Journey
The Journey page in Wazo provides a visual representation of an employee’s professional timeline within the organization. It captures key transitions such as department changes, role advancements, grade elevations, and tenure across different positions, offering a comprehensive view of career progression. This timeline makes it easy for employees, managers, and peers to understand how someone’s career has evolved, supporting transparency while celebrating development.
Overview
The Journey page in Wazo provides a visual representation of an employee’s professional timeline within the organization. It captures key transitions such as department changes, role advancements, grade elevations, and tenure across different positions, offering a comprehensive view of career progression. This timeline makes it easy for employees, managers, and peers to understand how someone’s career has evolved, supporting transparency while celebrating development.
User Guide
- Go to an employee’s profile and click on the 'Journey' tab in the navigation bar.
- View top profile details: name, role, join date, tenure, location, and bio.
- Scroll the Journey Timeline to explore each career milestone with department, designation, grade, location, and start/end dates.
- Use the color-coded tags to quickly distinguish roles, departments, and grades.
- Apply during 1:1s, performance reviews, or planning sessions for meaningful career context.
How it Helps
Showcases each employee’s professional development within the organization, highlighting promotions, transfers, and milestones.
Acknowledges individual achievements while inspiring peers by visualizing career growth paths.
Provides managers and HR with quick reference context for performance reviews, career planning, and talent development.
Reinforces recognition, pride, and belonging by giving visibility to internal accomplishments.
Acts as a living résumé — telling a meaningful story of each employee’s evolution and impact.
Use Case
Preparing for a Performance Review
Before a performance discussion, a manager opens an employee’s Journey. She sees the employee progressed from a junior engineering role to a leadership track within 15 months and recently took on a regional project. This visual helps tailor the conversation by acknowledging progress, highlighting achievements, and identifying the next step in the employee’s career path.
Impact
For Employees
Journey reinforces employee progress and value, serving as a source of pride, motivation, and recognition of milestones that may otherwise go unnoticed.
For the Organization
Encourages internal mobility, supports succession planning, and helps leadership make data-informed talent decisions. Greater visibility into career progression builds trust and boosts retention.
Panels
Profile Summary
Displays key employee details including name, role, join date, tenure, location, and bio for context.
How to use:
- Review at the top of the page before diving into the career timeline.
Journey Timeline
A vertical scrollable timeline of career progression, showing roles, designations, grades, locations, and tenures.
How to use:
- Scroll through to understand career growth and pace of development.
- Use tags to distinguish roles, departments, and grade levels quickly.
Color-Coded Milestones
Career entries are color-coded with labels for designation, department, and grade.
How to use:
- Check visual tags to differentiate milestones at a glance.
Best Practices
Check your own Journey periodically — useful for resume updates and check-ins.
If something looks incorrect, notify HR or your manager to correct it.
Encourage team members to view each other’s journeys to build empathy and inspiration.
Why is it useful
Tells the story of an employee’s growth and impact, not just static records.
Helps employees reflect on achievements and prepare for reviews or resumes.
Gives managers quick context for feedback, planning, and recognition.
Provides HR visibility into career patterns and potential future leaders.
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