TalentNeuron Skills Taxonomy Surpasses 40K Skills, Setting a New Industry Standard for Workforce Planning

TalentNeuron, the leading provider of talent intelligence solutions, announced the expansion of its skills taxonomy beyond 40,000 curated skills, making it the largest and most contextually rich database in the industry. This milestone innovation provides organizations with unparalleled insights into skills availability, role evolution, and expertise adjacencies, further solidifying TalentNeuron’s position as a pioneer in the talent intelligence space.

“Our skills taxonomy is not just a list of terms — it’s a carefully curated, context-driven system”

“At this scale, TalentNeuron’s taxonomy is a compass for strategic workforce planning,” said David Wilkins, TalentNeuron’s Chief Product and Strategy Officer. “As we grow beyond 40,000 curated skills, we’re providing our clients with an unparalleled view of the current and emerging talent market, so whether they are competing for in-demand talent or developing new capabilities, they can proactively shape their talent strategies for an increasingly skills-driven economy.”

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TalentNeuron’s skills taxonomy stands out not only for its unprecedented scale but also for its integrity. While taxonomies are frequently hampered by redundant or overlapping skills, TalentNeuron’s proprietary methodology combines expert human curation with advanced AI technologies to deduplicate multiple skills expressions into single, meaningful concepts — ensuring clarity and precision.

“Our skills taxonomy is not just a list of terms — it’s a carefully curated, context-driven system,” Wilkins explained. “TalentNeuron’s methodology integrates systematic data extraction, including advanced AI skills detection, with human expertise, ensuring comprehensiveness and contextual accuracy. The human element is a critical differentiator in how we cultivate and refine our data, ensuring that the taxonomy remains accurate, relevant, and up to date with emerging skills and trends.”

Central to TalentNeuron’s industry-leading taxonomy is its groundbreaking AI skills detection engine, marking a significant leap forward in talent intelligence. This innovative technology drives the evolution of the taxonomy, enabling it to keep pace with the fast-moving labor market – a unique capability in the industry. By identifying emerging terms and expressions and promptly suggesting them for research and inclusion, the engine ensures the taxonomy remains comprehensive, contextually accurate, and free of redundancies. The system’s efficiency was recently demonstrated when it identified and classified 700 new skills in a single day.

The expanded skills taxonomy offers organizations the ability to create more precise job descriptions, enhance talent acquisition strategies, and optimize strategic workforce planning initiatives. TalentNeuron also provides customized skills mapping services, enabling organizations to integrate their unique skills nomenclature into the extensive taxonomy.

TalentNeuron clients and partners are already seeing the value of the expanded taxonomy:

“We evaluated several skills taxonomies, but TalentNeuron stood out for its integrity and precision. TalentNeuron’s deduplicated and contextually rich taxonomy has been essential in streamlining our talent acquisition processes and ensuring we have the right skills data to make effective decisions.” — Sidharth Oberoi, VP of International Strategy and Partnerships at Instructure

“Beamery partners with TalentNeuron because we share a deep commitment to delivering the highest standards of skills data for future-facing organizations. By combining internal and external data, we are able to empower business leaders to navigate talent risk, execute effective people strategies, and make better informed business decisions throughout their skills-based transformation journeys.” — Sultan Saidov, Co-Founder and President of Beamery

TalentNeuron is the world’s leading provider of labor market analytics, delivering high-fidelity talent data on an unmatched global scale. TalentNeuron delivers actionable talent insight for every region of the world covering countries that collectively represent more than 91% of the world’s GDP. Through deep investments with machine learning and artificial intelligence, our technology platform ingests and normalizes hundreds of millions of structured and unstructured data points each day, delivering critical talent insights in support of workforce planning, strategic skills analysis, location optimization, DEI tactics and sourcing strategies for local, regional and global talent. These insights can be delivered to clients via software as a service, data as a service, or fully custom research efforts from our team of expert data scientists and advisors

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