INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT IN
TECHNOLOGY
Recommender System for Online Job Portal
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Madhura Ashok Mane1, Mustafa Abdo Mohammed Al-Hammadi2, Prof. Virendra D. Pawar3
1,2,3
Department of Computer Engineering, Vishwakarma Institute of Technology (VIT), Pune, India.
Abstract: In the current scenario, there is a rat race in each
and every professional field. It is also true for job market. A
job portal is a website dedicated for online information about
recruiters as well as job seekers. A job portal helps both the
job seekers and recruiters finding the right organization for
the employees. In the case of job seekers, according to their
educational qualification, experience and their preferences,
the job portal shows the list of companies to the job seeker.
And, to the recruiters, provides the suitable candidates from
a pool of lacks. The objective of this application is to develop
a system to enable interaction between employers and
applicants. The determination is to allow communication
between the interested parties and complete the task of
recruitment quickly.
Keywords: CNN, job portal, webpage
INTRODUCTION
Unemployment is one of the serious social issues faced by
both developing and developed countries. For example, in
Europe the rate of unemployment has been increasing rapidly
since the 1970’s. One of the reasons for this problem is the
unfair distribution or lack of information on job opportunities
so people are unable to now the new job vacancies. It means
that there are some jobs available, but jobseekers do not have
access to that information. An efficient search of the internet
might help to jobseekers in their job hunt. There are some web
portals that provide an efficient way to search the web for
online information on job vacancies for jobseekers. The old
job seeking methods are too slow, stressful, challenging and
also lack quality [6]. In addition, the applicants have to
consider the cost and the amount of time to get the information
they need, and other preparations they have to make. Finding
all available job vacancies is a main step at in the job-seeking
process. The main scope of this study concerns the selection of
tools used and the requirements to be met by the system. This
research concerns the development of a knowledge system to
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implement E-recruitment. The research attempts to provide a
new link between students, unemployed graduates and the IT
industry. This relationship will illustrate how knowledge-
sharing is done through an online system to help students to
find jobs.
I. LITERATURE SURVEY
In [1], there is a rat race in each and every professional field. It
is also true for job market. A job portal is a website dedicated
for online information about recruiters as well as job seekers.
A job portal helps both the job seekers and recruiters finding
the right organization for the employees. In the case of job
seekers, according to their educational qualification,
experience and their preferences, the job portal shows the list
of companies to the job seeker. And, to the recruiters, provides
the suitable candidates from a pool of lacks. The objective of
this application is to develop a system to enable interaction
between employers and applicants. The determination is to
allow communication between the interested parties and
complete the task of recruitment quickly. Job Portal described
in [2] consisted of 3 modules, Admin, Recruiter and
Jobseeker. The admin has authority over the complete portal.
He can see the recruiter requirements & search the relevant
candidates for that profile. Recruiter has to buy some packages
after registration and can post jobs, view jobseeker profile,
download their resumes as per the restrictions of the package
for the given validity period. Jobseeker can register for free in
our portal and can search and apply for jobs matching their
profile. This research aims to develop a job web portal for the
students in the Faculty of Computer Science and Information
Technology the main aims of this portal are to connect to the
industries and acts as an online recruitment to support the
students to find the right IT job after graduation. Furthermore,
this system enhances the understanding concept and
importance of the job portal for students in the universities. A
survey was conducted to identify the students’ problems with
the existing portal of the faculty and to gather their
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requirements which can be incorporated in to the portal to be
developed. “Development of a Job Web Portal to Improve
Education Quality” [3] aims to develop a job web portal for
the students in the Faculty of Computer Science and
Information Technology (FCSIT), University of Malaya
(UM). The main aims of this portal are to connect to the
industries and acts as an online recruitment to support the
students to find the right IT job after graduation. Furthermore,
this system enhances the understanding concept and
importance of the job portal for students in the universities. A
survey was conducted to identify the students’ problems with
the existing portal of the faculty and to gather their
requirements which can be incorporated in to the portal to be
developed. In [4], Vivek Kumar Sehgal et al have proposed a
design of on-line recruitment system, that allows employers to
post their job advertisements, which job seeker can refer to,
when looking for jobs. This job portal is able to capture job
requirements based on industry needs. The purpose of [5] was
to develop online recruitment software that would facilitate
the fast and accurate selection of qualified applicants. The
Modified Waterfall Model was utilized in the development of
the software. The developed software was then evaluated by
six groups of respondents to determine the effectiveness of the
system in terms of performance, reliability, security, and cost-
effectiveness. Descriptive statistics revealed that the software
was effective. Analysis of variance showed that there was no
significant difference in the evaluation of the six groups on the
effectiveness of the developed online recruitment system. This
indicated that the six groups of respondents had the same
rating on the effectiveness of the software. It implies that the
software would perform its function effectively by selecting
qualified applicants within a shorter period of time. Thus, it
was recommended that the system be adopted by the
University. Recommendations to improve the software were
also offered. The project “A study on improving the
marketability of job related services among the recruiters with
reference to online job portal, Kochi & Trivandrum” [6]
involved a study on improving the marketability of job related
services among the registered recruiters with reference to an
online job portal, Kochi & Trivandrum. The study deals with
understanding the perception of recruiters towards an online
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job portals and also the reasons for the non-usage of an online
job portal among the registered recruiters. The research helped
to gain in depth about various parameters the recruiters expect
from an online job portal. The main objective of this study is
to understand the perception of recruiters towards online job
portal services. To find the reasons for the non-usage of online
job portals services by recruiters. To find the ways to improve
the marketability of online job portals services among the
recruiters of Kochi and Trivandrum. The marketability of job
related services can be improved by giving more importance
to customer follow up after availing the services, which would
make the clients believe that they are very important to the
company. The suggestions put up by the respondents are to
