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Leveraging skills in talent insights to find alternate job titles.

 

This is a continuation from my previous post where we used skills to expand talent pools. Link to the first post below.

 

Companies often use bespoke job title taxonomies, and there are multiple variations of the same job titles being used across organizations and geographies. If we apply the same logic to the QA Engineer role and start off with skills, we can identify multiple title variations and include them in our searches. 

 

A classic example is of Product Manager, where companies often call them Product Owner, Product Specialists or even in some cases Project Managers.

 

There’s even a possibility of finding professionals with transferrable skills!

Would love to hear if you or teams have used this approach. :)

 

 

I always get scrunchface when people recommend skills over keywords - I realise it’s preference, @Anas Islam, so take my thoughts as simply another view - but my thinking is this: skills are specifically dependent on one of three things: either the profile owner specifically nominates them, LI automatically picks them up and adds them once the profile is edited, or a connection endorses the profile owner for that skill - as you’ve rightly said, searching only by title restricts the talent pool because you’re forcing it to make other company titles fit yours.

Personally, I’d do a Boolean search in keywords because - again, this is based on my memory/understanding - it would pick up skill in that search. So, example, because skills are limited to 50 max, it’s possible that someone who spent a decade in customer service before moving to IT, they might not have a particular software package/IT skill in their list because it’s stuffed full of customer-facing skills. 

The idea of using the insights offering as opposed to even the advanced Boolean search is fantastic - mainly because you can immediately access relevant data to shape the conversation around hiring trends, best geographies etc.

@Steven Prince You love a good Boolean search! I see a member workshop in the making 💡🤔

@Courtney - Community Manager 

 

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