Unlocking Career Advancements with Personalized Solutions

In the face of a rapidly changing business world, it is no wonder that employees feel traditional career paths no longer fulfill business requirements. Where career pathing and promotions were once clear and linear, future managers and leaders of tomorrow must be able to successfully manage both their own and their teams’ non-linear career paths in an ever-evolving environment.??

At 强生公司 , we believe in long and healthy careers, where our people can have agile career paths that personally and professionally fulfill them. We have always prided ourselves on our commitment to learning and development, and we are now harnessing digital tools to support our people in taking on new challenges – whether that’s improving in their current career or finding a new role within J&J.??

Here are three ways we empower our colleagues to invest in and grow a meaningful career:??

Making skills-building a personalized experience?

Extensive research conducted by Korn Ferry spotlights the importance of upskilling in the workplace to navigate today’s dynamic business environment. To upskill our global workforce, we developed a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered learning and development platform, J&J Learn. Structured much like the way Netflix matches viewers with movies and TV programs, J&J Learn transforms the way Johnson & Johnson employees can now find and gain new competencies. Colleagues receive personalized recommendations, providing them with the right content at the right time so they can take advantage of new learning opportunities to help them better manage their individual J&J career path.??

Each of our 130,000 employees plays a key role in the success of J&J. The uptake we’ve seen with the J&J Learn ecosystem, with 74% of J&J people leaders having visited J&J Learn since its launch in July 2022, is a thrilling start to our new way of flexible skills-building.?

Developing digital competencies across the organization??

Technology is transforming the life sciences industry rapidly, and the HR function has a significant role to play in helping employees adapt to this opportunity.?

We saw this as a challenge we could not afford to ignore. Today, Johnson & Johnson is not just a healthcare company, but a healthcare and technology company that believes emerging technology holds tremendous potential to advance human health on a global scale. As AI and its iterations like generative AI are transforming the way we do business, the skill sets needed to excel in healthcare are also rapidly evolving. To make digital competency a core skill at J&J, we continually invest in efforts to help our employees expand their understanding – from digital upskilling courses to developing our own Generative AI Intelligent Chat tool that empowers our employees to experiment responsibly with the power of generative AI in a protected environment.?

Empowering ownable career journeys??

Gartner’s recent research shows that outdated career paths throughout companies create confusion, with less than one in three employees understanding how to progress their career in the next five years. We realize it’s in our hands to help our people worldwide find and explore the great career opportunities within our vast company – and what better way to do that than provide a compass. This year we launched our new Career Journeys tool, available through J&J Learn. This platform enables each employee to explore potential next moves – be it a promotion in the same field or a new job in a different field. The platform also helps identify skill gaps they’ll need to bridge to get there and provides guidance to help them grow in their current position, chart a path to the role of their dreams and supercharge career development conversations with their managers.?

There has never been a more exciting time to apply AI to traditional HR processes and challenges to power advancement for our people and our company. As we continue to build momentum in 2024, I’m excited by the possibility of what’s to come as we continue to leverage digital capabilities to build and empower our people with personalized solutions.?