{"id":2925,"date":"2017-12-22T22:06:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T22:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=2925"},"modified":"2017-12-22T22:08:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T22:08:54","slug":"make-2018-the-year-you-improve-your-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/make-2018-the-year-you-improve-your-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Make 2018 the Year You Improve Your Career"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether it’s getting a promotion or moving into a new industry, New Year’s resolutions often have to do with career.\u00a0And yet, just half of people say they have clear goals and a plan for their career.<\/p>\n

Fifty-three percent of employees say they have clear goals and a plan for their career, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query<\/a> by Comparably<\/a>. More than 10,000 people participated in the query. The split was 54% of men, 52% of women.<\/p>\n

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From a diversity perspective<\/b><\/p>\n

African Americans had the highest rates of saying they had clear goals and a plan for their career (64%), followed next by Hispanic and Latino people (57%). Caucasians had the lowest rates (51%).<\/p>\n

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From an age perspective<\/b><\/p>\n

People 18 to 25 had the highest rates of saying they have clear plans for their career (60%). The rate declined from there, hitting a low of 49% among those aged 46 to 50.<\/p>\n

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From a department level<\/b><\/p>\n

Workers in executive roles had the highest rates of having clear goals and a plan for their career (70%), while workers in communications, customer support and IT had the lowest (50%).<\/p>\n

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From an education perspective<\/b><\/p>\n

The data appears to show there’s no correlation between education level and career goal setting. The rate hovered between 51% and 56% among workers of all education levels.<\/p>\n

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The latest reading is as of Dec. 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whether it’s getting a promotion or moving into a new industry, New Year’s resolutions often have to do with career.\u00a0And yet, just half of people say they have clear goals and a plan for their career. Fifty-three percent of employees say they have clear goals and a plan for their career, according to the latest … Read full-story <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,8],"tags":[50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925"}],"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=2925"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2937,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions\/2937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}