Extract Skills (Legacy)

Use this endpoint to extract a list of skills from a block of text (e.g., text from a resume, job description, syllabus). The endpoint accepts a block of text (containing one or more phrases or sentences) and returns categorized lists of normalized (recognized by AdeptID’s search and match endpoints) skills.

This endpoint is deprecated. Use Extract Skills instead.

Additional Notes:

• Enabling this service: This is a value-added service and is not available by default. To access this service, please contact your AdeptID Partner Success team.
• Skill Normalization vs. Skill Extraction: This endpoint works best when passed a block of text containing one or more phrases or sentences. If the input is an already-extracted list of raw skills (i.e., as seen in raw text from resumes, job descriptions, etc.), this endpoint will perform poorly; instead, use Normalize Skills.
• Document Parsing vs. Skill Extraction: This endpoint does not parse additional entities (e.g., contact information, education) from a resume or job posting; this should be done via Parse Resume or Parse Job.
• Supporting Models: AdeptID uses proprietary and third-party models to extract raw skills from a block of text and normalize those skills to a specific skills taxonomy. The below graphic depicts the difference between Extract Skills (Legacy) and Normalize Skills (Legacy).