> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.userecord.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Extract skills from a job > Suggest skills from a job title and description. Nothing is saved. **Scope:** `skills:read` · **Idempotency-Key:** optional ## OpenAPI ````yaml /blue-collar-api/api-reference/openapi.json post /skills/extract openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: Record Blue Collar API version: 1.0.0 description: >- Run Record candidate verification from your own system. You need two things: your **key id** and your **secret**. Everything else is generated. See Authentication for how. servers: - url: https://api-bc.userecord.io/api/v1/partner description: Blue Collar API security: [] tags: - name: Skills description: The skill taxonomy, read live a page at a time - name: Skill requests description: Ask Record to add a missing skill - name: Lookups description: >- Lookups for filling in a job mandate: places in India, the countries an abroad job can be in, and the employment types and shifts the playground offers - name: Workflows description: >- Your organisation's blue-collar workflows (read all; change and soft-delete only the ones you created) - name: Job mandates description: >- Your organisation's job mandates, addressed by Record's mandate_id (read all; change only the ones you created) - name: Campaigns description: Contact candidates for one of your jobs and verify them. Spends credits - name: Results description: >- What Record collected from each candidate: status (pending, completed, declined, failed) and an output of answers and verdicts - name: Events description: >- Pull your result events and acknowledge them: the safety net behind the webhook, and a way to receive results without exposing a URL - name: Webhooks description: >- Endpoints that Record POSTs result events to: signed, retried until you acknowledge, replayable - name: Analytics description: >- The workflow Overview analytics of the Record playground: funnel, channels, follow-ups, calls, drop-offs, languages (read-only, scope analytics:read) paths: /skills/extract: post: tags: - Skills summary: Extract skills from a job description: |- Suggest skills from a job title and description. Nothing is saved. **Scope:** `skills:read` · **Idempotency-Key:** optional operationId: extractSkills parameters: - name: Idempotency-Key in: header required: false schema: type: string maxLength: 255 description: >- Optional. A retry with the same key returns the first answer (kept 24 h). Leave empty in Try it: a new one is made for every call. requestBody: required: true content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: title: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 200 description: type: string maxLength: 5000 default: '' collar: type: string enum: - blue - grey - white required: - title additionalProperties: false example: title: Forklift Truck Operator description: >- Must hold Forklift Certification. Order Picking and Loading And Unloading of trucks. responses: '200': description: Suggestions, best first content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: success: const: true type: boolean message: type: string data: type: object properties: items: type: array items: type: object properties: skill: type: object properties: skill_id: type: string description: Stable taxonomy id, e.g. sk_27338 name: type: string sub_domain: type: object properties: id: type: string name: type: string domain: type: object properties: id: type: string name: type: string collar: type: string enum: - blue - grey - white verifiable: type: boolean description: >- Whether Record can generate skill-verification questions for it confidence: type: number minimum: 0 maximum: 1 matched_text: type: string example: success: true data: items: - skill: skill_id: sk_5177 name: Forklift Truck sub_domain: id: >- sub_architecture_and_construction__heavy_equipment_operation name: Heavy Equipment Operation domain: id: dom_architecture_and_construction name: Architecture and Construction collar: white verifiable: true confidence: 0.97 matched_text: forklift truck - skill: skill_id: sk_2338 name: Order Picking sub_domain: id: >- sub_logistics_and_mobility_management__inventory_and_warehousing name: Inventory and Warehousing domain: id: dom_logistics_and_mobility_management name: Logistics & Mobility Management collar: white verifiable: true confidence: 0.9 matched_text: order picking - skill: skill_id: sk_5175 name: Forklift Certification sub_domain: id: >- sub_architecture_and_construction__heavy_equipment_operation name: Heavy Equipment Operation domain: id: dom_architecture_and_construction name: Architecture and Construction collar: white verifiable: true confidence: 0.9 matched_text: forklift certification '400': description: '`VALIDATION_FAILED`: Missing `title`.' content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' security: - ApiKey: [] SecretKey: [] x-codeSamples: - lang: bash label: cURL source: |- pcall POST "/api/v1/partner/skills/extract" '{ "title": "Forklift Truck Operator", "description": "Must hold Forklift Certification. Order Picking and Loading And Unloading of trucks." }' - lang: javascript label: JavaScript source: |- const res = await call("POST", "/api/v1/partner/skills/extract", { "title": "Forklift Truck Operator", "description": "Must hold Forklift Certification. Order Picking and Loading And Unloading of trucks." }); const { data } = await res.json(); - lang: python label: Python source: |- res = call("POST", "/api/v1/partner/skills/extract", { "title": "Forklift Truck Operator", "description": "Must hold Forklift Certification. Order Picking and Loading And Unloading of trucks." }) data = res.json()["data"] components: schemas: Error: type: object properties: success: const: false type: boolean error: type: object properties: code: type: string enum: - VALIDATION_FAILED - LIMIT_EXCEEDED - UNAUTHORIZED - SCOPE_MISSING - FORBIDDEN - HTTPS_REQUIRED - NOT_FOUND - CONFLICT - WORKFLOW_IN_USE - INSUFFICIENT_CREDITS - IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_REQUIRED - IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_REUSED - IDEMPOTENCY_IN_PROGRESS - PAYLOAD_TOO_LARGE - UNSUPPORTED_MEDIA_TYPE - RATE_LIMITED - COOLDOWN - DAILY_CAP - SERVICE_DISABLED - SERVER_ERROR message: type: string details: type: array items: type: object properties: path: type: string message: type: string request_id: type: string description: Quote it to Record support securitySchemes: ApiKey: type: apiKey in: header name: x-api-key description: Your key id, `VFN_TEST_…` or `VFN_LIVE_…`. Sent on every request. SecretKey: type: apiKey in: header name: x-secret-key description: >- Your secret, `VFN_SK_…`. **Not a real header, and never sent to the API.** It is only a form field for Try it, which uses it to sign your request in your browser. In your own code you sign each request with the secret and send `x-api-key`, `x-timestamp` and `x-signature` (see Authentication). ```` This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.