New Tool Matches Your Skills With High-Paying Local Occupations Boston 25 News [Video]

If you are feeling stuck in your career, you may have wondered how the skills you’ve acquired can translate to higher-paying employment.

A new online tool makes it so that you don’t have to wonder anymore.

Got Old Skills, but Looking for a New Occupation? Read This

“There’s a new tool that I’ve been enjoying learning how to use,” says money expert Clark Howard. “It’s called the Occupational Mobility Explorer.”

The tool, part of a joint program that came out of an employment study published by the Federal Reserve banks in Philadelphia and Cleveland, aims to take advantage of a skills-centric approach to occupational mobility.

While “occupational mobility” has not gotten much tread outside of academic and labor circles, the term refers to the ability of workers to advance to higher-paying occupations based on the skills they’ve learned and have come to master. With the growth of occupational mobility, many believe that workers can have long-lasting careers despite the …