{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/check-whether-learning-is-actually-the-career-bottleneck",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9038",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Check whether learning is actually the career bottleneck",
  "summary": "Sometimes the missing move is not learning.",
  "kind": "question",
  "body": "Before adding training, classify the current bottleneck: missing capability, missing evidence, weak self-presentation, insufficient search behavior, lack of exposure, organizational constraint or poor role fit. Train only when capability is the limiting factor; otherwise act on the actual constraint.",
  "limits": [
    "Career systems are noisy and can contain bias or opaque decisions. A personal bottleneck analysis must not turn structural barriers into self-blame."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-skill-acquisition-career-dominant-focus"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-2B29FF49F2C2117F",
    "RS-06EEB97387779691"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "A meta-analysis of 47 job-search interventions found higher employment odds for participants and stronger results when interventions combined skill development with motivation-related components.",
      "source_id": "RS-2B29FF49F2C2117F",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "The evidence concerns evaluated job-search interventions and should not be treated as a guaranteed individual placement effect.",
      "locator": "Abstract"
    },
    {
      "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"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "When the default response to slow career progress is another course, certification or skill backlog."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Career systems are noisy and can contain bias or opaque decisions. A personal bottleneck analysis must not turn structural barriers into self-blame."
  ],
  "example": "A consultant already performs lead-level work but lacks visible ownership in review documents; another technical course may add less value than making the existing contribution legible.",
  "check": "The next career action matches the diagnosed constraint instead of automatically becoming education.",
  "question": "Can I already perform the target task? · Can I prove it safely? · Do the right people know it? · Am I applying or asking for the relevant scope? · Is the constraint structural rather than personal?",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-2B29FF49F2C2117F",
      "title": "Effectiveness of job search interventions: a meta-analytic review",
      "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24588365/"
    },
    {
      "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"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9038",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9039",
      "type": "useful_with",
      "url": "/knowledge/name-one-dominant-development-edge"
    }
  ],
  "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"
    }
  ]
}