Enhanced enterprise-student matching with meta-path based graph neural network

Abstract

Job-seeking is always an inescapable challenge for graduates. It may take a lot of time to find satisfying jobs due to the information gap between students who need satisfying offers and enterprises which ask for proper candidates. Although campus recruiting and job advertisements on the Internet could provide partial information, it is still not enough to help students and enterprises know each other and effectively match a graduate with a job. To narrow the information gap, we propose to recommend jobs for graduates based on historical employment data. Specifically, we construct a heterogeneous information network to characterize the relations between students, enterprises and industries. And then, we propose a meta-path based graph neural network, namely GraphRecruit, to further learn both latent student and enterprise portrait representations. The designed meta-paths connect students with their preferred enterprises and industries from different aspects. Also, we apply genetic algorithm optimization for meta-path selection according to application scenarios to enhance recommendation suitability and accuracy. To show the effectiveness of GraphRecruit, we collect five-year employment data and conduct extensive experiments comparing GraphRecruit with 4 classical baselines. The results demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed method.