Fine-tuned xlm-roberta-base for classifying German job listings into 21 top-level industry categories.
Part of the JobBlast taxonomy model family — a system for automated classification of German-language job postings. This model handles the broad top-level split across all industries; for detailed IT role classification see the related IT model below.
Test Metrics
Metric
Value
Accuracy
81.75%
F1 macro
78.15%
F1 weighted
81.88%
Evaluated on a held-out test set of 3,320 German job listings.
Class imbalance in the test set — IT & Software and Sales & Business Development (500 samples each) vs. Legal (14 samples) and Design & Creative (25 samples); metrics for small classes remain higher-variance
Weakest classes: Education & Teaching (F1 0.653), General Management & Consulting (F1 0.680), Construction & Building (F1 0.717) — broad or semantically overlapping categories
Administration & Office and General Management & Consulting act as catch-all categories for ambiguous office roles and may absorb borderline listings
Inputs longer than 512 tokens are truncated — use title + first paragraph for best results
A typical pipeline: this main model assigns the top-level category, and listings classified as IT & Software are then passed to the it model for fine-grained IT role classification.