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S. Chala, F. Ansari et al.:
"Semantic matching of job seeker to vacancy: a bidirectional approach";
International Journal of Manpower, 39 (2018), 8; 1047 - 1063.

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework of an automatic bidirectional matching
system that measures the degree of semantic similarity of job-seeker qualifications and skills, against the
vacancy provided by employers or job-agents.
Design/methodology/approach - The paper presents a framework of bidirectional jobseeker-to-vacancy
matching system. Using occupational data from various sources such as the WageIndicator web survey,
International Standard Classification of Occupations, European Skills, Competences, Qualifications, and
Occupations as well as vacancy data from various open access internet sources and job seekers information from
social networking sites, the authors apply machine learning techniques for bidirectional matching of job vacancies
and occupational standards to enhance the contents of job vacancies and job seekers profiles. The authors also
apply bidirectional matching of job seeker profiles and vacancies, i.e., semantic matching vacancies to job seekers
and vice versa in the individual level. Moreover, data from occupational standards and social networks were
utilized to enhance the relevance (i.e. degree of similarity) of job vacancies and job seekers, respectively.
Findings - The paper provides empirical insights of increase in job vacancy advertisements on the selected
jobs - Internet of Things - with respect to other job vacancies, and identifies the evolution of job profiles and
its effect on job vacancies announcements in the era of Industry 4.0. In addition, the paper shows the gap
between job seeker interests and available jobs in the selected job area.
Research limitations/implications - Due to limited data about jobseekers, the research results may not
guarantee high quality of recommendation and maturity of matching results. Therefore, further research is
required to test if the proposed system works for other domains as well as more diverse data sets.
Originality/value - The paper demonstrates how online jobseeker-to-vacancy matching can be improved
by use of semantic technology and the integration of occupational standards, web survey data, and social
networking data into user profile collection and matching.

Recommender systems, Job description, Bidirectional matching, Job seeker modelling, Semantic matching, Vacancy recommendation

http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJM-10-2018-0331

https://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/publik_274308.pdf