The Professional Reemployment Study
We know a great deal about unemployment rates, job creation, and hiring activity. We know much less about what happens to individual professionals after a full-time position ends.
The Professional Reemployment Study is examining how long it takes people to find professional work again, what happens to compensation and career level, and how the experience differs across people and circumstances.
If your full-time position ended between January 2024 and today, your experience may help us understand that picture more clearly.
ELEVATING EVERYONE ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Understanding what happens after a full-time job ends, and how the experience differs across age, compensation, and career level.
12 - 15 minutes | No name or employer name requested | Participation is voluntary
What happens after the job ends?
Losing a position is easy to count. Career recovery is much harder to understand.
Some people return quickly to work similar to what they were doing before. Others spend months searching, change industries, accept a different level of responsibility, move into consulting or contract work, or take temporary work while continuing to look.
This study is designed to better understand those paths.
We are examining questions such as:
How long does professional reemployment take?
What happens to compensation after a job ends?
How often do people return at a comparable career level?
How does the search change as time passes?
What role do age and previous compensation play in the experience?
How often do people use consulting, contract, gig, or other work during the transition?
Who can participate?
This study is focused on people who:
Were age 25 or older when the position ended
Previously held a full-time position
Held a position based in the United States
Had that position end between January 2024 and today
Experienced an employer-initiated separation or certain closely related circumstances
Not sure whether your situation qualifies?
The first few questions will determine eligibility.
What will you be asked?
How will the information be used?
The findings will be analyzed across groups of respondents to identify patterns in professional reemployment and career recovery.
Individual responses will not be published.
After completing the survey, you can separately request a copy of the final report when it is released.
The survey asks about your previous role, how your employment ended, your job search, any work you have done since, and where things stand today.
Some questions also ask about compensation, career level, and background.
Approximate answers are fine. You will not need to look up old records or employment documents.
Most people will finish in about 12 minutes.
Why Elevating Everyone is conducting this research
Elevating Everyone works at the intersection of leadership, workplace experience, communication, and organizational change.
The Professional Reemployment Study is part of a broader effort to contribute original research to the conversation about work and careers, using the experiences of people who have gone through these transitions themselves.
The study is not being conducted on behalf of an employer, recruiting firm, or job-placement company. Participation is voluntary, and the findings will be published as a public research report.
We hope the research gives business leaders, HR professionals, career practitioners, and displaced professionals a clear view of what career recovery actually looks like.
Your experience can help us understand what the numbers miss.
If your full-time position ended between January 2024 and today, we invite you to take part.
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