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Titles, Not Tokens: Making Job Matching Explainable with STR + KGs

Recruiters do not match job titles the way search boxes do. A search box sees “Chief Executive Officer” and “Managing Director” and notices the obvious problem: almost no shared words. A recruiter sees the less obvious truth: these can be functionally close roles. Then the same recruiter sees “Director of Sales” and “Vice President, Marketing” and understands a different kind of relationship: not identical, but adjacent enough to matter. ...

September 17, 2025 · 13 min · Zelina