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</h2> <span class="hue-default-secondary-color t-14" data-test-selector="relativeTime-container"> Last updated: 7 months ago </span> </div> </div> <div class="page-width-content article-details-content"> <div class="article-details-content__main"> <article data-test-selector="article" data-article-source="urn:li:helpCenterArticle:(187044,LITHOGRAPH)"> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, with more than 1 billion members across the world. LinkedIn’s network continues to grow at more than two new members per second. This activity creates billions of data points that you can access on demand through LinkedIn Talent Insights.</p> </div> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>LinkedIn members provide information on their profiles about their job titles, employers, skills, education, and more. LinkedIn applies the latest machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques to increase data quality and make it searchable through Talent Insights.</p> </div> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>The data in Talent Insights is refreshed daily. For metrics that reflect changes over a period of time, such as one-year growth of employee count, we compare the current count of employees to the employee count 12 full months prior. Time -series metrics, such as hires and departures on the Talent Flow tab of the Company Report, show the movement of talent over the last 6, 12, or 24 months plus the current month, except where otherwise noted.</p> </div> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>Check out more detailed information on Talent Insights data sources, coverage, and methodology:</p> </div> <div class="collapsible article-content__collapsible" data-test-selector="collapsible"> <button aria-controls="collapsible__body-utddp" aria-expanded="false" class="collapsible__trigger plain-button " data-test-selector="collapsible-trigger" type="button"> <span class="t-16 t-bold article-content__collapsible-trigger-text">Job title</span> <li-icon size="large" color="inverse" class="collapsible__icon " data-test-selector="collapsible-icon" type="chevron-down-icon"></li-icon> </button> <div id="collapsible__body-utddp" class="collapsible__body article-content__collapsible-body" data-test-selector="collapsible-body" hidden tabindex="-1"> <div class="collapsible__content"> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>LinkedIn uses machine learning to classify unique job titles entered by members in their profiles into standardized titles to make them searchable in Talent Insights.</p> </div> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>For example, Software Engineers on LinkedIn might input their titles as a “Software Engineer,” “SWE,” “Software Eng.,” or “Software Developer.” All of these member-inputted titles are mapped to the standardized job title, “Software Engineer”. This standardization simplifies searching for users by capturing all variations of a title using a single keyword.</p> </div> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>Talent Insights groups related standardized job titles together. When searching for a job title such as “Software Engineer”, we automatically expand the search to include all related standardized job titles, such as “Senior Software Engineer” and “Freelance Software Engineer”.</p> </div> </div> <!----> </div> </div> <div class="collapsible article-content__collapsible" data-test-selector="collapsible"> <button aria-controls="collapsible__body-t3b4g" aria-expanded="false" class="collapsible__trigger plain-button " data-test-selector="collapsible-trigger" type="button"> <span class="t-16 t-bold article-content__collapsible-trigger-text">Function</span> <li-icon size="large" color="inverse" class="collapsible__icon " data-test-selector="collapsible-icon" type="chevron-down-icon"></li-icon> </button> <div id="collapsible__body-t3b4g" class="collapsible__body article-content__collapsible-body" data-test-selector="collapsible-body" hidden tabindex="-1"> <div class="collapsible__content"> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>LinkedIn’s function taxonomy contains 26 "functions" which are broad groupings of job titles. Each standardized job title maps to a single job function. For example, the title "Software Engineer" is in the "Engineering" function.</p><p>Functions include: Accounting, Administrative, Arts and Design, Business Development, Community and Social Services, Consulting, Customer Success and Support, Education, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Healthcare Services, Human Resources, Information Technology, Legal, Marketing, Media and Communication, Military and Protective Services, Operations, Product Management, Program and Project Management, Purchasing, Quality Assurance, Real Estate, Research, Sales.</p> </div> </div> <!