Steppingblocks compiles data from hundreds of publicly available sources into more than 1 billion career milestones. The result is 150+ million individual profiles, covering more than 90% of the active U.S. workforce, across 25+ million companies and 7,000+ colleges and universities. We add millions of new profiles every year.
We never ask individuals to submit their own information, and we don't need any alumni data from you. Here is how the data is built.
1. Acquisition
We collect data from hundreds of publicly available online sources, including:
Resumes posted online
Job and skills data from public social media profiles
Company bios, directories and contact information
Public employment and federal databases
Skills and certifications data
Labor market and job postings data
2. Processing
The raw data adds up to more than 1 billion career milestones. Before any of it reaches you, it goes through validation and machine learning:
Deduplication, profile merging and version control
Accuracy testing, human audits and certification
Machine learning for quality tagging, modeling and derived fields such as salary estimates
Any anomalies are flagged for human review before the data moves forward. See How accurate is our data? for more on validation.
3. Access
Each profile can include name, age, gender, salary, location, degrees, schools, employers, job titles, industries, skills, interests and contact information. You explore it through Graduate Insights and Digital Career Counselor, with no extra setup.
What we need from you
Only your academic catalog, which we use to match your majors and programs to our data. See Catalog / Data Setup.
How often is it updated?
Quarterly. See How often is our data updated?