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Enabling skills-based practices with our powerful taxonomies for streamlined data standardization and automation.

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A suite of APIs to facilitate the enhancement of skill profiles

In today’s swiftly evolving skills economy, the need for accurate and structured skill data is paramount.

Navigating the job-related data landscape can often feel like a journey through chaos, with job titles and skills scattered in countless formats and systems. To tackle this challenge head-on, Textkernel proudly presents Skills Intelligence – a suite of APIs that enables streamlined data standardization and automation to facilitate the enhancement of skill profiles and enables organizations and individuals to identify the skills they need for today and the future.

Ontology Skills Taxonomies

Your gateway to meaningful data.

At the core of Textkernel’s Skills Intelligence are comprehensive taxonomies, pivotal for skills-based planning. With more than 4,500 professions and over 12,000 unique skills, these taxonomies are the gold standard in the industry.

Each skill and profession is associated with a variety of synonyms, acronyms, and alternative wordings that enable efficient data harmonization across sources. And continuously maintains our taxonomies to always be on par with current skills in market.

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  • Ontology API
  • Full Taxonomy Download

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  • Availability in US, EU and APAC
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FAQ

Got questions about our Skills Intelligence? Check out our FAQ for basics or dive into our developer portal for more in-depth technical info. We’re here to help if you need more answers.

How does Textkernel define a skill?

At Textkernel a skill is more than a word, it’s a trait or capacity that can be associated with an individual across various professional scenarios.

How many skill concepts does Textkernel’s skills classification cover?

Textkernel’s skills classification is vast with more than 12,000 skill concepts that categorize over 300,000 synonyms across over 25 languages.

How did Textkernel collect, assess, and classify all their concepts and synonyms?

Collecting all the concepts and synonyms in our taxonomies is an ongoing process that evolves to reflect changes in the market. It involves looking at job postings, existing taxonomies, online sources and websites, educational institutions’ descriptions, and syllabuses.

We also used statistical techniques and machine learning to distill our vast list into something relevant and useful. And it doesn’t stop there: we assess relevancy by analyzing real-world usage of skill concepts across millions of job postings and candidate CVs to ensure they’re spot on. Finally, our dedicated quality assurance teams extensively inspect and improve the system to guarantee that the skill list reflects human intuition.

How is Textkernel’s taxonomy structured?

We distinguish between 4 categories of skills: professional skills, soft skills, IT skills, and languages. There’s also a similarity score between each pair of skills which adds structure.

How frequently does Textkernel add new skills or update the taxonomy?

We’re committed to making your experience better all the time. Which is why we release updates every quarter, enhancing the skills repository across all available languages and fine-tuning our extraction method.

Can I suggest new skills?

Definitely! Your insights matter to us. We welcome your feedback on our skills concepts and consult closely with several of our key customers on the continued enhancement of our taxonomy. If you’re interested in joining our Ontology Maintenance program, contact us.

How do I get my candidate database to speak your skills and professions language?

Our skills and professions standardization tooling is here to help. It effortlessly translates any list of skills or professions into our framework, making it easy to align your existing data with our skills and professions taxonomies.

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