----> </div> </div> <div class="collapsible article-content__collapsible" data-test-selector="collapsible"> <button aria-controls="collapsible__body-8axil" aria-expanded="false" class="collapsible__trigger plain-button " data-test-selector="collapsible-trigger" type="button"> <span class="t-16 t-bold article-content__collapsible-trigger-text">Skill</span> <li-icon size="large" color="inverse" class="collapsible__icon " data-test-selector="collapsible-icon" type="chevron-down-icon"></li-icon> </button> <div id="collapsible__body-8axil" class="collapsible__body article-content__collapsible-body" data-test-selector="collapsible-body" hidden tabindex="-1"> <div class="collapsible__content"> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>LinkedIn standardizes member skills into a taxonomy of standardized and searchable skills. We frequently add new skills, technologies, aliases, and language translations to the taxonomy so that we can include them in Talent Insights searches.</p> </div> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>Member skills data includes skills from the <strong>Skills </strong>section of member profiles (populated by members themselves) and skills from the text of member profiles, including the job title, job descriptions and profile summary (extracted by machine learning into Talent Insights).</p> </div> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>To predict whether a member has a given skill, Talent Insights uses a model including these two data sources and other signals from the members’ profile (e.g. work history). Talent Insights will only attribute a skill to a member if the model is more than 90% confident that a member has that skill.</p> </div> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>Job post skills data applies similar modeling techniques on the text of LinkedIn job posts to predict the likelihood that a company is hiring for a particular skill. </p> </div> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>Talent Insights doesn't include data from member endorsement of skills. </p> </div> </div> <!----> </div> </div> <div class="collapsible article-content__collapsible" data-test-selector="collapsible"> <button aria-controls="collapsible__body-ffo6y" aria-expanded="false" class="collapsible__trigger plain-button " data-test-selector="collapsible-trigger" type="button"> <span class="t-16 t-bold article-content__collapsible-trigger-text">Location</span> <li-icon size="large" color="inverse" class="collapsible__icon " data-test-selector="collapsible-icon" type="chevron-down-icon"></li-icon> </button> <div id="collapsible__body-ffo6y" class="collapsible__body article-content__collapsible-body" data-test-selector="collapsible-body" hidden tabindex="-1"> <div class="collapsible__content"> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>LinkedIn determines members’ locations by mapping the zip code/postal code, city, or country that a member provides on their LinkedIn profile into geographic categories. For example, if a member provides a postal code, we can map them to the city that contains that postal code, the market area that contains the city, and the country that contains the market area.</p> </div> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>“Market areas” are defined using government definitions of a city region. Market areas tend to share the same workers.</p> </div> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>City or market area data is only available when more than 50% of LinkedIn members from a given country have provided a city-level location on their profile. For example, in Ireland, the majority of members have selected their location as “Ireland” and do not specify where in Ireland they live. Therefore, Talent Insights doesn’t include city or market area data in Ireland.</p> </div> </div> <!----> </div> </div> <div class="collapsible article-content__collapsible" data-test-selector="collapsible"> <button aria-controls="collapsible__body-rfzjo" aria-expanded="false" class="collapsible__trigger plain-button " data-test-selector="collapsible-trigger" type="button"> <span class="t-16 t-bold article-content__collapsible-trigger-text">Job posts</span> <li-icon size="large" color="inverse" class="collapsible__icon " data-test-selector="collapsible-icon" type="chevron-down-icon"></li-icon> </button> <div id="collapsible__body-rfzjo" class="collapsible__body article-content__collapsible-body" data-test-selector="collapsible-body" hidden tabindex="-1"> <div class="collapsible__content"> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>LinkedIn is one of the world’s largest aggregators of jobs. We source data from both jobs posted directly on LinkedIn via LinkedIn Jobs and job posts ingested from other sources, including company websites, applicant tracking systems (ATS), job boards, aggregators, and job feeds. LinkedIn has developed advanced algorithms to identify and remove duplicate job posts from ingested sources. LinkedIn’s robust process ensures the job post data reflects the current state of the labor market. </p> </div> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>LinkedIn standardizes job posts by extracting the title, location, employer, employment type, description, and industry information from each post. Natural language processing and machine learning models extract skills from job post descriptions and standardize job post titles to make them searchable.