Job Requirements Nightmare: Are We Demanding The Impossible?

I recently came across a job opening that required “10+ years of hands-on experience with state-of-the-art natural language models (e.g., BERT, Longformer, RoBERTa)” for tasks like NER, text classification, and entity relation extraction.

🔍 The problem? These models have only been around for a few years:
– BERT: Released in 2018
– RoBERTa: Released in 2019
– Longformer: Released in 2020

This makes a 10+ year experience requirement with these specific models impossible!

💡 What we really need to focus on: Instead of asking for an unrealistic number of years, how about valuing experience in NLP or machine learning in general, combined with practical knowledge of these models from the past few years? A more reasonable requirement would look something like:

👉 “10+ years of experience in NLP or machine learning, with 3-5 years of hands-on experience in using state-of-the-art models like BERT, Longformer, RoBERTa for NER, text classification, and entity relation extraction.”

✅ Let’s set realistic expectations that recognize the rapid evolution of AI and give credit to the skills and expertise developed over time!

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