The job search & career community for research & insights professionals
Supporting Insights Job Hunters, Recruiters, Hiring Managers, Agents, and Allies
Who Are Ready for Change.
Home of the Active Insights Job Seeker List & the Insights Job Referral List
Membership, Events, and Resources are Free.
Findings from the 2024 ICN Hiring Study
The tumultuous state of the insights industry is impacting hiring.
Read more about the 2024 ICN Insights Hiring Study
Next ICN Seekers & Allies Meetups
2x monthly on mondays | 10 AM PT / 12 PM CT / 1 PM ET
Monday, November 18 Seekers & Allies Meetup
Mind the Gap! What to Do and Say about the Gap in Your Resume
Speaker: ICN VP of Member Services, Melissa Barrow
Monday, December 2 Seekers & Allies Meetup
ICN Hiring Study Findings: The Job Seeker Perspective
What are insights professionals experiencing as they seek their next role in user, market, customer, and product research?
Join us to learn our take aways and recommendations from 32 in-depth interviews with job seekers.
Speakers: ICN’s Research on Research Team
Vice President Kahren Kersten
Director of Research Randy Adis
Director of Research Tracy Bills
Director of Research Lori Walker
Monday, December 16 Seekers & Allies Meetup
ICN Community Success Stories & the ICN Year-in-Review
Speakers: the ICN leadership team and you!
Let’s finish on a high note. It’s open mic time and we want to hear from you! All ICNers are welcome to speak. Yes, we’ll hit the highnotes from the ICN’s tremendous year and take suggestions for where to take the ICN, but we’d love to hear from you on your success and plans, too!
Who made success happen this year? Who broke through? Who figured out just what their new employer was looking for? Who made a new commitment to insights consulting?
Come prepared to share! Recognizing your wins will inspire others to break through their own barriers.
Join now to be invited to these ICN Members-only events!
Membership, event attendance, and ICN resources are free.
Already a member?
The Zoom information for this session can be found in our bi-weekly member email, the member calendar event, and our Members-Only LinkedIn Group.
join us live for these recurring
Insights career-Focused Segments
Group-wide introductions
Insights industry news
Community support for challenging situations
The Insights Job Referral List recent postings
Small breakout sessions for job seeker support
Short-session guest speakers like the one above!
Newly Recorded Sessions & Decks
Insights AI in August
11/4: Ageism: A Community Discussion
Video | PDF | more ICN recorded sessions
Ageism is real and it’s real annoying. Let’s talk about how it manifests in our careers and what we can do about it. Bring your stories and experiences to share or share them in advance with one of our volunteer leaders.
October 7: The ICN Hiring study
1st focus: Recruiting & Hiring
video | deck | more ICN recorded sessions
We have spoken with 3 dozen insights recruiters and hiring managers about their 2024.
September 16: How to Market Yourself as a Freelancer While You’re Looking for a Job
Guest Speaker: Marilyn Heywood Paige, Heywood Paige Consulting
SEPTember 3: ICN Insights Freelance Forum
A community panel and discussion about navigating the consulting journey with the ICN Leadership team and YOU
August 19: AI Landscape: Leveraging AI in Your Insights Role
with guest Mike Stevens,
Founder Insight Platforms
join us live for these recurring
Insights career-Focused Segments
Group-wide introductions
Insights industry news
Community support for challenging situations
The Insights Job Referral List recent postings
Small breakout sessions for job seeker support
Short-session guest speakers like the one above!
Why Join the Insights Career Network (ICN)?
Insights Career Network Virtual
Meet-ups 2x/month
Featuring a job seeker topic of choice, guest speakers, and you!
Active Job List with Referrals
Insights job leads from two degrees or less away.
Vetted Job Search Resources
Lists of recruiters, resume writers, free online resources, and more.
Insights Career Q&A
Ask the community insights career-related questions in our events and LinkedIn Groups.
Fill out our short application to attend our next event and gain access to exclusive ICN job & career resources.
Recorded ICN Job Seekers & Allies Meetups
Our bi-weekly meetups are usually recorded and rarely edited.
The result is a library of more than 30 job seeker tactical support videos in what we call the ICN Bootleg Sessions. Here are our most recent sessions.
How Are We Doing?
Who Is The Insights Career Network For?
Looking for a job?
We help active job seekers find roles as insights professionals.
Have a job?
We support insights professionals as their career develops – and help each other along the way.
The Insights Career Network is a community of marketing, consumer, user, and business research professionals volunteering their tools, experience, and networks to help each other develop their careers.
Membership is free and exclusive to those currently working in the customer and business insights trade.
Submit your application to join the Insights Career Network today to access exclusive insider resources curated specifically for insights job seekers.
Who Are Insights Professionals?
Insights professionals are knowledge workers and they can be found in every industry and sector. Insights workers are known by many names like marketing and market researchers, behavioral scientists, user experience researchers (UX), customer experience experts(CX), public opinion analysts, and even library scientists.
Anyone who conducts research on customers, the market, or organizational performance to inform business decisions is an insights professional.
Insights Industry Partners
Our Insights Industry Partners help bring awareness to Insights Career Network programming and job seeker resources. Thank you for your support!
Upcoming ICN Seekers and Allies Meetups
Bi-monthly Mondays (usually)
@ noon Central
