20,000+ researched skills in the Xobin Capability Graph.
This is the visual surface of the skills layer inside the Xobin Capability Graph (XCG). Every dot is a workplace skill Xobin Research has catalogued and calibrated. Lines connect skills that co-occur inside real jobs; the denser the neighbourhood, the tighter the family of adjacent competencies.
200,000–300,000
function–skill relationships
Across 40+ industries the graph resolves to roughly 200–300 functions once overlap is accounted for, with each function carrying an estimated 600–1,200 distinct skills. That implies 200,000–300,000 function–skill relationships, meaning each skill attaches to ten to fifteen functions on average, since skills are many-to-many with functions rather than divided among them.
The distribution is heavily skewed: a small set of universal skills appears in most functions, while a long tail of specialist skills appears in only one or two.
The map is not a marketing illustration. It is a rendered projection of the taxonomy that powers every Xobin assessment and AI interview — the same graph our psychometricians use to decide which items belong together, which skills need re-validation, and where new items should be authored next.
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The same graph is what scores candidates inside Xobin, so talent decisions rest on measured skills rather than job titles.