---
id: "entity-linkedin-skills-graph"
type: "entity"
entityType: "product"
canonicalName: "LinkedIn Skills Graph"
aliases: []
source_timestamps: ["§ Three Necessities", "¶13"]
tags: ["taxonomy", "data-model"]
related: ["entity-microsoft-skills-agent"]
sources: ["tail1"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-tail1"
originDay: 1
articleStem: "hbr-tail-112-continually-assessing-performance"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/06/the-pros-and-cons-of-continually-assessing-performance"
sourceTitle: "The Pros and Cons of Continually Assessing Performance"
---
# LinkedIn Skills Graph

**Entity type:** product · **Role in source:** data model powering capability inference.

A taxonomy used in part to power [[entity-microsoft-skills-agent]], capturing the relationships among **more than 39,000 distinct skills** to help create dynamic employee-skill profiles. The enrichment situates it within a broader industry move toward skills ontologies and labor-market taxonomies — while noting the article's novelty claim that such taxonomies are becoming *too static* for AI-era change (see [[contrarian-skills-based-obsolescence]]).