An ensemble method for job recommender systems

Abstract

In this paper, we present an ensemble method for job recommendation to ACM RecSys Challenge 2016. Given a user, the goal of a job recommendation system is to predict those job postings that are likely to be relevant to the user1. Firstly, we analyze the train dataset and find several interesting patterns. Secondly, we describe our solution, which is an ensemble of two filters, combining the merits of traditional collaborative filtering and content-based filtering. Our approach finally achieved a score of 1632828.82, ranked at the 10th place on the public leaderboard.