What transfers?
Confirmed capabilities, source/target task domains, knowledge, scope, and level establish the modeled overlap.
MYTOPMATCH CAREER TOOLS · DISCOVER YOUR OPTIONS
FREE DETERMINISTIC ROLE EXPLORER
Map evidence—not job-title resemblance.
Confirm the work pattern closest to your current role and the capabilities you can support. MyTopMatch will compare them with a bounded, versioned role catalog and show exactly why each direction appears.- Separate transferability from transition friction
- Visible credential and evidence gaps
- No AI-generated job list or live-job implication
WHAT IS ROLE TRANSFERABILITY?
Similarity is useful only when you can explain it.
Role transferability is the evidence-supported similarity between work you have demonstrated and the requirements represented by another role. It is not the similarity between two job titles, and it is not a conclusion that you are qualified.
MyTopMatch calculates transferability and transition friction separately. You may share strong capabilities with a target while still facing a substantial credential, scope, industry, or evidence gap.
THREE DIFFERENT QUESTIONS
Do not collapse career exploration into one score.
What makes the move harder?
Missing target capabilities, responsibility gaps, credentials, education context, and unknown employer requirements create friction.
Is a job available?
That is a separate TopMatch question. This explorer maps directions and never fabricates a vacancy.
HOW ROLE TRANSFERABILITY IS CALCULATED
Seven scored dimensions. One visible unknown.
Method RTX-1.0.0 · Catalog mtm-role-archetypes-2026-08-23-v1Demonstrated capability overlap
User-confirmed capabilities carry more weight than source-role archetype overlap.
Task / activity overlap
Versioned source-to-target work-domain similarity.
Knowledge overlap
Shared knowledge domains represented in the catalog.
Management-scope alignment
Difference between stated scope and the target archetype range.
Seniority / responsibility
Difference between stated level and the target responsibility range.
Industry portability
The target pattern's portability plus stated-industry relevance.
Credential / education barrier
Required, variable, satisfied, or unknown—never hidden.
Compensation feasibility
Excluded and shown as unknown because no verified market source is applied.
BLOCKED_CURRENTLY overrides a score only when a represented non-negotiable credential is missing. Bands are model intervals, not success rates or population norms.
FICTIONAL EXAMPLE
Same capabilities. Different friction.
A fictional Talent Acquisition leader may share workforce planning, stakeholder management, analytics, and people leadership with Workforce Strategy. The transition could still require stronger scenario modeling and finance evidence. A Corporate Counsel direction might share stakeholder and risk work but remain BLOCKED_CURRENTLY without the legally required qualification.HOW TO IMPROVE ROLE TRANSFERABILITY
Build target evidence before rewriting your title.
Validate real requirements
Compare the archetype with several current employer descriptions and identify requirements that recur.
Translate shared work
Describe the outcomes, scale, stakeholders, decisions, tools, and constraints behind a transferable capability.
Close one material gap
Use a bridge project, stretch assignment, work sample, credential, or targeted learning experience.
Verify hard barriers
Check licensure, jurisdiction, education, clearance, and regulated accountability before investing in a path.
Test market recognition
Use Career Positioning to see whether your professional story makes the adjacent direction credible.
Separate direction from vacancy
Confirm a target in Career Intent, then let TopMatch evaluate actual governed opportunities.
CATALOG COVERAGE
Bounded by design. Versioned for improvement.
This first release supports a documented set of professional role archetypes. It is not exhaustive. If the closest work pattern is unavailable, the honest next step is catalog research—not an improvised AI suggestion.
Future versions may add a licensed or public occupational taxonomy, employer-specific target descriptions, task importance data, market compensation, or demand evidence. Each added source must record its name, version, date, mapping method, and influence on the result so historical results remain interpretable.
No occupation-specific SEO pages are generated from this catalog in this release.
PRIVATE CAREER DIRECTIONS
Exploration is not consent.
Role inputs, capability selections, scores, saved direction decisions, and Career Agent interpretation remain private. A role enters your Passport direction controls only when you choose Preferred, Interested, or Not for me. Viewing a suggestion does nothing.FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Understand what the map can—and cannot—say.
Is this a list generated by AI?
No. Candidate roles come from a bounded, versioned MyTopMatch role-archetype catalog. A deterministic comparison calculates every score from the same documented dimensions and weights.
Does a strong transfer score mean I am qualified?
No. Transferability describes supported similarity under this model. It does not establish qualification, eligibility, hiring likelihood, employer equivalence, or live job availability.
Why must I choose a role archetype?
A title alone is ambiguous. Confirming the closest work pattern prevents the explorer from silently deciding what your title means.
How are credentials handled?
A visible non-negotiable credential can override the transfer band with BLOCKED_CURRENTLY. Variable or unknown requirements remain visible for employer and jurisdiction verification.
Does compensation affect the result?
Not in this release. No verified role-and-geography compensation source is applied, so compensation feasibility is excluded from scoring and shown as unknown.
Are these live job openings?
No. The explorer maps role directions. TopMatch separately evaluates governed opportunity records and may have no current opening in a selected direction.
Can I save a suggested direction?
Yes, after signing in and taking an explicit action. Viewing a role never saves it. Preferred, Interested, and Not for me decisions remain member-controlled and exportable.
What data source does this version use?
It uses the internal mtm-role-archetypes-2026-08-23-v1 editorial descriptor catalog plus user-confirmed inputs. No external occupational taxonomy, live job inventory, or compensation dataset is used.
METHOD, SOURCE & CITATION NOTES
How to interpret this tool responsibly.
- Measures
- Similarity and transition friction between a source role and roles in a bounded, versioned archetype catalog.
- Result means
- An explainable comparison of shared capability, gaps, scope, knowledge dependence, and credential barriers.
- Does not mean
- It is not a generic AI job list, live vacancy inventory, or hiring recommendation.
- Evidence in this release
- User-confirmed evidence and the disclosed MyTopMatch role archetype catalog; market demand and compensation are not inferred.