Streamlining Job Searches Using Semantic Web

At mediabistro.com’s upcoming Semantic Web Summit, experts will explore the many ways in which this blossoming technology will alter the way we share information and utilize data online. One application is the job search. Writer Katie Bunker asked Martin Hepp, professor of general management and e-business at Universität der Bundeswehr München in Germany, and chief executive officer of Hepp Research GmbH, to explain further: How does this technology apply to a job search, and change the user experience both from an employer’s standpoint as well as from a job seeker’s?

“Job posts and resumes are usually available in a structured form already, but when we use the current Web for matching open positions and candidates, the Web acts as a giant shredder for data structure and data semantics: My own resume on a Web page only contains text about my qualifications, and a company’s ‘open positions’ page contains only weakly structured...

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