Web Application for Screening Resume

This paper focuses majorly on the design of the web application which will be used to screen resumes (Curriculum Vitae) for a particular job posting. In the proposed system, a web application will encourage the job applicant candidates as well as the recruiters to use it for job applications and screening of resumes. Recruitment is a tedious process wherein the first task for any recruiter is to screen the resumes. The proposed web application is designed in such a way that job applicant as well as recruiters can use it with ease for applying for job openings and screening respectively. The recruiters from various companies can post the details of the job openings available in their respective companies. The interactive web application will allow the job applicants to submit their resume and apply for their job postings they may still be interested in. The resumes submitted by the candidates are then compared with the job profile requirement posted by the company recruiter by using techniques like machine learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP). Scores can then be given to the resumes and they can be ranked from highest match to lowest match. This ranking is made visible only to the company recruiter who is interested to select the best candidates from a large pool of candidates.

I. Introduction

Recruitment is a 200-billion-dollar business. It deals with hiring the best fit candidates having the relevant skills for a given job profile from an immensely large pool of candidates. If a company has any job opening for a position, scores of candidates mail their resumes to the company to apply for that opening. [1]–[4]