DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ONLINE JOB PORTAL (A CASE STUDY OF CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION ANAMBRA)

ABSTRACT
In Today’s world of Internet, job seeker always spends hours to find useful job. To reduce this laborious work, we design and implement recommendation system for online job hunting. The main aim of this portal is to connect to the industries and acts as an online recruitment, to support the students, to find a right job after graduation. We proposed in this paper the user model (Content Based Filtering) and social interaction (Collaborative Filtering) which improve the quality of job recommendation. The questions or fields of the web based recruitment portal were programmed and visually displayed on the systems screen in an interactive form. Where the employee fills the field on the computer system while online. The design system was implemented and tested and was found successful.

Background of the Study
According to Anan, (2011), On-line activities have in recent past replaced virtually every form of transactions. This is because of the advent of the internet, which provides a global network connection for all such activities. With this technology, many institutions have their tentacles spread across the globe. In line with this trend, job search activities and job providers need to join the band wagon of the global community in shearing their information across the internet. The project work is based on this notion.
According to Jack, (2010), an online job portal, also known as a links page, presents information from, diverse sources in a unified way. Apart from the standard search engine feature, online portals offer other services such as e-mail, news, stock prices, information, databases and entertainment. Portals provide a way for enterprises to provide a consistent look and feel with access control and procedures for multiple applications and databases, which otherwise would have been different entities altogether (Nandan 2015).

1.2 Statement of the Problem
Applicants were required to search through print and visual media for opportunities, most times this jobs were limited to the applicant’s location, Application were submitted using the conventional methods which weren’t effective and efficient based on loss of document during transits and many more. The old system approach was tedious and requires much effort and resources, most times Employers need to advertise the vacancies and sort all applicants’ details, conduct selections procedures based on qualifications

.1.2.1 Solution
The use of metadata and ontologies will enable to model the company organization and to relate these concepts to the information.

1.3 Aim and Objectives of the Study
The aim of this work is to design and implement an online job portal. The objectives of the study are:
i. To contribute to academic research work.
ii. To help employers to post their job offers online and search their database to find people who best suit their vacant job positions.
iii. To provide the possibility for job seekers to build their curriculum vitae (CVs) online, look for new job opportunities in industries and organizations, get e-mail notifications of interesting job vacancies and apply directly through the website.
iv. To help organizations attract, test, recruit, employ and retain quality staff with minimal amount of administration.
v. To reduce or totally remove “man know man” that goes amongst the recruitment agents or personnel managers.