Here Are the Top Industries That Hire Career-Switchers

Internet companies, venture capital firms, and even investment banks hired a large number of industry outsiders

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By Akane Otani

January 30, 2015 at 5:18 PM UTC

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Good news for job seekers looking for not just a new cubicle but also an entirely fresh start. Many industries in high demand—including computer security, venture capital, consulting, and investment banking—are also the ones that hire the largest proportion of employees from outside, a new report shows.

For a report released Friday, Jan. 30, LinkedIn scoured its data to see which industries were pulling in career-switchers at the highest rates. LinkedIn counted users who added a job in 2014 that was in a different industry than the one they had most recently worked in. The company then calculated what share of users were new among industries with at least 50,000 global users. Internet companies, which had 11.8 percent of employees new to the industry, led the pack, followed by venture capital and private equity (11.1 percent), computer and network security (10.6 percent), and online media (9.9 percent).