# Tec-Habilidad: Skill Classification for Bridging Education and Employment

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.03932 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.03932/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 7 of its 31 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 5 Mar 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 7 of 7)

- [BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.04805/) (2018)
- [Spanish Pre-trained BERT Model and Evaluation Data](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.02976/) (2023)
- [LLMs Accelerate Annotation for Medical Information Extraction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.02296/) (2023)
- [SkillSpan: Hard and Soft Skill Extraction from English Job Postings](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.12811/) (2022)
- [Learning Representations for Soft Skill Matching](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1807.07741/) (2018)
- [Rethinking Skill Extraction in the Job Market Domain using Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.03832/) (2024)
- [Skill-LLM: Repurposing General-Purpose LLMs for Skill Extraction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.12052/) (2024)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Job application and assessment processes have evolved significantly in recent years, largely due to advancements in technology and changes in the way companies operate. Skill extraction and classification remain an important component of the modern hiring process as it provides a more objective way to evaluate candidates and automatically align their skills with the job requirements. However, to effectively evaluate the skills, the skill extraction tools must recognize varied mentions of skills on resumes, including direct mentions, implications, synonyms, acronyms, phrases, and proficiency levels, and differentiate between hard and soft skills. While tools like LLMs (Large Model Models) help extract and categorize skills from job applications, there's a lack of comprehensive datasets for evaluating the effectiveness of these models in accurately identifying and classifying skills in Spanish-language job applications. This gap hinders our ability to assess the reliability and precision of the models, which is crucial for ensuring that the selected candidates truly possess the required skills for the job. In this paper, we develop a Spanish language dataset for skill extraction and classification, provide annotation methodology to distinguish between knowledge, skill, and abilities, and provide deep learning baselines to advance robust solutions for skill classification.
