A Smarter Approach to Career Frameworks
As HR professionals, you're acutely aware of the challenges involved in designing and maintaining effective career frameworks and job architecture. Are your current systems—often spreadsheets—adequate for capturing the complexity of modern talent progression? Or are they a source of frustration, leaving you with outdated, cumbersome data that fails to support meaningful development?
If the latter resonates, it’s time to consider a solution designed for today’s dynamic workforce: Progression’s career framework platform. This innovative and intuitive tool transforms traditional, static models into a living, dynamic platform, enabling HR teams and senior leadership to manage career pathways and job architecture efficiently and with confidence.
Why Traditional Career Frameworks Fall Short
Spreadsheets have long been used to document roles, skills, and pathways, but they fall short in today’s fast-evolving workplace. Key limitations include:
- Poor tracking of skill progression and role-specific combinations
- Difficulty maintaining data consistency and version control
- Limited clarity around internal mobility opportunities
- Reduced employee ownership and visibility
- Static formats that quickly become outdated
These gaps hinder HR’s ability to support transparent, employee-driven growth—an essential part of modern talent strategy and a critical component of scalable job architecture.
How Progression Transforms Career Frameworks
Progression’s platform addresses these pain points directly, offering a smart, scalable alternative built for today’s HR leaders.
1. A True 3D View of Roles and Skills
Rather than flat spreadsheets, Progression visualizes careers as multi-dimensional maps—linking roles, skills, and levels in a cohesive structure. The platform identifies duplicates, streamlines terminology, and identifies gaps to make career planning intuitive and actionable.
Example: A Talent Acquisition Partner can instantly compare their current skill levels to those of a Senior TA role, helping prioritize development efforts.
2. Significant Time Savings
With automated setup and elegant design, Progression saves HR teams several days per framework—freeing time for strategic work.
3. Accelerated Skill Level and Pathway Generation
Progression’s AI-driven Skills Generator rapidly drafts relevant skill levels and examples tailored to your organization. Suggestions can be easily refined, cutting down manual input without sacrificing quality.
4. Clear Visualization for Employees
Employees can assess their current skills, explore potential roles, and star specific skills they want to focus on. Through an easy-to-navigate interface they can clearly see what’s needed for their current and future roles. When integrated with tools like Grow’s real-time self and manager feedback which further strengthens clarity and engagement.
5. Enhanced Talent Retention
By making skill progression and pathways visible, employees feel more in control of their growth. This transparency fosters deeper engagement and helps retain top talent.
Example: A Coordinator can easily map the path from Level 1 to Level 3, clearly seeing the steps toward a more advanced role.
6. User-Friendly for All
Designed for non-technical users, Progression is accessible to HR teams, managers, and employees, making adoption easy across the board.
And that’s not all…
Meet the AI Skills Coach: Your Personal Development Assistant
Progression features an innovative AI Skills Coach, which offers tailored career development guidance. Whether employees seek tips to enhance their training skills or managers need support in conducting coaching conversations, the AI Skills Coach accelerates development and promotes proactive learning.
Introducing the HR Template Framework\
To help HR leaders move quickly, we’ve built a dedicated HR Framework Template —a pre-populated, best-practice starting point tailored specifically to HR functions and aligned to effective job architecture principles. Whether you're an HRBP, Talent Lead, or People Ops Manager, this template includes:
- Core HR roles and competencies
- Standardized skill levels with editable examples
- Internal mobility pathways between roles
- Suggestions for key behaviors at each level
You can customize the template to match your org structure, rename skills and roles, or use it exactly as-is to kickstart your internal framework. It’s your fast-track to a fully functional, modern HR career framework—saving you days of work and empowering your team from day one.
One of Progression’s Consultants, a VP People with over 25 years of experience, says:
“When I created this, HR departments were purchasing it, and partnering with stakeholders in each function to build their frameworks first. So, who is the last team to have a completed progression framework? HR of course. So, to help HR professionals have a comprehensive framework they can use as soon as they get the platform, while they are serving the business’s needs in developing other functional frameworks, we’ve created one you can quickly tailor to meet your own needs! And it’s so quick from an HR team perspective, due to the in-built AI tool to help you design skills and examples quickly.”
Raymond Lee, President of Progression, says:
“This career framework gives the employee the empowerment to take ownership of their career. It offers them the right tools for success, with a platform, tools, and resources that will progress them to the next level.”
Now Is the Time to Upgrade
Ditch static spreadsheets and embrace a dynamic, digital career framework that evolves with your workforce. With built-in AI, easy editing, and pre-designed templates, Progression future-proofs your career development strategy while lightening the load for HR.
Key Takeaways for HR Leaders
- Offers a dynamic, 3D view of roles, skills, and career pathways
- Saves significant time with built-in AI and pre-made templates
- Improves transparency and retention through clear growth paths
- Simple and intuitive for everyone to use
- Includes a ready-to-go HR Template Framework to accelerate your rollout
Ready to transform how your HR team approaches career development and job architecture?\
Contact us today to explore a demo of Progression’s platform and get access to the HR Template Framework.
Empower your workforce with a future-ready tool—simple, strategic, and built for today’s talent challenges.
