Software uses LinkedIn network to guide your career

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Software uses LinkedIn network to guide your career

Post by Nipuna » Sun Apr 07, 2013 8:09 am

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EVER wonder whether your career would benefit if you went back to college? Or do you want to ditch the rat race for a life as a diving instructor?

You just might find the job of your dreams using new software called LinkedVis. Developed by computer scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, it analyses the information in your LinkedIn network to recommend companies and roles.

LinkedVis works by scanning your network for people whose career path, skill set and qualifications resemble yours, then ranks those people in order of similarity to you. Finally, it uses their current position and company to suggest career paths for you.

You can also ask the software to explore "what if" scenarios – for example, how getting a PhD would affect your prospects.

So far LinkedVis has only been tested on small amounts of offline LinkedIn data provided by 27 users. John O'Donovan, one of the developers, says he has had meetings with LinkedIn's chief engineer about the system, and that the company is "extremely interested" in it. The work was presented last month at the Intelligent User Interfaces conference in Santa Monica, California.

This article appeared in print under the headline "Let your contacts guide your next career move"
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Re: Software uses LinkedIn network to guide your career

Post by MarkSpencer » Wed Apr 17, 2013 3:45 pm

I am agree with you with some extent. Software can not judge the human creativity and professional approach to take decisions. Future forecasting and human thinking to take decisions are different as compare with machines.

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