USE CASE:
Director of talent acquisition: the honest take on title classification
Everything below is about one job: title classification for director of talent acquisition, done in a way that survives a list rather than a single lookup. Mamba Labs builds the Apify actors named here, so Contact Classifier is something you run yourself against your own list of director of talent acquisition.
The problem
Title classification for director of talent acquisition looks like the easy case and is not. Any title classification method has to survive this: director of talent acquisition sit in one function and one seniority band, and both move with company size. One thing title classification on director of talent acquisition rarely accounts for: the same title means three different jobs at a startup, a scaleup and an enterprise. There is 1 runnable example of title classification for director of talent acquisition below.
Traditional Search Tools
- The job advert itself, for director of talent acquisition. Free, and the responsibilities section says what the title actually means there.
- A spreadsheet of keyword rules. Contains and does not contain, in order. Fragile, free, and completely transparent when it goes wrong, which counts for a lot.
- Your CRM's picklist. Forces structure at intake and only works when the person entering the record picks honestly. In practice they pick the first option.
- An LLM prompt over the column. Handles the odd ones a rule list cannot. Costs a call per row and gives a different answer on a rerun unless you pin the temperature.
- Build a lookup. Export the distinct titles, map the top 300 by hand, treat the tail as unknown. Two hours, and it covers most of the list because titles follow a power law.
Mamba Labs Apify Actors
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- Contact Classifier1 preconfigured task on this page's job.
Preconfigured tasks
A task is one of these actors with the inputs already filled in for a specific version of this job. Open one, swap in your own list, and run it without setting anything up from scratch.