Talent Development Core release notes
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Summary of Talent Development Core release notes
The Talent Development Core application provides ServiceNow customers with a comprehensive, integrated solution to support employee career growth and development. Embedded in Employee Center, it offers a unified platform where employees and managers can collaboratively create, track, and manage personalized growth plans aligned with career aspirations. The application leverages skills intelligence to identify development gaps and recommends targeted actions to enhance skills and career progression.
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Key Features
- Growth Plans: Enables employees to input goals and interests and generate personalized development plans. Supports activity resequencing, mentoring enrollment, and flexible scheduling with Outlook integration.
- Career Hub: Provides a personalized overview of career growth activities, including tracking progress and viewing internal job opportunities through an Opportunity Marketplace.
- Aspirations: Allows employees to capture and manage career aspirations, with company-promoted featured aspirations to guide development focus.
- Security and Usability Improvements: Continuous enhancements to security, accessibility, and user experience, including granular admin controls and secure data handling.
- Performance and Theming Updates: Ongoing refinements to performance and interface theming ensure a smooth and engaging user experience.
- Demo Data and Admin Controls: Includes demo data for easier evaluation, plus administrative tools for managing application properties and activity templates.
Key Outcomes
- Employees gain a clear, actionable roadmap for career development accessible directly within ServiceNow’s Employee Center.
- Managers and HR teams can better support workforce growth through structured plans and skill validation insights.
- Organizations benefit from improved career mobility visibility via the Opportunity Marketplace and promoted aspirations.
- Enhanced security and usability features help maintain compliance and provide an inclusive experience for all users.
- Regular updates ensure the application remains aligned with evolving enterprise needs without disrupting core functionality.
Version history for the Talent Development Core on the ServiceNow Store.
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Version history
- Version 5.5.0 - June 2026
- Minor release. Green light code changes but no major functionality
- Version 5.4.1 - March 2026
- Changed: Enhanced GlideRecordSecure security.
- Fixed: Few bugs.
- Version 5.3.0 - December 2025
- Changed: Granular admin directive changes.
- Version 5.2.1 - August 2025
- Minor licensing changes.
- Version 5.1.4 - June 2025
- Minor bug fixes.
- Version 5.1.3 - May 2025
- Minor performance updates
- Theming changes
- Version 5.0.3 - February 2025
- New Feature: Growth Plan Generation - This feature allows employees to input their goals and interests in text form and then generate a personalized growth plan for them to get started on their growth journey.
- Version 4.3.2 - November 2024
- New:
- Growth Plan Activity Insights for Skill Validation
- Aspirations Activity Insights for Skill Validation
- Updated:
- Security improvements for aspirations
- Security improvements for growth plans
- Demo Data for aspirations and growth plans
- Fixed:
- UI issues in Skill approvals flyout
- UI issues in edit link for aspirations
- RCA issues with Career Hub, Aspirations
- Tabbing issue in Growth Plans
- New:
- Version 4.2.2 - August 2024
- Fixed: Various accessibility and usability defects.
- Version 4.1.9 - July 2024
- Application renamed from EGD Core to Talent Development Core.
- Version 4.1.7 - May 2024
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- New:
- Growth plans
- Employee goals can be used to create a growth plan
- Growth plans
- Fixed:
- Aspirations, Career Hub, and Growth plans
- Various accessibility and internationalization issues
- Various issues to improve user experience
- Aspirations, Career Hub, and Growth plans
- New:
- Version 4.0.4 - February 2024
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- New Growth Plans: Support for Mentoring Employees can enroll in mentoring and find mentors as a part of their growth plans
- Growth Plans: Support for Enhanced Conversations
- If Outlook Integration is supported in Conversations, employees can leverage that capability when scheduling within growth plans
- Career Hub: Support for Opportunity Marketplace Employees can view top-matching internal job opportunities and their recent job application status
- Aspirations: Featured Aspirations by Company Employees can view up to 9 role or skill aspirations promoted by their organization from a new widget
- Featured by your company:
- Changed Growth Plans: To support enhanced Conversation scheduling, date is no longer a required field when creating a growth plan; it can be added later.
- Career Hub: Enabled auto-updating completed steps and retrieving skipped steps in Get started widget
- Version 3.0.5 - January 2024
- Fixed: Misconfiguration of ACLs for EGD Core.
- Version 3.0.4 - November 2023
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- New:
- Growth Plans:
- Users can now resequence activities in their growth plans
- Admins can configure whether and how to automatically start activities
- Various usability and accessibility improvements
- Growth Plans:
- Fixed:
- Aspirations:
- Users can now add links to Aspiration descriptions using the HTML editor button
- Only a single confirmation is now displayed after completing an aspiration
- Various accessibility fixes
- Career Hub:
- Skills are now displayed without reloading after uploading a resume and importing skills to your profile
- Various accessibility and visual experience fixes
- Growth Plans:
- Users can now open Growth Plans in a new tab from the Growth Plan home page
- Auto-completed learning tasks are displayed as complete in the Growth Plan activity flyout
- Demo data fixes
- EGD Admins can now access the EGD Core properties page
- Activity templates can be deleted
- Various responsive, accessibility, and visual experience fixes
- Aspirations:
- Removed:
- Growth Plans:
- The following activity categories are no longer available for Growth Plan templates
- Validation
- Development
- Other
- The following activity categories are no longer available for Growth Plan templates
- Growth Plans:
- New:
- Version 2.0.0 - September 2023
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- The ServiceNow Employee Growth and Development core application supports an end-to-end process for employees and managers to identify, track, and take control of their career growth and development journey. Embedded within Employee Center, employees have a centralized and unified place to design their personalized roadmap for career growth in an intuitive and comprehensive application.
- Key highlights:
- Helps capture an employee's aspirations and turn them into actionable growth plans.
- Aids in creation, update and tracking of career growth and development plans.
- A personalized overview for an employee that captures key information of all their activities under career growth and development in the form of Career Hub.
- Built on skills intelligence engine to identify areas to help identify gaps and provide recommendations to advance and grow careers.
- Provide proactive prompts to keep growth and development at the forefront of employees thoughts.
- Version 1.0.6 - August 2023
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- New: Initial release of Employee Growth & Development functionality.
- Changed: A new navigation link to Your career will be added to the Mega Menu in Employee Center.