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ConFit: Improving Resume-Job Matching using Data Augmentation and Contrastive Learning

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Xiao Yu (Columbia University), Jinzhong Zhang (Intellipro) and Zhou Yu (Columbia University)

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Abstract

A reliable resume-job matching system helps a company find suitable candidates from a pool of resumes, and helps a job seeker find relevant jobs from a list of job posts. However, since job seekers apply only to a few jobs, interaction records in resume-job datasets are sparse. Different from many prior work that use complex modeling techniques, we tackle this sparsity problem using data augmentations and a simple contrastive learning approach. ConFit first formulates resume-job datasets as a sparse bipartite graph, and creates an augmented dataset by paraphrasing specific sections in a resume or a job post. Then, ConFit finetunes pre-trained encoders with contrastive learning to further increase training samples from B pairs per batch to O(B^2) per batch. We evaluate ConFit on two real-world datasets and find it outperforms prior methods (including BM25 and OpenAI text-ada-002) by up to 19% and 31% absolute in nDCG@10 for ranking jobs and ranking resumes, respectively. We believe ConFit's simple yet highly performant approach lays a strong foundation for future research in modeling person-job fit.

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