Today's talent landscape is more volatile than ever. Roles change rapidly, business priorities shift, and employees face increasing complexity in planning their next career move. Navigating career transitions has never been more difficult.
When employees depart, their primary tools are typically job boards with self-reported, often unverified data. This leaves employers and departing employees exposed to misinformed choices, expectation mismatch, and the risk of reputational harm if the transition falters.
It raises an important question: How can organizations better support departing talent while protecting their brand and provide true, tangible value during the transition?
That's why Thrive is excited to launch The Career Path Explorer, a new feature within the Thrive platform. This feature equips departing talent with AI-driven, data-rich tools for discovering real opportunities, analyzing skill gaps, and evaluating viable career paths. For HR, it turns outplacement from a check-the-box process into a lever for brand enhancement, risk mitigation, and alumni goodwill, grounded in up-to-date, verifiable labour market data.
How The Career Path Explorer Supports Job Seekers
The Career Path Explorer delivers four tightly integrated capabilities within the Thrive platform, each solving a core challenge of the traditional job search experience:
Labour Market Insights: Real-World Data for Informed Decisions
By analyzing aggregated real-world job postings backed by leading data providers, The Career Path Explorer provides up-to-date, region-specific career intelligence. This gives job seekers a continually updated view of the job market, moving beyond guesswork to informed choice.
Individuals can search for Labour Market Insights for different regions across Canada. This way, they can easily compare other locations either nearby, or across the country.
Job Recommendations: Actionable, Real-Time Opportunity Matching
Live job postings are algorithmically matched to each search, ensuring employees have immediate, actionable opportunities. No more wading through irrelevant listings. Integrated tools allow users to expand their search and connect with the right roles in real time.
Similar Roles & Top Job Titles: Broadening Possibility, Not Just Opportunity
The Career Path Explorer uses AI to highlight both direct advancement opportunities and lateral moves, presenting similar or adjacent roles across industries. This gives employees a wider array of future possibilities, especially employees whose experience is concentrated in specialized sectors. They gain visibility into comparable roles that require overlapping skills, even in unexpected fields. By identifying these target roles, employees can benchmark their qualifications, understand the skill sets in demand, and focus their search on realistic, attainable options.
Skills Analysis
The Career Path Explorer captures each employee’s skill set when they upload a resume. Users see at a glance which skills transfer to new roles, where gaps exist, and which in-demand competencies to hone.
Data Integrity Backed by Industry Leaders
Thrive has partnered with leading data provider Lightcast to source timely and accurate labour market and job posting data. This brings a comprehensive, validated labour market dataset, sourced from government records, applicant profiles, and hundreds of millions of live postings, to underpin every recommendation and skill analysis.
From Last Touchpoint to Lasting Advantage
Workforce transitions are inevitable, but how organizations manage them define culture and brand. By enhancing the traditional outplacement and job search experience with tailored, data-driven, and actionable support, you can help your people move their careers forward, and elevate your organization's standing among employees, alumni, and the market at large.
As your partners in workforce solutions, we go beyond implementation to ensure you achieve your desired outplacement outcomes with the same high-touch support we provide to every Thrive user. If you are an HR leader looking to equip your departing workforce with an integrated solution, book a call to learn more about the Career Path Explorer and how Thrive can support your workforce.
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