Understanding Market Skills Insights
Taxonomy Skills Insights
Keep your skills framework in sync with the market and your organisation.
Taxonomy Skills Insights is a Skills Intelligence feature that gives Taxonomy Admins a single place to review, act on, and track changes to their skills framework - drawing from two sources: live labour market data and real signals from within your organisation.
What Is Taxonomy Skills Insights?
Your skills taxonomy is only as useful as it is current. Skills that were relevant two years ago may be fading. New skills are gaining traction in your industry. Employees in your organisation may already be using skills that haven't made it into your framework yet.
Taxonomy Skills Insights surfaces both kinds of signals be it external or internal so you can make deliberate, informed decisions about what stays in your taxonomy, what gets added, and what gets retired.
It can be found under My Taxonomy → Taxonomy Skills Insights and has two tabs:
- Market Skills Insights — signals from the labour market, delivered monthly
- Discovered Skills — skills surfaced from your organisation's own data
What is Market Skills Insights
Market Skills Insights connects your taxonomy to live labour market data. Each month, a new batch of signals arrives, showing you how skills are evolving in the market - what's new, what's being renamed, what's declining, and what's being reclassified.
Signals are grouped by version (for example, V9.42 · April 2026). Each version is a snapshot of that month's market recommendations. Past versions are read-only - you can review what was acted on, but cannot make changes to closed months.
Unacted signals do not carry forward. Each month's batch is its own set of recommendations.
Reading the Summary Cards
At the top of the Market Skills Insights tab, summary cards give you a quick count of what changed this month:
| Card | What It Means |
|---|---|
| Total Recommendations | All signals in the current monthly batch |
| New Skills | Skills gaining traction in the market that are not yet in your taxonomy |
| Removed | Skills declining in market relevance |
| Renamed | Skills now known by a different name in the market |
| Classification Changes | Skills that have moved to a different category (for example, from Behavioural to Technical) |
| Tagging | Skills whose tags or labels have been updated |
To get the details of each card, you can click any card to filter the list and view the type.
Taking Action on Market Signals
Each skill in the list shows its classification, change type, current status, and available actions.
Accepting a New Skill
When the market flags a skill your taxonomy does not yet have:
- Click Accept on the skill row. You will get a confirmation popup to move ahead.
- An Add Skill form opens, pre-filled with information from market data - domain, sub-domain, skill cluster, description, and tags.
- Review the pre-filled details. Fill in any required fields marked with a red asterisk (*), including Skill Display Name, Skill Classification, and whether the skill is critical for your organisation.
- Add or edit Skills Tags as needed. Use Regenerate to get fresh tag suggestions.
- Click Save Skill Information. The skill is added to your active taxonomy and the signal is marked Accepted.
Required fields must be completed before saving. The Save button stays disabled until all mandatory fields are filled.
Skipping a Signal
If a signal is not relevant right now but you do not want to reject it outright, click Skip. The signal is set aside for this version and marked Skipped.
Rejecting a Signal
If a signal is not relevant to your organisation, click Reject. The signal is dismissed for this version and the taxonomy will remain unchanged.
Acting on Removed, Renamed, or Classification Change Signals
For signals that involve a destructive change to an existing skill - removing it, renaming it, or changing its type, an impact screen appears before you confirm. Removing or renaming a skill affects more than just your taxonomy, it can change how job profiles are structured and how employees' skills are mapped across the organisation. The impact screen gives you a clear count of what will change before you confirm, so no update happens without full visibility. It shows:
- Number of job profiles affected
- Number of employees affected
Review the impact, then choose Confirm or Cancel. Confirmed changes take effect immediately across your taxonomy.
Tagging changes apply directly without an impact screen, as they do not affect job profiles or employee records.
Reviewing Past Versions
Previous monthly versions appear as pills at the top of the page (for example, V9.42 · Mar 2026, V9.42 · Feb 2026). Click any past version to review what signals were received and how they were acted on. Past versions are read-only.
What is Discovered Skills
Discovered Skills surfaces skills that already exist within your organisation's data from resumes, job profiles, certifications, employee requests, and adjacent skills but have not yet been formally added to your taxonomy.
This tab gives you a rolling view of organic skill activity inside your organisation, so your taxonomy reflects what your people are actually doing, not just what was planned when the framework was built.
Reading the Summary
At the top of the Discovered Skills tab:
- Total Discovered Skills — all skills surfaced from internal sources
- By Status — how many are Yet to Review / Accepted / Rejected / Under Review
- By Source — breakdown across Resume, Job Profiles, Certifications, Employee Requests, and Adjacent Skills
A taxonomy growth indicator shows how much your taxonomy has expanded through Discovered Skills actions (for example, "10% Growth in Taxonomy - Your taxonomy expanded with 54 skills").
Use the Source filter pills - All, Resume, Certification, Job Profile to narrow the list.
Taking Action on Discovered Skills
Each skill shows where it was discovered (sources), its current status, and available actions.
| Status | Available Actions |
|---|---|
| Yet to Review | Add to Taxonomy, Remove |
| Under Review | Edit |
| Added to Taxonomy | View |
Add to Taxonomy — opens the skill form so you can review details and formally add the skill to your taxonomy.
Remove — dismisses the skill from the discovered list without adding it.
Edit — update skill details while it is under review.
View — opens the skill detail for a skill already added to the taxonomy.
Skills Inventory Dashboard
The Skills Inventory dashboard gives you a monthly summary of all taxonomy actions taken - how many skills were accepted, removed, or renamed, and which market signal version they came from.
Summary cards are scoped to the current calendar month. Each card shows a count of actions taken, and clicking a card opens the detailed list of contributing skills.
Market signal actions carry a version stamp (for example, V9.4) confirming the data came from a trusted, versioned market source.
Skills marked as critical for your organisation appear with a Critical tag in the Skill Inventory.
Refer to this article for deeper knowledge of Skills Inventory
Understanding Skills Inventory
Frequently Asked Questions
Do unacted market signals carry over to the next month? No. Each monthly version is a standalone snapshot. Signals not acted on in that version do not appear in the following month's batch.
Can I undo a removal? Confirmed removals soft-delete the skill - it is hidden from employee-facing views but its history is retained. Contact your administrator if you need to reverse a removal.
Who can access Taxonomy Skills Insights? This feature is available to Taxonomy Admins. The Skill Inventory dashboard is also visible to Talent and L&D Leaders for a read-only view of taxonomy activity.
Will I see the data provider name in the product? No. The product surfaces signals as Market Skills Insights - the underlying data provider is not displayed in the interface.
What if a skill was renamed in one version and renamed again the following month? This is currently being refined. If you encounter conflicting rename signals across versions, contact iMocha support for guidance.