</p> </div> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>Job post data within LinkedIn Talent Insights reflects the number of current open jobs matching the search criteria.</p> </div> </div> <!----> </div> </div> <div class="collapsible article-content__collapsible" data-test-selector="collapsible"> <button aria-controls="collapsible__body-eqhmz" aria-expanded="false" class="collapsible__trigger plain-button " data-test-selector="collapsible-trigger" type="button"> <span class="t-16 t-bold article-content__collapsible-trigger-text">Company</span> <li-icon size="large" color="inverse" class="collapsible__icon " data-test-selector="collapsible-icon" type="chevron-down-icon"></li-icon> </button> <div id="collapsible__body-eqhmz" class="collapsible__body article-content__collapsible-body" data-test-selector="collapsible-body" hidden tabindex="-1"> <div class="collapsible__content"> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>LinkedIn ingests external data on company relationships to identify and map subsidiaries of parent companies.</p> </div> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>A member is considered a past or present employee of a company when they add a position to their profile. </p> </div> </div> <!----> </div> </div> <div class="collapsible article-content__collapsible" data-test-selector="collapsible"> <button aria-controls="collapsible__body-eqg4b" aria-expanded="false" class="collapsible__trigger plain-button " data-test-selector="collapsible-trigger" type="button"> <span class="t-16 t-bold article-content__collapsible-trigger-text">Industry</span> <li-icon size="large" color="inverse" class="collapsible__icon " data-test-selector="collapsible-icon" type="chevron-down-icon"></li-icon> </button> <div id="collapsible__body-eqg4b" class="collapsible__body article-content__collapsible-body" data-test-selector="collapsible-body" hidden tabindex="-1"> <div class="collapsible__content"> <div class="article-content-callout article-content-callout__background--warning" data-test-selector="callout-container"> <div> <h3 class="t-16 article-content-callout__headline" data-test-selector="callout-headline"> Important to know </h3> <div class="article-content-callout__text-rich-description t-14 article-content-callout__text-rich-description--hue" data-test-selector="callout-rich-description"> <p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>We are currently updating our industry taxonomy to align with the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) standards. The available options in Recruiter and Talent Insights are listed in <a rel="" href="https://www.linkedin.com/help/recruiter/answer/a1425422" target="_self">Filter candidates by industry in Recruiter and Talent Insights</a>. Note that this may not include all of the industries that are in the "Full list of V2 industries" linked at the bottom of this article. This update is rolling out gradually and you may not see this change reflected in your application yet.<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p> </div> </div> <!----> </div> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>In Talent Insights, a member’s industry is determined by the industry of the company for which they currently work. Members who aren’t mapped to a company, or map to a company without an industry, are associated with the self-selected industry on their profile. Each company on LinkedIn is mapped to one industry on Talent Insights. In most cases, we use the industry assigned (usually by an admin) to the company on its company page.</p> </div> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>In some cases, the industry assigned to the company may be too specific and not be supported in Talent Insights. For these companies, we select the lowest-level available "parent" industry and assign it to the company within Talent Insights, so that customers can conduct meaningful analysis in the product. In these instances, the industry assigned to a company in Talent Insights may differ from the industry assigned on its company page. <br> </p> </div> </div> <!----> </div> </div> <div class="collapsible article-content__collapsible" data-test-selector="collapsible"> <button aria-controls="collapsible__body-zqi6i" aria-expanded="false" class="collapsible__trigger plain-button " data-test-selector="collapsible-trigger" type="button"> <span class="t-16 t-bold article-content__collapsible-trigger-text">Employment type</span> <li-icon size="large" color="inverse" class="collapsible__icon " data-test-selector="collapsible-icon" type="chevron-down-icon"></li-icon> </button> <div id="collapsible__body-zqi6i" class="collapsible__body article-content__collapsible-body" data-test-selector="collapsible-body" hidden tabindex="-1"> <div class="collapsible__content"> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>LinkedIn determines the employment type of a member based on their job title or the employment type associated with the position on their LinkedIn profile. We identify employment types based on explicit wording in LinkedIn member job titles (e.g. titles containing words like “Contractor”, “Part-time”, or “Intern”).