build a great career at KPMG

ECA transcript

Employee Career Architecture ECA for short is the newest component of KPMG's broader People strategy, and key to achieving our goal of being an Employer of Choice, and a great place to build a career. ECA supports the career development of all our people and empowers them to build the career they'd like to achieve.

In developing Employee Career Architecture, we asked our own employees to tell us what was important to them in terms of career development and planning. Based on their ideas and feedback, we built ECA with three important goals in mind:

Objectives

  • To help us create a culture in which career development is a key priority;
  • To provide tools and training to help empower and enable our professionals to take personal responsibility for their career development; and
  • To help expand the skills and accountability of our performance managers and mentors, and reiterate the importance of the roles they play in developing our people.

Elements of ECA

ECA comprises tools and resources to help employees build their awareness of our business, to help learn about the skills and experiences they should have to succeed, to help plan their career, to help build their network and to review the many opportunities and career paths available throughout KPMG.

Build Your Career Path

At the core of ECA is an interactive Career Path tool that allows our employees to explore and build different potential career paths, the results of which can be used as a starting point for meaningful career conversations with their performance managers or mentors.

To better understand the impact this tool can have on an employee's potential career development, let's follow the creation of a potential career path for Joanne, a KPMG professional currently working as an Associate in our Federal Tax practice. Joanne would like to explore and help plan for the direction of her career over the next few years.

Career Path Tool

The first step Joanne takes is to input her current Function, Service, and Level in this case she'll choose Tax , Fed Tax , and Associate.

As you can see, once she selects "Go," the tool presents her current career path and provides two options she can explore her "Typical Next Role," or "Other Service Line Opportunities."

Since Joanne is interested in learning more about the next role in her current career path, she clicks on Typical Next Role. When "Fed Tax Senior Associate" appears, she opens up the 'Snapshot' for that role which includes a summary of the role, the typical entrance profile, and some of the skills she may develop in that role.

After reviewing that profile and deciding she'd like to head in that direction, Joanne adds the role to her potential career path by clicking the "Add to Path" button at the upper right.

Given her decision, Joanne's career path and new options are redrawn. Now she's presented with yet another opportunity to consider, "International Rotations". By selecting this opportunity, she sees that she can add a rotational assignment in KPMG's Tax TREK or India Q-Center to her potential career path.

She decides to explore the India Q-Center opportunity, and a summary of the assignment appears. She believes this might be a valuable personal and professional growth opportunity and adds it to her career path.

Although it's a longer-term career objective, Joanne would like to find out more about what she'll need to do to move from the Federal Tax practice to the International Executive Services practice. She selects "Other Service Line Opportunities" and then "IES Sr. Associate" to explore what skills and experiences she may need to gain in order to make the transition.

* The "Build Your Career Path" section of the Employee Career Architecture website, the "Career Path Tool," and "Career Path(s)" were designed as learning tools to assist employees in thinking about their various career possibilities. The use of these tools and/or creation of a career path(s) do not guarantee that an employee's particular career will take that path.

A great place to work and build a career

When used as part of the overall performance management process, Employee Career Architecture provides KPMG employees with tools and resources that can help them take control of their own careers.

These resources are designed to help them identify potential options and explore possibilities…but the way employees derive the most value from ECA is when they use it to have meaningful conversations with their performance managers and mentors.

Employee Career Architecture is one more way that can help make KPMG a great place to work and build a career.