How we score a job.

Your job is many tasks. We look at each one.

A woman works at a bright desk beside tall plants

We score each task in your job.

What we score

13 or 14

tasks in most roles, each weighted by how much of the week it takes. You check the list before anything is scored.

Four questions for every task

1

Can software do it today?

We count only tools anyone can buy right now.

2

How costly is a mistake?

Slow, expensive errors keep people close.

3

Does it rely on what you know?

Client history and team know-how live with you.

4

Does someone answer for it?

Work with a name on it stays with a person.

You pick the future

Nobody knows how fast this moves. You pick Slowly, Steadily or Quickly, and your week follows. In your plan you can fine-tune the three dials behind that choice.

Dial 1

How capable AI gets

incremental to transformative

Dial 2

How fast your employer adopts it

slow and messy to aggressive

Dial 3

What happens to entry-level hiring

hiring holds to hiring of new people stops

What stays fixed: what tools can do today. Your view of the future only comes in through the dials.

Who does each hour

Example: paralegal, middle pace

70% of a paralegal's week is still theirs.

You

40%16 hours

Needs your judgment.

You using AI

30%12 hours

AI does the slow parts. You still own it.

AI

30%12 hours

AI could do most of it.

Every task lands in one of three groups. The work that is still yours is the first two together. Your own plan uses your own tasks and the pace you pick.

What we're careful about

Work with your name on itA license or signature is yours.

Most duties belong to your employer, and you carry them for them.

Risks beyond AIFor 65 of our 120 roles, other forces matter more than AI.
Interest ratesStore openings and closingsBranch changesSchool enrollmentFederal budgets
Common advice, looked at closely"Go to law school." "Learn spreadsheets."

Each report shows when the usual advice fits, and when another path fits better.

How we check

Each report is written from published research. Then separate checkers read every hard truth and outlook number against its source page.

116

wording fixes in the hard truths

82

wording fixes in the outlook numbers

Course or credential
Price and eligibility
Retired or unconfirmed ones say so

Every number on a report links to its source and its date.

We'll tell you when we're not sure

Our scores are informed judgments from research.

We have no outcome data yet. Your employer matters more than any average.

Where our numbers come from

Every report is built from published research. These are the sources we lean on most.

  • US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Job counts, pay and 10-year job outlooks. Our most cited source by far.
  • O*NET OnLine. The tasks that make up each job.
  • Course providers' own pages. Every course and credential in a plan, with its price and the date we checked it.
See all 11 sources
  • Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Jobs and pay for recent college graduates, by major.
  • College Scorecard, US Department of Education. Earnings and costs by college program.
  • National Science Foundation. Science and engineering jobs and research funding.
  • Stanford Digital Economy Lab. How AI is changing hiring for younger workers.
  • McKinsey, PwC, Deloitte and the World Economic Forum. How companies are adopting AI.
  • Gartner. Forecasts on AI at work and in hiring.
  • KFF, Pew Research Center and Gallup. Health costs, how people use AI, and how workers feel about it.
  • Professional bodies such as NCEES, AAMC and SHRM. Licensing steps and career paths in their fields.

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