Designed as a general guide to assist in your personal career planning, this site will show you how your current position relates to other market titles in the Career Family Classification System. The site allows you to review and compare positions and even career changes. Additionally, you'll be able to see what actual market title moves have been made by other staff members.
Classification System
The Career Path Navigator references common qualifications from the labor market for a position. Please refer to the U-M job posting for a specific position for the required qualifications.
The Career Family Classification System (CFCS) is a market referenced system consisting of elements that links current University positions to relevant market data. The CFCS elements include Career Family, Career Band, Job Role, and Market Title. These elements provide an environment in which related jobs are viewed in common career groupings.
Career Family
A foundational basis for the Classification framework is the concept of Career Family, a broad meaningful grouping of jobs commonly clustered within a career emphasis. Content of defined work within a job is the key criteria in determining the family into which a job falls. This element mirrors how jobs are often marketed on recruitment or job posting web sites, and is a common way that people define their overall career area or discipline. Additional career families can be added to as disciplines or the needs of the units of the University change over time. The CFCS currently contains several career families that represent the broad groupings of jobs found at the University of Michigan.
Career Band
Career Families are further differentiated by Career Bands which are sub-sets of more specialized jobs within each Career Family. Currently there are 80 Career Bands in the CFCS. Career Bands represent titles commonly marketed on recruitment or job posting web sites. More importantly, Career Bands help an individual define meaningful career paths by showing related specialty areas in the same Career Family so an employee can evaluate the difference between related jobs and the key skills required for each.
Job Role
Every position falls into one of three job roles that reflect the level of general organizational impact: professional, managerial or executive.
Professional
Professional job role categorizes U-M market job titles spanning the provision of operational support and services requiring training gained through on-the-job experience, vocational training, or job-related college courses such as those found in an Associate’s Degree to professional services by applying individual expertise requiring an understanding and ability to apply theoretical and/or scientific principles in carrying out projects and completing work.
Work can be of a specialist nature, applying deep knowledge of the principles, concepts and methods of a professional or technical field a generalist who applies broader knowledge of the principles and concepts of a number of related professional fields.
Managerial
Managerial job role categorizes U-M market Job Titles responsible for providing leadership and professional expertise or services through leveraging the knowledge and skills of others.
Job scope can range from oversight for daily operations of a small unit to recommending the strategic direction and providing leadership in the operations of a large department to contributing to the overall strategy, direction and vision for several functional areas.
Responsibilities include demonstrating measurable impacts on operational effectiveness, attainment of school, college, department, research, health system and/or business unit goals and objectives, and activities related to hiring, promotion, salary changes, performance coaching, training, application of policies, policies, disciplinary actions, etc.
Executive
Executive job role categorizes U-M market job titles responsible for conferring with senior and executive officers in the identification of strategic goals; leading the development of an organization’s long-term needs, strategy and direction; steering an organization with strategic visioning and definition; leveraging the knowledge and skills of leadership; determining and assigning responsibilities for attaining objectives; evaluating leadership performance and contributions; planning, developing, and establishing policies; reviewing activity reports and financial statements to determine progress and status in attaining objectives and revising in accordance with current conditions.
Market (Classification) Title
The Market (Classification) Title is derived from a comparison of job duties to the duties of related jobs in the external market found in salary surveys. By titling the University's classifications in parallel with similar jobs in the market we can make direct comparisons to related jobs and compensation levels as well as communicate with external job applicants using the job titles most familiar and meaningful to them. When a particular job at the University has no similar job in the market, a custom description and title is developed.
Working Title
The Working Title is an optional customized title that provides greater understanding of the responsibilities and scope of the job than does the market title. Working titles are set by the school, college, business unit or department.