Source page: McKinsey & Company
Commentary
Risk pros are making moves
Risk | Jobs
January 25, 2023 – Risk and compliance professionals are key to mitigating the broad array of risks companies face today. Organizations are casting wider nets to fill the growing need for risk-related roles, find senior partners Ida Kirstensen and Olivia White and colleagues. Almost half of risk experts switch industries during their careers, but businesses in some sectors heavily favor hiring professionals who are already familiar with the given industry, especially in finance and healthcare.
To read the article, see “Addressing the revolving door in risk,” December 6, 2022.
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Visual form
Sankey-style career-mobility chart.
Layout / body structure
The chart is built as a movement graphic that reads from one industry bucket to another, so the eye follows the bands or connections across the page rather than reading a single axis. The structure is left to right, with hiring destinations and prior-industry backgrounds presented as linked paths.
What is being compared
It compares how risk and compliance professionals move across industries over the course of their careers and which sectors prefer to hire talent that already comes with the same industry background.
Measurement system
The chart is driven by shares of talent movement rather than by revenue or head count totals. The widths of the connections or bands carry the weight of the comparison, while the industry labels identify where talent starts and where it lands.
Visible structure inside the graphic
The major pieces are the industry buckets at either side of the chart and the connecting bands that show how people move between them. The thickest links make the preferred hiring patterns visible, especially where employers favor candidates who already know the sector.
Main takeaway from the visual
The page shows that risk talent is portable across industries, but that portability is not uniform. Regulated or risk-heavy sectors still lean harder toward hiring people who already understand the rules, risks, and operating context of that same industry.
Key standout values or extremes
The article framing notes that almost half of risk experts switch industries during their careers. The chart also emphasizes that finance and healthcare sit at the more closed end of the comparison, with stronger preference for like-for-like industry experience.
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