Career Change Readiness Check

How this interactive diagnostic works

This page provides the documented overview before the interactive experience is loaded. It lets you read the purpose, the material covered and the way the result is presented without entering answers or sending a request. When you choose to continue, the interactive version uses the same material shown here. It records your selections while you work and only calculates its result when its required items are complete.

Analytics consent is required before the interactive experience is mounted. Declining consent does not start the diagnostic or its tracking. If you continue, the existing experience remains responsible for its own input, score and lead-capture step. Where the route requests a first name and work email, its existing form handles validation and submission. This overview does not replace those steps or submit a lead.

Statements in this diagnostic

The interactive version groups the statements below by section. Read them in relation to the situation named in the instructions, then use the response scale shown by the diagnostic. The section descriptions are part of the existing configuration and explain the aspect each group is intended to examine.

How the result is read

The interactive diagnostic totals the selected item scores by section and across the whole assessment. It then matches those totals to the configured interpretation bands and shows the section-level results alongside the overall result.

• Ready to Act, 80 to 100: Your foundations are in place across all four areas. You have clarity about where you are going, evidence of relevant capability, concrete practical preparation, and solid support. The risk at this stage is over-preparation — waiting until everything is perfect before making a move. The next step is action, not more research. Review your section scores to identify any single area still worth strengthening before you launch.
• Mostly Ready, 60 to 79: Strong foundations in most areas with one or two gaps still to address. Making a move now is realistic, but the gaps your section scores reveal are worth closing before you commit fully. Identify your lowest-scoring section and build a specific three-month plan to strengthen it. Most people at this score are ready to start applying, networking, and having conversations while continuing to build readiness.
• Building Readiness, 40 to 59: Important gaps exist across one or more areas. Making a move now carries meaningful risk — not that it won't work eventually, but that you will be making it harder than it needs to be. Look at your two lowest-scoring sections. These are where your energy should go in the next three to six months. This is not a reason to stop moving — it is a reason to be intentional about what groundwork you lay before you fully commit.
• Groundwork Needed, 20 to 39: Substantial groundwork is needed before this transition is likely to go well. This result is valuable information, not a verdict. It means that the preparation phase is where you are — and getting clear, building skills, doing the practical planning, and building your network now will make the eventual transition far more successful. Review your section scores to identify the most urgent area to address.

Sources named in this diagnostic

• Ibarra, H. (2003) Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
• Bridges, W. (2004) Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes, 2nd edn. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press.
• Prochaska, J.O. and DiClemente, C.C. (1983) 'Stages and processes of self-change of smoking', Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 51(3), pp. 390-395.
• Hall, D.T. (2002) Careers In and Out of Organisations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

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