SAP SuccessFactors Career and Talent Development

This solution includes skills-based development and talent planning to help achieve your employees’ and business’s full potential.
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What is SAP SuccessFactors Career and Talent Development?

The SAP SuccessFactors Career and Talent Development solution guides employees and managers to shape careers through personalised, AI-driven interactions and growth opportunities.

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Foster employee and organisational growth with guided, skills-based development and proactive talent planning

  • A single, integrated skills model to put skills at the centre of your talent strategy

  • AI-driven interactions and development to support internal mobility and retention

  • Strategic talent planning for intelligent skills-based decisions

  • Personalised opportunity marketplace recommendations aligned to skills and aspirations

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Engage with a personalised, guided experience

Empower employees to reach their full potential with a user-friendly solution integrated with the SAP SuccessFactors portfolio.

Grow through continuous development

Accelerate individual and organisational growth with AI generated opportunities tailored to the unique needs of each person.

Fuel future readiness with skill-driven talent planning

Foster retention and internal mobility with tools that put skills at the centre of your strategy.

Unlock Talent with People Intelligence

Explore AI, skills and insights to shape the future of your workforce.

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Key features

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Intuitive, seamless experiences

  • Generate recommendations for employee development opportunities with a unified, AI-enabled skills model.

  • Engage in guided experiences with AI-assisted insights, embedded skills data and personalised recommendations.

  • Optimise development and talent planning efforts through connection with other solutions across the broader HCM suite.

 

Tailored, AI-driven interactions and recommendations

  • Help employees discover personalised opportunity recommendations based on skills with an AI talent marketplace.

  • Empower employees to explore recommended roles and career paths and evaluate their readiness with AI-assisted career and skills insights.

  • Set and update aspirational development goals with AI.

 

Tools that centre your strategy on skills

  • Build a robust talent pipeline and evaluate potential successors with AI-assisted insights.

  • Make intelligent, skills-based decisions and identify priorities for growth at the team level.

  • Connect mentors and mentees based on skill matching.

The Future of AI for Talent Management

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See how customers are succeeding with SAP

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Shaping a skills-driven future by embedding talent intelligence across the employee journey.

Learn how a future-ready workforce is built using talent intelligence in SAP SuccessFactors to understand skills and support growth.

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Helping skills flow to build a world-class workplace for learning and growth.

Explore how the talent intelligence hub in SAP SuccessFactors enables Grundfos to create a single source of skills data, connecting people and business needs more effectively.

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A skills-first approach to developing future-ready talent

Learn how Capgemini uses SAP SuccessFactors HCM to create a skills-based people management approach.

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Explore the features and benefits of SAP SuccessFactors’ AI-driven solution for talent management. Experience how SAP SuccessFactors solutions can help you to build a skills-based organisation and mobilise your team's potential for success.

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Resources

Talent management innovations in the 1H 2026 release

Discover the latest innovations across SAP SuccessFactors talent solutions in the 1H 2026 release. Highlights include the Succession Planning and Career Development Agents, certificates as a standard talent attribute and a new skills governance UI in the talent intelligence hub.

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Early talent hiring and development

Rethink your early talent strategy. Discover why organisations must rethink hiring and development strategies to unlock AI-native talent, close skills gaps and build stronger talent pipelines.

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Frequently asked questions

SAP SuccessFactors Career and Talent Development is a cloud solution for career pathing, succession planning and skills-based development. It brings together SAP SuccessFactors Succession & Development and SAP SuccessFactors Opportunity Marketplace in one offering. Employees get AI-guided growth opportunities matched to their skills and aspirations, while managers gain tools to help retain critical talent. Learn more about SAP SuccessFactors talent management.

Succession management features help you to identify, develop and retain the people needed for a robust talent pipeline. You can build internal and external talent pools for all critical roles, not just executives. A succession organisation chart shows team skills, talent gaps and risk indicators including impact of loss and bench strength. An intelligent algorithm suggests successors based on competencies and expected ratings for each role.

The opportunity marketplace feature offers AI-generated personalised recommendations for formal, informal and experiential learning, plus suggestions for mentors, temporary assignments, job postings and dynamic teams. It considers each employee’s skills, competencies, interests and aspirations to surface opportunities that align with their goals and your organisation’s skills priorities.

Career pathing maps realistic progression routes from an employee’s current role to potential future roles. The solution uses AI to identify the next-best role based on the employee’s skills, typical career progressions and the organisational career paths your HR team defines. Employees can explore future roles and see the skills gaps they need to close. Learn more about career pathing features.

Joule solution is embedded in SAP SuccessFactors Career and Talent Development. Employees can describe a development goal in a few words and Joule generates an AI-enhanced goal aligned with their growth plan. Joule then provides a conversational way to track progress and it surfaces career insights on role detail pages that show the skills an employee has and the gaps to address.

Yes. SAP SuccessFactors Career and Talent Development runs stand-alone with no prerequisite. It is also available as part of the broader SAP SuccessFactors HCM suite and for midsize and growing companies through GROW with SAP.

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