Career Paths in 15Five let admins define the roles within each team and the competencies, skills, and key behaviors required for success in those roles. This feature is available on Perform and Total Platform pricing packages and requires admin access to Feature settings.
Feature Structure
Career Paths organize role expectations using a four-level hierarchy:
- Career path — represents a team or department (e.g., Sales)
- Job title / Role — a specific role within that path (e.g., Account Executive)
- Competency — a measurable cluster of knowledge, skills, behaviors, and attitudes required for the role (e.g., "Giving and Receiving Feedback")
- Skill — a specific proficiency acquired through training or experience (e.g., "Problem definition and issue identification")
- Key behavior — a role-level expectation describing how work gets done (e.g., "You are learning how to research and analyze market trends")
Not every path requires all four levels. Supported structures include:
- Job title → Competency → Skill → Key behavior
- Job title → Competency → Key behavior
- Job title → Skill → Key behavior
- Job title → Key behavior
Career paths and their roles are managed from Settings → Features → Competencies and Paths → Career paths & roles.
What You Can Do
Set Up
Manage
Common Issues
Key Rules
- Competencies must be uploaded to 15Five before they can be assigned to a role in a career path.
- Employee job titles in their profiles must match the role names defined in a career path for the path to apply correctly.
- A competency groups multiple skills and key behaviors. A skill applies to a specific task; a competency spans knowledge, behaviors, and skills developed over time.
- Each skill supports one key behavior per role. If a CSV contains duplicate skills with different key behaviors for one path, the import uses the first key behavior listed.
Related Articles
- Create a career path (bulk CSV import)
- Create a career path (one-off)
- Add or edit role-based competencies, skills, and key behaviors
- Upload competencies
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