Strategic acquisition strengthens Careerz Group’s mission to eliminate career mis-hires and help millions of professionals find work they love.
Careerz Group, a leader in assessment-driven hiring, retention, and career development solutions, announced it has acquired all assets of DreamJob Discovery from author and creator of the DreamJob Type Indicator, Ken Steven. The acquisition includes Steven’s acclaimed book, DreamJob Discovery: How to Find a Job That Fuels Your Passion and Inspires Your Purpose, and the proprietary DreamJob Type Indicator (DJTI), the only career assessment specifically designed to identify the type of work that brings enjoyment and fulfillment to professionals in their careers.
Careerz Group expands its workforce solutions, helping employers reduce costly mis-hires and improve retention by translating validated assessments into practical hiring, onboarding, leadership, and team-development actions, with AI-assisted guidance.
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The DJTI assessment, developed over 16 years of research, testing, and refinement by Ken Steven, addresses what he identified as the critical missing piece in conventional career search and talent management: understanding an individual’s job passion types; the specific workflow processes that naturally energize, engage, and enthuse them.
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“Most career assessments measure what people are good at. The DJTI measures what people love doing. Just because someone excels at something doesn’t mean they enjoy it. That’s a critical distinction when it comes to job fulfillment,” said Ken Steven. “Careerz Group’s acquisition means this self-assessment tool can now reach the scale I always envisioned: helping at least one million people escape paycheck purgatory and discover work that fuels their passion and inspires their purpose.”
The DJTI identifies 21 distinct DreamJob Types organized within a proprietary 4Ts framework, giving individuals, employers, and coaches an unprecedented lens into job role and passion alignment that traditional personality, behavioral, and strengths assessments cannot provide on their own.
Why This Acquisition Matters for Employers, Employees, and Coaches
Research consistently underscores the cost of career misalignment. Gallup’s latest State of the Global Workforce report found that only 21 percent of employees worldwide are engaged in their jobs, while 62 percent are psychologically unattached and 17 percent are actively disengaged, costing the global economy approximately $438 billion in lost productivity in 2024.
Careerz Group’s acquisition of DreamJob Discovery directly targets this crisis by integrating passion-alignment data into its existing suite of validated assessment tools and AI-assisted guidance capabilities.
“Careerz Group was built on a simple belief: when people do work that fits, they thrive and so do the teams around them,” said Melissa Fisher, Careerz Group CEO. “Ken Steven’s DreamJob Type Indicator assessment tool fills a gap that has existed in talent management for decades. Combining DJTI with our existing assessment infrastructure gives us the most complete picture of candidate and employee fit available anywhere—covering aptitudes, personality, behavioral style, natural strengths, personal values, and job passion type.”
Key benefits of the integrated platform include:
- Employees: Discover the specific workflow processes that fuel passion and purpose, eliminating years of costly trial-and-error career changes.
- Employers: Reduce mis-hires and improve retention by matching candidates to roles where they will be both high-performing and passionately engaged.
- Coaches and Career Counselors: Deliver faster client breakthroughs using a proven, repeatable four-step 4Ts framework (Truths, Type, Traits, Transition).
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