Skills & Occupation Taxonomy

Comprehensive skills and occupation taxonomy extracted from 900M+ job postings. Includes 37,000+ technical skills, 3,000+ professional certifications, and 400+ soft skills identified through a two-step process: Aho-Corasick dictionary matching followed by NLP relevance filtering to remove spurious matches. Coverage exceeds >85% for descriptions over 200 characters, with 5-15 skills per posting on average (2023+). SOC classification uses title + description context (not title-only matching), achieving >95% at 2-digit and 85-92% at 6-digit level. Taxonomy match rate >90%.

All taxonomy fields are derived from the Model Garden NLP pipeline. Skills, SOC codes, seniority, and normalized titles are available on every job posting record.

Key Highlights

37,000+ skills, 3,000+ certifications, 400+ soft skills — competitive with Lightcast's 30K+ taxonomy
Two-step extraction: Aho-Corasick dictionary matching + NLP relevance filtering removes false positives
Separate hard skills, soft skills, and certification fields for clean downstream use
SOC classification using title + description context — >95% at 2-digit, 85-92% at 6-digit
F1 score: 85-92% on bulleted/structured sections, 65-78% on narrative text
Taxonomy match rate >90% — continuously updated as new postings are processed

Use Cases

Skills gap analysis and workforce development
Curriculum alignment for educational institutions
Talent matching and job recommendation engines
Emerging skills detection and trend forecasting

Sample FieldsView full schema

nlpSkillsnlpSoftSkillsnlpCertificationsnlpQualificationsnlpSocCodenlpSocTitlenlpNormalizedTitlenlpNormalizedTitleScorenlpSeniority

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Skills & Occupation Taxonomy

All taxonomy fields are derived from the Model Garden NLP pipeline. Skills, SOC codes, seniority, and normalized titles are available on every job posting record.

Key Highlights

37,000+ skills, 3,000+ certifications, 400+ soft skills — competitive with Lightcast's 30K+ taxonomy

Two-step extraction: Aho-Corasick dictionary matching + NLP relevance filtering removes false positives

Separate hard skills, soft skills, and certification fields for clean downstream use

SOC classification using title + description context — >95% at 2-digit, 85-92% at 6-digit

F1 score: 85-92% on bulleted/structured sections, 65-78% on narrative text

Taxonomy match rate >90% — continuously updated as new postings are processed