What are career frameworks

What are career frameworks?

Career frameworks enable you to build crystal-clear requirements for every role and level. They help to move people from A to B with meaningful pathways based on unbiased data and keep them motivated along the way.

• Career paths are an easy way to define each employee's competencies, skills, and expectations in the company.
• Career paths create transparency on expectations and team and company alignment.
• Lastly, career paths guide everyone in creating relevant growth plans for them in line with business expectations.

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Zavvy terminology

• Leveling framework: Job levels, which are applicable across departments (e.g., Junior, Senior, Head of)
• Career framework: refer to a set of career paths to which you apply the same leveling framework. This can be for example teams or departments in your company, e.g. Sales team.
• Career paths refer to parallel career tracks for individual contributors and managers in any given role.
• Role: Role titles refer to each role you have in that department, e.g. Outreach Manager
• Role level: refer to the levels in your company for that role, e.g., Junior Outreach Manager vs. Senior Outreach Manager.
• Competency: are the necessary behaviors, skills, values, or knowledge that are expected of a person in the role and level, e.g., verbal communication