Your next job could be your last for a while. Use this database to make it count.

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Dan DeFrancesco

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Consider this your job-hunting cheat sheet.

Last week's brutal jobs report was more evidence of how difficult the labor market is. The low hiring and firing rate is giving a stuck-in-place vibe.

That's why people looking to switch jobs these days need to be extra careful. The next company you land at could be your last for a while, so you want to make it count.

Burning Glass Institute and the Schultz Family Foundation analyzed the career histories of 12 million workers across 1,750 companies. For BI's Aki Ito, they shared the details for six prominent tech occupations: software engineers, data scientists, software quality assurance analysts and testers, computer systems and security engineers, IT project managers, and IT systems analysts.

Searching for a role will show you the percentiles a company falls into for three categories: promotion, retention, and salary.

You can check out the database here. Happy hunting.

For some out-of-work job seekers, not being yourself might be the key to finding work.

Reinvention is proving to be a powerful tool for people looking for work.

Whether it's learning new skills or an outright career pivot, some are realizing their best bet is to stay agile and be open to change.

Six people spoke to BI's Madison Hoff and Jacob Zinkula about how their quest for new employment meant forging a new path.

This isn't like the pandemic-era rage quits when burned-out workers left their jobs to take on very different roles. This time, people are being forced to rethink things after losing their jobs and getting thrown into a sluggish job market.

That's how Douglas Craig, a longtime media executive, found himself guiding people through zipline courses at an aerial adventure park.

Not that he's complaining. Craig said it's less like "starting over" and more "like I was shifting to something that just brought more happiness and joy."

Dan DeFrancesco

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Dan is the lead writer for BI Today, Business Insider's flagship daily newsletter. Dan often interviews executives about everything from AI's impact on capitalism to robotics to the potential SaaSpocalypse as part of his work on the newsletter.Dan was an editor and reporter at BI, covering financial technology and market structure.His previous work includes everything from inside Robinhood's failed "Checking and Savings" product that eventually led to Congress getting involved to the internal arguments over JPMorgan's failed attempt to launch a finance app for millennials.Before joining Business Insider, Dan wrote about risk management in derivatives markets for Risk.net and fintech for WatersTechnology. He initially covered local sports for The Journal News, a daily newspaper serving the lower Hudson Valley. Got a tip? Contact this editor via email at [email protected].

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