Normalizing the seniority of job titles

Agents, Actions and Automation
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I would like to use something like Taggers to normalize the seniority of job titles, e.g. CRO, CEO, CMO in $Title would all automatically be tagged NLSeniority as CXO or Executive Leadership. Is this possible? My understanding is that Taggers only looks at $Name and $Text.

2

This seems a good task for an agent. Put the senior titles in a set attribute, and test for inclusion in the set.

3

Sounds good, thanks. Actually, how exactly would you do this? What if there are partial matches? e.g., Head of Identity, who could I do it so that it will match on Head? Is there a way to do .asString match? Could you give me an example?

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Well, I can think of lots of possible queries.

if($Title.beginsWith("C")) { $Seniority="Executive Leadership";}

Or, we could be more cautious.

if ($Title="CEO" | $Title=="CFO" | $Title="CMO") {$Seniority="Executive Leadership";}

If this gets too long, we could write

if($MySet(/config/titles).contains($Title)) {$Seniority="Executive Leadership";}

where $MySet(/config/titles) contains the set “CEO;CFO;CMO;CTO;”.

We could also wrap the test up in a function:

if(isExecutive($Title)){$Seniority="Executive Leadership";}

where isExecutive is something like

function isExecutive(title:string) {
     if( $MySet(/config/titles) contains the set "CEO;CFO;CMO;CTO;) {return true;}
     return false;
}
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Another approach, now that I think of it, is a dictionary:

{CEO: "Executive leadership";CFO: :"C-suite"; .....}
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