What good career transition support actually looks like
A practical view of what people need at each stage, and where traditional outplacement falls short.
Insights
Career mobility intelligence.
Research and commentary on skills demand, transferable capability and where careers are actually moving in the Australian market.
Career Intelligence Brief
Our regular read on careers, skills and work.
Each issue looks at the market, a trend worth watching, a chart, something worth knowing and the signals underneath it.
Career Intelligence Brief · Issue 1 · 1 Sept 2026
The NFL, Brisbane 2032 and why capability travels further than industry
What we're seeing, reading and thinking about in careers, jobs and the changing world of work. An Australian market snapshot, one trend that matters, useful data and something worth your time.
Read the briefTransition Perspectives · 19 May 2026A letter to recent graduates, the kids of Gen X parents
...from someone who graduated into the last great uncertainty and was very much a part of what came next. By Nicole Cook.
Read the briefTransition Perspectives · 15 Oct 2026Why Outplacement Needs to Change
We've been working on something we believe is long overdue. Outplacement needs to evolve.
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Market data
A common language for careers.
Career options are only useful if they reflect the market a person is actually in. We map skills and roles to recognised Australian frameworks, so options, gaps and pathways mean something.
OSCA 2024
The Australian occupation framework we use as the backbone for classifying roles and pathways.
ESCO
The European skills, competences and occupations classification, used to enrich skill mapping.
Jobs and Skills Australia
The National Skills Taxonomy, aligning our skill language to the national standard.
What we look at
The market context behind every career option.
Options are considered against the person's Career Twin and the market signals below, so a suggested pathway reflects more than a generic career map.
Occupations and role families
Skills and competencies
Transferable capability
Qualifications
Industry
Geography
Job vacancies
Occupation projections
What the data tells us
Where careers actually move.
Aligning careers to a shared framework shows which capabilities transfer where, across an organisation and across the wider market.
Capability travels further than job titles
Mapped against national frameworks, a person's skills usually open more occupations than their role history suggests.
Adjacent moves beat starting over
The strongest options are often a step sideways into a role family that shares most of the same capabilities.
Gaps are usually narrower than they feel
When a target role is compared skill by skill, what's missing is often specific and addressable rather than a full career reset.
Careerbase Intelligence
Insights into careers, jobs, skills and the changing world of work.
Four pieces we're writing now. They'll appear here as they're published.
Why choice changes outcomes
How giving people control over the support they use changes engagement and results.
Reading your workforce as capability, not job titles
What happens when skills, not roles, become the unit of workforce planning.
AI and the human side of career change
Where technology genuinely speeds things up, and where a person is still the answer.
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