Recruiting Analysis 101: How to Find the Best Occupation and Skillset Combination For Your Role

Recruiting Analysis 101: SOCs +Skills 

The “Recruiting Analysis” report (in Talent Premium this report is called “Occupation Snapshot”) consists of:

Occupational Data (SOC Code) + Profile Data + Job Postings Data      

Occupational data (a SOC code) is the backbone of the report. It provides us with the necessary comprehensive analytics on things like supply of talent, demographics, and compensation. SOC codes are helpful because they represent a thorough picture of the US workforce; however, SOC codes can be broad so we use profile data to narrow down results with skills and keywords.

Government data is the backbone of the Recruiting Analysis report, providing highly comprehensive analytics on things like supply of talent, demographics, and compensation. We use SOC codes to get us to the right genus of talent, then layer in skills and keywords to focus our search if necessary. Skills are drawn from our Profile and Job Postings datasets, and when paired with a SOC code, get us focused yet comprehensive data. 

There are two ways to run the Recruiting Analysis report:

1. With “Simple Options” you can use an Emsi Burning Glass job title to run your search—Emsi Burning Glass has already done the work of mapping these job titles to their corresponding data sets (SOCs + skills).

Let’s use the example of “Forklift Operator” in Dallas: 

Once you hit “RUN” you can see that Emsi Burning Glass mapped “Forklift Operators” to the best SOC code (Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators) and added in the top skill of “Forklift Truck” to the dataset. This means the report is showing you data within the broad job family of Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators with profiles and job postings that have the skill “Forklift Truck” present. 

1. The second way to run Recruiting Analysis is back on the setup screen, using  “Advanced Options.” You can manually select a SOC code and relevant skills and keywords here. You may want to use advanced options if:
   • You have a niche role
   • You want to tweak the SOC + Skill combo manually 

For example, if you wanted to widen your Forklift Operator search and include a few more relevant skills (widen the net), you would go into “Advanced Options,” type in your SOC code, click “Any Skills,” and add in any other relevant skills in “Select Additional Skills”: 

When we run the report, we now see those additional skills! 

 

“How to Find the Best SOC + Skill Combo For Your Role” 

Reports to use: Profile Analytics

STEP ONE: Always start with what you know! 

→ Job Title: Take your job title and run it through our taxonomy of over 75,000 titles to see if you have a fit. 

When you search by job title, the report will only show profile results that exactly match that title. 

In the results of the report, there will be a section of relevant occupations. This is where you can find the best-fitting SOC code: 

→ Add the top or most relevant SOC code from this list to the filter 

––> Next, REMOVE THE JOB TITLE. Why? A job title in the filter will muddy the results, making them way too narrow. Remember, the SOC + Skill combo (not just job title) is one of the strongest views of the data.

STEP TWO: Refine your search 

→ In the left-hand control panel, you can use the many filters that help refine or expand your search as needed. Take a few more seconds to add/exclude other skills, play with keywords, or narrow by competitor insights.

Final Notes: 

→ Using the SOC + Skill combo helps you discover relevant, nearby job titles. 

• Once you have a SOC code plus a skill or two, scroll to the “Top Job Titles” section to understand the variety of ways talent identifies themselves 

→ Add in a known competitor plus your SOC + Skill combo  to see how other employers classify their talent. 

→ You can always run this report with JUST skills or keywords – discover what happens when you clear the “Occupation” field and add in several skills to the filter! 

Important Definitions: 

• Job Titles: We scrape job titles directly from job postings, profiles, and resumes. We then deduplicate, clean, and add the titles to our normalized library (of over 75,000 titles). Emsi Burning Glass job titles are mapped to their corresponding government, profile, and skills data sets.
• Profile Data: Profile data measures the supply of talent in a region and shows what makes a job or an individual unique (based on their skills, job history, education history, etc.). 
  • Profile data allows you to search for skill and keyword-specific information. 
• Skills: Skills act as our guide to the RIGHT talent. Skills tell us what people can do and what employers are looking for. Skills detail the type of worker relevant to your niche role.
  • Scraped from hundreds of millions of job postings, resumes, and online profiles— our library of over 30,000 skills is updated every two weeks, reflecting real-time market changes.
• Keywords: Keywords are matched against the original text of job postings and profiles. They allow you to filter based on intricate (or simple) combinations of words and phrases (i.e. Boolean strings). 
• SOC Codes: Standard Occupational Classification codes are the system that the government has created for organizing statistical labor market data. 
  • SOCs provide context needed for labor market research, but do not provide skill-specific information.

 

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