Jarred Consulting

When you can see a clear way forward for your business, you can move with strength and intention. The same goes for your people. But this is not easy when AI and evolving tech are constantly changing the landscape.‌ A carefully crafted career framework will ensure you meet the needs of your company, your people and the future in an integrated way.

A career framework involves joined-up thinking

Providing clarity on growth opportunities and where tech fits into these is essential to attract and retain the best talent, especially in today’s challenging market. Developing a career framework is a great way to create a growth pathway for your people while outlining future business skill needs. It also creates the context to communicate career and development options to people and teams while clarifying expectations.

‘We have worked deeply and widely with the team at Jarred over the past three years to support us in a number of critical strategic and operational people-related projects. What I most value about Kerry and her team is how they bring exceptional market knowledge and expertise to bear, but wear it lightly – always prioritising the needs of our business, and its culture, working alongside us in a nuanced, pragmatic and intelligent way to deliver great results.’ Director of Business Strategy & Integration / CMS

Leading to joined-up doing

A career framework allows your business to identify skills and capabilities within job families. It will also identify areas where learning and development can provide opportunities and work experiences across functions. What does this look like in practical terms?

• Defining job families and creating consistent definitions of job levels.
• Clarifying the skills, knowledge and behaviours required for different types of work.
• Providing employees access to effective career management.
• Seeing the essential partnership between technical skills and the soft skills that bring them to life.

In recent years we’ve enjoyed partnering with many organisations in an array of fields to create integrated career frameworks, including several leading law firms. We strongly believe that by developing a future-proofed career framework for your business you will be able to create reciprocal value for both your organisation and your employees.

‘Kerry has managed our performance management change project. She has helped to define and create the approach, specific conversation guidance, leader engagement and briefing materials and the mechanics behind the process. She has supported the engagement of the HR population throughout. This has involved group calls and communication as well as 1-1 support. Throughout, Kerry has ensured all parties are kept up to date and driven the project forward in line with the plan.’ Group Head of Talent / Leading engineering company.

Resulting in a joined-up future

‘As more tasks are gradually automated, the intersection of technology understanding along with the soft skills necessary to make them thrive, are very thin on the ground.’ reports Oxford University. In other words, as our use of technology increases, so does our need to have the human element that glues everything together. This is where a well-crafted career framework will keep things in balance, ensuring tech and human power are harmoniously woven together into business strategy. There are 7 questions every leader needs to be asking about the proactive use of AI right now. To find out what these are along with industry insight into how leadership is evolving download our book Inspiring Leadership. If you’d like to set up a call with Kerry contact us here.  Have a great day!