For managers & organisations

Help your people navigate what comes next.

Give employees a structured way to understand their strengths, priorities and realistic career directions before development, mobility or career conversations - without expecting managers to have all the answers.

Better development conversations.

More informed career movement.

Less pressure on managers.

The Career Discovery journey: Career Identity, Future Priorities, Career Directions, Reflections and Next Steps
39%of workers' existing skills are expected to change by 2030.
50%of employers expect to transition people from declining to growing roles.
15%of employees say their manager recently helped them build a career plan.

Why now

Organisations are being asked to move skills and people faster, while managers have less capacity to provide individual career guidance. Employees need a better way to prepare for those decisions.

Development conversations

Better career conversations start before the meeting.

Managers often ask:

  • “What are your aspirations?”
  • “What do you want to develop?”
  • “Where do you see yourself next?”

But many employees have not had the time or structure to think those questions through.

Career Discovery gives them something concrete to bring into the conversation - clearer preferences, possible directions and more thoughtful questions.

Less

“I don’t know.”

More

“Here are three directions I want to explore, and why.”

The employee experience

Give each person space to think before the conversation starts.

Career Discovery helps employees work through:

  • 01

    Career Identity

    who they are professionally now

  • 02

    Future Priorities

    what matters in work and life now

  • 03

    Career Directions

    realistic possibilities worth exploring

  • 04

    Reflections & Next Steps

    what they want to investigate further

The employee owns the reflection. The organisation gets a better conversation.

See what Career Discovery actually gives them

  • Not a personality colour.
  • Not a psychometric score.
  • Not 146 pages of AI chat.

A structured reflection process and personalised reports employees can use to think - and talk - about what comes next.

Sample questions

Sample question from the Career Identity part of Career Discovery
Career Discovery
Career Directions report

Where Career Discovery fits

How organisations can use it

  • Individual development

    Give employees access before annual or quarterly development conversations.

  • Leadership and talent programmes

    Use Career Discovery as preparation before coaching, mentoring or talent discussions.

  • Career transition and internal mobility

    Help employees explore realistic possibilities before assuming the answer is outside the organisation.

  • Teams going through change

    Give people a private way to reflect on what changing roles, priorities or structures mean for them personally.

The business case

  • Engagement matters

    Gallup’s 2024 meta-analysis found top-quartile engagement is associated with 18% higher sales productivity, 14% higher production productivity and 23% higher profitability compared with bottom-quartile units.

  • Career development supports retention

    LinkedIn reports that companies with stronger learning cultures see 57% higher retention and 23% more internal mobility.

  • Career goals change behaviour

    Learners who set career goals engage with learning 4x more than those who do not.

Career Discovery does not replace development programmes, managers or coaching. It gives them a better starting point.

Careers in the age of AI

When roles are changing, people need more than reassurance. They need a way to think.

AI is already changing the skills people need and the way they think about their future at work. Organisations cannot promise certainty - but they can give people better tools to understand their strengths, priorities and options.

LinkedIn’s research explicitly frames career development and AI capability as linked priorities for organisational success.

Career Discovery helps employees move from “What will AI do to my role?” to “What could I build from what I already know and do well?”

Privacy

Private reflection first.

Career Discovery is designed as an individual reflection space. Personal answers and reports belong to the user. Organisations do not automatically receive an employee’s reflections or career directions.

  • Employee-owned reflection
  • Structured outputs
  • Better-prepared conversations

Give your people a better starting point for what comes next.

Career Discovery can be offered to individual employees, selected cohorts or as part of a broader development initiative.

Talk to Anna about Career Discovery for your organisation

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