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Career moves · 231,145 postings · 163 markets · 2026-07-16

Where can your career go next?

Search the role you're in. We count what employers ask for across 231,145 active postings, then show you the markets one step away: how big each one is, and exactly which skills you'd need to add.

What this is and isn't

Markets sit close together when employers on both sides ask for the same skills, measured across 350 normalized skills. This is not a record of people moving between them. That would need career histories we don't have. A close market also isn't automatically a good move. Skills counted are the ones postings list explicitly, so every figure is a floor.

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Area Manager

145 open jobs·12 employers

10 markets are one step away

These are the 10 careers with the highest skill overlap with Area Manager. Bigger circles mean more openings; careers closer to the center require fewer new skills.

Among nearby careers, Program Manager has the most openings (839), while Team Lead requires the fewest new skills.

#1 closest · Team Lead · 179 openings · Close#2 closest · Operations Manager · 403 openings · Close#3 closest · Supply Chain Manager · 142 openings · Moderate change#4 closest · HR Business Partner · 144 openings · Moderate change#5 closest · Quality Engineer · 110 openings · Moderate change#6 closest · Manufacturing Engineer · 182 openings · Moderate change#7 closest · Maintenance Technician · 105 openings · Moderate change#8 closest · Chief Of Staff · 186 openings · Moderate change#9 closest · Program Manager · 839 openings · Moderate change#10 closest · Project Engineer · 158 openings · Moderate change

Skill transition

How much each market's required skills differ from your
current role.

  • Close2
  • Moderate change8

Larger circles = more open jobs, from 105 to 839 here.

Tap a market to put it at the center.

The 10 markets closest to Area Manager, ranked by how much their skills overlap with your current role. Distance from the center shows how different the required skills are, closer is a smaller change. Color is the transition band; circle size is open jobs.

  • Team Lead

    from Area Manager

    Strong match

    Close

    Among the 2 closest moves from Area Manager.

    179

    openings in Team Lead

    6

    skills you already have

    6

    skills to learn

    1

    skills to strengthen

    You already have

    Area ManagerTeam Leadshare of postings

    microsoft office

    30%33%

    logistics

    57%29%

    performance management

    54%26%

    customer experience

    23%18%

    process improvement

    77%17%

    six sigma

    45%3%

    You'll need to learn

    • coachingasked for in 41% of Team Lead postings
    • continuous improvementasked for in 34% of Team Lead postings
    • customer successasked for in 18% of Team Lead postings
    • total rewardsasked for in 15% of Team Lead postings
    • data entryasked for in 15% of Team Lead postings
    • excelasked for in 45% of Team Lead postings

    Strengthen what you have

    • microsoft office30% → 33%

    How much work is out there

    Area Manager
    145
    Team Lead
    179

    This market is about the size of yours.

    What to do next

    1. 1 · Learn

      coaching

      Asked for in 41% of Team Lead postings, and 5 other new skills.

    2. 2 · Strengthen

      microsoft office

      30% of Area Manager postings ask for it, against 33% of Team Lead.

    3. 3 · Look at the work

      179 Team Lead postings

      Observed active in this snapshot.

    145 Area Manager postings · 179 Team Lead postings · 350 normalized skills · snapshot 2026-07-16

Methodology

What is this based on?

231,145 live job postings from 28,870 employers across 163 markets, captured 2026-07-16. Skills come from each posting's stated requirements.

How is distance calculated?

Each market becomes a profile of the skills its postings request, and markets are compared by how much those profiles overlap (an IDF-weighted cosine similarity, so skills that appear in almost every role count for less). The closest markets sit nearest the center, grouped into five bands from Very close to Different field.

What do the skill lists mean?

Shared skills are the ones both roles commonly ask for. Skills to learn are the ones the target market asks for that your current role doesn't, ranked by how much more often they come up.

What isn't included?

Years of experience, seniority, salary, portfolio or certification requirements, or how competitive a role is to land. Skill overlap is one axis of a move, not the whole picture.

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