ensure that all profiles of the recruiters as well as jobseekers
are genuine, and create awareness about the online job portal’s
services to small firms and companies. Without increasing the
price of the products the company can extend the duration of
packages. The company can segment the clients based on the
annual hiring rate, their annual revenue, etc. Thereby the
company can give more importance accordingly. Parry and
Tyson [7] conducted a study on the recruitment activities of
corporations for a period of six years with the use of survey
and interview methods, questions were asked as to why the
respondents utilized or did not employ online recruitment,
whether they predicted their use of the Internet for recruitment
to change, and what impact they expected Internet recruitment
to have on the use of other recruitment methods. Human
Resource directors and managers, finance directors, managing
directors and recruitment specialists from a sample of UK
organizations with over 25 employees were the respondents of
the study. There were 25,524 responses in the survey and
twenty (20) HR or resourcing managers were interviewed. The
results of the survey showed that the most common reasons of
using corporate or commercial websites in their recruitment
were cost-effectiveness (75%), ease of use for candidates
(64%), a larger candidate pool (53%), ease of use for the
organization (52%), speed to hire (52%), and company policy
(50%). On the other hand, the less common reasons were
success in finding candidates (44%) and keeping ahead of
competitors (32%). The interview results supported these
findings. The interviewees disclosed that the company used
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online recruitment in order to reduce recruitment costs and to
improve the efficiency of the recruitment process. These were
the significant drivers for the adoption of both corporate and
commercial websites. In the same study, about half of the
interviewees suggested that the need to “move with the times”
or to “keep up with other organizations” be the primary
motivation to adopt online recruitment. It was also found out
those interviewees who had positive experiences of online
recruitment believed that this form of recruitment could
minimize the time taken to hire employees because posting
advertisements on the Internet was faster. Interviewees also
described the online recruitment as cost-effective since it
reduced the use of paper. As regards the success of the online
recruitment, mixed results were reported. Interviewees
described the success of online recruitment in terms of
sufficient generation of shortlist candidates or the ability to
attract good-quality applicants. However, this was not true for
all who were interviewed. Kar and Bhattacharya [8] conducted
a similar study. They determined the factors that could
contribute to the effectiveness of the job portals and the
elements of the job portal that could help increase the users’
satisfaction on the use of the portal. Survey method and
personal interviews were conducted to meet these objectives.
Two hundred fifty (250) purposively selected respondents
participated in the study. The study established that the age
group 18-22 years old and 33 years old and above had more
likely to search jobs through job portals. The curriculum vitae
distribution and the face-to-face interaction were the key
factors contributing to the popularity of job portals.
Respondents believed that they would be more satisfied with
the job portals if chat facility, online test, and help desk/call
center facilities were available at the job portals.
Sylvia and Mol [9] examined the perceptions of applicants
towards web-based procedures. There were 1,360 respondents
who were applicants for jobs in multinational financial
services organizations in the United Kingdom, the
Netherlands, and Belgium. With respect to the demographics, II.
it was disclosed that external applicants (as opposed to the
internal applicants), Belgian (as opposed to Dutch), and
Internet savvy (as opposed to less savvy) candidates were
more satisfied with the online application procedure. It was
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also revealed that the features of the website, perceived
efficiency, and user friendliness were the most important
determinants of applicant satisfaction.
Haroon and Zia-ur-Rehman [10] also investigated online
recruitment in Pakistan. A total of sixty-five (65) respondents
from small and large firms of the different sectors of the
industries in Pakistan participated in the study. Data were
collected through telephone interviews. Haroon and Zia-ur-
Rehman showed that preference was given to small firms as
compared to large firms in terms of using internet recruitment.
They also showed that large firms had their own websites and
use them for recruitment as compared to small firms. They
also revealed that online recruitment became a new medium
that was going to replace the other traditional sources of
recruitment because online recruitment offered reduced
recruitment costs; time-saving capability, quick response
features in checking application status, and online resume
development. Lastly, the effect of e-recruitment on the design
of the recruitment process was also examined. Holm [11]
made three explorative case studies in three large
organizations in Denmark from 2008 to 2010. The companies
selected were all multinational corporations originating from,
and with headquarters in, Denmark. The study investigated the
possible changes in the tasks, subtasks, and activities of the
business process of recruiting which was attributed to the use
of e-recruitment. Using in-depth, face-to-face, semi-structured
interviews with a number key informants (e.g., Human
Resource partners and employer-brand managers, recruitment
planners, and other people who were involved in the
recruitment process); it was shown that e-recruitment
transformed the traditional recruitment process into a time-
and space-independent, collaborative hiring process. These
findings were consistent with those in the studies previously
presented. It was also shown that the most significant changes
in the process were in the sequence and increased divisibility
of the main recruitment tasks and subtasks.
PROPOSED SYSTEM
Now-a-days the job market is so extensive that a variety of
industries and companies are searching for right candidates
and the prospective candidates are searching for right
companies for growth opportunities. This purpose is served by
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most of the job portals on line. This is another job portal with
an open environment for the job seekers and recruiters to meet
on the same dais and know about each other so that the right
candidate is placed in a right company. A job web portal is
developed in proposed system using CNN. Marks of last year
student of BE are entered by student along with field of
interest and key skills. According to key skills and marks,
system suggests company name and vacancies currently
available in that company.
downloading the required information. When he logs into the
system, he would be able to upload his application and post
walk-in details which he knows would be held by a company.
This information helps other users very much to attend the
same. Further, the user will be able to view the list of
companies for which ha has already applied. This enables him
to take a decision when he gets a call from a company and
how much time elapsed since he has applied for the company.
I. RESULT
The overall purpose of this system is to computerized the
whole process and thus prevent the intervening errors. We also
tried to follow the holistic design principle so that the interface
of the system is simple. During the course of this assignment
we have gone through many obstacles which made us to
research and though increased our knowledge.

