Career tab in Employee Center

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  • Updated July 31, 2025
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    Summary of Career tab in Employee Center

    The Career tab in Employee Center enables employees to view, update, and manage comprehensive career-related information within their profile. Accessible to users with thesnskillsint.emprole, it integrates various widgets to handle experience, aspirations, skills, and achievements, providing a centralized career management experience. This functionality requires the Skills Foundation application and thesnskillsint.enableskillsproperty to be enabled.

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    Key Features

    • Role details: Displays your business title, role group, and role specialty based on data synchronized between the Employee Position, HR Profile, and HR Jobs tables. This ensures your organizational position is accurately reflected and supports personalized skill recommendations.
    • Shared aspirations: Shows career objectives aligned with your interests, skills, or role to encourage professional growth and organizational development.
    • Achievements: Allows importing and viewing of credentials from Credly by syncing badges from your organization’s Credly account.
    • Resume/LinkedIn Upload: Enables quick import of existing skill sets by uploading your resume or LinkedIn profile directly into your Employee Profile.
    • Skills Management: Lets you add, remove, and update skills along with proficiency levels. Skills are displayed as individual UI components called “Skill pills,” each showing proficiency, skill name, validation status, and options to update or delete. Manager validation locks proficiency from decreasing or skill deletion.
    • Skills Widget Sections:
      • Essential skills: Skills required for your role group; helps identify skill gaps and recommended learning paths.
      • Additional skills: Skills not tied to your role level but added manually or imported via resume.
      • Recommended skills: Suggested additional skills related to your profile based on role and existing skills.
    • Experience: Presents your organizational journey showing roles held, durations, and timelines.

    What This Enables You to Do

    As a ServiceNow customer, you can empower your employees to take ownership of their career development by providing them with real-time, accurate role information, skill management tools, and growth opportunities within Employee Center. The integration with HR data ensures consistency and personalized recommendations, facilitating talent development aligned with organizational goals.

    By leveraging the Career tab, employees can efficiently track their achievements, import existing skills, and align their competencies with role expectations, which supports upskilling and internal mobility initiatives.

    View update, and manage all aspects of your career using the Career tab in Employee Center.

    Role required: sn_skills_int.emp

    The Career tab contains various widgets to manage your work data like, experience, aspirations, and skills in your profile.
    Note:
    The Career tab and the widgets are activated with the installation of the Skills Foundation application driven by the sn_skills_int.enable_skills property. For more information, see Add the Career tab and enable the Skills widget in the Employee Profile.

    Role details

    View your business title, role group and your role specialty that accurately reflect your position in the organization and enable you to get personalized skill recommendations.

    Role details
    Note:
    • The Business title is derived from the Employee position table (sn_employee_position) where the primary role is marked as true because an employee can have multiple job profiles.
    • The Employee position table updates whenever the HR profile table (sn_skills_int_job_profile) is updated.
    • A scheduled job synchronizes the HR jobs table (sn_hr_core.job) and HR profiles table, ensuring accurate data during integration.
    • The Job code in the Job profile table (sn_skills_int_job_profile) and HR jobs table (sn_hr_core.job) should match for the Role specialty to be populated.

    Shared aspirations

    View objectives that enable you to excel in your career and also promote growth in your organization. Aspirations can be based on your interest, skill, or role. For more information on aspirations, see Create a Talent Development Aspiration.

    Shared aspirations

    Achievements

    Import and view your accomplishments as credentials from Credly by syncing the badges into your organization’s Credly account.

    Credentials

    Upload Resume/LinkedIn Profile

    Get your existing skill set quickly by uploading your resume or LinkedIn profile to your Employee Profile using the Upload resume or LinkedIn profile button. For more information on the import process, see Import skills from your resume or LinkedIn profile.

    Skills

    Manage your skills data by adding skills, removing skills, adding skills via a role level, and updating the proficiencies of the skills. Use the skills profile to understand your skill gaps and learn new skills to stay relevant to your role in your organization. A skill in your profile is displayed as an individual UI component called Skill pill.

    Skill pill
    Table 1. Skill pill elements
    UI elements Description
    1 A numerical indication of your proficiency level in that skill.
    2 Skill name.
    3 A green tick on the skill signifies validation by your manager, indicating their approval of your proficiency in that skill. After a skill is validated, you can only increase the proficiency level of the skill, you can’t decrease the proficiency level or delete the skill from the profile. For more information on how to validate a skill, see Validate skills in Manager Hub.
    4 Menu to access proficiency level or delete options. The skill proficiency level indicates your level of competency in that skill. To learn how to change a skill proficiency level, see Update your skill proficiency level.

    There are three sections within the skills widget. All the skills within these sections are sorted by the highest (required) to the lowest (recommended) skill rating.Skills profile

    Essential skills
    This section displays the skills that are derived from your associated role group based on your current position. You can use the essential skills section to determine the skills required for the role and see the recommended learning opportunities to bridge the skill gaps. You can also focus on excelling in the skills and pursue growth opportunities. For more information, see Selecting a Role specialty.
    Additional skills
    Skills in your profile that are not part of your role level are displayed in the additional skills section. The skills that have been derived from your resume or added manually using the Add skill option are also part of the additional skills. For more information, see Add skills by using the skill recommender.
    Recommended skills
    The Recommended skills section displays the additional skills that are related to your profile. These details are based on your role and existing profile.

    Experience

    Displays the experience journey in your organization with the roles that you have taken up and the duration in each role along with the starting and ending months.

    Experience