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  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/run-a-low-cost-career-experiment-before-a-full-pivot",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9029",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Run a low-cost career experiment before a full pivot",
  "summary": "Curiosity is cheaper to test than a resignation.",
  "kind": "protocol",
  "body": "Turn the career question into a small experiment that exposes the actual tasks: shadow a workflow where permitted, complete a realistic project, contribute to a bounded adjacent task, interview practitioners about decisions, or simulate the work. Record what became more or less attractive and which gap is real.",
  "limits": [
    "A small experiment cannot reproduce compensation, politics, workload or long-term role conditions. It reduces uncertainty; it does not eliminate it."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-skill-acquisition-career-dominant-focus"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-06EEB97387779691",
    "RS-A34967A7C032E728"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "A meta-analysis of 90 studies linked career adaptability with planning, exploration, occupational self-efficacy and multiple career and work outcomes.",
      "source_id": "RS-06EEB97387779691",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "These associations do not prove that a particular exploration exercise will cause promotion, income or employability gains.",
      "locator": "Abstract"
    },
    {
      "claim": "A meta-analysis of 122 samples found job-crafting dimensions were differently associated with engagement, satisfaction and performance, so job crafting should not be treated as one uniform behavior.",
      "source_id": "RS-A34967A7C032E728",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "Most evidence is correlational and the direction of effects can differ by crafting dimension.",
      "locator": "Abstract"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "When an adjacent career path looks attractive but the daily work and fit are still uncertain."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "A small experiment cannot reproduce compensation, politics, workload or long-term role conditions. It reduces uncertainty; it does not eliminate it."
  ],
  "example": "Before pivoting from functional consulting to product operations, take ownership of one operational metrics review and compare the actual work with the imagined role.",
  "check": "The experiment changes at least one assumption about the target role or confirms it with concrete task evidence.",
  "steps": [
    "The experiment changes at least one assumption about the target role or confirms it with concrete task evidence."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-06EEB97387779691",
      "title": "Career adaptability: A meta-analysis of relationships with measures of adaptivity, adapting responses, and adaptation results",
      "url": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001879116300604"
    },
    {
      "id": "RS-A34967A7C032E728",
      "title": "Job crafting: A meta-analysis of relationships with individual differences, job characteristics, and work outcomes",
      "url": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001879117300477"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9029",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9034",
      "type": "useful_with",
      "url": "/knowledge/explore-careers-with-a-decision-question"
    }
  ],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-EA04F47374E04549",
      "title": "Learn new skills, turn them into career evidence, and protect the main development edge",
      "url": "/collections/learn-new-skills-turn-them-into-career-evidence-and-protect-the-main-development-edge"
    }
  ]
}