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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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Sales Development Representative

834 open jobs·450 employers

10 markets are one step away

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

Among nearby careers, Account Executive has the most openings (2,252), while Business Development Representative requires the fewest new skills.

Skill transition

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

  • Very close1
  • Close9

Larger circles = more open jobs, from 116 to 2,252 here.

Tap a market to put it at the center.

The 10 markets closest to Sales Development Representative, 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.
  • Business Development Representative

    from Sales Development Representative

    Excellent match

    Very close

    The closest move to Sales Development Representative we can see. No new skills to learn here. The difference is depth, not breadth: Business Development Representative postings want more of what you already do.

    479

    openings in Business Development Representative

    6

    skills you already have

    0

    skills to learn

    1

    skills to strengthen

    You already have

    Sales Development RepresentativeBusiness Development Representativeshare of postings

    prospecting

    84%72%

    inside sales

    28%46%

    lead generation

    47%38%

    hubspot

    29%23%

    sdr

    85%20%

    sales pipeline

    18%15%

    You'll need to learn

    Nothing new: every skill Business Development Representative asks for is already among Sales Development Representative's.

    Strengthen what you have

    • inside sales28% → 46%

    How much work is out there

    Sales Development Representative
    834
    Business Development Representative
    479

    Smaller than the market you're in, but 6 of the skills it asks for are ones you already have.

    What to do next

    1. 1 · Strengthen

      inside sales

      28% of Sales Development Representative postings ask for it, against 46% of Business Development Representative.

    2. 2 · Look at the work

      479 Business Development Representative postings

      Observed active in this snapshot.

    834 Sales Development Representative postings · 479 Business Development Representative 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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