{"id":1093,"date":"2017-12-11T14:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T14:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2017-12-12T02:53:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T02:53:15","slug":"employer-career-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/employer-career-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Just 63% of Entry-Level Workers Say Their Employers Are Invested in Their Career Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entry-level workers are most likely to say that their companies care about their careers &#8212; but there&#8217;s work to be done.<\/p>\n<p><b>Experience and career investment<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Just 63% of entry-level workers say their companies are invested in their career growth\u00a0&#8212; the most of any experience level,\u00a0according to the latest reading of Comparably&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-department\/17-is-your-company-invested-in-your-career-growth\">ongoing query<\/a>\u00a0of workers across the tech industry. That compares to 42% of workers with 10 years experience or more, and 47% of all workers overall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-department\/17-is-your-company-invested-in-your-career-growth\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1099\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1099\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/dodo.png\" alt=\"dodo\" width=\"661\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/dodo-300x74.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/dodo.png 661w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Age matters<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, employees&#8217; views on whether their employers are invested in their careers appears to decline with experience level. It also declines with age, bottoming out among those closest to retirement: just 32% of workers aged 56 to 60 say their employers are invested in their career paths.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1098\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/Capture.png\" alt=\"Capture\" width=\"596\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/Capture-300x81.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/Capture.png 596w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 596px) 85vw, 596px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>By department and gender<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Workers\u00a0in executive roles showed the most positive about their employers, with 63% of women and 61% of men in those positions saying they feel their career growth is a company priority. Men in IT and women in communications showed the lowest rates of feeling that way (39% and 31%, respectively.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-department\/17-is-your-company-invested-in-your-career-growth\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1100\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1100\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/1.png\" alt=\"1\" width=\"736\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/1-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/1.png 736w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-department\/17-is-your-company-invested-in-your-career-growth\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1101\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1101\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/2.png\" alt=\"2\" width=\"734\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/2-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/2.png 734w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The figures come from a\u00a0Dec. 11 reading.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entry-level workers are most likely to say that their companies care about their careers &#8212; but there&#8217;s work to be done. Experience and career investment Just 63% of entry-level workers say their companies are invested in their career growth\u00a0&#8212; the most of any experience level,\u00a0according to the latest reading of Comparably&#8217;s\u00a0ongoing query\u00a0of workers across the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/employer-career-growth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,65],"tags":[47,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2857,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions\/2857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}