How effectively does your organisation support employees to maintain career momentum through major life transitions?
Three quarters of a woman’s career still lies ahead of her after her first child.
Yet many organisations focus on helping employees return to work rather than helping them continue to build meaningful, sustainable careers.
Parenthood can be one of the most significant transitions in an employee’s working life. It can influence confidence, identity, visibility, priorities, career aspirations and the practical realities of balancing work and family responsibilities.
While there are many factors that determine whether an employee chooses to stay, organisations can influence the conditions that support employees to remain engaged, continue progressing and build sustainable careers.
The Career Continuity Audit™ helps organisations assess those conditions.
What is Career Continuity?
Career continuity is the ability to maintain career momentum through major life transitions.
For working parents, this means more than simply returning to work.
It means continuing to:
Build career capital
Access meaningful opportunities
Progress and develop
Maintain visibility and influence
Build confidence and professional identity
Create a sustainable career alongside family responsibilities
The organisations that do this well are often better positioned to retain experience, strengthen leadership pipelines and benefit from the skills and perspectives that parenthood can develop.
What's included?
The Career Continuity Audit™ assesses ten organisational drivers of career continuity:
- Leadership & Culture
- Manager Capability
- Planning for Continuity
- Maintaining Continuity
- Rebuilding Momentum
- Career Progression
- Working Parent Practical Support
- Connection & Belonging
- Measurement & Accountability
- Parental Leave Policy & Benefits
What will you recieve?
The Audit includes:
- 40 diagnostic questions
- A Career Continuity Score™ out of 100
- Section-level scoring across ten organisational drivers
- Score interpretation guidance
- Reflective questions to support discussion and action planning
The Audit takes approximately 10-15 minutes to complete.
Who is it for?
The Career Continuity Audit™ is designed for:
- HR Directors
- People Directors
- Talent and Development Leaders
- DEI Leaders
- Employee Experience Professionals
- Senior Leaders responsible for talent retention and progression
What your score means
The Audit is not a measure of employee retention, nor can it predict whether employees will choose to remain with an organisation.
Instead, it provides a structured framework for assessing the extent to which your organisation has created the conditions that support employees to maintain career momentum, continue progressing and build sustainable careers through major life transitions.
Your Career Continuity Score™ provides a useful starting point for discussion, reflection and action planning.
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