Taxonomy Analyst

Diemen / hybrid / full time 

people at the heart of everything we do 

Working at Randstad is unlike working at any organization. Because at Randstad we put people at the heart of everything we do. This goes for our clients, our talent, our employees and society. We combine our passion for people with the power of today’s technologies. This helps us support people and organizations in realizing their true potential. Learn more about our mission, history and values on our website: www.randstad.com 

 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 

We put people at the heart of everything we do. Our employment conditions reflect this; 

• competitive salary 
• an additional flexible benefit budget 
• attractive bonus scheme 
• option to take part in Randstad's success through our employee Share Purchase Plan 
• option to go on a sabbatical leave or buy extra holidays 
• flexible working hours in the office or hybrid] 
• attractive mobility arrangements 
• opportunity to give back to local communities through paid volunteering leave 
• a generous budget to set up your home office space and a net internet allowance] 
• growth and development opportunities in a fast changing global environment 
• working with great people and being part of a network where everyone wants you to succeed 
• an environment where differences are understood, valued and celebrated 

We want our teams and talent to reflect the rich diversity of the societies we serve. We thrive for an environment of belonging, safety and confidence. So everyone can bring their whole selves to work and flourish. Learn more about equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging at randstad here. 

If you recognize yourself in the profile above, we invite you to apply for this role.
For more information you can reach out to our recruitment business partner Becky Suckling . 

The recruitment procedure consists of a screening and at least two interviews. Later in the process, an (online) assessment and a job offer conversation take place