JobViz: Skill-driven Visual Exploration of Job Advertisements

TL;DR

JobViz introduces a skill-driven visual exploration tool for job ads, enabling users to efficiently identify relevant opportunities through hierarchical visualizations and augmented glyphs, validated by real-world case studies.

Contribution

We propose a novel visualization system that enhances job search by providing multi-level, skill-focused visualizations, addressing limitations of traditional filtering methods.

Findings

Effective in helping users identify relevant jobs

Facilitates quick understanding of skill requirements

Validated through case studies and user interviews

Abstract

Online job advertisements on various job portals or websites have become the most popular way for people to find potential career opportunities nowadays. However, the majority of these job sites are limited to offering fundamental filters such as job titles, keywords, and compensation ranges. This often poses a challenge for job seekers in efficiently identifying relevant job advertisements that align with their unique skill sets amidst a vast sea of listings. Thus, we propose well-coordinated visualizations to provide job seekers with three levels of details of job information: a skill-job overview visualizes skill sets, employment posts as well as relationships between them with a hierarchical visualization design; a post exploration view leverages an augmented radar-chart glyph to represent job posts and further facilitates users' swift comprehension of the pertinent skills necessitated by respective positions; a post detail view lists the specifics of selected job posts for profound analysis and comparison. By using a real-world recruitment advertisement dataset collected from 51Job, one of the largest job websites in China, we conducted two case studies and user interviews to evaluate JobViz. The results demonstrated the usefulness and effectiveness of our approach.