2020 TEAM#11234
Table of content
Summary………………………………………………………………………………………………………………2
Structure………………………………………………………………………………………………………………2
Assumption……………………………………………………………………………………………………………3
Input Factor……………………………………………………………………………………………………………4
[if !supportLists]- [endif]Income (C1)
[if !supportLists]- [endif]Leisure time(C2)
[if !supportLists]- [endif]Trafficcondition (C3)
[if !supportLists]- [endif]Skillrequirement (C4)
[if !supportLists]- [endif]Long term potential (C5)
Output Factors
[if !supportLists]- [endif]Sedentary job
[if !supportLists]- [endif]Physical job
Model……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………4
Example…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Reference…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Program Code Display………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Introduction
For every job seeker, they will have basic requirements or expectations towards the job they apply to. For example, the incomes, working environments & conditions; traffic conditions, leisure time, social welfare, distance to home, or even social status. All these factors can act as significant and deterministic push factors or pull factors, encouraging or discouraging job seekers to decide their career. All the above are generalized as personal conditions.
As for companies and entrepreneurs, their goal is to find their desired employees, which are capable, diligent, or intelligent. Just like the job seekers, which always desire the best-fitting job, all enterprises are trying to find the people that are truly capable of doing the job they are offered. The deterministic factors for entrepreneurs to examine the job seeker, in this case, are skill & health requirements, working experiences, and maybe a diploma. On the other hand, the number of competitors also determines the difficulties and the chance of successful application. More competitors provide more choices for entrepreneurs. The higher the number of competitors, the less likely the success employment to each individual jobseekers as the possibility is equally spread to each competitor (assuming everyone is equally compatible).
Summary
The main idea of this model is to find the most suitable (as refers to as “the best” in the topic) job for any user with their corresponding expectations and standards.
Structure
We believe that the most appropriate model for this problem is the analytic hierarchy process. Analytic hierarchy process, abbreviated as AHP, refers to a decision-making method that decomposes elements that are always related to decision-making into goals, forms, plans, and other levels, and then conducts qualitative and quantitative analysis on this basis. In our model, goal Z is to choose a suitable job. For job selection, there are five criteria, namely income (C1), leisure time (C2), traffic condition (C3), skill requirements (C4), and long-term potential (C5).
Regarding the goal, because even during summer vacation work, there are too many types of work that are not convenient for statistics, so we mainly divide the work into sedentary work (A1) and work that requires physical labor (A2).
Assumption
In our model, we assume that sedentary jobs are concentrated in urban centers, while jobs that require physical labor are scattered in the suburbs. So, people who think traffic conditions are important are more inclined to look for a sedentary job. At the same time, sedentary work also has a higher income than physical labor, more leisure time, higher skills requirements, and better potential for the future (because summer work is also considered an internship).
Input Factors
Income (C1):
Income is considered one of the most important factors for job seeking, as it is the basis for survival. High income is directly linked to high job satisfaction, and people with low income are relatively unenthusiastic towards their job. This model will
Leisure time (C2):
Leisure time is also considered a very important factor for job seeking. Since our target is mainly college students, we assume that no one would like to be working all day. This is because a classic college student will treat working as a method to have income and to be spent later. Therefore, they would not be willing to spend a lot of time working. Generally, the more the leisure the more the satisfaction, vice versa (Under the circumstance in which other factors remain constant).
Traffic condition (C3):
Traffic condition is a very considerable value when seeking a job. Inconvenient traffic transportation and condition can consume a lot of worker’s leisure time that could have been saved, causing frequent late arrival and discontented attitude towards the job. By analyzing the traffic condition, our model can calculate and advise the best kind of job which is relatively convenient in terms of traffic.
Skill requirement (C4):
As mentioned in the summary, job seeking is a bilateral activity, involving both job seekers and enterprises. Enterprises set skill requirements as limitations in order to recruit desired workers. The reason why the skill requirement is very important is that this is the deterministic factor in our model deciding the kind of job every target is getting.
Long term potential (C5):
This is the factor that identifies the importance of the job in comparison to the plan of job seekers in the future. For example, (A) wants to be an engineer in the future, so the model will weigh the job “engineering assistant” more than “plumber” since “plumber” is hardly related to (A)’s plan for the future.
Output factors
Sedentary job (A1):
Sedentary jobs are jobs that involve long sitting. For example, receptionist, packer, sorter, surveillance systems monitor, clerk etc. Sedentary jobs are relatively and physically relaxing, however, the skill requirements for the sedentary jobs are relatively high, for example, a diploma may be needed. Our model will analyze the provided personal data and suggest the best kind of job for our target.
