A Machine Learning approach for automation of Resume Recommendation system

Abstract Finding suitable candidates for an open role could be a daunting task, especially when there are many applicants. It can impede team progress for getting the right person on the right time. An automated way of “Resume Classification and Matching” could really ease the tedious process of fair screening and shortlisting, it would certainly expedite the candidate selection and decisionmaking process. This system could work with a large number of resumes for first classifying the right categories using different classifier, once classification has been done then as per the job description, top candidates could be ranked using Content-based Recommendation, using cosine similarity and by using k-NN to identify the CVs that are nearest to the provided job description.