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Career change & transferable skills

What is an adjacent professional direction?

Short answer

An adjacent direction is a profession your current skills already partly fit — a realistic next step you can move toward using what you have plus a few new skills.

Your skills rarely fit only one job title. An adjacent direction is a profession that shares many of the skills you already hold, so the move is realistic rather than a leap. LabourMarket.ai finds these from your real skills, not from a fixed list.

For each direction you can see the skills that connect you to it and, honestly, what you might still need. It is a way to discover where you could grow — not just which job to take today.

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