</p> </div> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>Reports in Talent Insights are filtered by default to include only full-time employees so that intern, student, part-time, temp, and contractor employees do not inflate attrition numbers and total employee counts.</p> </div> </div> <!----> </div> </div> <div class="collapsible article-content__collapsible" data-test-selector="collapsible"> <button aria-controls="collapsible__body-2srwl" aria-expanded="false" class="collapsible__trigger plain-button " data-test-selector="collapsible-trigger" type="button"> <span class="t-16 t-bold article-content__collapsible-trigger-text">Spoken language</span> <li-icon size="large" color="inverse" class="collapsible__icon " data-test-selector="collapsible-icon" type="chevron-down-icon"></li-icon> </button> <div id="collapsible__body-2srwl" class="collapsible__body article-content__collapsible-body" data-test-selector="collapsible-body" hidden tabindex="-1"> <div class="collapsible__content"> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>LinkedIn sources members' spoken languages from the <strong>Accomplishments</strong> and <strong>Skills</strong> sections of profiles, as well as each profile's language settings. </p> </div> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>Language proficiency is determined by the proficiency selected by the member on their profile. If no proficiency is selected, the proficiency is set to <strong>Undisclosed</strong>.</p><p><strong>Note: </strong>If the member hasn't provided a proficiency level, then it will be assigned as native/bilingual.</p> </div> </div> <!----> </div> </div> <div class="collapsible article-content__collapsible" data-test-selector="collapsible"> <button aria-controls="collapsible__body-28k1x" aria-expanded="false" class="collapsible__trigger plain-button " data-test-selector="collapsible-trigger" type="button"> <span class="t-16 t-bold article-content__collapsible-trigger-text">Years of experience</span> <li-icon size="large" color="inverse" class="collapsible__icon " data-test-selector="collapsible-icon" type="chevron-down-icon"></li-icon> </button> <div id="collapsible__body-28k1x" class="collapsible__body article-content__collapsible-body" data-test-selector="collapsible-body" hidden tabindex="-1"> <div class="collapsible__content"> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>LinkedIn infers a member’s years of experience as the time between the start date of the earliest position on their profile and the current month. If a start date isn't included on a profile, years of experience is set to null and is dropped from relevant data sets. Talent Insights searches don’t include members whose years of experience can’t be inferred. You can find the percentage of the total search excluded for that reason under the <strong>Years of Experience</strong> facet in the left search rail. </p> </div> </div> <!----> </div> </div> <div class="collapsible article-content__collapsible" data-test-selector="collapsible"> <button aria-controls="collapsible__body-9k0l4" aria-expanded="false" class="collapsible__trigger plain-button " data-test-selector="collapsible-trigger" type="button"> <span class="t-16 t-bold article-content__collapsible-trigger-text">School</span> <li-icon size="large" color="inverse" class="collapsible__icon " data-test-selector="collapsible-icon" type="chevron-down-icon"></li-icon> </button> <div id="collapsible__body-9k0l4" class="collapsible__body article-content__collapsible-body" data-test-selector="collapsible-body" hidden tabindex="-1"> <div class="collapsible__content"> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>A member is considered a past or present student or alumni of a school when they add education to their profile.</p> </div> </div> <!----> </div> </div> <div class="collapsible article-content__collapsible" data-test-selector="collapsible"> <button aria-controls="collapsible__body-golpy" aria-expanded="false" class="collapsible__trigger plain-button " data-test-selector="collapsible-trigger" type="button"> <span class="t-16 t-bold article-content__collapsible-trigger-text">Recent graduates</span> <li-icon size="large" color="inverse" class="collapsible__icon " data-test-selector="collapsible-icon" type="chevron-down-icon"></li-icon> </button> <div id="collapsible__body-golpy" class="collapsible__body article-content__collapsible-body" data-test-selector="collapsible-body" hidden tabindex="-1"> <div class="collapsible__content"> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>Recent graduates are defined by default as members who have listed a degree end date on their LinkedIn profile within the past four years. You can access more specific Recent Grads data by editing the time range since graduation you are searching for or modifying your settings by clicking on your profile image in the top right corner of the page.</p> </div> </div> <!