Blog: Some 14 years ago !

Context :

Scientists develop new AI-powered tool to identify and recommend jobs / Mirage News / 06 Aug 2021

Extract :

Ø To make the job transition process easier, and increase the chances of success, researchers from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and UNSW Sydney have developed a machine learning-based method that can identify and recommend jobs with similar underlying skill sets to someone’s current occupation.

Ø The system can also respond in real-time to changes in job demand and provide recommendations of the precise skills needed to transition to a new occupation.

Ø Developed by,

# Dr Nikolas Dawson (nik@bitsandatoms.co ) and

# Dr Marian-Andrei Rizoiu ( Marian-Andrei.Rizoiu@uts.edu.au )

from the UTS Data Science Institute and

# Professor Mary-Anne Williams, (Mary-Anne.Williams@unsw.edu.au )

- the Michael J Crouch Chair in Innovation at UNSW Business School, the system is based on findings from their new study, “ Skill-driven Recommendations for Job Transition Pathways,” published in the international journal PLOS ONE.

Ø “By focusing on skill sets, rather than occupations, this new approach helps workers, organisations and businesses like retraining advisory services, discover the new skills a person would need to acquire to obtain a new in-demand job and assess the associated training investment required,” she said.

Ø “In addition, organisations can use our skill similarity measure to design completely new or hybrid occupations that increase the likelihood of finding people with the necessary skill set.

Ø Dr Rizoiu added: “If we can move towards skills-based hiring, rather than defining an occupation by its job title, then we can help people identify the specific skills they have, or need to develop, in order to find productive and meaningful work.”

Ø How was the job-search method created?

Ø The researchers used valuable data from Burning Glass Technologies, an analytics software company that provides real-time information on jobs and labour market trends, to examine and parse the underlying skill sets of more than 8 million jobs advertised in Australia between 2012 and 2020.

MY TAKE :

Dear Dr Dawson / Dr Rizoiu / Professor Mary-Anne Williams :

Some 14 years ago, in 2007 , I developed / launched ( later de-hosted ) a job-portal called :

www.IndiaRecruiter.net

One of its features was :

Automatic extraction of SKILLS-RELATED keyword and displaying those in, what I called KARMA-SCOPE

Top half of that BOX showed the “ Skills Present “ and lower half listed “ Skills that Ought to be present “ , for the job under consideration / being applied for

There was also a feature which enabled the Interviewer to click on any Keyword , to pop up relevant “ Interview Questions “ !

However, its most valuable feature was :

Within 6 seconds of a jobseeker posting his TEXT resume on this portal, the software converted it into a few GRAPHICAL VISUAL PROFILES , which made it very easy for a Recruiter to “ assess “ that candidate, within a couple of minutes !

Subsequently, I extended this concept into the following job-portal which I launched ( now de-hosted ) :

CustomizeResume.com

- Where , I enabled a jobseeker to re-arrange those 8 Graphical Profiles in thousands of different permutations / combinations !

Following will give some idea :

"Job - Candidate Assessment " made easy

Extract :

The “Skills Profile” is a group of 3 graphs, which specify the top three Skills for a particular candidate. What each of these graphs shows is the standing of a candidate relative to his co-professionals present in our database. The graphs show the “Raw Score” of a candidate based upon the keywords present in his resume and the “Percentile Score” with respect to other co-professionals. The graphs also show the sample size i.e. the no. of co-professionals with whom the candidate has been compared. The graphs also show the mean, +1 sigma and -1 sigma values which determine the trend followed by 68% of the sample population. If a candidate’s standing falls before -1 sigma line, then it means that he/she holds a very low score and if he/she falls beyond +1 sigma, then it means that he/she lies amongst the cream of the population.

I hope this interests you

With regards,

Hemen Parekh / hcp@RecruitGuru.com / 08 Sept 2021

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