Title
Large-Scale Talent Flow Forecast with Dynamic Latent Factor Model?
Abstract
The understanding of talent flow is critical for sharpening company talent strategy to keep competitiveness in the current fast-evolving environment. Existing studies on talent flow analysis generally rely on subjective surveys. However, without large-scale quantitative studies, there are limits to deliver fine-grained predictive business insights for better talent management. To this end, in this paper, we aim to introduce a big data-driven approach for predictive talent flow analysis. Specifically, we first construct a time-aware job transition tensor by mining the large-scale job transition records of digital resumes from online professional networks (OPNs), where each entry refers to a fine-grained talent flow rate of a specific job position between two companies. Then, we design a dynamic latent factor based Evolving Tensor Factorization (ETF) model for predicting the future talent flows. In particular, a novel evolving feature by jointly considering the influence of previous talent flows and global market is introduced for modeling the evolving nature of each company. Furthermore, to improve the predictive performance, we also integrate several representative attributes of companies as side information for regulating the model inference. Finally, we conduct extensive experiments on large-scale real-world data for evaluating the model performances. The experimental results clearly validate the effectiveness of our approach compared with state-of-the-art baselines in terms of talent flow forecast. Meanwhile, the results also reveal some interesting findings on the regularity of talent flows, e.g. Facebook becomes more and more attractive for the engineers from Google in 2016.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3308558.3313525
WWW '19: The Web Conference on The World Wide Web Conference WWW 2019
Keywords
Field
DocType
Latent Factor Model, Talent Flow Forecast, Tensor Factorization
Sharpening,Talent management,Model inference,Industrial engineering,Tensor,Computer science,Flow (psychology),Side information,Baseline (configuration management),Artificial intelligence,Tensor factorization,Machine learning
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6674-8
4
0.42
References 
Authors
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Le Zhang1223.42
Hengshu Zhu282154.61
Tong Xu321836.15
Chen Zhu412111.97
Chuan Qin5101.88
Hui Xiong64958290.62
Enhong Chen72106165.57