LinkedIn: Computational Jobs Marketplace: Search, Recommendation and Beyond

Exciting talk from the Director of engineering, AI, LinkedIn, Liangjie Hong

Bio: https://www.hongliangjie.com/

Title: Computational Jobs Marketplace: Search, Recommendation and Beyond

Abstract" Online job marketplaces such as Indeed.com, CareerBuilder and LinkedIn Inc. are helping millions of job seekers find their next jobs while thousands of corporations as well as institutions fill their opening positions at the same time. On top of that, the global pandemic COVID-19 in 2020 up till now has profoundly transformed workplaces, creating and driving remote work environments around the world. While this emerging industry generates tremendous growth in the past several years, technological innovations around this industry has yet to come. In this talk, I will discuss how many technologies, such as search systems, recommender systems as well as advertising systems that the industry heavily relies on are deeply rooted in their more generic counterparts, which may not address unique challenges in this industry and therefore hindering possibly better products serving both job seekers and recruiters. In addition, observations and evidences indicate that users, including job seekers, recruiters, as well as advertisers, have different behaviors on these novel two-sided marketplaces, calling for a better systematic understanding of users in this new domain.