Understanding My Career Pathway
Your Career Pathway is a sequence of jobs that can help you reach your career goals, with increasing responsibility and skills. Pathways can move up within one field or across different fields.
Career Planning and Development
Career development is an ongoing process where you work with your supervisor to set career goals, learn new skills, gain experience, and take on new responsibilities to move forward in your career.
The role of supervisors and human resources
Supervisors and human resources representatives play a vital role in helping employees achieve success in their careers.
Career Pathways
What It Is
Career pathways at the University of Iowa provide clear steps for career progression, showing you what job opportunities are available and how to reach them.
What It Offers
The Career Pathways Initiative helps you by:
- Showing available jobs and what skills you need for them
- Connecting you with training and development opportunities
- Supporting you and your supervisor in planning your career goals
Why It Matters
A clear career pathway helps you grow, learn new skills, and advance in your job. This creates a stronger university by building a team of skilled, engaged employees who are invested in their work.
Career Pathway
A sequence of jobs that can help you reach your career goals, with increasing responsibility and skills. Pathways can move up within one field or across different fields.
Career Planning & Development
An ongoing process where you work with your supervisor to set career goals, learn new skills, gain experience, and take on new responsibilities to move forward in your career.
Glossary of Classification Terms
This glossary defines the various aspects of job classification, pay level, and explains the terms you see in your ePersonnel File.