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Job Titles: What do
they “Mean”?
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LESLIE BARRETT
THE LADDERS
DECEMBER 2011
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Here are two definitions
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Job–Title
:(noun):
the name given to the person who does
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(noun):
a brief description of a position held by
level
an employee. A job title can describe the
responsibilities of the position and/or the level of the
job.
So they can’t even agree what a job title applies to – is it
the name of a person or the description of a position of
a person??
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Why
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– Job titles help companies find people that match requirements in
jobs
– Job Titles help individuals match their skills with job
Without agreement on the standard semantic content of a job title,
effective matching is difficult.
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Second level
(encapsulates responsibility)
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– Level
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organizational position)
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• Development Director, Product Manager, VP of
Marketing, Senior Sales Manager
• Phrasal Syntax quite different from most other English
noun compounds.
– For example, a Product Manager is not really a “type” of Manager
the way “hand cream” is a type of Cream
– A Product Manager or Director is an executive in the Product
division at a company at a particular level
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description
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• If the latter
were instead the case, you would get things
like Product Management and Development Direction
as a complete job Titles
– The problem for language technology applications involving Job
Titles is that you do get these!!
• Differences in the Phrasal Syntax pose challenges both
for those composing the titles and those parsing them
– “Do I identify with “management” professionals or “Marketing”
professionals?”
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– “Sales”,
Second level
“Marketing”, “VP”, “Specialist”, “CTO/COO/SVP/CEO”
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Fourth level
• Overly– Specific
Titles
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– “taxonomy management evangelist”, “Promotions Manager and PR
Expert for 10 years at Smith Barney”
• Stuff that’s not really a title
– “Management”, “Promotion”
• Some say to much, some say too little. We do a great
deal of “data scrubbing”
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– Freebase and others have known problems with normalization
despite being otherwise useful and growing resources
• Real solutions depend on understanding the underlying
meaning behind data such that valid correspondences
can be created
– E.g. Marketing Management Specialist  marketing manager