----> </div> </div> <div class="collapsible article-content__collapsible" data-test-selector="collapsible"> <button aria-controls="collapsible__body-6fsrg" aria-expanded="false" class="collapsible__trigger plain-button " data-test-selector="collapsible-trigger" type="button"> <span class="t-16 t-bold article-content__collapsible-trigger-text">Employer brand</span> <li-icon size="large" color="inverse" class="collapsible__icon " data-test-selector="collapsible-icon" type="chevron-down-icon"></li-icon> </button> <div id="collapsible__body-6fsrg" class="collapsible__body article-content__collapsible-body" data-test-selector="collapsible-body" hidden tabindex="-1"> <div class="collapsible__content"> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>The<strong> Employer brand</strong> tab of the <strong>Talent Pool Report</strong> includes the following sections:</p> <ul> <li>Engaged talent - Calculated based on the engagement of the talent pool with your organization. This includes member activities (like, share, or comment), LinkedIn Page visits, followers (new followers minus unfollows), and job views. All engagement metrics include both non-employee and employee engagement with your company.</li> <li>Jobs engagement - This section displays the job views and job conversion rates over the last 12 months.</li> <li>InMail response rate - This section displays the InMail response rates by your talent pool over the last 12 months.</li> <li>Employer value propositions - This section displays the culture, values, and benefits preferred by your talent pool, sourced from our latest member surveys.</li> </ul> <p>Talent Pool Report data is updated monthly.</p> </div> </div> <!----> </div> </div> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <h2>Related tasks</h2><ul><li><a rel="" href="https://www.linkedin.com/insights/report/create" target="_self">Sign in to Talent Insights</a></li><li><a rel="" href="https://www.linkedin.com/help/talent-insights/answer/a424500" target="_self">Search by keyword in Talent Insights</a></li><li><a rel="" href="https://www.linkedin.com/help/talent-insights/answer/a188042" target="_self">Create Talent Pool Reports in Talent Insights</a></li><li><a rel="" href="https://www.linkedin.com/help/talent-insights/answer/a191044" target="_self">Create Company Reports in Talent Insights</a></li></ul><h2>Learn more</h2><ul><li><a rel="" href="https://www.linkedin.com/help/talent-insights/answer/a426453" target="_self">Supported Boolean modifiers in Talent Insights keyword search</a></li><li><a rel="" href="https://www.linkedin.com/help/recruiter/answer/a1425422" target="_self">Filter candidates by industry in Recruiter and Talent Insights</a></li><li><a rel="" href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/shared/references/reference-tables/industry-codes-v2" target="_self">Full list of V2 industries</a> (Note: Not all industries listed are included in Recruiter and Talent Insights)</li></ul> </div> </article> <!----><!----> <div class="placeholder " id="helpfulness-rating"> </div> </div> <div class="article-details-content__delimiter"></div> <aside class="article-details-content__aside"> <div class="article-details-content__tags"> <h3 id="tagged-header" class="hue-web__header--aside t-bold t-16" data-test-selector="topicTags-header"> Tagged in </h3> <ul class="pill-list article-page-pill-list hue-artdeco-pill" data-test-selector="topicTags-container"> <li class="pill-list__item" id="topic-link-a110001" data-test-selector="topicTags-list-item"> <a class="pill basePadding label" href="/help/talent-insights/topic/a110001" data-test-selector="topic-tag-link" aria-describedby="tagged-header"> <span data-test-selector="topicTags-title-a110001"> Reporting Overview </span> </a> </li> </ul> </div> <!----><!----><!----> </aside> </div> <!----> </div> </main> <div class="placeholder " id="toasts__wormhole" data-inert-toggle-target="me-menu-inert-toggle-target"> </div> <footer class="global-footer" data-inert-toggle-target="me-menu-inert-toggle-target" data-component-selector="global-footer" data-test-id="global-footer" role="contentinfo"> <div class="global-footer__upper-row-wrapper"> <div class="page-width-content"> <ul class="global-footer__upper-row-items t-12 t-black"> <li class="global-footer__upper-row-item global-footer__logo"> <a class="global-footer__upper-row-item-link" href="https://www.linkedin.com"> <li-icon size="14dp" color="brand" tabindex="-1" aria-hidden="true" type="linkedin-logo"></li-icon> <span class="visually-hidden">LinkedIn</span> </a> </li> <li class="global-footer__upper-row-item "> <a class="global-footer__upper-row-item-link" data-test-id="footer-contact-us" href="https://www.linkedin.com/help/talent-insights/ask"> Contact us </a> </li> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----> <li class="global-footer__upper-row-item global-footer__language-switcher-wrapper"> <form action method="GET" class="language-switcher__form"> <!----> <label class="language-switcher__select-label"> <span class="visually-hidden">Select a language. 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