Grant: Collaborative Research and Development Grants

This proposal aims to improve effectiveness and efficiency in the recruitment industry. The major effort of such an industry is to find qualified candidates for job openings fulfilling organization's operation needs. Due to the globalization of economy, temporary and contract placement of professionals has become a trend in businesses such as entertainment, translation, and IT consultants and services. It is a fast growing business to place appropriate candidates to appropriate job openings in a limited time and under a limited cost. The success of this kind of recruitment industry hinges on two major issues: 1) the right matches between the employers and candidates; and 2) the efficiency to identify and finalize the right match.This proposal is based on and derived from our previous NSERC Engage project with a major entertainment staffing agency - Proship Entertainment Inc. In that Engage project, different types of risks in employment services have been identified, for which a risk mitigation plan was proposed. The objective of this CRD project is to develop solutions for the identified problems in effective and efficient recruiting operations, by taking Proship Entertainment as a case study.This project will have immediate societal and economic benefits to Canada. The recruitment market of Canada has grown at a notable rate over the past few years as an increasing number of companies in various business sectors have started using employment firms for searching and hiring temporary employees. The increasing dependence on the services offered by the recruitment firms has indicated the importance of recruitment industry in Canada's further economy development. In addition to providing significant yet necessary tools for Canadian recruitment industry, the methodologies developed in this project can also be valuable to other industries such as e-Markets and supply chain management where complex automated ranking and matching are needed.