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November 13, 2025

Enhanced

Improved normalization of "staff physician" jobs
Various IT networking skills added to the skills taxonomy
Various improvements to French profession normalization

September 30, 2025

Enhanced

Improved localization for ADR Certification.
IT skill coverage improvements in all languages
French skill normalization improvements
Improved taxonomy coverage of HR job titles and skills in English
Improve coverage of modern IT skills in skill extraction and normalization.
Improved normalization of German assembly supervisor jobs
Various French job titles added to the professions taxonomy
Updated AMS taxonomy mapping in Market IQ Austria
Improved coverage of French watch making skills
Skill normalization added in 5 new languages: Bulgarian (BG), Estonian (ET), Latvian (LV), Korean (KO) and Thai (TH)

August 18, 2025

Enhanced

Various additions to the French professions taxonomy

June 30, 2025

Enhanced

Various truck driven positions added to the profession taxonomy
Improved normalization of German pilot professions
Cloud-related skills added to the skills taxonomy
10 new skills added to the skills taxonomy

Fixed

Fixed wrong normalization of German 'kochen'
Fixed an issue concerning the recognition of .NET skills

May 20, 2025

Enhanced

Locale-specific skill descriptions supported for German, English, Portuguese

Fixed

Fixed 5xx errors for invalid taxonomy versions

April 15, 2025

Enhanced

Improved synonym coverage of product marketing manager in the professions taxonomy

April 14, 2025

Enhanced

In the Ontology API, the category parameter is now optional

April 9, 2025

Enhanced

Improved Chinese job title normalization (simplified and traditional)

March 31, 2025

Enhanced

Improved Japanese skill extraction
Added skill 'Cleva' to the skills taxonomy
Added 3 new IT skills to the skills taxonomy
Better coverage of English certifications
Fixed erroneous extraction of 'Ruby' skill in Japanese
IBM skills added to the skills taxonomy
Improved coverage of Japanese HR skills
Improved normalization of "Customs and Trade Associate"
Improved synonym coverage of product marketing manager in the professions taxonomy
Added profession 'Surface treatment operator' to the professions taxonomy
AMS taxonomy mappings updated
Fixed wrong normalization of 'Commercial employee' jobs
Fixed normalization of branch manager jobs
Improved normalization of Optician jobs in German

March 24, 2025

Enhanced

Locale-specific skill descriptions supported for German, English, Portuguese
The /taxonomy endpoint of the Skills API now provides a definition of each skill.
Improved contextual validation of skills

January 16, 2025

Enhanced

IBM skills added to the skills taxonomy

January 6, 2025

Enhanced

Improved classification of BI Developer jobs
Improve coverage of English and Hebrew skills

December 19, 2024

Enhanced

Swiss German recognized as separate language code
Improved classification of BI Developer jobs
Improved classification of medical sales professions in German
Added support for Swiss French locale
Added 4 new professions to the professions taxonomy
Various improvements to profession normalization in Dutch, French, German, and Spanish.
Improved normalization of electrician jobs
Improved Swiss-French medical profession names
Various enrichments of the English professions taxonomy

December 13, 2024

Enhanced

Improve coverage of English and Hebrew skills
Greatly improved Japanese skills extraction
Added various US certifications to the certifications taxonomy

November 27, 2024

Enhanced

Improved profession-to-skill relations
Certification category included in Ontology API

November 12, 2024

Enhanced

Various improvements to profession normalization in Dutch, French, German, and Spanish.
Added various US certifications to the certifications taxonomy

October 10, 2024

Enhanced

Ontology API no longer throws a 500 error when an unknown skills is in the input

October 2, 2024

Enhanced

Swiss German recognized as separate language code
Fixed normalization of biology/match teachers
Fixed normalization of pool lifeguards and swimming instructors in French
Improved normalization of 'product designer' titles
Improved normalization of mechanical engineers in German
Various improvements to the AMS taxonomy mapping
Improved casing consistency of profession descriptions
Various improvements to the normalization of apprenticeship roles in (Swiss) German
Added 4 new networking roles to the professions taxonomy
Various improvements to the French professions taxonomy
Fixed normalization of Dutch job title "Verpleegkundige MBO"

September 16, 2024

Enhanced

The Skills API now extracts certifications as a new category of skills

August 1, 2024

Enhanced

Greatly improved normalization of English job titles used in non-English documents

July 24, 2024

Enhanced

Improved French medical skill extraction

June 27, 2024

Enhanced

Improved classification of job titles to the AMS profession taxonomy
Added Golang Developer to the professions taxonomy
Corrected normalization of Barrister jobs
Improved normalization of Dutch 'Conducteur' job titles
Improved normalization of (Swiss) German medical professions
Better handling of seniority (head, C-level, etc.) of product and operations roles in profession normalization.
Improved normalization of apprenticeship professions in (Swiss) German
Various medical professions added to the profession taxonomy
Improved French medical skill extraction
Added 45 new skills based on the SkillsFuture taxonomy

June 4, 2024

Fixed

The skills-to-profession and skills-to-skills endpoint no longer return errors when certifications are used as input.

