10 Absolutely Ingenious Ways to Use LinkedIn Career Explorer
Here’s an article by Donna Svei - an executive resume writer and former C-level executive, retained search consultant, and CPA, authors of all AvidCareerist’s posts.
If you wonder, “What is LinkedIn Career Explorer?” you wouldn’t be alone.
What Is LinkedIn Career Explorer?
Given the softest of launches in 2020, Career Explorer is a LinkedIn product that sits on Microsoft’s GitHub platform.
As described by LinkedIn’s Chief Product Officer, Tomer Cohen, it’s a tool to help you “…uncover careers you could transition into and might not have considered by mapping the skills you have to thousands of job titles.”
Career Explorer lists 6,000 job titles found on LinkedIn profiles and 36,000 skills common to those titles.
Before we get going, we need to recognize a few limitations of the data:
LinkedIn members often ignore updating the Skills sections of their profiles for years.
We don’t know how often LinkedIn updates the Career Explorer database.
The database does not allow users to select industries.
However, even with those limitations, Career Explorer gives us the best, most up-to-date look at skills that underlie 6,000 common job titles that we can find anywhere. Read the full article here: 10 Absolutely Ingenious Ways to Use LinkedIn Career Explorer