{"id":1543,"date":"2017-09-14T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2017-09-07T12:54:12","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T12:54:12","slug":"career-plan-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/career-plan-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"The Youngest Workers Are Most Confident About Their Career Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Career goals are important, but for nearly half of workers, the path forward is a bit murky.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-four percent of men and 50 percent of women say they have clear goals and a career plan, according to the latest reading of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-department\/22-do-you-have-clear-goals-and-a-plan-for-your-career\">ongoing query<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\">Comparably<\/a>. The latest reading, which is as of Sept. 11, includes the responses of more than 10,000 workers\u00a0in the technology industry.<\/p>\n<p><b>Young workers had the most clarity<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Sixty percent of workers aged 18 to 25 said they have clear goals and a career plan. That&#8217;s the most of any age group. From there, the percentage declines, hitting a low of 48% among 46 to 50 year olds.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1544\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/09\/Capture.jpg\" alt=\"Capture\" width=\"581\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/09\/Capture-300x91.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/09\/Capture.jpg 581w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 581px) 85vw, 581px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>By experience<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Apparently the more experience a person has at a company, the less confident they are in having clear goals and a career plan. Workers in entry-level roles at their companies were most likely to say they had clear goal and a plan, while those with over 10 years at their company were least likely to say they had clear goals and a plan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-department\/22-do-you-have-clear-goals-and-a-plan-for-your-career\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-850\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1545 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/09\/lol.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"684\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/09\/lol-300x68.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/09\/lol.jpg 684w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>By department and gender<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Men and women in executive roles tended to say they had clear goals and a career plan at higher rates than any other group. Women in communications and business development roles said they had the least career clarity.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1546\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/09\/ab.jpg\" alt=\"ab\" width=\"603\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/09\/ab-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/09\/ab.jpg 603w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1547\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/09\/cd.jpg\" alt=\"cd\" width=\"602\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/09\/cd-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/09\/cd.jpg 602w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>By diversity<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Sixty-four percent of African Americans surveyed said they had clear goals and a career plan, followed next by Native Americans (61%) and Hispanic\/Latino workers (58%), Asian\/Pacific Islanders (55%), Other (56%) and Caucasians (51%).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1548\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/09\/lalal.jpg\" alt=\"lalal\" width=\"574\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/09\/lalal-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/09\/lalal.jpg 574w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 574px) 85vw, 574px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Career goals are important, but for nearly half of workers, the path forward is a bit murky. Fifty-four percent of men and 50 percent of women say they have clear goals and a career plan, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comparably. The latest reading, which is as of Sept. 11, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/career-plan-stats\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,65],"tags":[47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543"}],"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=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}