Should I go or stay?
Answer 10 structured questions and receive a first read on your professional situation — whether staying, an internal move or an exit. Sober, anonymous and free of coaching clichés.
The instrument provides structured orientation and does not replace individual career, legal, tax or financial advice.
Five decision dimensions
The analysis combines five sober dimensions into a decision indication. The classification follows a fixed logic and additionally factors in your professional profile.
Internal prospects
Development and advancement opportunities within your current organization.
External marketability
Market value, demand and realistic options outside the current employer.
Exit pressure
Strain, misfit and structural pressure that push toward a move.
Personal / financial anchors
Binding factors and security needs that constrain the room to move.
Readiness to act
Your actual readiness to drive a change right now.
An instrument, not a career quiz
Three steps from profile to decision indication — tuned to role, seniority, region and market position.
Capture status
Industry, region, function, seniority, capability profile and age band. These inputs calibrate the analysis and the concrete next steps.
Assess the situation
Ten precise questions on internal situation, external marketability, exit pressure, anchors and readiness to act. Computed locally in your browser.
Classify & review
Score profile, deciding factors, counter-indicators and one concrete next step for the coming 30–90 days.
Suitable for — and not suitable for
The instrument addresses a clearly defined decision situation. In other situations, professional support is the right path.
- Corporate employees with unclear internal prospects
- Senior professionals and managers considering a move
- People who want to soberly compare staying, an internal move or an exit
- Acute mental health crises
- Individual employment-law counsel
- Detailed tax or financial decisions
- Situations where immediate professional advice is required
Your structured assessment
First a brief profile, then ten questions. The decision indication appears immediately afterwards — with score profile, deciding factors and a concrete next step.
The check is free and anonymous
The assessment and its analysis run without sign-up, directly in your browser. Only the deepening tools — such as employer map, runway calculator or scenario comparison — require an account.
The 10-question check
- No registration, no employer data
- Analysis runs fully in the browser, no server transmission
- Decision indication, score profile and recommended next step
The deepening tools
- Tool selection matched to your profile and result
- Employer map, runway calculator, benchmark and more
- Saveable analysis and the matching deepening review
Are my inputs stored?
No. For the check, profile and answers are processed only in your browser; without an account nothing is transmitted to a server.
When do I need an account?
Only for the deepening tools. With an account, results can be saved and the tools matching your profile can be unlocked. The check itself you continue to use anonymously.
Is this advice?
No. The check is an orientation instrument and does not replace employment-law, tax or financial advice for an individual case.
How binding is the result?
The result is a model-based decision indication. It surfaces tendencies and is a starting point for the next review steps.
Methodology & Dimensions
The instrument distills your answers and professional status into five decision dimensions and from there into a decision indication. Each dimension draws on established constructs in work and organizational research. The concrete calculation is deliberately not disclosed here; what matters is the conceptual anchor of each dimension.
Foundations of the five dimensions
The choice of dimensions reflects the finding that decisions about job changes are not driven by a single factor, but emerge from the interplay of strain, alternatives, anchoring and readiness to act. This interplay is exactly what established explanatory models of turnover research describe.
D1 — Internal prospects
Captures visible development and advancement opportunities in the current employer. Conceptually, the dimension draws on research into internal labor markets and on perceived organizational support, which shows that recognizable internal prospects raise engagement and reduce turnover intentions.
Doeringer & Piore (1971), Internal Labor Markets and Manpower Analysis. · Eisenberger et al. (1986), Perceived Organizational Support, Journal of Applied Psychology.
D2 — External marketability
Captures market value and realistic options outside the current employer. The basis is human-capital and employability research, in which the availability and quality of perceived alternatives is a central and distinct driver of turnover decisions.
Becker (1964), Human Capital. · Forrier & Sels (2003) and De Vos et al. (2011) on employability, Journal of Vocational Behavior.
D3 — Exit pressure
Measures strain and misfit — the forces pushing toward a move. The dimension follows the Job Demands–Resources model and Person–Environment Fit research: high demands paired with low resources, and a poor person-environment fit, raise strain and the propensity to move.
Bakker & Demerouti (2007), Job Demands–Resources Model, Journal of Managerial Psychology. · Kristof-Brown et al. (2005), Person–Environment Fit, Personnel Psychology.
D4 — Personal / financial anchors
Describes binding factors that limit the room to move — financial buffer as well as personal and location-related commitments. Anchors here are the Three-Component Model of organizational commitment (particularly its continuance component) and the concept of Job Embeddedness.
Meyer & Allen (1991), Three-Component Model of Commitment, Human Resource Management Review. · Mitchell et al. (2001), Job Embeddedness, Academy of Management Journal.
D5 — Readiness to act
Captures the actual energy for change. The basis is the Theory of Planned Behavior and turnover research, according to which intention is the strongest direct predictor of subsequent behavior — pressure alone, without readiness to act, rarely leads to a move.
Ajzen (1991), Theory of Planned Behavior, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. · Griffeth, Hom & Gaertner (2000), meta-analysis of turnover, Journal of Management.
From dimensions to indication
The five dimensions are combined into one of five decision indications — from stabilizing the stay through to an active move. What matters is not a single number, but the pattern: e.g. high exit pressure combined with strong external marketability and clear readiness to act. This approach reflects the research view that turnover decisions are best explained as an interplay of multiple factors — prominently in the "Unfolding Model" of turnover.
Lee & Mitchell (1994), An Unfolding Model of Voluntary Employee Turnover, Academy of Management Review.
How your status feeds in
Industry, region, function, seniority, capability profile and age band adjust the dimension values. These adjustments follow the same constructs — e.g. a broad, current capability profile raises external marketability, a later life stage raises anchoring. In the result, the adjustments made are transparently disclosed.
Relevant studies & sources
A curated selection of robust surveys that support the dimensional design of the instrument. The tags show which decision dimension each source touches. Figures may have changed since publication.
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Disclaimer
Notes on the content, function and limits of the instrument as well as liability for content and links.
No individual advice
The assessment provided on this site serves solely as structured orientation. It does not replace individual career, legal, tax or financial advice and does not constitute a recommendation in an individual case. Decisions about staying with, moving internally within, or leaving an organization remain your own responsibility.
Not a diagnostic instrument
The analysis is structured orientation, not scientific or psychological diagnosis. Results are based exclusively on your self-assessment and profile inputs and should be understood as indicative, not as an objective measurement.
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Crisis situations
In case of acute mental health strain or crisis, please contact professional support directly, such as medical or psychotherapeutic services or a crisis helpline. The instrument is expressly not intended for such situations.
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