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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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Operations Associate

346 open jobs·34 employers

10 markets are one step away

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

Among nearby careers, Pharmacist has the most openings (227), while Retail Sales Associate requires the fewest new skills.

#1 closest · Retail Sales Associate · 153 openings · Moderate change#2 closest · Pharmacy Technician · 144 openings · Moderate change#3 closest · Pharmacist · 227 openings · Moderate change#4 closest · Maintenance Technician · 105 openings · Major change#5 closest · Virtual Assistant · 143 openings · Major change#6 closest · Electrician · 120 openings · Major change#7 closest · Project Engineer · 158 openings · Major change#8 closest · IT Specialist · 177 openings · Major change#9 closest · Specialty Business Manager · 112 openings · Major change#10 closest · Executive Director · 173 openings · Major change

Skill transition

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

  • Moderate change3
  • Major change7

Larger circles = more open jobs, from 105 to 346 here.

Tap a market to put it at the center.

The 10 markets closest to Operations Associate, 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.

  • Retail Sales Associate

    from Operations Associate

    Possible move

    Moderate boundary

    Among the 3 closest moves from Operations Associate. Most of the distance is one skill: customer experience. The rest of the gap is small.

    153

    openings in Retail Sales Associate

    1

    skills you already have

    1

    skills to learn

    1

    skills to strengthen

    You already have

    Operations AssociateRetail Sales Associateshare of postings

    receiving

    72%94%

    You'll need to learn

    • customer experienceasked for in 97% of Retail Sales Associate postings

    Strengthen what you have

    • receiving72% → 94%

    How much work is out there

    Operations Associate
    346
    Retail Sales Associate
    153

    Smaller than the market you're in, but 1 of the skills it asks for are ones you already have.

    What to do next

    1. 1 · Learn

      customer experience

      Asked for in 97% of Retail Sales Associate postings, the only genuinely new one.

    2. 2 · Strengthen

      receiving

      72% of Operations Associate postings ask for it, against 94% of Retail Sales Associate.

    3. 3 · Look at the work

      153 Retail Sales Associate postings

      Observed active in this snapshot.

    346 Operations Associate postings · 153 Retail Sales Associate 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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