May 29, 2024

Enhanced

Added various networking technology skills to the skills taxonomy
Added 45 new skills based on the SkillsFuture taxonomy

May 16, 2024

Fixed

The skills-to-profession and skills-to-skills endpoint no longer return errors when certifications are used as input.

April 25, 2024

Enhanced

Patch release the professions taxonomy with a fix for wrongly mapped ISCO codes

April 2, 2024

Enhanced

Added Microsoft and Jeeves software to the skills taxonomy
Improved coverage of (Swiss) German medical skills
Improved handling of ambiguous language skills in job and CV parsing
Added 20+ medical skills to the skills taxonomy in all languages.
Added 10 new skills to the skills taxonomy in all languages
Skill MYOB added
Various improvements to the French professions taxonomy
Various job titles added to the professions taxonomy based on Swiss market data
Improved Japanese Profession normalization
Improved normalization of 'apprenticeship' professions
Added Corporate Recruiter to the professions taxonomy
Added watchmaking professions to the professions taxonomy
Improved Japanese profession normalization
Added 12 new professions to the professions taxonomy
Added professions Recruitment marketeer and Sourcer to the professions taxonomy
Added 25 new healthcare professions to the professions taxonomy
Improved coverage of healthcare skills: added 40 skills and 275 synonyms

March 27, 2024

Enhanced

Added Microsoft and Jeeves software to the skills taxonomy

Fixed

In job normalization, the 'Vice President' role no longer includes associate directos

January 31, 2024

Enhanced

Skill MYOB added
CatiaV5 added as a separate skill

January 30, 2024

Enhanced

Added support for language skills Pedi and Sepedi

January 25, 2024

Enhanced

Improved Japanese profession normalization

December 21, 2023

Enhanced

Improved skill mappings for Technical Service Supervisor

December 14, 2023

Enhanced

CatiaV5 added as a separate skill
Added support for language skills Pedi and Sepedi
Added more Gen AI tools to the skills taxonomy
Added Prodigy (annotation tool) to the skills taxonomy
13 skills added to the skills taxonomy for all Tier 1 languages
Added Hebrew language skills
Add skill COSYS to the skills taxonomy
Improved the names of three German IT job titles
Changed the gender tag (m/v) to (m/v/d) in Dutch profession normalization
Fixed wrong normalization of Front End Clerk jobs
Improved taxonomy coverage on watchmaker professions
New taxonomy mappings available in the Professions API: AMS and UK-SOC 2020

November 13, 2023

Enhanced

More skill-relations added to Ontology API

October 13, 2023

Enhanced

Various improvements to Italian profession and skill normalization
Added various CompTIA skills to the skills taxonomy
16 new skills added to the skills taxonomy
Added 5 new IT skills to the skills taxonomy
Improved accuracy of finance and insurance skills

October 12, 2023

Enhanced

Improved recognition of two-character language skills

October 5, 2023

Enhanced

Improved the similarity scoring method for the skill-to-skill endpoints

September 28, 2023

Enhanced

Improved classification of CFO/CFA job titles
Various improvements to Italian profession and skill normalization
Added 5 new professions to the professions taxonomy
Fixed Italian job title normalization normalization issues for assistant builder and employment specialist jobs
Renamed some French professions that exist both in English and French
Improved normalization of French professions
Various improvements to Italian profession normalization
Fixed wrong normalization of cashier job titles
Various improvements to Spanish job title normalization

September 5, 2023

Enhanced

Improved Japanese Skills Extraction

June 29, 2023

Enhanced

Various improvements to French job title normalization
Improved normalization of Agile-related job titles
Various improvements to Italian job title normalization
Improved normalization of the Dutch job title "Instructeur serveren"
50 new professions added to the Professions Taxonomy
Four new professions added to the professions taxonomy
Various improvements to the German professions taxonomy

Fixed

Fixed wrong German translation of "Police Surveillance Officer"
Fixed normalization of Dutch job title "Kwaliteitsmedewerker zorg"
Corrected the ISCO code mapping for Product Owner
Fixed wrong normalization of Dutch job title "Adviseur (Digitale) Geletterdheid"
Fixed wrong normalization of "Credit Control Officer"

