{"id":843,"date":"2017-06-15T14:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T14:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=843"},"modified":"2017-06-13T22:36:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T22:36:07","slug":"career-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/career-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"1 in 2 Workers Say They Have Clear Career Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Career goals are important, but for nearly half of workers, the path forward is a bit murky.<\/p>\n

Fifty-three 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<\/a> by Comparably<\/a>. The latest reading, which is as of June 15, includes the responses of more than 10,000 workers\u00a0in the technology industry.<\/p>\n

Young workers had the most clarity<\/b><\/p>\n

Sixty percent of workers aged 18 to 25 said they have clear goals and a career plan. That’s the most of any age group. From there, the percentage declines, hitting a low of 46% among 46 to 50 year olds.<\/p>\n

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By experience<\/b><\/p>\n

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

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By department and gender<\/b><\/p>\n

Men and women in executive roles at companies tended to say they had clear goals and a career plan at higher rates than any other group. Women in communications roles said they had the least career clarity.<\/p>\n

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By diversity<\/b><\/p>\n

Sixty-four percent of African Americans surveyed said they had clear goals and a career plan, followed next by Native Americans (58%) and Hispanic\/Latino workers (57%), Asian\/Pacific Islanders (55%), and caucasians (50%).<\/p>\n

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Career goals are important, but for nearly half of workers, the path forward is a bit murky. Fifty-three 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 June 15, … Read full-story <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":855,"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\/843"}],"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=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}