Creating Job Profiles Using a Data Driven Approach

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2018357608-A1
Application number	US-201715616868-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jun 7, 2017
Priority date	Jun 7, 2017
Publication date	Dec 13, 2018
Grant date	—

Abstract

A method and system of characterizing a job market is provided. The available job postings of a job market are determined. For each job posting, one or more technical skills, a job role level, and one or more professional capabilities related to the job posting are determined. The professional capabilities are aggregated by job dimensions. The determined technical skills and the professional capabilities of each job posting and the aggregated professional capabilities are stored in a database as reference data. A job capability profile for one or more job dimensions is provided based on the stored reference data in the database.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A computing device comprising:
a processor; a network interface coupled to the processor to enable communication over a network; a storage device coupled to the processor; a job market profile engine software stored in the storage device, wherein an execution of the software by the processor configures the computing device to perform acts comprising: determining available job postings of a job market; for each job posting:
determining one or more technical skills related to the job posting;
determining a job role level related to the posting; and
determining one or more professional capabilities related to the job posting;
aggregating professional capabilities by job dimensions; storing the determined technical skills, job role level, and the professional capabilities of each job posting and the aggregated professional capabilities, as reference data in a database; and providing a job capability profile for one or more job dimensions, based on the stored reference data in the database.

2 . The computing device of claim 1 , wherein determining the professional capabilities comprises:
determining one or more core capabilities; and determining one or more leadership capabilities.

3 . The computing device of claim 2 , wherein the core capabilities include at least one of: (i) self-management, (ii) digital literacy, (iii) teamwork, (iv) communication, (v) emotional judgment, (vi) problem solving, (vii) innovation, (viii) critical thinking, (ix) global citizenship, and (x) professional ethics.

4 . The computing device of claim 2 , wherein the professional capabilities include at least one of the following leadership capabilities: (i) leading and developing people, (ii) empowering others, (iii) being able to adapt and change, and (iv) driving strategic results.

5 . The computing device of claim 1 , wherein, for each job posting, determining the job role level related to the job posting further comprises:
identifying an autonomy model; and identifying an influence model.

6 . The computing device of claim 5 , wherein execution of the software by the processor further configures the computing device to perform the act of determining a job role level score based on the autonomy model and the influence model.

7 . The computing device of claim 5 , wherein identifying an autonomy model comprises:
identifying one or more verbs from the one or more individual sentences; and retrieving, from a reference table, the autonomy model based on the identified one or more verbs.

8 . The computing device of claim 1 , wherein, for each job posting, determining the one or more professional capabilities related to the job posting comprises:
segmenting a job description text of the job posting into one or more sentences; and cleaning up the one or more sentences by removing any leading and trailing non-alphabet characters from each sentence.

9 . The computing device of claim 8 , wherein, for each job posting, determining the one or more professional capabilities related to the job posting further comprises:
upon determining that a sentence of the one or more sentences is irrelevant, discarding the irrelevant sentence and identifying the remaining one or more sentences as relevant; and determining one or more professional capabilities from the sentences identified as relevant, based on a framework of professional capabilities using natural language processing (NLP).

10 . The computing device of claim 8 , wherein execution of the software by the processor further configures the computing device to perform the act of excluding sentences that do not include a technical skill or a professional capability by applying a neural network based natural language classifier (NLC) on the sentences.

11 . The computing device of claim 8 , wherein, for each job posting, determining the one or more professional capabilities related to the job posting further comprises:
determining whether there is at least one of (i) an explicit and (ii) an implicit description of a professional capability; and upon determining that there is an implicit description of a professional capability, using natural language processing (NLP) to identify the implicit description of the professional capability.

12 . The computing device of claim 8 , wherein execution of the software by the processor further configures the computing device to perform the act of excluding sentences that include one or more job capabilities, upon determining via a neural network based natural language classifier (NLC), that the one or more job capabilities relate to a company and not a job.

13 . The computing device of claim 8 , wherein execution of the software by the processor further configures the computing device to perform the act of clustering technical skills by semantic relevancy for each job dimension.

14 . The computing device of claim 1 , wherein execution of the software by the processor further configures the computing device to perform the act of extracting additional metadata from one or more knowledge bases for a job posting.

15 . A non-transitory computer readable storage medium tangibly embodying a computer readable program code having computer readable instructions that, when executed, causes a computer device to carry out a method of characterizing a job market, the method comprising:
determining available job postings of a job market; for each job posting:
determining one or more technical skills related to the job posting;
determining a job role level related to the posting; and
determining one or more professional capabilities related to the job posting;
aggregating professional capabilities by job dimensions; storing the determined technical skills, job role level, and the professional capabilities of each job posting and the aggregated professional capabilities, as reference data in a database; and providing a job capability profile for one or more job dimensions, based on the stored reference data in the database.

16 . The method of claim 15 , wherein, for each job posting, determining the one or more professional capabilities related to the job posting comprises:
segmenting a job description text of the job posting into one or more sentences; and cleaning up the one or more sentences by removing any leading and trailing non-alphabet characters from each sentence.

17 . The method of claim 16 , wherein, for each job posting, determining the one or more professional capabilities related to the job posting further comprises:
upon determining that a sentence of the one or more sentences is irrelevant, discarding the irrelevant sentence and identifying remaining one or more sentences as relevant; and determining one or more professional capabilities from the sentences identified as relevant, based on a framework of professional capabilities using natural language processing (NLP).

18 . The method of claim 16 , wherein, for each job posting, determining the one or more professional capabilities related to the job posting further comprises:
determining one or more core capabilities; and determining one or more leadership capabilities.

19 . The method of claim 17 , wherein execution of the software by the processor further configures the computing device to perform the act of determining a job role level score based on the autonomy model and the influence model.

20 . The method of claim 17 , wherein, for each job posting, determining the one or more professional capabi

Assignees

• IBM
• Univ Deakin

Inventors

• Agrawal Bhavna
• Chee Yi-Min
• Liu Rong
• Sherchan Wanita
• Sin Cheuk Hay
• Tan Michael Eng Yeow

Classifications

• G06F40/284

  Lexical analysis, e.g. tokenisation or collocates · CPC title

• G06Q10/1053 Primary

  Employment or hiring · CPC title

• G06F16/337

  Profile generation, learning or modification · CPC title

• G06F16/437

  Administration of user profiles, e.g. generation, initialisation, adaptation, distribution · CPC title

• G06Q10/063112

  Skill-based matching of a person or a group to a task · CPC title