Physical job (A2):
Physical jobs are jobs that involve a lot of physical activity and contact with objects that are often heavy or dangerous, etc. For example, firefighters, lifeguards, military personnel, personal trainer, etc. These jobs require job seekers to be physically fit and healthy. Our model will analyze the provided personal data and suggest the best kind of job for our target.
Model
In AHP, we can determine the weight of the previous item by comparing the importance of two values. AHP uses nine numbers from 1-9 to express their weight. There are five basic scales, they are Equal Strong, Weak Strong, Strong, Very Strong, and Absolution, and they got the scale 1, 3, 5, 7, 9. The middle scale of 2, 4, 6, 8 between every two scales means they are between the two scales. We can create tables through excel to easily give them weights.
Through the function of excel, we can easily calculate their weight. The yellow highlighted part in the figure below needs to be filled in, and the other parts do not need to be filled in manually. Because the two items are compared with themselves, the weight is 1. And if item A is more important than item B by K, then the scale of item B than item A is 1/K, which can be achieved by function in excel.
ZC1C2C3C4C5
C11.001.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
C21.001.001.001.001.00
C31.001.001.001.001.00
C41.001.001.001.001.00
C51.001.001.001.001.00
C1SP
S1.001.00
P1.001.00
C2SP
S1.001.00
P1.001.00
C3SP
S1.001.00
P1.001.00
C4SP
S1.001.00
P1.001.00
C5SP
S1.001.00
P1.001.00
Data
We have created ten virtual characters, each ofwhom is good at different professions and uses different skills, the need forrest time, wages, and their traffic conditions are all different. We have giveneach character a real, covering a very wide range of work areas, and tried tomake ten more realistic students to fill in our own preference for each factor.According to each virtual student’s preference for different types of factors,the following table was created.
SimulatedTargetRelativeProfessionProfessionalStrengthDesiredLeisureTimeDesiredSalaryDesired Location/TrafficCondition
SamEconomyFinancial analysis of high City center/Satisfactory
KevinArtDrawingLongLowSuburb/Satisfactory
AndySportPhysical workMediumLowSuburb/Bad
TaylorCivil EngineeringSketchingLongMediumCity centre/Fine
AnneNurseCare takingLongLowCity centre/Fine
CrystalChefCookingMidiumMediumCity centre/Bad
EmilyTeacherMath teachingShortMediumSuburb/Fine
EmmaElectrical EngineerEngineeringLongMediumCity centre/Excellent
BillManagerHuman resource managingLongMediumSuburb/Satisfactory
BobPliotFly aircraftShortHighCity centre/Satisfactory
CharacterC1C2C3C4C5
Sam77221
Kevin36446
Andy33993
Taylor69337
Anne39356
Crystal66458
Emily63756
Emma69566
Bill69665
Bob93298
The ten simulated targets will complete the sheet we provide.
Then we compare these factors in pairs, that is, divide the two numbers, fill in the quotient in the AHP table created before, enter the program we wrote (the source code of the program is attached at the end of this document), and calculate the final weight for the two types of work, and based on the two weights to determine the student’s final job choice. (The calculation process of two typical characters is attached to this document).
We build the final weight into a table, as follows:
CharacterWeight for A1Weight for A2
Sam0.5929430.407057
Kevin
Andy0.4441470.555853
Taylor
Anne
Crystal
Emilly
Emma
Bill
Bob
We build the final weight into a table, as follows:
SAM:
ZC1C2C3C4C5
C11.001.00 3.50 3.50 7.00
C21.001.003.503.507.00
C30.290.291.001.002.00
C40.290.291.001.002.00
C50.140.140.500.501.00
C1SP
S1.002.00
P0.501.00
C2SP
S1.002.00
P0.501.00
C3SP
S1.000.50
P2.001.00
C4SP
S1.000.50
P2.001.00
C5SP
S1.002.00
P0.501
FINAL WEIGHT:
A1:0.592943
A2:0.407057
JOB CHOICE: SEDENTARY WORK
ANDY:
ZC1C2C3C4C5
C11.001.00 0.33 0.33 1.00
C21.001.000.330.331.00
C33.003.001.001.003.00
C43.003.001.001.003.00
C51.001.000.330.331.00
C1SP
S1.002.00
P0.501.00
C2SP
S1.002.00
P0.501.00
C3SP
S1.000.50
P2.001.00
C4SP
S1.000.50
P2.001.00
C5SP
S1.002.00
P0.501
FINAL WEIGHT:
A1:0.444147
A2:0.555853
JOB CHOICE: PHYSICAL WORK