Fig 1 proposed system

A. Jobseekers: Search jobs, post your resume and access
career info and download sample resumes, Papers of various
recruiters and sample cover letters etc. and can upload any Fig. 2 Home page
useful info.
 Final year student
 Unemployed graduates
B. Employers: Get instant access to today's most powerful
hiring tools - post jobs, search resumes, screen candidates and
streamline your entire hiring process.
The intention of Job Portal is facilitate both the candidates
seeking jobs as well as the employers looking for employees
for their companies. In this online application, any job seeker Fig.3 Sign Up

can search for the available jobs at any moment with updated
information. When he finds a job, he can post his application
to the job on line. Employers can advertise the vacancies by
taking the membership, logging in and posting the job
information with the eligibility criteria for the jobs. This
software establishes a direct connection between the employer
and the job seeker. A job seeker can directly visit this portal
and view the jobs availability information along with
Fig.4 Login

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DOI10.17148/IJARCCE.2017.6519 96 A Review on:

Job Portal- A Web Application for Distributed Clients
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Distributed Multiple Clients Vivek Kumar Sehgal1 1
It is not possible for the every job seeker to view the
Department of CSE and ICT Jaypee University of
newspaper daily and the result is many of the people are
Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan, H.P
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Meha Shah 2013 First International Conference on
This research has focused on improving the education
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Evidence from the University of the East Mary Grace
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