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Career Diagnosis

Which Career Diagnosis Do You Need?

There are now two path-specific Readiness Assessments — MOVE for external change and PROPEL for internal progression — and one overarching Career Positioning Diagnosis, the Career Needs Navigator, which determines which of the two applies to you.

The Navigator is not a MOVE or PROPEL readiness score. It routes you to the correct Readiness Assessment before you complete it.

How do I determine the right career direction?

The Career Diagnosis runs in a fixed sequence: Understand where you actually are, Explore the options that are genuinely open to you, Compare them against criteria that matter, Decide, and commit to a Direction you can execute.

Direction is treated as an evidenced decision rather than a feeling to be discovered. That single decision is what makes everything afterwards — positioning, evidence, conversations and negotiation — coherent.

For the wider method, read how Career OS™ works.

Career Diagnosis framework showing Understand, Explore, Compare, Decide and Direction from career uncertainty to clear action.
Understand → Explore → Compare → Decide → Direction.

Start here if you are unsure

The overarching Career Positioning Diagnosis. Start here if you are unsure which path you need.

Determines whether your appropriate execution path is MOVE or PROPEL. It is not the MOVE or PROPEL readiness score itself — it tells you which Readiness Assessment to take next.

Already know your direction?

MOVE Readiness Assessment

For external change: a new role, employer, sector, geography or career direction.

PROPEL Readiness Assessment

For internal progression: visibility, influence, recognition, scope, promotion and reward.

Not sure of your next step at all? Begin with the Positioning Vision Board and the Career Decision Matrix, then take the Navigator. All free Career OS™ tools are on the tools page.