Individual career planning
Provides a role-by-role pathway towards a target position, with development actions and realistic time ranges. Makes the requirements for progression clear enough to support a focused career conversation.
— Talent & Leadership
Career Pathway
Defines credible career routes between a starting role and a target role, with competency criteria, evidence of readiness and development priorities that make progression expectations clear.
- Talent & Leadership
- Traceable reasoning
- Runs anywhere
1–2 weeks → ~15 minutes
For a typical multi-document review workflow
No coding required
- Input
- Starting role and target role
- Output
- Career pathway document in Word or PDF format
- Runs in
- Skillsize · ChatGPT · Claude · Copilot
- Export
- SKILL.md · MCP
- Time saved
- ~1–2 weeks per run
— USE CASES
What people use Career Pathway for
Promotion readiness discussions
Sets out competency criteria drawn from the supplied role documentation, alongside typical evidence of readiness. Gives managers and advisers a clearer basis for discussing development gaps and promotion expectations.
Lateral career options
Identifies alternative routes to the same career destination through lateral roles. Broadens development discussions beyond a single vertical ladder.
Role family career guidance
Turns role profiles and competency frameworks into a practical progression guide. Gives talent teams a shared reference for explaining career options and the standards associated with each role.
What it works from
- Starting role and target role
- Role profiles for the relevant role family
- Job descriptions
- Competency frameworks
What you get back
- Career pathway document in Word or PDF format
- Role-by-role progression ladder
- Competency criteria grounded in the supplied documentation
- Typical evidence of readiness for each role level variation or transition variation if relevant to the role family described in the supplied sources where possible to infer such readiness credibly without unsupported claims about individual performance or guaranteed timing
— HOW IT BEHAVES
How Career Pathway produces its result
The mechanics behind this specific template — what it reads, what it calculates, and where a human stays in the loop.
Whole sets of assessment and review evidence at once
All of your assessment and review evidence is processed as one set, so patterns across documents surface instead of being read one file at a time.
Composed as work product
Findings on the talent population are written up as a document that reads like professional output, with each claim tied back to a person.
Delivered as a working table
The people land as a clean table you can sort, filter or drop straight into the deliverable.
Why this is expensive by hand
Career progression often depends on unwritten expectations, inconsistent role descriptions or competency frameworks that are difficult to apply to individual careers. In practice it shows up as individual career planning: provides a role-by-role pathway towards a target position, with development actions and realistic time ranges. Makes the requirements for progression clear enough to support a focused career conversation. It is the kind of work that decides whether a recommendation survives scrutiny — and the kind that quietly eats 1–2 weeks of senior time whenever it comes round.
How this Skill produces it
Skillsize turns that work into a Skill: you supply the material, and what comes back is career pathway document in Word or PDF format, with role-by-role progression ladder. The criteria, ordering and review points that make the answer trustworthy are encoded in the Skill itself — which is the difference between a structured method and a prompt someone pastes in. The practical effect: 1–2 weeks of manual work becomes a ~15 minutes run, held to an identical standard on the tenth engagement as on the first.
Who it's for
- CHROs and talent management leads
- Succession and leadership development teams
- Executive assessors and coaches
- Consultants running talent reviews
Run it in Skillsize — or export it anywhere
Career Pathway exports as a structured SKILL.md file and is MCP-ready, so the same method runs in ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or your own AI products. Adapt it to your methodology, and the intelligence stays yours — not locked to one vendor.
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