Taxanomy Analyst

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Are you our new colleague? We’re looking for a Taxanomy Analyst

We are seeking an experienced Taxonomy Analyst for the development and maintenance of the Global Taxonomy data products and services.

This is a taxonomy focused data analyst role with knowledge of labour market concepts, and fluency in 2 major languages (i.e. English and Spanish).

 
The global taxonomy product family is a growing set of labour market related concepts that have a crucial role as a ‘lingua franca’ for the Randstad family, most importantly for the X-One programs. It includes a wealth of information on jobs and occupations, skills, certificates, locations and education. 

We have taxonomies in place for various languages and locales, e.g. en-US, en-UK, nl-NL, nl-BE, fr-BE, it-IT, de-CH and sv-SE.
Future additions will be pt-PT, pt-BR, es-ES, es-MX, pl-PL, de-DE, fr-CA, and possibly more.

Our taxonomies are created by a mix of human expertise and high-end AI technology.
The human expertise is anchored in the global program team, where this analyst profile has an essential role in supporting the Lead Knowledge Engineer / Implementation Manager in the curation of high-quality data assets from the Randstad countries. Technically, the taxonomy products use machine learning-based large language models to provide semantic-based capabilities such as career guidance, labour market analytics, and job and candidate search and match.

Essential functions:

The ideal candidate will successfully enhance, test, and maintain occupation and skills taxonomies and ontologies, and assist with other areas of the development process, specifically:

• identify and assess existing occupational, skills/certificates and education taxonomies and services to be incorporated and augmented

• assess data sources content qualitatively

• annotate corpora to provide qualitative data to Data Scientists to train ML models

• proactively identify and develop concepts and terms for new industries or functional areas based on:

  • data from in-house text analysis tools

  • supporting research of secondary source materials

  • consultation with Subject Matter Experts

• refine and improve existing definitions in our taxonomies

• work closely with end-users and the global team to troubleshoot, verify, document, and fix reported matching problems and requests

• assess APIs output (job title ⇒ occupation; similar occupations; occupation ⇔ skills; skills ⇔ skills; certificates)

• find the optimal taxonomy values based on keyword research in Google Ads per website language to enrich the taxonomy data with SEO-friendly values 

• work with our engineering team to assist with the development and implementation of job-related products and services

Qualifications:

Educational background:

• minimum BA/BS and well-rounded education

• must be fluent in English and Spanish, and have a good understanding of the local labour market

• familiarity with linguistics, natural language processing, text/information retrieval, taxonomies, information sciences, or formal logic all highly useful

Relevant skills and experience:

• strong language skills: English fluency and excellent understanding of the Spanish language syntax, morphology, orthography, and discourse patterns

• familiarity with the job marketplace (2/3 years of experience as a data analyst or a recruiter)

• ability and interest in understanding, analyzing and organizing information in fields outside their current areas of expertise

• independent research experience

• strong logical, analytical abilities with a high level of common sense

• very well organized, with excellent follow-through

• self-motivated, energetic, excellent attention to detail, fast learner

• commitment to meeting deadlines

what’s in it for you

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