Using social data for resume job matching

  • Authors:
  • Jacob Bollinger;David Hardtke;Ben Martin

  • Affiliations:
  • Bright Media Corporation, San Francisco, CA, USA;Bright Media Corporation, San Francisco, CA, USA;Bright Media Corporation, San Francisco, CA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2012 workshop on Data-driven user behavioral modelling and mining from social media
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Bright has built an automated system for ranking job candidates against job descriptions. The candidate's resume and social media profiles are interwoven to build an augmented user profile. Similarly, the job description is augmented by external databases and user-generated content to build an enhanced job profile. These augmented user and job profiles are then analyzed in order to develop numerical overlap features each with strong discriminating power, and in sum with maximal coverage. The resulting feature scores are then combined into a single Bright Score using a custom algorithm, where the feature weights are derived from a nation-wide and controlled study in which we collected a large sample of human judgments on real resume-job pairings. We demonstrate that the addition of social media profile data and external data improves the classification accuracy dramatically in terms of identifying the most qualified candidates.