A hybrid recommender system to predict online job offer performance
Abstract
With the expansion of internet to advertise, the number of potential
channels is increasing every day. In the Human Resource domain, recruiters have
to choose between hundreds of job search web sites when they post a job offer
on the internet. In order to save costs, assessing job board expected performance
has become necessary. In this paper, three recommender systems providing job
board performance estimation for a given job posting are introduced. This work
refers principally to the new item problem, which is still a challenging topic in
the literature. The first system (PLS-R) is a content-based approach, while others
are hybrid recommendation approaches. Estimation is made on item neighborhood
according to a “naive” similarity or a supervised similarity measure. These
predictive algorithms are compared through experiments on a real dataset. In this
application, supervised similarity-based system overcomes the lacks of other approaches
and outperforms them.