Grow Your People, Grow Your Business.
Recruiting early talent is only the beginning. The real value lies in how you support that talent to grow, develop, and thrive within your organisation. At Bailey Brooks Consulting, we help you build clear, structured career pathways that inspire your people and align with your business’s future.
Our tailored approach helps you retain early careers talent by showing them what’s next—whether that’s a technical specialism, a leadership role, or a cross-functional opportunity. We support you in creating frameworks that turn entry-level hires into future managers, experts, and innovators.
Why Career Pathways Matter
In a competitive talent market, early careers employees want more than just a job—they want direction, development, and opportunities to advance. Organisations that fail to provide clear career progression risk losing talent to more forward-thinking competitors.
Career pathways provide structure and visibility for employees, while giving organisations the tools to plan ahead, manage succession, and build a resilient, future-ready workforce. When pathways are well designed, they:
- Improve employee retention and engagement
- Support performance and professional development
- Enable internal mobility and reduce recruitment costs
- Strengthen leadership and technical pipelines
- Demonstrate a commitment to equity and growth
We work with you to make these pathways a reality—clear, accessible, and aligned to both individual and organisational goals.
We Offer
Pathway Mapping from Entry-Level to Leadership
We help you design progression routes across different departments and job families, ensuring your early careers hires can envision a future with your organisation. Whether you’re growing apprentices into team leaders or guiding graduates into senior specialists, our mapping process identifies logical, achievable steps between roles.
We align each pathway to your existing structures while introducing new ideas to improve clarity, accessibility, and retention.
Progression Frameworks Linked to Skills and Competencies
A career pathway is only effective if employees know what’s expected of them. We help you create or refine progression frameworks that are underpinned by skills, behaviours, and performance indicators. This helps early talent understand how to grow, what support they’ll need, and what success looks like at each level.
Our frameworks are practical, inclusive, and aligned to real business needs—making development measurable and meaningful.
Role Architecture and Levelling Support
Many organisations struggle with inconsistent job roles and unclear progression structures. We support you in reviewing and redesigning your role architecture, creating a clear hierarchy and standardised job families that support fair pay, promotion, and development.
By introducing levels, bands, and clear role definitions, we bring order and clarity to your talent infrastructure—helping both employees and managers understand the opportunities ahead.
Career Conversations and Manager Toolkits
Managers are often the key to whether career development succeeds or stalls. We provide practical resources and training to help managers lead effective career conversations, identify potential, and support meaningful development.
Our toolkits include templates, conversation guides, and resources that make it easier for managers to talk confidently about growth, goals, and progression—particularly for early talent who may need more guidance and encouragement.
Integration with L&D and Succession Planning
We don’t see career pathways in isolation—they work best when fully integrated with your learning and development strategy, workforce planning, and succession frameworks. We support you in aligning your internal training offer with progression routes, so employees gain the skills they need when they need them.
We also help you identify high-potential talent early and plan for leadership transitions, building a robust internal pipeline that reduces reliance on external recruitment.
The Outcome: Grow from Within
With our support, you’ll build a culture where early careers employees see a future—and stay to build it. The result is higher retention, motivated teams, and leadership pipelines that come from within your own workforce, creating sustainable succession planning.
Our clients report increased employee satisfaction, improved performance, and greater organisational agility. Career pathways help turn short-term hires into long-term assets—supporting sustainable growth and innovation.
Let’s Build Your Talent from the Inside Out
If you’re ready to invest in career progression that delivers results,
we can help you build the frameworks, tools, and culture to make it happen.
Get in touch to explore how we can grow your people—and your business—together.