Innovation by Connecting People, Skill, and Value: A Community Platform for Collaborative Job Hunting

These days, value structure and social structure are changing with the background of immigration, globalization, and diversification. In many countries, such as Japan, a foreign workforce is introduced due to ageing citizens and labour shortages. Such diversification would be a great opportunity to create innovation. Innovation is often achieved when ideas from different perspectives synergize with each other. In this paper, we focus on the job hunting scene and suggest recruiting diverse and cooperative teams as one form of recruitment. Conventional job-hunting services and Social networking services (SNSs) are limited to matching labour supply and demand or attracting people with similar values. To help build and recruit diverse and cooperative teams, we propose a system to build a platform to connect people with different backgrounds, skills, and values and promote their cooperation. With the system, job hunters could find a team where members can leverage each other’s strengths and compensate for each other’s weaknesses. Furthermore, companies could effectively evaluate the diversity and cooperativeness of teams for hiring decisions. The evaluation scenario demonstrated that the proposed system could increase both job hunter and recruiter satisfaction levels and social impact.