If this is your first time using JobTitled you might be confused about what all the numbers mean.  That’s understandable.  Let me try to explain some of them.

Next Jobs

• Percent Likelihood - Let’s take Product Manager for example.  When you see Marketing Manager 2.8%, this means that 2.8% of all the resumes we analyzed who held a Product Manager (and moved on) transitioned directly to a Marketing Manager position.   The higher the number, the more resume samples and thus the more likely we consider that transition to happen.
• Time - You will see something like “Average time in this position is 3 years 10 months” which is, well, the average time in that particular position before transitioning to the next one.  Under the bar graph if you click View All you will get in list form all the next job transitions.  In this listing you will see average times for that exact transition to happen.  So the average time for transitioning from Product Manager to Marketing Manager is 3 years 7 month

Previous Jobs

• Same concept, only this time in reverse.  Back to Product Manager example: when you see Associate Product Manager 1.4%, that means that 1.4% of Product Manager resumes we analyzed transitioned directly from an Associate Product Manager position.  Time works the same way.

These numbers are the building blocks for everything else in JobTitled.  Understanding these are the first step in your quantitive career research.  Don’t hesitate to ask if you have any questions.

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