A hierarchical career-path-aware neural network for job mobility prediction

Qingxin Meng, Hengshu Zhu, Keli Xiao, Le Zhang, Hui Xiong

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Abstract

The understanding of job mobility can benefit talent management operations in a number of ways, such as talent recruitment, talent development, and talent retention. While there is extensive literature showing the predictability of the organization-level job mobility patterns (e.g., in terms of the employee turnover rate), there are no effective solutions for supporting the understanding of job mobility at an individual level. To this end, in this paper, we propose a hierarchical career-path-aware neural network for learning individual-level job mobility. Specifically, we aim at answering two questions related to individuals in their career paths: 1) who will be the next employer? 2) how long will the individual work in the new position? Specifically, our model exploits a hierarchical neural network structure with embedded attention mechanism for characterizing the internal and external job mobility. Also, it takes personal profile information into consideration in the learning process. Finally, the extensive results on real-world data show that the proposed model can lead to significant improvements in prediction accuracy for the two aforementioned prediction problems. Moreover, we show that the above two questions are well addressed by our model with a certain level of interpretability. For the case studies, we provide data-driven evidence showing interesting patterns associated with various factors (e.g., job duration, firm type, etc.) in the job mobility prediction process.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationKDD 2019 - Proceedings of the 25th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages14-24
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9781450362016
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 25 Jul 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event25th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2019 - Anchorage, United States
Duration: 4 Aug 20198 Aug 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Conference

Conference25th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAnchorage
Period4/08/198/08/19

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Information Systems

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