The slides that were used for a presentation held for the Directorate for Higher Education and Skills in Norway on 10 November 2022. The presentation presented the Norwegian Career Assessment Matrix (NOR-CAM), a flexible and holistic framework for recognition and rewards in academic research assessment. The ambition has been to develop a guide that adopts three core principles for assessment: more transparency, greater breadth, and comprehensive assessments as opposed to the one-sided use of indicators.