# Lisa Feist and Luke Young argue in Indeed Hiring Lab that job mobility varies by occupation [Canonical reading](https://escapemeridian.com/readings/lisa-feist-and-luke-young-argue-in-indeed-hiring-lab-that-job-72223015) Published June 10, 2025, Lisa Feist and Luke Young analyze Indeed resume data on job changes in the United States from 2022 to 2024. They report that many workers changing jobs move to a different occupation, while nursing and software development more often retain workers within the same occupation. The authors associate higher occupational exit rates with lower job demand, lower posted salaries and shorter career lengths. They note that career moves can reflect choice or necessity. Feist and Young say these patterns matter to workers and employers. High-turnover occupations may offer easier entry for people early in their careers or seeking a new direction, but may bring less long-term stability or wage progression. More stable occupations may require greater initial investment in training, with better retention and clearer progression once workers enter. The authors suggest that employers in high-mobility fields may need to focus on attraction and onboarding, while those in low-mobility fields may benefit more from internal development and retention. The analysis uses resume histories, which may underrepresent people in stable jobs who are not actively searching; resume conventions also differ across occupations. Headline and summary by Escape Meridian, prepared by Luna from the attributed source. A source check is not independent confirmation of the source’s claims. ## Original source Indeed Hiring Lab · Article Original source date: Jun 10, 2025 (2025-06-10). Date basis: Date from the publisher’s archive: its article address or archive listing. Added to Escape Meridian: 2026-11-13T16:08:23.436Z. First observed: 2026-10-30T23:25:58.708Z. Retrieved: 2026-10-30T23:27:47.510Z. - [From One Job to Another: Mapping Career Transitions Using Indeed Data](https://hiringlab.indeed.com/2025/06/10/job-mobility-career-transitions-patterns/) ## Limits Text as retrieved on October 30, 2026; originally published June 10, 2025. The analysis uses Indeed resume profiles with job start and end dates recorded to the month; resume conventions may differ across occupations, and the authors note that stable workers who do not actively search are less likely to appear in the data. ## Open question How well do these resume-based patterns represent workers who do not use Indeed or actively search for jobs? ## Source-stated Feist and Young report that about 2.6% of Indeed users in their analysis switched jobs each month from 2022 to 2024, and 64% of those switchers changed occupations. > Between 2022 and 2024, about 2.6% of Indeed users switched to new jobs every month, and 64% of those job switchers also changed occupations. - [Supporting source](https://hiringlab.indeed.com/2025/06/10/job-mobility-career-transitions-patterns/) ## Source-stated The authors report that nursing and software development have relatively few incoming job switchers from other occupations, and workers changing jobs in those fields are more likely to stay in the same occupation. > Most people switching into a nursing job (66%) previously worked in nursing, and the same holds true for software development (55%). - [Supporting source](https://hiringlab.indeed.com/2025/06/10/job-mobility-career-transitions-patterns/) ## Source-stated The authors associate higher occupational exit rates with lower demand and lower posted salaries, while describing job mobility as potentially reflecting either choice or necessity. > Sometimes it’s by choice, sometimes out of necessity, especially when worker demand is low. - [Supporting source](https://hiringlab.indeed.com/2025/06/10/job-mobility-career-transitions-patterns/) ## Source-stated Feist and Young say high-turnover occupations may offer easier entry but may also bring less long-term stability or wage progression; more stable occupations may require greater initial investment in training. > For job seekers, high-turnover occupations may offer easier entry points — especially for those early in their careers or seeking reorientation — but may also provide less long-term stability or wage progression. - [Supporting source](https://hiringlab.indeed.com/2025/06/10/job-mobility-career-transitions-patterns/) ## Source-stated The authors caution that Indeed's job-matching platform is less likely to represent people in stable employment who are not actively searching. > since Indeed is a job matching platform, individuals in long-term, stable employment relationships who don’t actively search for jobs are less likely to be represented in our data. - [Supporting source](https://hiringlab.indeed.com/2025/06/10/job-mobility-career-transitions-patterns/) ## Source