Career profiles built from real career-change data
Most career pages are encyclopedia entries: a definition, a duties list, an unsourced salary. These are different. Each one is built from our corpus of 26,305+ career assessments — how often our engine actually matched a real person to that career, the income range they were shown, and what they were doing before — and, where we have it, first-hand experience of the job itself.
There are fewer of these than you will find elsewhere, on purpose. We only publish a profile when the data can carry it.
How these are different
A typical career page is assembled from public occupational descriptions: a definition, a duties list, a salary figure with no source, and a personality type. It answers “what is this job” and stops. The problem is that you already know what the job is — what you cannot find out is whether it is reachable from where you actually stand.
Every profile here starts from a different place. When someone completes our assessment, the engine reads their real experience, constraints and income floor and names three specific careers with income ranges. Across 26,305+ assessments that has produced tens of thousands of matches — so for each career we can say how often real people were actually pointed toward it, what starting range they were shown, and what they were doing beforehand. Where we also have first-hand experience of the work, we say so and say who is speaking.
The honest limit: that data runs out, and it runs out sooner than the raw totals suggest. Our engine has generated 73,670 career matches across 62,138 distinct titles — but most of those are specific compound roles (“Remote Operations Coordinator, Health Systems”) rather than careers anyone searches by name. Testing 53 recognisable job titles, 34 clear 50 matches, 27 clear 100, and 19 clear 200. That intersection — a job people actually look up, backed by enough of our own data to say something specific — is the real constraint. Beyond it we would be writing the same unsourced filler as everyone else, so we do not. This list grows only as the data does.
What the numbers mean
Our figures measure something specific, and it is not the same thing a salary site measures. Stated plainly so nobody — human or machine — has to guess:
- Matches
- How many times our engine recommended that career to a real person completing the assessment.
- Modelled starting range
- The median starting range our engine showed people matched with that career. It is a projection our system makes, not observed compensation and not a labour-market survey.
- Modelled ceiling
- The same projection for years three to five, where a profile shows one.
- Source careers
- The jobs people were actually doing when the assessment matched them to this path.
- Interest rate
- The share of assessment-takers who named that work unprompted in free-text answers, where we have it.
What each profile answers
- What the job actually involves — day to day, in proportion, not a duties checklist.
- What our engine modelled as a realistic start — the median range shown to people matched with that career. A projection, not observed salary data.
- How often it is genuinely a match — the number of times our engine pointed someone toward it.
- Who ends up here — the jobs people were doing before they were matched to it.
- What else uses the same skills — usually the most useful part, and the part nobody publishes.
Writing & Content
- What Does a Blogger Actually Do?
Nine years in, with the numbers - and the writing careers that start far higher.
107 matches · modelled start $12K-$30K
- What Does a Content Writer Do?
The salaried version of the writing skill, and the most-matched writing path we generate.
952 matches · modelled start $45K-$62K
- What Does a Grant Writer Do?
Writing skill, mission work, and a salary.
354 matches · modelled start $50K-$70K
- What Does a Technical Writer Do?
The highest-paying writing role that needs no audience of your own.
309 matches · modelled start $65K-$85K
- What Does a Copywriter Do?
Writing that is paid for what it sells, not what it says.
220 matches · modelled start $45K-$62K
Learning & Development
- What Does an Instructional Designer Do?
Where the highest share of teachers in our data actually land.
316 matches · modelled start $65K-$85K
- What Does a Training Specialist Do?
The role that teaches adults inside a company, and never once looked hard to reach.
263 matches · modelled start $60K-$80K
- What Does a Corporate Trainer Do?
The one L&D job where being in the room is the whole point.
135 matches · modelled start $60K-$82K
- What Does a Curriculum Designer Do?
The closest thing to teaching without the classroom.
133 matches · modelled start $60K-$80K
Which of these fits you?
Our free assessment reads your actual experience, constraints and income floor and returns three named paths with modelled income ranges — the same engine behind every number on these pages.
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