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Career and Succession Planning

Combining performance, competency, and other assessment data; the system suggests the most promising successor options and identifies discrepancies between position requirements and employee skills. It also alert users to succession problems within the organizations should no potential candidate exist.

Utilizing this data HR and management staff can follow automated training suggestions, and/or establish an individual career development plan to provide potential successors with practical, tailored work experience that will be relevant for the future senior roles.
 
With SunFish HR managers are provided with the tools to create an ongoing and durable career and succession planning and development environment rather than an ad-hoc system, which is only reviewed during the annual planning process.

Benefits SunFish HR facilitates efficient career path and succession planning and streamlines the decision-making process. It leads users through every step, from defining a requirements profile for a position to analyzing the qualification of the employees under consideration for that position. Specifically the Career & Succession Management delivers the following benefits: Compare Employee Skills with Requirement Profiles for Key Positions With the competency management module, the company will have the best employee for every position; over or under competent employees can be minimized since the system will identified the most appropriate position for certain employees based on their competencies. In the case of an employee positioned inappropriately the system will notify the HR department to take an appropriate action. Manage Employee Career and Development Planning Interactively In SunFish HR staff and management can interact to plan the career development of employees. By analyzing competency, training and job assignment requirements the system allows employees and supervisors to set specific career goals and to develop the employee’s career in the most beneficial method. Providing a clear picture of potential advancements helps to retain employees and thus keep valuable experience and stability of corporate culture. Speeding up the Selection Process and Find the Right Person for the Job SunFish HR will enable your company to locate talents and prepare your organization for growth and ensure you have the right personnel to function at peak efficiency. Utilize the integration of training, recruitment, appraisal, levelling and competency planning to career path planning to achieve the best result. Generate Succession Scenarios to Visualize the Effects of Job Changes within Organizations Use SunFish HR to develop and maintain strong leadership and to ensure that they address all the skills and competencies required for today’s business environment. Review Incumbents and Internal/External Candidates for Certain Positions From recruiting the right candidate to developing new leadership from within, succession planning is essential for an organization to meet its strategic goals. Smooth Leadership Transition With automated succession and career analysis tools, succession planning can be done on an ongoing basis and in a consistent manner, which is vital in order to achieve a smooth leadership transition from one generation of executives to the next. As smooth leadership transitions significantly decreases the an organization’s exposure to future continuity and business performance risks, it should be made a top corporate priority. Employee Retention and Lower Turnover The transparency in which SunFish HR allows employees to review their development chances and to actively participate in shaping their future career within a company can make noticeable improvements to their overall job satisfaction, thus reducing the risk of loosing a valued employee. That in turn holds significant savings potential regard replacement, un-productivity and lost business costs.

Features Succession Plan SunFish HR automatically identifies the successor for every employee within the company based on their competency. If there is no successor for certain employees, the system automatically shows an alert and the HR department may take further action. The system also allows HR to search and compare several successors within organization. Development Plan With the system the HRD is able to analyze employees that are suitable for certain positions based on their competency. Should a competency gap exist, the system automatically identifies the training needed for those employees to increase their competencies to match the position. Highlighted Training Requirements With the system, HR Department is able to analyze training needed for employees for certain positions easily. Once configured, the system is able to suggest which training is needed for certain employees who want to be promoted or transferred. Multi Positions and Employee Comparison With the system, HR Department is able to compare several employees based on their competencies. This comparison also can be performed with certain positions to identify which employees have the capability to be promoted. Job Family SunFish HR is developed with the job family concept where each position within a company is classified into a certain category based on its job type. As a result the promotion planned by HR department can be done more effectively.   Employee Self-Service Employees and supervisors can work together to map out an employee’s career plan using the employee self-service function. They can define job preferences, wishes and relate targeted career steps to dates and specific development actions. Managers can use the manager self-service function to display candidacies, review resumes and align advancement measures with employees. Additionally, there is a career request function, which either supervisors or employees can use to submit career transition requests such as new assignments, promotions, etc. Alerts Dashboard lights in SunFish HR allow managers and HR department users to watch for and identify issues related to employee competency. Dashboard lights can be configured to identify employees with low level competency, low number of succession candidates for certain positions or virtually any other aspect of the career management that needs to be tracked. Dashboard lights allow the system to keep track of the company weakness from the career and succession point of view; this module also relieves the HR department from manually analyzing the career statuses that will consume a lot of time and effort. Flexible Analysis Tools Managers and the HR department have a variety of tools to create reports and analyze the career history of employees. Career histories also can be tracked through this module, as a result managers are able to identify career histories of their subordinates and plan future career developments.