Measuring Degree Of Match By Importance Of Need And Credibility Of Skills

A method for generating an opportunity match score implemented by the opportunity matching system on comparison of the opportunity seeker skills of varying credibility with the opportunity description skills of varying importance, the method comprising:

• performing merging actions on the opportunity seeker skills in the first skill list and returning a list of unique merged skills present by a merging module of the opportunity matching system;
• matching the list of unique merged skills present and the second skill list and returning a list of matched skill entries by a matching module of the opportunity matching system;
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• generating an opportunity match score with the list of matched skills and returning a single numerical match score by a score generation module of the opportunity matching system.

An opportunity matching system for determining a degree of match between opportunity seeker profiles with opportunity seeker skills of varying credibility and opportunity descriptions with opportunity description skills of varying importance, the system comprising:

• a non-transitory computer readable storage medium configured to store computer program instructions defined by modules of the opportunity matching system;
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• at least one processor communicatively coupled to the non-transitory computer readable storage media, the at least one processor configured to execute the computer program instructions defined by modules of the opportunity matching system, the modules comprising:
• a receiving module for receiving a first skill list comprising the opportunity seeker skills in the opportunity seeker profiles and a second skill list comprising the opportunity description skills required for an opportunity from a skill list database;
• a merging module for performing merging actions on the opportunity seeker skills in the first skill list and returning a list of unique merged skills present;
• a matching module for matching the list of unique merged skills present and the second skill list and returning a list of matched skill entries;
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• a score generation module for generating an opportunity match score with the list of matched skills and returning a single numerical match score.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having embodied thereon, computer program codes comprising instructions executable by at least one processor for determining a degree of match between opportunity seeker profiles with opportunity seeker skills of varying credibility and opportunity descriptions with opportunity description skills of varying importance, the computer program codes comprising:

• a first computer program code for receiving a first skill list comprising the opportunity seeker skills in the opportunity seeker profiles and a second skill list comprising the opportunity description skills required for an opportunity from a skill list database by the opportunity matching system, wherein the first skill list comprises first tuples, each of the first tuples comprising one of the opportunity seeker skills, an opportunity seeker skill amount measure corresponding to the one of the opportunity seeker skills, and a credibility measure indicating credibility of the opportunity seeker skill amount measure, and wherein the second skill list comprises second tuples, each of the second tuples comprising one of the opportunity description skills, a requirement measure, an importance measure, and an opportunity description skill amount measure associated with the one of the opportunity description skills;
• a second program code for creating a unique skill list comprising unique opportunity seeker skills from the first skill list, a merged skill amount measure corresponding to each of the unique opportunity seeker skills, and a merged credibility measure indicating credibility of the merged skill amount measure by the opportunity matching system by performing merging actions on the first tuples in the first skill list, wherein the merging actions comprise computing the merged skill amount measure and the merged credibility measure corresponding to the each of the unique opportunity seeker skills using the opportunity seeker skill amount measure and the credibility measure of each of the opportunity seeker skills of the first skill list;
• a third computer program code for creating a matched skill list by matching the unique opportunity seeker skills of the created unique skill list with the opportunity description skills of the second skill list by the opportunity matching system on combining the created unique skill list with the second skill list;
• a fourth computer program code for generating a skill match score for each of the opportunity description skills in the created matched skill list on matching the unique opportunity seeker skills with the opportunity description skills by the opportunity matching system using the requirement measure, the importance measure, the opportunity description skill amount measure, the merged skill amount measure, and the merged credibility measure;
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• a fifth computer program code for generating an opportunity match score defining the degree of match between the opportunity seeker profiles and the opportunity descriptions by the opportunity matching system by processing the generated skill match score for the each of the opportunity description skills with the importance measure of the each of the opportunity description skills in the second skill list.