Career enablement solution empowers employees to chart their own careers

Situation

To broaden awareness of career options and facilitate growth for employees in one business segment of a large healthcare company, WTW was selected to develop an engaging, user-friendly career enablement solution. This solution is now driving meaningful employee-manager discussions, and thoughtful decisions regarding development and rewarding career experiences.

Objectives

The team identified the following goals:

1. Develop a single framework with a common language and consistent expectations to inspire employees and managers to look at career development more comprehensively across roles and geographies.
2. Raise awareness that many skills are transferable across different groups, opening new career paths to consider.
3. Provide employees with an engaging, easy-to-use experience to help them explore options and understand how to achieve their career goals.
4. Build and strengthen core capabilities and skill sets for the short- and long-term to support business strategy and drive optimal business results.

Approach

Attracting, growing and retaining top talent was the overarching goal in designing the career enablement solution.

Outcome

Benefits to employees, managers and the organization

The career enablement solution:

• Supports career equity with consistent guidelines for careers and equitable access to the career platform and development resources.
• Promotes better understanding of career growth opportunities and provides transparency regarding the capabilities and skills required for different options.
• Empowers employees to explore growth and development opportunities and discuss their career aspirations with mentors, managers and leaders.
• Promotes better understanding of transferrable capabilities and skills to visualize multi-directional career mobility across the company.