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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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Paralegal

152 open jobs·112 employers

10 markets are one step away

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

Among nearby careers, Executive Assistant has the most openings (525), while Administrative Assistant requires the fewest new skills.

#1 closest · Administrative Assistant · 211 openings · Close#2 closest · Executive Assistant · 525 openings · Close#3 closest · Corporate Counsel · 148 openings · Close#4 closest · Virtual Assistant · 143 openings · Close#5 closest · Legal Counsel · 191 openings · Close#6 closest · Property Manager · 100 openings · Moderate change#7 closest · Executive Director · 173 openings · Moderate change#8 closest · Team Lead · 179 openings · Moderate change#9 closest · IT Specialist · 177 openings · Moderate change#10 closest · Customer Service Representative · 421 openings · Moderate change

Skill transition

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

  • Close5
  • Moderate change5

Larger circles = more open jobs, from 100 to 525 here.

Tap a market to put it at the center.

The 10 markets closest to Paralegal, 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.

  • Administrative Assistant

    from Paralegal

    Strong match

    Close

    Among the 5 closest moves from Paralegal.

    211

    openings in Administrative Assistant

    3

    skills you already have

    6

    skills to learn

    2

    skills to strengthen

    You already have

    ParalegalAdministrative Assistantshare of postings

    administrative support

    9%100%

    correspondence

    24%82%

    filing

    19%12%

    You'll need to learn

    • data entryasked for in 79% of Administrative Assistant postings
    • microsoft officeasked for in 38% of Administrative Assistant postings
    • schedulingasked for in 32% of Administrative Assistant postings
    • outlookasked for in 29% of Administrative Assistant postings
    • powerpointasked for in 26% of Administrative Assistant postings
    • wordasked for in 31% of Administrative Assistant postings

    Strengthen what you have

    • administrative support9% → 100%
    • correspondence24% → 82%

    How much work is out there

    Paralegal
    152
    Administrative Assistant
    211

    This market is about the size of yours.

    What to do next

    1. 1 · Learn

      data entry

      Asked for in 79% of Administrative Assistant postings, and 5 other new skills.

    2. 2 · Strengthen

      administrative support

      9% of Paralegal postings ask for it, against 100% of Administrative Assistant.

    3. 3 · Look at the work

      211 Administrative Assistant postings

      Observed active in this snapshot.

    152 Paralegal postings · 211 Administrative Assistant 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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