# Lisa Feist and Luke Young trace job switches in Indeed Hiring Lab [Canonical reading](https://escapemeridian.com/readings/lisa-feist-and-luke-young-trace-job-switches-in-indeed-hiring-c62b58f8) Lisa Feist and Luke Young published this analysis on June 10, 2025, in Indeed Hiring Lab. They use Indeed data to track where workers come from and go when they switch occupational categories, arguing that these movements can show how people build careers and carry skills from one industry to another. Their analysis draws on tens of millions of U.S. Indeed user profiles. It reports that about one-in-forty Indeed users with an uploaded resume switches into a new job each month, and almost two-thirds of those switchers enter a new occupational category. The interactive plots cover switches from 2022 to 2024, with previous occupations on the left and new occupations on the right. The retrieved text does not include the plots or the attached PDF, so it does not show which occupational categories have the largest flows or how the rates differ by category. 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: 2026-11-13T14:03:23.455Z. First observed: 2026-10-30T18:14:02.153Z. Retrieved: 2026-10-30T18:15:44.898Z. - [Coming and Going: Where Workers Come From and Go When They Switch Jobs](https://hiringlab.indeed.com/2025/06/10/where-workers-come-from-and-go-when-they-switch-occupations/) ## Limits The analysis described here concerns Indeed users with uploaded resumes; the text does not establish whether their job switches represent all U.S. workers. The retrieved text refers to interactive plots and an attached PDF, but neither is included, so category-level flows cannot be assessed from this evidence. Text as retrieved on October 30, 2026; originally published June 10, 2025. ## Open question Which occupational categories have the largest inflows and outflows in the plots, and how do those rates vary? ## Source-stated Lisa Feist and Luke Young say their analysis uses Indeed data to track job switching across occupational categories. > Using our Indeed data we developed interactive Sankey plots to track job switching across occupational categories. - [Supporting source](https://hiringlab.indeed.com/2025/06/10/where-workers-come-from-and-go-when-they-switch-occupations/) ## Source-stated The authors report that each month about one-in-forty Indeed users with an uploaded resume switches into a new job, and almost two-thirds of those switchers enter a new occupational category. > 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 - [Supporting source](https://hiringlab.indeed.com/2025/06/10/where-workers-come-from-and-go-when-they-switch-occupations/) ## Source-stated The authors say the analysis uses tens of millions of U.S. Indeed user profiles. > according to a Hiring Lab analysis of tens of millions of U.S. Indeed user profiles. - [Supporting source](https://hiringlab.indeed.com/2025/06/10/where-workers-come-from-and-go-when-they-switch-occupations/) ## Source-stated The authors say that tracking workers' previous and subsequent industries can help explain how workers build careers and carry skills between industries. > can tell us a lot about how workers build careers and take their skills from one industry to another. - [Supporting source](https://hiringlab.indeed.com/2025/06/10/where-workers-come-from-and-go-when-they-switch-occupations/) ## Source-stated The plots show occupational switches during 2022 to 2024, with previous categories on the left and the categories workers entered on the right. > The right side of each chart represents the category into which people switched during the years from 2022 to 2024. The left side represents their previous occupational categories. - [Supporting source](https://hiringlab.indeed.com/2025/06/10/where-workers-come-from-and-go-when-they-switch-occupations/) ## 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: 25582697-fefe-ed5c-fba9-4035af5ea7fa. Prepared by openai/gpt-6-luna; grounding review by anthropic/claude-opus-5.5. Source check: passed by anthropic/claude-opus-5.5 on 2026-11-13T13:58:56.206Z. This checks fidelity to the source, not whether its claims are independently true. Editorial selection: accept; reasons: bridge\_admitted\_by\_model. Observation: a0e353b3b9fa87d55f36650f75f952ef85ddfc316ffaee37cb322c146c5cecb4. Source text hash: 06883977853332b77222aa266fe97c5e05c2514700c40be0fae6693494d969ff. ## Revision and source-check history ### Version 1 — 2026-11-13T14:03:23.455Z Lisa Feist and Luke Young published this analysis on June 10, 2025, in Indeed Hiring Lab. They use Indeed data to track where workers come from and go when they switch occupational categories, arguing that these movements can show how people build careers and carry skills from one industry to another. Their analysis draws on tens of millions of U.S. Indeed user profiles. It reports that about one-in-forty Indeed users with an uploaded resume switches into a new job each month, and almost two-thirds of those switchers enter a new occupational category. The interactive plots cover switches from 2022 to 2024, with previous occupations on the left and new occupations on the right. The retrieved text does not include the plots or the attached PDF, so it does not show which occupational categories have the largest flows or how the rates differ by category. ## 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: 2026-11-13T14:03:23.455Z. First