Document-based Recommender System for Job Postings using Dense Representations (N18-3)
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| Challenge: | 45% of job posting traffic is driven by recommender systems for job postings . a large-scale job recommendation system is needed to detect similarity between job posting and item-to-item based recommendations. |
| Approach: | They propose to use dense vector representations to enhance a large-scale job recommendation system and rank job advertisements regarding similarity. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method increases the click-through rate on job recommendations by 8.0%. |
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