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COMPEL Glossary / career-lattice

Career lattice

A career architecture that allows lateral movement alongside vertical progression — so employees can grow by expanding scope, changing domain, or deepening expertise rather than only by promotion.

What this means in practice

Better-suited than the classical career ladder to AI-era work where roles evolve faster than hierarchies.

Synonyms

career lattice architecture , lateral-plus-vertical career path

See also

  • Internal talent marketplace — Infrastructure — typically a platform — for moving employees across roles as work evolves.
  • Skills adjacency map — A structured visualisation of which current skills are adjacent to future-demand skills — enabling targeted reskilling rather than blanket retraining.
  • AI talent pipeline — A six-stage system — source, hire, onboard, develop, retain, transition — for AI-fluent talent across the enterprise.

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