Build an Agile Workforce
with Job Evaluation and Talent Insights
Navigating the talent landscape is more nuanced than ever before. The ability to understand, measure and align work with talent has never been more challenging—or more critical.
To make sense of it all, an effective talent strategy must identify the talent you have, the talent you need, and the gaps that exist.
Korn Ferry Architect® provides a single, intelligent view of your job design and job evaluation to help maximize your talent investment. Gain an understanding of your job architecture to inform critical decisions and answer questions around career growth and mobility, fairness and equity in compensation, and performance expectations and assessments.
How We Help You
Korn Ferry Architect helps organizations design a scalable, data-driven job architecture that connects roles, levels, and skills to business strategy. Built on Korn Ferry’s Hay Methodology and powered by research-backed Success Profiles, Architect brings structure and objectivity to how work is defined, valued, and developed, enabling consistent job evaluation, career frameworks, and actionable role insights across the enterprise.
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Success Profiles
Unlock access to Korn Ferry's best-in-class Success Profiles, covering tens of thousands of job titles across industries and levels. Each profile provides a comprehensive, configurable definition of what “great” looks like in a role, connecting job size to specific responsibilities, skills, and human capabilities.
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Job and Career Ladder Design
Build clear, connected career frameworks that define lateral and vertical progression with dynamic visual tools and dashboards. Determine how skills and competencies narrow or expand across levels, helping guide career mobility, development, and advancement.
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Embedded Job Evaluation
Built-in Korn Ferry Hay Job Evaluation methodology standardizes job evaluation across your organization. Assess accountability, problem-solving, and know-how to determine role size and impact, ensuring internal equity and confidence in pay decisions.
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Role Insights
Role Insights bring four powerful data lenses to every role: AI Impact, Remote-ability, Internal Networking, and External Networking. Uncover where automation, hybrid work, and collaboration create the most value, enabling data-driven decisions when it comes to employee experiences, talent development, and workforce planning.
Your Talent Strategy. Connected.
Discover how our connected digital solutions help you manage talent strategies at scale—from hiring to development to retention.
Unleashing Potential with
Korn Ferry Architect
Korn Ferry Architect helps you visualize the organization you want to build. It offers a competency framework for identifying the right talent for the right roles, benchmarked against a library of thousands of best-in-class skills, competencies, and behaviors.
Connectivity
Connect to the HCM systems you use every day and define a common talent language for role expectations and performance.
Efficiency
Design a job once for multiple purposes, including reward, talent acquisition, career pathing and development, and employee reviews.
Scalability
Create job descriptions, evaluations, interview guides and assessments 5x faster.
Content Library
Leverage a library of thousands of competencies, skills, and behavioral traits from across industries to create a data-driven job architecture.
Job Evaluation Training
Half the world's largest organizations use the Korn Ferry Hay Method℠ of job evaluation, bringing together the right people, jobs, and structures to execute their strategies.
