Classifying Job Titles with Noisy Labels Using Reinforce
ziprecruiter.comI despise most job boards I’ve seen because the search features are almost always trash.
For example, I might want to find a job as a developer, but be interested in working in a certain domain or technology. So I may search for “X developer”. Unfortunately most jobs boards I’ve used (notably LinkedIn’s) will simply ignore the search and just show me jobs related to either “developer” or X, the latter of which may start pulling random non-developer jobs depending on the term. None of them seem to support standard search engine operators as well.
Another problem, which is actually touched on in the article is keyword spam. Say I make a search for Y developer. Well there are always a massive amount of jobs that will match with something like this in the description:
Requirements
experience with a programming language like A, B, C, X, Y, Z
And of course the role has nothing to do with most of those languages but because they decided to spam the description with a uselessly generic phrase like that, it comes in the search and just adds even more noise I have to try and pick out.
I have a strong suspicion that doing pure keyword searches of job descriptions (or resumes, on the employers' side) probably has some pretty hard limits on how well it can work, especially in the presence of participants with incentives to spam.
Very interesting! I wonder how others are handling this and if there's going to be an industry standard anytime soon.
Very impressive