Education Overview

AdeptID has two related schemas to describe education: one for credentials achieved by job candidates and another for educational requirements articulated by employers in job postings. The education schemas are based on the US Department of Education’s Classification of Instructional Programs.

Education Schema

Candidate Education Schema

Candidates may have one or more educational experiences that AdeptID uses to infer the candidate’s skills and influence their job recommendations. The candidate education object is typically used for degrees, certificates and other university programs. (Industry certifications such as Project Management Professional for project managers and CISSP for cybersecurity professionals are considered skills in AdeptID’s data model.)

Candidate Education Example

{
  "level": "ASSOCIATES",
  "degree_type": "ASSOCIATE OF ARTS",
  "subject": "Business",
  "start_date": "09/2020",
  "end_date": "06/2022",
  "institution": "Northern Virgina Community College",
  "gpa": 3.5,
  "summary": "Completed Associate's in Business with a concentration in marketing and high honors graduation"
}

Job Education Schema

Each job may have zero, one or more preferred or required educational credentials associated with it.

Job Education Example

{
  "level": "BACHELORS",
  "degree_type": "Bachelor of Arts",
  "subject":"Biology", 
  "required": true
}

Education Taxonomy

Use Cases for Education Taxonomy

The AdeptID Education Taxonomy is used for the following purposes.

• Standardizing Major or Programs of Study: AdeptID standardizes degree names, majors and programs of study for use in its career matching models. This use case is satisfied using Program of Study Search.

• Skills Inference: AdeptID’s job match models infer skills that a candidate has on the basis of their education credentials.

• Job Matching: To evaluate candidates’ educational background against the requirements which are required or preferred for a specific job opening. This use case is satisfied using Evaluate Candidates and Evaluate Jobs.

• Career Exploration: To recommend individual jobs or job categories which align with the candidates current or desired level of education. This use case is satisfied using Recommend Destination Occupations.

Education Taxonomy Overview

AdeptID’s education schema utilizes two taxonomies sourced from the US Department of Education, one for degree level (e.g., Associate’s, Bachelor’s, Master's, etc.) and another for the program of study (e.g., Accounting, Mechanical Engineering, History).

Level

This taxonomy describes the level of the degree. The allowable level and definitions of those levels below are described below. (Definitions are sourced from the US Department of Education.)

• High School: Completed secondary school course of study or GED. (This definition is not sourced from IPEDS.)

• Associate’s: A degree that normally requires at least 2 but less than 4 years of full-time equivalent college work.

• Bachelor's: A degree (baccalaureate or equivalent degree, as determined by the Secretary, U.S. Department of Education) that normally requires at least 4 but not more than 5 years of full-time equivalent college-level work. This includes all bachelor's degrees conferred in a 5-year cooperative (work-study) program. A cooperative plan provides for alternate class attendance and employment in business, industry, or government; thus, it allows students to combine actual work experience with their college studies. Also includes bachelor's degrees in which the normal 4 years of work are completed in 3 years.

• Certificate: A formal award certifying the satisfactory completion of a postsecondary education program.

• Master's: A degree that requires the successful completion of a program of study of at least the full-time equivalent of 1 but not more than 2 academic years of work beyond the bachelor's degree. Some of these degrees, such as those in Theology (M.Div., M.H.L./Rav) that were formerly classified as "first-professional", may require more than two full-time equivalent academic years of work.

• Doctorate: A Ph.D. or other doctor's degree that requires advanced work beyond the master's level, including the preparation and defense of a dissertation based on original research, or the planning and execution of an original project demonstrating substantial artistic or scholarly achievement. Some examples of this type of degree may include Ed.D., D.M.A., D.B.A., D.Sc., D.A., or D.M, and others, as designated by the awarding institution.
  Additionally, doctoral degrees include a category of professional practice degrees which are conferred upon completion of a program providing the knowledge and skills for the recognition, credential, or license required for professional practice. The degree is awarded after a period of study such that the total time to the degree, including both pre-professional and professional preparation, equals at least six full-time equivalent academic years. Some of these degrees were formerly classified as first-professional and may include: Chiropractic (D.C. or D.C.M.); Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.); Law (J.D.); Medicine (M.D.); Optometry (O.D.); Osteopathic Medicine (D.O); Pharmacy (Pharm.D.); Podiatry (D.P.M., Pod.D., D.P.); or, Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.), and others, as designated by the awarding institution.

• Unknown: Used when the degree level is unknown (and cannot be inferred/parsed by AdeptID and its resume/job posting parsing partners).

Subject

AdeptID uses the subject field and combines the result with the degree type field to align each degree to a standardized program of study based on the US Department of Education’s Classification of Instruction Programs (CIP).

Canonical Values

Degree Level:

Degree Type:

Users may enter values from either the degree_type or degree_abbreviation column. AdeptID uses this information to infer level and where possible the program_of_study.