and contributor context Indeed Hiring Lab · Publisher The publisher is identified here. No individual author has been inferred. ## Source media Media retrieval status: unchecked. ## Terms and references Reference context selected by Escape Meridian; separate from source evidence. Entity mentions do not establish authorship, involvement or endorsement. ## Indeed Hiring Lab Indeed Hiring Lab is the economic research arm of the job site Indeed, publishing analyses of job postings, wages and hiring trends. - [Explore this context](/entities/indeed-hiring-lab) - [Reference](https://www.hiringlab.org/) - [Reference](https://www.hiringlab.org/feed/) ## Editorial provenance Version 1. Publication ID: f7600d20-d63b-9308-d7d6-b3122c0a6066. Prepared by openai/gpt-6-luna; grounding review by anthropic/claude-opus-5.5. Source check: passed by anthropic/claude-opus-5.5 on 2026-11-13T16:04:04.121Z. This checks fidelity to the source, not whether its claims are independently true. Editorial selection: accept; reasons: bridge\_admitted\_by\_model. Observation: bcccc58abc35c8c0193b7de382916191bda2eb8130c0634a714d9d8db31682c7. Source text hash: 015f7cea15bbbc4dc8c834b9a62800a6ad4e9eda570fd2a02193749e2210b85d. ## Revision and source-check history ### Version 1 — 2026-11-13T16:08:23.436Z Published June 10, 2025, Lisa Feist and Luke Young analyze Indeed resume data on job changes in the United States from 2022 to 2024. They report that many workers changing jobs move to a different occupation, while nursing and software development more often retain workers within the same occupation. The authors associate higher occupational exit rates with lower job demand, lower posted salaries and shorter career lengths. They note that career moves can reflect choice or necessity. Feist and Young say these patterns matter to workers and employers. High-turnover occupations may offer easier entry for people early in their careers or seeking a new direction, but may bring less long-term stability or wage progression. More stable occupations may require greater initial investment in training, with better retention and clearer progression once workers enter. The authors suggest that employers in high-mobility fields may need to focus on attraction and onboarding, while those in low-mobility fields may benefit more from internal development and retention. The analysis uses resume histories, which may underrepresent people in stable jobs who are not actively searching; resume conventions also differ across occupations. ## Original source Indeed Hiring Lab · Article Original source date: Jun 10, 2025 (2025-06-10). Date basis: Date from the publisher’s archive: its article address or archive listing. Added to Escape Meridian: 2026-11-13T16:08:23.436Z. First observed: 2026-10-30T23:25:58.708Z. Retrieved: 2026-10-30T23:27:47.510Z. - [From One Job to Another: Mapping Career Transitions Using Indeed Data](https://hiringlab.indeed.com/2025/06/10/job-mobility-career-transitions-patterns/) ## Limits Text as retrieved on October 30, 2026; originally published June 10, 2025. The analysis uses Indeed resume profiles with job start and end dates recorded to the month; resume conventions may differ across occupations, and the authors note that stable workers who do not actively search are less likely to appear in the data. ## Open question How well do these resume-based patterns represent workers who do not use Indeed or actively search for jobs? ## Source-stated Feist and Young report that about 2.6% of Indeed users in their analysis switched jobs each month from 2022 to 2024, and 64% of those switchers changed occupations. > Between 2022 and 2024, about 2.6% of Indeed users switched to new jobs every month, and 64% of those job switchers also changed occupations. - [Supporting source](https://hiringlab.indeed.com/2025/06/10/job-mobility-career-transitions-patterns/) ## Source-stated The authors report that nursing and software development have relatively few incoming job switchers from other occupations, and workers changing jobs in those fields are more likely to stay in the same occupation. > Most people switching into a nursing job (66%) previously worked in nursing, and the same holds true for software development (55%). - [Supporting source](https://hiringlab.indeed.com/2025/06/10/job-mobility-career-transitions-patterns/) ## Source-stated The authors associate higher occupational exit rates with lower demand and lower posted salaries, while describing job mobility as potentially reflecting either choice or necessity. > Sometimes it’s by choice, sometimes out of necessity, especially when worker demand is low. - [Supporting source](https://hiringlab.indeed.com/2025/06/10/job-mobility-career-transitions-patterns/) ## Source-stated Feist and