Expert systems are software that uses knowledge base of human expertise for problem solving or to clarify uncertainties where normally one or more human experts would need to be consulted. An expert system operates as an interactive system that responds to questions ask for clarification makes recommendations and generally aids the decision making process.
Human resources refer to the individuals who make up the work force of an organization. The human resources manager seek to maximize return on investment in the organization of human capital by aligning the supply of skilled and qualified individuals through the use of qualified job applicants.
Expert system for job recruitment is a program that uses knowledge from one or more human resources experts to solve recruitment problems in any organization that employs it.
Job recruitment has been a crucial area in human resources that has not been fairly handled especially in Nigerian organizations. The main problem in job recruitment in most organizations is the lack of automated systems like expert systems to aid the identification of the best qualified applicants or job seekers.
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The inefficient and biased methods of selection used by the recruiting officers is a problem in job recruitment because they use some unfavorable criteria in their recruitment such as nepotism, favoritism, tribalism, e.t.c
Recruitment exercises are very slow and tedious and sometimes some people that have required qualifications are not patient enough to pull through such exercises.
The problem of traveling from one location to another to attend recruitment exercises is a major problem because people lose their lives in the
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which has wasted their financial resources.
Some applicants that already have jobs but are qualified will not be able to attend such recruitment exercises that are done traditionally due to their jobs and so the number of qualified applicants is reduced.
In order to avoid all these problems stated above, there is need to develop a web based job recruitment system using expert system to help in the selection of the best possible applicants.
This project designs and implements a web based job recruitment system using expert system automated that is reliable, speedy in its operations, that can maintain accuracy and has no geographical barrier and above all unbiased.
The aim of this project is to design and implement design a web based job recruitment system using expert system.
The objectives of the study are as follows
™To develop an expert system that simulates the thought process of human recruiting officers in the selection of the best job applicants.
™To create speedy and reliable recruitment exercise
™To create a recruiting method that has no geographical barrier
™O provide an environment where only qualifications are the criteria used for recruitment rather than sentiments
™To recruit the best applicants possible due o the expert system being accessible to large number of applicants in different locations.
™To reduce the number of biased recruitment officers employed for the exercise
This study is limited to the fields of Expert System and job recruitment. It examines the architecture and implementation of expert system. It also examines recruitment processes by taking into account job specifications. This project is limited by
The main significance of this expert system is its ability to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the decision making process in job recruitment which leads to increase in the quality of products produced by the applicants being employed using this expert system. Also to make recruiting exercise speedy , easy, and reliable.