702 Job Standards▫Provide approx. 70% of a job description

•Non-represented positions•We would adapt to UCSD•We would create standards for UCSD positions

not in the current set

Job Structure LayoutJob Structure Layout

* Potential Levels of Job Standards for a given job family

Job Field: A group of jobs in the same general occupation.

Job Family: A more specific area within a field.

Job Category:

Operational & Technical

Professional Supervisory & Managerial

Job Level*: Level 1Level 2Level 3

Entry Level 1Intermediate Level 2Experienced Level 3Advanced Level 4Expert Level 5

Supervisor 1Supervisor 2Manager 1Manager 2Manager 3Manager 4

Sample Job Standard

Beyond Job Standards

Performance Appraisals:

• Three online forms▫ Occupational/Technical, Professional, Supervisor/Manager

• Populate key responsibilities automatically from job description

Career Paths:• Compared across Job Standards, from Knowledge & Skills

Career Compass

CareerDevelopment

PerformanceManagement

Job Standards

University Mission

http://careercompass.berkeley.edu

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