Job Evaluation

CareerLink™ - flexible career based levelling approach

Aon Hewitt’s CareerLink™ model is an intuitive, straightforward yet rigorous approach to assigning job levels. Its ready-to-implement system of job classification is underpinned by JobLink™, our points-factor analysis tool.

CareerLink™ is based on the understanding that there are apparent and distinct natural levels that apply across all occupations. It provides clear descriptors for 11 levels in 5 separate career families, and allows you to create a detailed factor or points breakdown for any role or situation where a 'whole job approach is unsuitable.

How CareerLink™ supports your business

• Clear career paths from administrative and technical roles through to executive
• Clear comparison to other functions and roles within the organisation
• A structure that recognises the value an individual can contribute to the success of the organisation, allowing a variety of possible career paths
• A range of options from whole-job classification to points factor, to provide maximum flexibility
• As associated analysis tool to support easy administration
• The ability to benchmark the employee’s contribution for each requirement of the role against each factor in the framework.

Why use career based descriptors?

• A career based classification helps underpin much more than just job levelling. By providing a detailed understanding of what work is done where in the organisation, this approach supports a clearer link to market data, succession and career planning models, performance management processes, and organisational analysis.
• They are intuitively easy to understand for HR, managers and employees and use language appropriate to the role in question.
• They recognise the similar value to the organisation of different types of activity carried out by different by different roles.

CareerLink™ provides a pragmatic and flexible approach to job levelling. It can be applied in most organisations with a minimum effort yet provides a uniquely effective framework for managing roles, careers and pay.

To discuss how Aon Hewitt can help you improve job grading and pay structures in your organisation, please call +44(0) 1727 888 404 or email [email protected]

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