Differences in language use: Insights from job and talent search

Abstract

© 2019 Association for Computing Machinery. Search platforms can have more than one type of user, e.g., those who provide and those who consume content. As an example, in a job/talent search platform, content providers are: (1) job seekers who provide CVs, and (2) hirers who provide job advertisements; content consumers, on the other hand, are: (3) job seekers searching for specific jobs, and (4) hirers/recruiters searching for candidates to fill particular positions. As a result, there are four types of users, each with potentially different patterns of language use. In this paper, we compare the language used by different groups of users in job/talent search, by way of word embeddings pre-..