August 24, 2025 – The Insights Career Network has released a new report detailing the career struggles of insights professionals in the 2025 ICN Census Report: The People Navigating a Shifting Professional Landscape in Insights. The survey responses from 470 ICN members helped us understand who we are as a community and what we’re navigating in our careers.
Get an Unfiltered Look at the Professional Landscape and How ICN is Evolving to Support You.
The Insights Career Network (ICN) represents a dynamic community of research professionals who study markets, users, behaviors, and trends, and the 2025 ICN Census is our inaugural comprehensive initiative to gain a deeper understanding of our members’ career trajectories, the challenges they encounter, their future aspirations, and how we can most effectively provide support.
A Few Key Findings from the Report:
- Most join ICN for networking and job search support, emphasizing the need for ICN to become an ongoing professional community.
- Nearly half (46%) of ICN members are actively seeking work, many after 9+ months of unemployment.
- Just over 40% of the Employed report high satisfaction with their current situation, but that’s way better than the unemployed, of whom only 5% are very satisfied.
- Emotional and career resilience are tightly linked, with prolonged unemployment significantly impacting satisfaction levels.
- Members are asking for more targeted support, including job matching, mentoring, and skill-building.
- Highly experienced ICN members face a job market where qualifications don’t always translate to opportunity, particularly at senior levels.
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Hear directly from ICN Census architect and analysts about the findings in the 08.18.25 The ICN Insights Census with ICN Research on Research leaders Tracy Bills and Aditi Tandon
August 18, 2025, ICN Deck (pdf) | Recording (video)
About Insights Career Network
Insights Career Network (ICN) is a community that helps research and insights workers navigate career transitions and personal challenges by providing accessible community resources that highlight jobs and insights trends that matter to workers in transition; hosting free virtual job seekers and allies meetups that help and heal; highlighting job opportunities available to the community; and prioritizing the perspective of the research and insights community.
To see current job referrals or a list of current job seekers, please visit https://insightscareernetwork.org/
