The occupation
Reading a career as the phrases employers actually write
What goes wrong when a resume is a list of jobs rather than an occupation, and how Jobtiv's path map scores your profile against keyword families taken from real ads.
A list of employers is not an occupation
Hiring software searches for phrases. A profile that only names wards and dates can be true and still miss the words the ads in that occupation actually use: triage, medication administration, clinical documentation, vitals. The person has done the work. The file does not contain the tokens the search expects.
The other failure is a career-change story with no map: "I want to go into data" with none of the phrases a data-analyst family uses, so every later tool — Studio, cover letter, courses — is dressing a gap nobody has named.
Occupation families, keyword hits, a cap when a blocker is missing
The map is a library of occupation families. Each family is a set of keywords grouped as hard skills, tools, frameworks, and the rest. Your profile is scanned for those phrases. You get an alignment number for a family, and a list of what hit and what did not.
Some families have role-critical keywords. If a blocker is missing, alignment is capped — currently at 60 — because a file without a genuine blocker for that seat is not "almost there". That cap is a product rule, not a professional-body rule. We do not speak for a regulator.
What the map currently holds
389 occupation families are in the path library today. The count comes from the same data file the tool reads. It will move when a family is added or removed.
Hard-skill labels currently on the nursing family, taken from that library:
- Patient care
- Clinical documentation
- Multidisciplinary team
- Triage
- Medication administration
- Wound care
- Patient assessment
- Vitals monitoring
What the nursing family looks for in Kofi Bexleigh's file
This is a fictional example CV, written to show the template. It is not a real person.
Kofi Bexleigh is a fictional staff nurse. The nursing family in the map looks for phrases such as triage, medication administration, wound care, patient assessment, vitals monitoring, and clinical documentation — labels taken from the path data, not from a council. His profile already has medicines rounds, a turning checklist, and precepting. The map's job is to show which of those phrases are present as text.
The same family also carries US phrasing (for example a HIPAA keyword in the healthcare common set). A Leeds ward file may miss that token and still be a ward file. Missing a phrase is not the same as missing the skill. That is the honest gap in a mixed US/UK library.
When the map will not help
It will not pick a career for you. It will not enroll you on a course. Keyword hits are text matches, not competence. The library mixes US and UK phrasing on purpose, which means a UK file can miss a US token. We do not treat that miss as a verdict on your right to practice, and we do not name a regulator as if they endorsed the map.
Questions
- Is this a personality test?
- No. It compares the text of your profile with phrases in an occupation family. It does not score your character.
- Why is alignment capped?
- On families with role-critical keywords, a missing blocker caps the number so a file without that signal cannot look complete. The cap is ours, not a regulator's.
- Can I use this to change occupation?
- You can see which phrases a target family uses that your file lacks. Filling those gaps still happens in actual work, courses, or rewriting — the map only names them.