The Career Study is the fundamental practice of CareerMap, and the source of our deep insights into career success.
Through the gathering and analyzing of hundreds (and even thousands) of career profiles from working professionals within a specific industry, CareerMap can determine the key factors that organizations will want to know about its members, such as:
What are the best jobs for career advancement within an industry?
What are the typical career paths to leadership positions in your industry?
What are the pre-requisites to be qualified for leadership roles in different industries?
What are the most prevalent personas within your industry that can really help you understand your members’ motivations?
What professional development programs contribute to the greatest advancement of your members?
What are the personal factors in people’s lives that most often impact career decisions?
New Insights Via Innovative Research
Our approach to studying careers is unique. We want to know what people have done in their working lives, and the motivations for pursuing their specific paths. We have found that professional interests are quite inseparable from personal needs, and therefore we intentionally look at them as a combined set of factors that ultimately drive career decisions. We ask questions that would be considered out-of-bounds in a typical employee survey – some describe it more like a job exit interview. This makes our database an incredibly rich and powerful resource from which we can understand career pathing in great depth.
Are you interested in exploring a Career Study for your industry or organization?
The purpose of the Career Study is to provide objective facts and deep insights into career advancement, so that career-seekers can make informed decisions. Every Career Study we conduct identifies specific opportunities for the sponsoring company/organization to pursue, including:
Converting a new understanding of what motivates employees into their recruitment, retention, and talent management practices
Creating a more engaged relationship with current employees that promotes a healthier, more productive work culture
Creating greater transparency for high-potential employees into the career advancement process
Requirements For Commissioning a CareerStudy
It’s easy to develop and implement a CareerStudy for your organization. Follow these simple steps, and CareerMap does all the rest!
1. Assign a project sponsor who can work with CareerMap to identify all important learning objectives
2. Provide CareerMap with a current email list of your members
3. Announce the CareerStudy to your members (via your website, email and other regular communications), encouraging them to participate