Young say high-turnover occupations may offer easier entry but may also bring less long-term stability or wage progression; more stable occupations may require greater initial investment in training. > For job seekers, high-turnover occupations may offer easier entry points — especially for those early in their careers or seeking reorientation — but may also provide less long-term stability or wage progression. - [Supporting source](https://hiringlab.indeed.com/2025/06/10/job-mobility-career-transitions-patterns/) ## Source-stated The authors caution that Indeed's job-matching platform is less likely to represent people in stable employment who are not actively searching. > since Indeed is a job matching platform, individuals in long-term, stable employment relationships who don’t actively search for jobs are less likely to be represented in our data. - [Supporting source](https://hiringlab.indeed.com/2025/06/10/job-mobility-career-transitions-patterns/) ## Source and contributor context Indeed Hiring Lab · Publisher The publisher is identified here. No individual author has been inferred. ## Source media Media retrieval status: unchecked. ## Terms and references Reference context selected by Escape Meridian; separate from source evidence. Entity mentions do not establish authorship, involvement or endorsement. ## Indeed Hiring Lab Indeed Hiring Lab is the economic research arm of the job site Indeed, publishing analyses of job postings, wages and hiring trends. - [Explore this context](/entities/indeed-hiring-lab) - [Reference](https://www.hiringlab.org/) - [Reference](https://www.hiringlab.org/feed/) ## Editorial provenance Version 1. Publication ID: f7600d20-d63b-9308-d7d6-b3122c0a6066. Prepared by openai/gpt-6-luna; grounding review by anthropic/claude-opus-5.5. Source check: passed by anthropic/claude-opus-5.5 on 2026-11-13T16:04:04.121Z. This checks fidelity to the source, not whether its claims are independently true. Editorial selection: accept; reasons: bridge\_admitted\_by\_model. Observation: bcccc58abc35c8c0193b7de382916191bda2eb8130c0634a714d9d8db31682c7. Source text hash: 015f7cea15bbbc4dc8c834b9a62800a6ad4e9eda570fd2a02193749e2210b85d. ### passed — 2026-11-13T16:04:04.121Z — anthropic/claude-opus-5.5 Publication: f7600d20-d63b-9308-d7d6-b3122c0a6066 attribution — pass: The reading correctly attributes the analysis to Lisa Feist and Luke Young of Indeed Hiring Lab and keeps the findings framed as their reported results and suggestions. The page is a single article, not a listing. > By Lisa Feist & Luke Young summary — pass: The summary is clear for a general reader. It names the data source (Indeed resume profiles), the period (2022–2024), the main findings and the authors' stated implications for workers and employers. The term exit rate is understandable from context as moving to a different occupation. The reading preserves the 'choice or necessity' nuance. The question follows from the authors' own representativeness caveat. > Every month, about one-in-forty Indeed users with an uploaded resume switches into a new job, and almost two-thirds of them switch to a new occupational category date — pass: The stated date of June 10, 2025 matches the article dateline and evidence.originalPublished at day precision. The page was modified on 2025-09-09. All cited passages are core article body and plainly part of the original piece. The carousel of related stories is not used. There is no hindsight framing, and the retrieval date is disclosed. As a publisher page, no archive disclosure is needed. > June 10, 2025 support — pass: Each claim matches the source text: the 2.6% and 64% figures, the nursing and software development retention, the links between exit rates and demand and salary, the implications for workers and employers, and the representativeness caveat. Implications stay hedged as 'may', as in the source. The page was edited after publication, but every cited text is plainly from the main article body. > Workers in occupations with lower average posted salaries were more likely to switch into a different occupational category. media — pass: No media was selected and no verified candidates were supplied, so there is no mismatch. ## Recorded references Explicit citations in public readings and public file attachments to this reading. Shared topics are not citations. Other artifact types need an explicit reference adapter. No public references recorded here yet. [Reference data (JSON)](/readings/72223015d7cf456ad361eb80991c0fafccf5b8c3e3de23edf28b4adb3ad3a7c2/references.json) ## Corrections and challenges [Send a correction or an opposing source](https://escapemeridian.com/corrections/) [JSON record](https://escapemeridian.com/readings/lisa-feist-and-luke-young-argue-in-indeed-hiring-lab-that-job-72223015.json)