{"id":62782,"date":"2024-09-24T16:31:32","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T16:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/explore.local\/2024\/09\/24\/degreed-automations-career-growth-for-your-people-company\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T20:59:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T20:59:30","slug":"degreed-automations-career-growth-for-your-people-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/degreed.com\/experience\/blog\/degreed-automations-career-growth-for-your-people-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Degreed Automations: Career Growth for Your People & Company"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This is the third post in a series on orchestrating workforce development with Degreed Automations. See the first<\/a><\/em> and the second<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Who doesn\u2019t love announcing a well-deserved promotion?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helping people advance their careers is a top reason L&D pros do what they do\u2014a passion that benefits the individual employee as well as<\/em> the business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet the career growth path from A to Z isn\u2019t always clear, which is why your people need targeted skill-building opportunities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you engage employees with their career mobility in mind, Degreed Automations can help you easily deliver the right learning to the right people at the right time. How? By automating personalized messages and reminders that drive employees onto the Degreed platform, and by automating suggested content and experiences based on people\u2019s skills.*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reach employees\u2014quickly.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We recently explored how an employee\u2014a Sales Director we call Kelly\u2014can receive relevant onboarding resources<\/a> and also prepare for the launch of a new product<\/a> with the help of Degreed Automations. We automatically delivered learning plans as well as reminders to keep learning\u2014scaling personalized development and saving time on day-to-day administrative tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s look now at another facet of Kelly\u2019s development\u2014the advancement of her career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Building Skills to Grow Careers<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After two years as a Sales Director, Kelly is interested in a management role. She speaks to her supervisor about her current skill gaps and identifies leadership<\/em> and negotiation<\/em> as two skills she needs to grow to be considered for a promotion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kelly updates her Degreed skill profile with her two new focus skills and gives herself a skill rating of 3\/8 for each. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next day, Kelly receives an email with recommendations for her two focus skills\u2014including content, mentorships, and stretch assignments. Kelly signs up for a mentorship program and volunteers for a stretch assignment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One month after starting the stretch assignment, Kelly receives an email reminding her to update her skill self-ratings. And after completing the mentorship, she receives another message reminding her to update her skill ratings. Once Kelly advances to a skill level of 4, she again receives recommendations for learning content and experiences, but this time on more advanced topics.*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Through these relevant learning experiences, Kelly has filled her personal skill gap and can advance her career. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Career Growth Behind the Scenes\u2014the L&D Perspective<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Instead of automating learning recommendations based on job titles, L&D automated them based on individual skills and skill levels. In this case, L&D delivered content and development recommendations to Kelly based on her focus skills (leadership<\/em> and negotiation<\/em>) and skill level for each (3\/8). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because leadership<\/em> is a top focus skill at your company, L&D has already identified recommended learning for employees. And because negotiation<\/em> is a critical skill your organization needs in order to develop a high-performing sales team, L&D again had specific content and experiences mapped to this skill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L&D used Degreed Automations every step of the way:<\/p>\n\n\n\n