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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 Representative

312 open jobs·183 employers

10 markets are one step away

These are the 10 careers with the highest skill overlap with Sales 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 Sales Executive requires the fewest new skills.

Skill transition

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

  • Very close8
  • Close2

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 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.
  • Sales Executive

    from Sales Representative

    Excellent match

    Very close

    Among the 8 closest moves from Sales Representative.

    275

    openings in Sales Executive

    6

    skills you already have

    6

    skills to learn

    4

    skills to strengthen

    You already have

    Sales RepresentativeSales Executiveshare of postings

    prospecting

    23%43%

    quota attainment

    24%25%

    lead generation

    9%14%

    sales pipeline

    8%11%

    inside sales

    15%9%

    field sales

    7%5%

    You'll need to learn

    • business developmentasked for in 72% of Sales Executive postings
    • negotiationasked for in 37% of Sales Executive postings
    • enterprise salesasked for in 23% of Sales Executive postings
    • presentationasked for in 26% of Sales Executive postings
    • account managementasked for in 40% of Sales Executive postings
    • revenue operationsasked for in 19% of Sales Executive postings

    Strengthen what you have

    • prospecting23% → 43%
    • quota attainment24% → 25%
    • lead generation9% → 14%
    • sales pipeline8% → 11%

    How much work is out there

    Sales Representative
    312
    Sales Executive
    275

    This market is about the size of yours.

    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 · Learn

      business development

      Asked for in 72% of Sales Executive postings, and 5 other new skills.

    2. 2 · Strengthen

      prospecting

      23% of Sales Representative postings ask for it, against 43% of Sales Executive.

    3. 3 · Look at the work

      275 Sales Executive postings

      Observed active in this snapshot.

    312 Sales Representative postings · 275 Sales Executive 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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