---
title: Create a growth conversation in Career Conversations
description: Use the Career Conversations app to create a one-time or recurring conversation with an employee. Discuss the employee's growth and development as a professional within your organization.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/employee-service-management/career-conversations/egd-create-growth-conversation.html
release: australia
product: Career Conversations
classification: career-conversations
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
reading_time_minutes: 2
breadcrumb: [Using the Career Conversations application, Career Conversations, Growth Experiences, HR Service Delivery, Employee Service Management]
---

# Create a growth conversation in Career Conversations

Use the Career Conversations app to create a one-time or recurring conversation with an employee. Discuss the employee's growth and development as a professional within your organization.

## Before you begin

You must install the Career Conversations application to access it from the Employee Center.

You must provide your employees with a license to enable access to the Career Conversations app. For more information about employee licensing, refer to [License Talent Development Core users](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/talent-development-core/egd-employee-profile-licensing.md).

Role required: employee \[sn\_egd\_act.employee\] or manager \[sn\_egd\_act.manager\]

## About this task

The functionality described in this task is applicable to organizations using the Career Conversations application without the Microsoft® Outlook® integration.

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **Self-Service** > **Employee Center**.

2.  Use the navigation path that corresponds to your role within your organization to access the Career Conversations app.

    |Role|Path|
    |----|----|
    |**Employee**|**Your career** > **Conversations**|
    |**Manager**|**Your team** > **Conversations**|

3.  Select the **Create a conversation** button.

    The Create a conversation panel appears.

4.  In the panel, set the following fields.

<table id="table_ldg_2nb_vxb"><thead><tr><th>

Field

</th><th>

Description

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Have this conversation with

</td><td>

The employee or manager with whom you want to converse. For employees, this field is automatically set to the name of the manager to whom they report. Alternately, managers can choose a specific employee that reports to them.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Conversation title

</td><td>

Name of the conversation. Depending on your role within your organization, this field is automatically set to one of the following options: -   **Conversation with &lt;employee first name&gt;**
-   **Conversation with &lt;manager first name&gt;**
You can change the value.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Date

</td><td>

Date of the conversation. The format is &lt;YYYY-MM-DD&gt;

</td></tr><tr><td>

Reoccurs

</td><td>

The frequency at which the conversation occurs.

</td></tr><tr><td>

End series on

</td><td>

Date on which the growth conversation series should end.

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>5.  Select **Create conversation**.


## Result

A notification is sent via email to the employee or manager with whom you created a conversation.

## What to do next

Update the agenda for your upcoming conversation by using an option that corresponds to your role within your organization:

-   **Employees**

    Use the Your conversations widget to access the conversation you created.

-   **Managers**
    -   Use the Your team's conversations widget to access the conversation you created.
    -   Use the Coming up soon widget to access the conversation that you created if it transpires within one week of the system date.

**Parent Topic:**[Using the Career Conversations application](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/career-conversations/egd-activities-use.md)