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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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Talent Acquisition Specialist

110 open jobs·90 employers

10 markets are one step away

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

Among nearby careers, Sales Representative has the most openings (312), while Recruiter requires the fewest new skills.

Skill transition

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

  • Very close2
  • Moderate change6
  • Major change2

Larger circles = more open jobs, from 109 to 312 here.

Tap a market to put it at the center.

The 10 markets closest to Talent Acquisition Specialist, 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.
  • Recruiter

    from Talent Acquisition Specialist

    Excellent match

    Very close

    Among the 2 closest moves from Talent Acquisition Specialist. No new skills to learn here. The difference is depth, not breadth: Recruiter postings want more of what you already do.

    280

    openings in Recruiter

    6

    skills you already have

    0

    skills to learn

    1

    skills to strengthen

    You already have

    Talent Acquisition SpecialistRecruitershare of postings

    talent acquisition

    100%67%

    vendor management

    72%67%

    hris

    46%40%

    outreach

    17%21%

    interviewing

    18%14%

    brand identity

    15%6%

    You'll need to learn

    Nothing new: every skill Recruiter asks for is already among Talent Acquisition Specialist's.

    Strengthen what you have

    • outreach17% → 21%

    How much work is out there

    Talent Acquisition Specialist
    110
    Recruiter
    280

    What to do next

    1. 1 · Strengthen

      outreach

      17% of Talent Acquisition Specialist postings ask for it, against 21% of Recruiter.

    2. 2 · Look at the work

      280 Recruiter postings

      Observed active in this snapshot.

    110 Talent Acquisition Specialist postings · 280 Recruiter 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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