April 4, 2023

Enhanced

Updated the profession-skills ontology based on the latest market data and taxonomy updates

March 31, 2023

Enhanced

Added ±10 SAP-related IT skills to the skills taxonomy
Added ±500 new skills to the Skills taxonomy
Added translations of two languages: Balochi and Aramaic
Added various Portuguese skills to the skills taxonomy
Added 1700 Japanese skill translations tot the skills taxonomy
Added 1700 Portuguese skill translations tot the skills taxonomy
6 New skills added to the Skill Taxonomy

Fixed

Fixed false extraction of 'Catalysis' skill

Added

Added new languages to the Skills taxonomy (tier 1): Slovak, Czech, Slovenian, Croatian, Russian, Greek, Turkish, Romanian, Hungarian

March 30, 2023

Enhanced

Added +- 80 German job title synonyms to the professions taxonomy
Added 5 new professions to the professions taxonomy, and renamed 7 professions in French
1170 job title synonyms added to the German Professions Taxonomy
Various improvements to the German professions taxonomy
Various improvements to Portuguese profession normalization

March 21, 2023

Enhanced

Added translations of two languages: Balochi and Aramaic

January 24, 2023

Enhanced

Ontology API: don't limit the number of missing skills on the suggest_professions

January 11, 2023

Enhanced

Improved cleaning of job titles from Ireland
Improved Portuguese profession normalization
German names of KldB codes added to /taxonomy endpoint of Professions API
Improved Japanese profession normalization

December 15, 2022

Enhanced

Various improvements to the French profession taxonomy
(m/f) tags were removed from profession descriptions in English, and -man suffixes (e.g. craftsman) were replaced by gender neutral equivalents (craftsperson)
Added SQL developer as a separate profession
Three Javascript frameworks added to the skills taxonomy
New languages supported by the Skills API: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Polish (Tier 1)
Added 10 new skills to the skills taxonomy
Added new diploma for French language
Added additional Japanese translations to the skills taxonomy
Professions Service: improved job title analysis and extended job title knowledge
Improved profession normalization for Japanese and Chinese
Hundreds of new terms added to the Japanese skills taxonomy

Fixed

Fixed classification of language teachers in Japanese

December 5, 2022

Enhanced

Added SQL developer as a separate profession
Improved the speed of skill extraction

October 27, 2022

Enhanced

Added new diploma for French language

October 18, 2022

Fixed

Fixed classification of language teachers in Japanese

September 29, 2022

Enhanced

Profession-skill ontology updated
Add Portuguese translations of the skills taxonomy
Improved consistency of IT skill descriptions across languages
Various improvements to the Italian skills taxonomy
Updated the profession taxonomy (Septemer-2022 release)
20 New professions added to the professions taxonomy
Various improvements to the French professions taxonomy
Various improvements to job title cleaning

Added

Added Japanese skill translations to the skills taxonomy

Fixed

Fixed wrong classification of building inspector and covid tester

August 25, 2022

Enhanced

Improved cleaning of Swiss cities in German job title normalization
New taxonomy mappings added to profession service output: O*NET-2019, UK-SOC, KldB, UWV

August 18, 2022

Enhanced

Improved cleaning of Swiss cities in German job title normalization
New taxonomy mappings added to profession service output: O*NET-2019, UK-SOC, KldB, UWV

July 10, 2022

Enhanced

Added support for Arabic skills extraction (tier 3)
Support for Hebrew skills

Fixed

Solved an issue regarding ambiguity of 'Rust' in Dutch
Improve O*NET mapping for home health aides

April 10, 2022

Quarterly update of the ontology based on the latest market data

April 3, 2022

Fixed

ISCO codes returned as string so heading 0s aren't dropped

December 7, 2021

Enhanced

Various improvements to the German skills taxonomy
Fixed various errors in the profession-skills ontology
Added various (digital) marketing skills to the skills taxonomy
Improved skill disambiguation for multi-word terms in all languages
Improved the names of about 200 skills in the German skill taxonomy
'Full Professor' added to professions taxonomy
Various improvements tot the German professions taxonomy
Various improvements to Spanish and Italian translations of professions

Fixed

Corrected wrong profession-skill associations for 'commercial secretary'
Fixed handling of ambiguity of French skill "recette"
Fixed ambiguity issue regarding German skill 'Schreiben von Berichten'
Cleaned up ambiguous skills related to surveying and debt settlement
Improved German translation of job group "Government Administrators"

