Compare Jobs
The Compare Jobs feature is a hidden gem of a feature that you might find useful. Simply put in two job titles you wish to compare. JobTitled will then search the statistics database and produce a comparison of traits. Comparison results will provide:
- Usage - which job title is more commonly used and by how much
- Next Jobs - what is more likely to be the next job*
- Previous Jobs - what was more likely to have been the previous job*
- Degrees - what degrees are the more likely to be had*
*= of shared jobs.
Keep in mind we can only compare jobs/degrees that both job titles have in common. So if one job title has a transitions to Architect, while the other does not it would not appear on the list. This is because ∞ times more likely just doesn’t make any sense now does it? Thus, if you compare two very different job titles it’s quite possible there is nothing in common and you will get few results. Play around with it and let me know what you think.
Funny thing is Compare Jobs was the very first feature I wrote once we had the statistics DB working. It was really just something I came up with as a way to test the data and compare stuff to make sure it was working. It was kind of an odd feature, but I liked it and I found the results interesting so we kept it in there as a feature.
Really nice posts. I will be checking back here regularly.