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 24,450+ 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 24,450+ 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. Roughly 55 careers in our corpus have enough matches to support a page properly, stretching to about 160 if we accept thinner evidence. Beyond that 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.

Full methodology and the dataset behind 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

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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