observed: 2026-10-30T18:14:02.153Z. Retrieved: 2026-10-30T18:15:44.898Z. - [Coming and Going: Where Workers Come From and Go When They Switch Jobs](https://hiringlab.indeed.com/2025/06/10/where-workers-come-from-and-go-when-they-switch-occupations/) ## Limits The analysis described here concerns Indeed users with uploaded resumes; the text does not establish whether their job switches represent all U.S. workers. The retrieved text refers to interactive plots and an attached PDF, but neither is included, so category-level flows cannot be assessed from this evidence. Text as retrieved on October 30, 2026; originally published June 10, 2025. ## Open question Which occupational categories have the largest inflows and outflows in the plots, and how do those rates vary? ## Source-stated Lisa Feist and Luke Young say their analysis uses Indeed data to track job switching across occupational categories. > Using our Indeed data we developed interactive Sankey plots to track job switching across occupational categories. - [Supporting source](https://hiringlab.indeed.com/2025/06/10/where-workers-come-from-and-go-when-they-switch-occupations/) ## Source-stated The authors report that each month about one-in-forty Indeed users with an uploaded resume switches into a new job, and almost two-thirds of those switchers enter a new occupational category. > 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 - [Supporting source](https://hiringlab.indeed.com/2025/06/10/where-workers-come-from-and-go-when-they-switch-occupations/) ## Source-stated The authors say the analysis uses tens of millions of U.S. Indeed user profiles. > according to a Hiring Lab analysis of tens of millions of U.S. Indeed user profiles. - [Supporting source](https://hiringlab.indeed.com/2025/06/10/where-workers-come-from-and-go-when-they-switch-occupations/) ## Source-stated The authors say that tracking workers' previous and subsequent industries can help explain how workers build careers and carry skills between industries. > can tell us a lot about how workers build careers and take their skills from one industry to another. - [Supporting source](https://hiringlab.indeed.com/2025/06/10/where-workers-come-from-and-go-when-they-switch-occupations/) ## Source-stated The plots show occupational switches during 2022 to 2024, with previous categories on the left and the categories workers entered on the right. > The right side of each chart represents the category into which people switched during the years from 2022 to 2024. The left side represents their previous occupational categories. - [Supporting source](https://hiringlab.indeed.com/2025/06/10/where-workers-come-from-and-go-when-they-switch-occupations/) ## 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: 25582697-fefe-ed5c-fba9-4035af5ea7fa. Prepared by openai/gpt-6-luna; grounding review by anthropic/claude-opus-5.5. Source check: passed by anthropic/claude-opus-5.5 on 2026-11-13T13:58:56.206Z. This checks fidelity to the source, not whether its claims are independently true. Editorial selection: accept; reasons: bridge\_admitted\_by\_model. Observation: a0e353b3b9fa87d55f36650f75f952ef85ddfc316ffaee37cb322c146c5cecb4. Source text hash: 06883977853332b77222aa266fe97c5e05c2514700c40be0fae6693494d969ff. ### passed — 2026-11-13T13:58:56.206Z — anthropic/claude-opus-5.5 Publication: 25582697-fefe-ed5c-fba9-4035af5ea7fa attribution — pass: The reading attributes the analysis to Lisa Feist and Luke Young at Indeed Hiring Lab, matching the byline. The figures are kept as the authors' reported findings. The source is a single article, not a listing; the carousel titles are page navigation. > By Lisa Feist & Luke Young summary — pass: The summary is plain and self-contained. It names the actor and the data, gives the two headline rates and the authors' stated purpose: understanding career paths and how skills move between industries. It says plainly that the plots and PDF are missing. It describes the Sankey plots as interactive plots and explains their layout, so no central jargon is left unexplained. The question follows directly from that gap. > Understanding which sectors workers come from when they start a role in a given industry date — pass: The stated June 10, 2025 matches the article's dateline at day precision. The page was edited after publication (dateModified 2026-01-27), but the cited passages are the article's own byline, dateline and body, which are plainly part of the original. The reading uses no carousel or other later material, frames nothing with hindsight and presents no forecasts as outcomes. The evidence is a publisher page, not an archive copy, so no archive disclosure is needed. > June 10, 2025 support — pass: Every claim matches a verbatim excerpt: the one-in-forty monthly switch rate, the near two-thirds changing occupational category, the tens of millions of U.S. profiles, the 2022 to 2024 window and the chart layout. The limitation about whether the findings represent all U.S. workers is a fair caution, not an invented claim. No benefits or costs are asserted beyond the source. > almost two-thirds of them switch to a new occupational category media — pass: No media was selected and no verified candidates were supplied. The interactive plots are not in the evidence, so leaving media empty is appropriate. ## 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. 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