Best Companies for Career Growth 2026
This is the 9th annual list of Best Companies for Career Growth, according to ratings from employees who anonymously rated their professional development opportunities over the past year.
Best Companies for Career Growth 2025
This is the 8th annual list of Best Companies for Career Growth, according to anonymous ratings from employees on Comparably.com over the past year. This distinction is segmented into two ranked lists: Top 75 Large companies (more than 500 employees) and Top 25 Small/Mid-Size companies (500 employees or fewer). … Read full-story
Best Companies for Career Growth 2024
According to Millions of Employee Ratings On the heels of the recently-released May 2024 U.S. Bureau of Labor Stats report (272,000 non-farm jobs added, despite the slight rise in unemployment to 4%), Comparably (now a ZoomInfo company) unveiled its 7th annual list of Best Companies for Career Growth. Based solely on anonymous feedback and ratings … Read full-story
Ratings Deadline: Best Companies for Career Growth & Best Leadership Teams
Working for inspiring and empowering leaders who consistently give meaningful feedback on how you can improve in your job is important. Equally important is working for a company that can provide the tools and professional development opportunities to excel in your career. If you believe you work for this kind of company and these kinds … Read full-story
Survey: More Men Than Women Feel Challenged At Work
Feeling challenged at work can mean different things to different people. It implies that the job you have is hard, and that sometimes you need to be performing right up against the limits of your current capabilities. But it also implies that company or department leadership feels that the challenge is one you can meet, … Read full-story
The Complete List of Winners for Comparably’s 2019 Leadership Awards
Here are all the winners of Comparably’s 2019 Leadership awards. These lists showcase the leaders who are helping to drive positive culture change across companies large and small. … Read full-story
Best Companies for Professional Development 2019
Comparably’s annual Best Companies for Professional Development 2019 represents the highest ranked companies for professional development from employees who anonymously rated their professional advancement and career growth opportunites. The award winners are segmented into two ranked lists: Top 25 large companies (more than 500 employees) and Top 25 small/mid-size companies (less than 500 employees). See below … Read full-story
What We Mean When We Talk About Our “Dream Job”
It’s a phrase we use a lot in our lives and in our professional career. Maybe we use it most honestly when we’re a few libations to the wind on a Saturday night, our toes hitting the beach. Maybe that’s when we feel best about saying, “What I’d REALLY love to do with my life … Read full-story
How to Combat Imposter Syndrome
Originally, psychologists Suzanne Imes and Rose Clance coined the term “imposter syndrome” to describe women with successful careers who chalked up their success to luck and concurrently discounted all their abiliites and achievements. But it wasn’t long before it was accepted that men suffered imposter syndrome just as often. The main fear those with this … Read full-story
6 “Big Picture” Career Mistakes You Want to Avoid
Most careers, like most lives, do not proceed in a linear fashion. We imagine a progression of school to job to promotion to finally being the big boss of them all, but very few of our stories eventually read that way. Instead, it’s all fits and false starts, back to square one, life lessons, and … Read full-story
Survey: 59% of Employees Feel Their Company is Innovative
With so many companies and so much competition, the American marketplace demands innovation and new ideas both in terms of public products as well as company culture practices. Nobody wants to work for a company that’s still acting like It’s 1956 or 1985 outside its doors, or that has a bad record for losing employees … Read full-story
Survey: Who Feels More Challenged at Work — Entry-Level or Experienced?
