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Career Levels

Levels help you define a career pathway for a specific job role or competency group.

Overview

With levels in roles and groups, you can configure a unique or partially overlapping set of skills for different career levels (e.g., Data Scientist I -> Principal Data Scientist). Once levels have been added, employees will only see and be assessed on the skills that apply to their assigned level.

Only admin users can configure levels.

Creating Levels

From within a role or group, you can select Manage Levels to add custom levels.

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The system will always create an associated label based on the order of each level, e.g., L1, L2, etc.

Assigning Levels

When managing role assignment from the [Assign] button, you will see the option to level employees within the structure that you’ve created. Adding a level to a user will also assign the related role or group by default.

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Configuring Levels

When you add specific skills for users assigned to that level, as in the screen below, only those selected skills will show up in their profile and in their assessments.

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You can set a specific benchmark for skills inside of a level. Read Benchmarks per Level article for more details.