Employment Categories

Employment categories (see employments ontology reference) are canonicalized Domains, Seniority, and/or Roles inferred from a given person's employment title and description. Employment categories are only applicable for the Person data type.

• Domain categories reflect career types (e.g. Human Resources, or Food Preparation)
• Role categories describe specialized job types, and are often indicative of rank (e.g. Manager, CEO)
• Seniority categories indicate a person's relative experience (e.g. Junior, or Senior)

A given employment may have one or several attributed categories.

This reference is helpful for narrowing down queries for person employments on the Diffbot Knowledge Graph where inconsistent titles might be used, such as Engineer or Software Developer, both of which will be attributed the domain category Engineering, IT and Software Development.

An example DQL query using an employment category on this list might look like this —

# Query for engineering managers
type:Person employments.{categories.name:"Engineering, IT and Software Development" categories.name:"Manager" isCurrent:true}

By Domain

An employment category reflecting various career types (e.g. Human Resources, or Food Preparation)

By Role

An employment category indicating a person's relative rank (e.g. Junior, or Senior). Note that this list is not explicitly ordered.

By Seniority

An employment category indicating a person's relative experience (e.g. Junior, or Senior)