As an employer, it’s important that you not only keep your team productive, but that you keep them challenged. After all, one of the reasons people leave their jobs is because they’ve stopped learning. And if they’ve stopped learning at your company they’re going to try and learn somewhere else. Right now, 71% of people feel challenged … Read full-story
Why Employee Retention is So Important
Why Employee Retention Is So Important Employee retention is increasingly important in a world more focused on company culture than ever. Gone are the days when a company could burn blithely through a crop of employees, confident that there was always someone hungrier out there waiting to replace anyone that was cut loose. The hunger … Read full-story
Survey: The Most Beneficial Soft Skill for Your Career is Persistence
What soft skill has been most instrumental in helping your career? For 1 in 3 people, the answer is persistence. Indeed, 33% of respondents in an ongoing query by Comparably chose persistence more than any other soft skill. The other options were humility, likability, empathy and logic. Men vs. women From a gender perspective, both … Read full-story
Survey: 40% of Women Say Their Gender Has Been a Career Barrier
Forty percent of women said they feel their gender has held them back in their careers, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comparably. More than 10,000 people responded to the query. **Note: Figures below show who responded “No” to the question, “Do you feel that you’ve been held back in your career because of your … Read full-story
Resignation Letters: Do’s and Don’ts
Leaving a job, no matter what the circumstances, is a delicate process. You not only have to break the news to your manager and coworker and take care of setting up a handover process, but you have to make sure things are neatly tied up with the HR department of your company. Part of that … Read full-story
How to Figure Out Whether It’s Time to Quit Your Job
There are any number of reasons why you might consider leaving your job. Maybe your beloved boss left; maybe your coworkers aren’t being nice; maybe you were overlooked for that awesome promotion. Whatever the case, it’s normal to evaluate why you’re not happy at your job and whether it’s time to leave. Job hopping is … Read full-story
Looking for a New Job? Here’s the Right Way to Network
Whether you’re unhappy with your job or just in need of a new challenge, networking is a crucial way of getting to your next opportunity. Here are some tips for the right way to network. And as you get serious about finding a new job, don’t forget to use sites like Comparably to figure out how … Read full-story
How to Apologize at Work
Most of us want to come into a work environment that’s peaceful, fun and inspiring. But not everyday is perfect, and sometimes we find ourselves making embarrassing mistakes, butting heads with colleagues or struggling to handle a trying situation with grace. If you’ve ever found yourself in this place, you know how terrible it can feel … Read full-story
How to Improve Your Happiness at Work
Being happy at work isn’t a given. For too many people, getting up and facing the workday comes with a lot of anxiety and trepidation, and a feeling of just wanting to crawl back into bed. There are almost infinite reasons for that, though some of the common ones include being unhappy with the day-to-day … Read full-story
Survey: Just 5% of People Say They Are Using Their Full Potential at Work
Most people feel they still have a ways to go before they’re operating at their full potential at work. Just 5% of people say they are using 100% or more of their potential, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comparably. The most popular response among those polled was “50% to 75%,” followed … Read full-story
5 Ways to Increase Your Chances of a Promotion
Maybe you’ve bounced around a bit or maybe you’ve been at your company for awhile: either way, you know you want to move up from your current job role into a higher one. While there’s no magic bullet formula for making a promotion happen, there are some things that can be done to improve your … Read full-story
Study: It’s Not Just Women — 42% of Men Say Having Children Holds People Back in Their Careers
Having children can be one of life’s greatest joys, though it often comes at a cost. Indeed, 43% of people say they believe that having kids holds people back in their careers, according to the latest reading of an ongoing survey by Comparably More than 5,000 people, predominantly across the tech industry, participated in the study. Women are only slightly … Read full-story
Survey: 1 Out of 3 People Say They Aren’t Challenged at Work
As an employer, it’s important that you not only keep your team productive, but that you keep them challenged. After all, one of the reasons people leave their jobs is because they’ve stopped learning. And if they’ve stopped learning at your company they’re going to try and learn somewhere else. Right now, 68% of people feel … Read full-story
Am I Underpaid? How to Find Out and Fix It
Compensation is a delicate topic, but one that matters greatly when talking about job satisfaction. Indeed, when respondents in a recent survey by Comparably were asked what would lead them to quit their job tomorrow, 38% of people said they would quit due to feeling underpaid or unappreciated. It’s normal to question whether the time and … Read full-story
How to Prepare for Your Annual Review
Annual reviews have a way of sneaking up, but there’s no excuse for failing to prepare for them. In the days and weeks (and months, if you’re super organized!) ahead of your review, you should start figuring out what you want to come out of it. Do you want a raise? A promotion? Do you … Read full-story
Relocating for Work? How to Meet People in a New City
For all of the fun and excitement of working out of a new city or state, there are some very real stresses. Not only do you have to pack, arrange for movers, find a new place, and fill out endless amounts of paperwork related to the move — you have to adapt to a new … Read full-story
What to Include on Your Resume
Writing a resume requires discipline. After all, one page isn’t very much when it comes to recapping your career. If you’re looking for a new job, it’s important to remember that a resume should act more like a highlight reel than a deep dive into you and your history. While you should design your resume however you … Read full-story
Best Companies for Professional Development 2018
The lists below represent the highest ranked companies (small/medium and large) for professional development from employees who anonymously rated their professional advancement and growth opportunities on Comparably.com from May 23, 2017 to May 23, 2018. See below for employee comments and methodology. Don’t forget to check out the rest of our 2018 Leadership Awards, including … Read full-story
The Older You Are, the More Invisible You Probably Feel at Work
Giving recognition goes a long way. Whether it’s a simple thank you or a formal award, companies have many ways to highlight the good work of their employees. But recent data shows that employers may need to make sure they’re not forgetting workers at the older end of the age spectrum. Indeed, 60% of people aged 46 to … Read full-story