Transferable capability and evidence
How clearly demonstrated capability travels beyond its original context.
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How easily can your career
Measure the capability, evidence, access, flexibility, and constraints behind credible moves across roles, companies, industries, locations, compensation pathways, and seniority.Free primary result · No percentile claims · Private by defaultFREE DIRECTIONAL ASSESSMENT
How moveable is your career—really?
Assess capability transfer, adjacent roles, industry portability, external positioning, access, geography, compensation, seniority, and stated constraints. Your primary result appears before any account request.- 22 required inputs plus optional Passport candidates
- Anonymous progress saved for seven days
- No percentile, employment prediction, or invented market-demand score
WHAT IS CAREER MOBILITY?
More than changing jobs.
Career mobility is the capacity to carry professional value into a different role, function, industry, organization, location, compensation path, or level of responsibility. It is broader than whether you can find one open job.
The Career Mobility Index separates capacity—your portable capability, evidence, positioning, access, and flexibility—from Constraint Load—the credential, authorization, location, compensation, or seniority conditions that narrow feasibility.
A person can be capability-rich and constraint-bound. That distinction is more useful than hiding everything inside one score.
WHAT AFFECTS CAREER MOBILITY?
Eight transparent lenses—one currently unknown.
The implemented method uses the approved capacity dimensions below. Market breadth and demand is not guessed when no dated external source is attached.Role and function adjacency
How credibly current work maps to adjacent roles or functions.
15% design weightIndustry portability
How much value can be translated beyond one sector context.
12% design weightExternal legibility and narrative coherence
How consistently a move can be understood outside the current context.
12% design weightOpportunity access and network reach
How readily relevant people and decision pathways can be reached.
11% design weightMarket breadth and demand
Dated external evidence of the breadth and demand for relevant work.
14% · unknown in this releaseGeographic and work-model flexibility
The range of realistic markets and work arrangements available.
7% design weightCompensation and seniority choice capacity
The range of workable tradeoffs around pay, title, and scope.
7% design weightHOW CAREER MOBILITY IS CALCULATED
A directional score with visible uncertainty.
Method CMI-3.0.0 · Updated 2026-08-22Score capacity dimensions
Required self-report items map deterministically to 0, 25, 50, 75, or 100 within each applicable dimension.
Apply approved weights
Dimension scores are combined using the published design weights. Missing optional dimensions are excluded and weights are renormalized.
Keep constraints separate
Credential 30%, work authorization 25%, location/work model 15%, compensation 15%, and seniority 15% form Constraint Load.
Interpret the matrix
Capacity and Constraint Load produce Broad mobility, Capability-rich/constraint-bound, Focused mobility, or Build/resolve first.
Mobility Capacity bands
- 0–44
- Constrained capacity
- 45–64
- Directed capacity
- 65–79
- Broad capacity
- 80–100
- Very broad capacity
Constraint Load bands
- 0–24
- Low
- 25–49
- Moderate
- 50–74
- High
- 75–100
- Binding
CAREER MOBILITY VS. JOB HOPPING
Movement capacity is not movement frequency.
Describes how often someone has changed roles or employers. It does not explain what transferred, why the moves were credible, or what options exist next.
Examines the professional evidence, adjacency, access, flexibility, and constraints supporting more than one possible direction. A nonlinear career can still be coherent and portable.
HOW TO IMPROVE CAREER MOBILITY
Build options before you need them.
Translate capability
Describe the problem, action, scope, and outcome without depending on internal language.
Strengthen visible evidence
Create one portable proof point for each capability you want another market to recognize.
Map adjacent work
Name roles and functions that share the work you already perform—not only similar titles.
Expand access
Build real relationships beyond your immediate employer before a time-sensitive search begins.
Resolve binding constraints
Verify credentials, authorization, location, pay, and title requirements before discarding or pursuing a route.
Improve positioning
Align your résumé, profile, and career narrative so portable value is easy to recognize.
PRIVATE RESULT DESIGN
Your assessment is not an SEO page.
Public explanatory content is crawlable. Your answers, scores, saved analysis, and Passport proposals are private, access-controlled data. Anonymous sessions expire after seven days; signed-in records are covered by MyTopMatch export and deletion controls.FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Know the limits before acting.
What does a Career Mobility Index score mean?
The score summarizes directional mobility capacity from the evidence and choices you report. Its fixed classification band is not a percentile, prediction, or comparison with a population.
Does a high score mean I can get any job?
No. Broad mobility means several movement types may be supportable. Specific employers, roles, credentials, work authorization, competition, timing, and market conditions still determine feasibility.
Why is Constraint Load separate from the main score?
Capability and feasibility are different constructs. A person can have portable capability and still face a binding credential, location, authorization, compensation, or seniority constraint. Hiding that barrier inside one average would make the result harder to interpret.
Why is market demand marked unknown?
This release does not attach a dated occupational or labor-market dataset to the calculation. MyTopMatch does not substitute an unsupported opinion for observed market evidence.
Is career mobility the same as job hopping?
No. Job hopping describes a pattern of employer or role changes. Career mobility describes the capacity and constraints supporting movement across roles, functions, industries, organizations, locations, compensation pathways, and seniority.
Do I need an account?
No account is required to receive the primary score, classification, Constraint Load, and core interpretation. A free account saves the result and unlocks the complete dimension analysis, Passport proposals, and Career Agent context.
Can employers or search engines see my result?
No. The landing page and methodology content are public, but responses and results are fetched privately and are never rendered into crawlable public HTML. Saved results remain subject to MyTopMatch access, export, and deletion controls.
METHOD, SOURCE & CITATION NOTES
How to interpret this tool responsibly.
- Measures
- The present ability to make a credible career move using transferable capability, evidence, access, and stated constraints.
- Result means
- A directional summary of the factors currently supporting or limiting several kinds of career movement.
- Does not mean
- It is not a percentile, a forecast of job offers, or proof that a specific move will succeed.
- Evidence in this release
- User-provided responses and the published deterministic CMI-3.0.0 rules; no population norms or live-vacancy data.