Since 2021, more than 350,000 people from across the world have taken our Career Change Test. What they've told us about their careers is shown below.
What is your current work status?
- 77.73% are in work while looking for a career change
- 22.27% are not in work
What is the most important reason why you want to make a career change?
- 48% of people want to change careers because of the lack of satisfaction with their roles
- 18% because of the lack of satisfaction with the culture or management in their jobs
- 16% due to poor work-life balance
- 12% say the reason is lack of opportunities in their current role or industry
- 6% because of change of circumstances.
How long have you been thinking about a Career change?
- 22.87% say they’ve been thinking about changing careers for less than a year
- 44.07% between 1 and 2 years
- 19.4% from 3 to 5 years
- 13.67% for over 5 years
Would you consider yourself a low, medium, or high earner?
- 30.7% of respondents said they consider themselves low earners
- 52.17% consider themselves medium earners
- 17.13% consider themselves high earners
Do you have savings you can access to support you during your career change?
- 45.6% of people say they do have savings to access during their shifts
- 54.4% say they don’t have savings
Where would you like to end up after making your career change?
- 34.77% would like to end up in a job
- 8.83% doing their own thing
- 35.07% in a combination of both
- 21.33% aren’t sure
How many Ideas do you feel you have about you could do next career-wise?
- 36.5% of people feel they have none ideas about what they could do next
- 53.37% say they have some ideas
- 10.13% say they have too many ideas
How ready are you to start doing what it takes to make your career change happen?
- 16.03% say they are not ready
- 83.97% say they are ready and willing to make it happen
What is your current greatest obstacle to making a career change?
- 46.2% say ‘figuring out what else I can do’ is their biggest challenge
- 11.13% say it’s building the confidence or motivation to make the shift happen
- 21.93% say it's having the right skills or experience
- 20.73% point out 'Finances' as their biggest obstacle
Where are the respondents located in the world?
- 51.33% are from the UK
- 21.04% are from the Americas
- 27.64% are from other locations
* Based on 359,115 test takers. These stats were last updated on 8th April, 2025.