AI skill translator — adjacency mapping, with limits.

The standard advice about transferable skills is a horoscope. "You have leadership experience." "You are a strong communicator." Neither sentence helps a recruiter decide anything. AI that operates at this level does not move the search forward — it just rewords what you already knew. A real AI skill translator works one level deeper. It takes a specific responsibility from your background — something you actually owned, delivered, or decided — and maps it to the industries where the same responsibility lives under a different name. Not the title; the work. The output is a ranked set of adjacent industries with the language those industries use to describe what you did. The AI does this well for industries that produce enough public material — postings, descriptions, sector commentary — for the patterns to be visible. It does it less well for niche industries with thin public footprints. The companion is honest about which adjacencies are confident matches and which are weaker signals worth checking with a human in that sector.

The one thing

Responsibility-level mapping, ranked

The translator operates on responsibilities, not titles. It takes a specific thing you did and surfaces three to five strong adjacencies — ranked by closeness, with the language that sector uses. Three good matches you can act on beats fifty soft ones you cannot, and the ranking helps you spend time where it is most likely to pay back.

What it is not

The limits, listed up front.

Cannot confirm a sector is hiring right now. The translator maps adjacencies based on patterns; it does not have real-time hiring data for every market.
Weaker on niche industries. Sectors with limited public information produce thinner mappings. The companion will say so when confidence is low.
Cannot replace a sector contact. Someone working in the target industry will know things AI patterns miss — internal language quirks, specific subspecialties, what is actually valued.
Trained on patterns. The translator works from general patterns; specific company cultures inside an industry vary, and the mapping cannot capture that.

Questions

Common questions

How does the translator decide what is adjacent to my background?

It looks at the responsibilities you describe — what you owned, delivered, and decided — and finds the industries where the same underlying work happens under a different label. The mapping is by responsibility, not by title, because titles are noisy across industries and responsibilities are more stable. The closer the match, the higher the ranking. The companion shows the rationale so you can sanity-check the call yourself.

Will the translator suggest industries I have never considered?

Sometimes, and that is when it is most useful. People searching the same industry they just left often miss the three adjacent industries where their responsibilities map cleanly. The translator surfaces those by default — not to push you out of your industry, but to make sure you have seen the options. Whether to act on them is your call.

Why ranked matches instead of a long list?

Because a long unranked list is just noise. Three to five strong adjacencies you can act on beats fifty soft adjacencies you cannot. The translator forces ranking specifically to keep the output usable. If you want to explore weaker matches, you can — but the headline is the strong ones, because that is where time is most likely to pay back.

Should I trust the translator's confidence on a niche sector?

Trust it less, and verify with a human in that sector. The companion will tell you when confidence is low — usually because the target sector has limited public material to pattern-match against. For niche industries, the translator's job is to point you in a direction; a person working in that sector is the right next step to confirm whether the adjacency is real and what the right language actually is.

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