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Most common functional transition pathways

1.     Accounting to Finance
2.     Marketing to Sales
3.     Business Development to Sales

Global role transitions with a greater internal to external transition rate

1.     Software Engineer to Product Manager
2.     Business Analyst to Program Manager

[1] Internal mobility rate is calculated as the transitions made within the same organisation, to dissimilar roles, as a percentage of all transitions. Based on global LinkedIn data. From April 2020–August 2020, internal hires made up 20% of all hires. Compared to 17.4% in the same time period in 2019, the share of internal-mobility hires increased by 13.1%.