Job Roles Explorer
Browse O*NET job roles, typical tasks, and required skills by category, before writing a single line of a job description.
A structured browser for O*NET's occupational database — job roles, their typical tasks, and the skills associated with them, organised by category rather than scattered across search results.
It's built for the research step that usually gets skipped: before writing a job description or evaluating whether an existing title still matches its actual responsibilities, seeing what a role genuinely involves according to a maintained external taxonomy rather than institutional memory or a copy-pasted old posting.
On this page
01What it does
Browse or search occupational categories to see typical tasks and skill requirements for a role — useful groundwork before writing a job description or evaluating whether a title matches its actual responsibilities.
02Who it's for
Recruiters and hiring managers drafting a job description for an unfamiliar role, HR teams auditing whether existing job titles still describe what the role actually does, and anyone who wants a factual starting point rather than a guess.
03What makes this different
It's a direct browser over O*NET's maintained taxonomy, not an AI-generated summary of what a role probably involves — the tasks and skills shown are sourced from the same structured database used across serious labour-market research.
04Why it matters
A job description grounded in what a role actually involves, rather than a copy-pasted template, produces sharper CMS dimension extraction and a more accurate shortlist — the quality of screening downstream depends heavily on the quality of the job description upstream.
05Pricing and what's included
Included from the Starter plan upward, with a 14-day free trial available to explore the taxonomy before committing to a paid plan.
06Support
The Help Center covers how categories map to specific job titles; support@expertini.com is available for anything not covered there.
Platform architecture & operations
A1Architecture: where it sits in the platform
Job Roles Explorer is a first-class module of the Sourcing & Job Ads suite inside the authenticated Expertini ATS workspace. The platform is deliberately server-rendered: every view is prepared by the application server and shipped as complete HTML, with no client-side framework, no third-party CDN scripts, and no build pipeline between the data and the page. What renders is what the server computed — the property that makes the interface auditable.
All persistence runs on a single search-native document store; every query carries the organisation's identifier as a mandatory filter at the lowest query layer. Tenant isolation is therefore structural — a property of how every request is composed — rather than a policy that relies on application code remembering to check.
Availability is governed by the platform's tool registry: this tool is registered from the Starter plan, and access is enforced server-side by the registry gate on every request — never by hiding a button. Plans also carry a monthly distinct-tool quota (3 / 5 / 15 / 30 / 45 across Trial→Business, unlimited on Enterprise), counted at the same chokepoint. The pricing page states both honestly: what is available, and how much of it the month includes.
A2Data model and dependency map
In production the tool reads and writes organisation-scoped document stores. Documents are plain, explicitly-mapped fields — mappings are provisioned ahead of first write, so term filters and aggregations behave deterministically instead of depending on inferred types.
The tool keeps a lightweight usage count rather than a per-event journal — a deliberate cost/benefit decision for standalone utilities, stated here because honest reporting matters more than impressive-looking telemetry.
Anything that leaves the request path — notification fan-out, webhook delivery, activity journalling, mail — runs in fire-and-forget background threads. A slow external endpoint can never make the interface hang, and a failed side effect is logged rather than silently retried into inconsistency.
A3Operational considerations
Organisation-level settings, destructive actions, and connections are gated to owner and admin roles; recruiters operate the tool on the records they can see. Role changes apply on the next request — enforcement is at the route, not in the menu.
Failures are surfaced, not swallowed: server-side validation returns the exact field and reason, vendor errors are quoted verbatim where integrations are involved, and every write either confirms or reports. Exports regenerate on request rather than being cached — a report you download reflects the store at the moment you asked, not last night's snapshot.
Everything written is yours to take: CSV exports and the Data Export app cover the same stores the product itself reads. The exit is as open as the entrance — by design, not concession.
A4Interaction contract
The interface follows the platform's search-and-select convention: any field that names a real record — a candidate, client, or job — is a type-to-search picker over live data, never a free-typed string, which is what keeps activity trails and deduplication trustworthy. Static choices are filter-as-you-type combos rather than native dropdowns, and state transitions give explicit feedback: server confirmations surface as toasts, validation errors name the exact field, and nothing is shown as done that the server has not confirmed.
The wireframe and flow below document the structural contract of the surface — what panels exist, what order the states occur in, and what happens at every edge — rather than pixels. The layout is composed with native CSS grid and flexbox and adapts from wide desktop to a single column without separate mobile views.
Dependency map
Interface blueprint
Interaction flow — states, validations, feedback
Neighbouring tools — Sourcing & Job Ads
Frequently asked questions
Where does the role and task data come from?⌄
Should I use this before or after writing a job description?⌄
Does this connect to the Job Description Builder?⌄
Is this useful for auditing existing job titles, not just writing new ones?⌄
At a glance
- Included from the Starter plan upward
- Grounded in O*NET's structured occupational database
- Useful groundwork before drafting a job description
- Also useful for auditing existing job titles against real responsibilities
- No AI cost — direct taxonomy lookup
- 14-day free trial available
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