December 3, 2021

Enhanced

Fixed various errors in the profession-skills ontology

Fixed

Corrected wrong profession-skill associations for 'commercial secretary'

November 1, 2021

Enhanced

Various quality improvements to the suggest_profession endpoint of the Ontology API

October 4, 2021

Enhanced

About 200 skills added to the French skills taxonomy
20 new professions added to the profession taxonomy

Fixed

Renamed Information Engineer to Data Engineer
Fixed wrong capitalization of French job groups

September 28, 2021

Enhanced

New static taxonomy version available for Skills API: September 2021

August 13, 2021

Enhanced

Skills API lookup defaults to English for missing translations

August 12, 2021

Enhanced

CV's that mention a LinkedIn profile now don't show up as having 'social media skills' anymore.

July 2, 2021

Enhanced

Various skill extraction improvements for English and French
Improved French names of about one hundred skills
Added German synonyms for various concepts in the skills taxonomy.

Fixed

Fixed around 100 various skill normalization issues.

June 22, 2021

Enhanced

Various improvements to French profession normalization
Various improvements to the Italian Professions Taxonomy
Improved normalization of various terms in the cyber security and energy sectors in the french professions taxonomy
Minor improvements to Chinese profession classification
Improved classification of media-related professions in Dutch
Improved classification of various professions in French, Dutch and Italian.

Fixed

Fixed name and classification of "Technicien Méthodes Process" in the French profession taxonomy.
Improved classification of Product Manager in German profession taxonomy
Improved normalization of Service employee in Spanish.
Better Mapping of 'These' in French Profession Taxonomy
Better recognition of plumbing-related jobs in Italian

June 7, 2021

Enhanced

Added more synonyms for social relations manager in French
Added various HR software systems to the skills taxonomy

May 14, 2021

Enhanced

categories parameter for skill autocomplete is now optional

May 10, 2021

Enhanced

Added various healthcare software systems to the skills taxonomy
Add "COVID-19 Testing" skill to the skills taxonomy.
Added 13 skills and 300 synonyms to the French skills taxonomy

Fixed

Fixed wrong classification of "Betreuung Firmenkunden" in profession taxonomy

April 9, 2021

Enhanced

Evaluation of French SNT feedback. Includes the creation of 13 new professional skill concepts and the renaming (French-only) of 3 existing skill concepts.

March 29, 2021

Enhanced

Autocomplete endpoint added

March 24, 2021

Added

Added 70 skills to the English skills taxonomy, mostly media-related

Enhanced

Evaluation of French SNT feedback. Includes the creation of 13 new professional skill concepts and the renaming (French-only) of 3 existing skill concepts.
Improved names of 50 French skills
Added hairdresser-related skills in French

Fixed

Fixed issues with extraction of 'results analysis' skill
Fixed wrong translation of Scaled Agile Framework in German
Fixed erroneous classification of 'Afghaans' in Dutch documents

March 22, 2021

Enhanced

Improved classification of service assistants in French
Gender-neutralization of all profession names in profession taxonomy
Improved descriptions of a selection of managerial professions in French
Improved descriptions of translator and elementary school teacher professions in Dutch profession taxonomy
Improved normalization of IT jobs in Italian
Better classification of bank staff nursing professions
Improved classification of payroll and accounting jobs
Improved French translation of Channel Manager
Improved classification of design-related jobs
Improved classification of personal assistant jobs
Added three new professions to the profession taxonomy, and improved the French names of a few existing ones
Various improvements to Italian job classification
Improved profession classification for travel agents in Dutch
Based on client feedback, instances were added to the Profession Normalization Table to improve (mainly French) profession mapping.
Improved classification of wood-processing professions

Fixed

Moved 'business consultant' to a more appropriate group in the professions taxonomy
Fixed wrong classification of photovoltaics-related professions
Gender neutralisation of two English professions (Sportsman and Handyman)
Several improvements of French and Dutch job classification

March 11, 2021

Fixed

Fixed erroneous classification of 'Afghaans' in Dutch documents

February 12, 2021

Enhanced

800 synonyms added to German skills taxonomy
Added 1100 French terms to the skill taxonomy
Added 1100 Dutch terms to the skill taxonomy

January 18, 2021

Enhanced

Added a few IT skills to the German and English skill taxonomies

December 21, 2020

Added

Added 25 ISCO and ONET mappings to the profession taxonomy

Enhanced

A small fix in the Dutch Profession Taxonomy, resolving erroneous classifications of "Montagemedewerker Brilmonturen"
Medical Affairs Manager added to profession taxonomy
Small improvements to French profession normalization

Fixed

Minor improvements to the American English profession taxonomy