Methodology · Career Research
A framework for mapping skills, evidence and role adjacency during career changes without claiming that every transition follows a fixed path.
Research questions
- Which capabilities overlap between source and target roles?
- Which requirements are genuinely new?
- What evidence can demonstrate transferable capability?
- Which learning steps are realistic?
- Where does the evidence remain too weak to draw a conclusion?
Method
- Define source and target roles explicitly.
- Compare responsibilities and skills rather than titles alone.
- Separate capability gaps from evidence gaps.
- Record required credentials or domain knowledge separately from transferable skills.
- Treat individual transition examples as examples rather than population-level proof.
Expected outputs
- Skill bridge map
- Gap taxonomy
- Evidence plan
- Learning priorities
- Research limitations
Publication rule
No findings, sample sizes, percentages or compensation figures are implied by this methodology page. A published result requires an actual source set, dated observations and a disclosed limitations section.