UBIQUITOUS JOB RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM FOR GRADUATES IN TAIWAN

The number of graduates with bachelor degrees has increased rapidly from 117,430 in 2000 to 232,448 in 2011. It is evident that the recruitment market may be out of balance due the lack of a positive correlation with the employment rate. Based on a survey of the National Youth Commission (NYC) in 2010, 47.5% of youth employees received their jobs through media advertisement and 35.26% through the introduction of relatives, friends, etc. The rates via introductions are less than those via advertisement, since the former provides lower risk and higher reliability for the employers. This paper proposes a job recommendation system that aims to assist academia in promoting graduates to appropriate employers. With usability in mind, the system provides a ubiquitous framework with web service technologies and can be applied easily to web and mobile applications. A job recommendation prototype was implemented on the Android and iPhone mobile platforms. Through these systems, users could efficiently seek out and discover appropriate graduates and then recommend them to employers. To cite this document: Chi-Tsai Yeh and Tzuo-Ming Chen, "Ubiquitous job recommendation system for graduates in Taiwan ", International Journal of Electronic Commerce Studies, Vol.6, No.1, pp.127-136, 2015. Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.7903/ijecs.1399