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Exploring Interaction Patterns in Job Search

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We analyze interaction logs from Seek.com, a well-known Australasian employment site, with the goal of better understanding the ways in which users pursue their search goals following the issue of each query. Of particular interest are the patterns of job summary viewing and click-through behaviors that arise, and the differences in activity between mobile/tablet-based users (Android/iOS) and computer-based users.

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ADCS '18: Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Document Computing Symposium
December 2018
78 pages
ISBN:9781450365499
DOI:10.1145/3291992
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  • Dept. of Information Science, Univ.of Otago: Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

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Published: 11 December 2018

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  1. Interaction logs
  2. job search
  3. user behavior

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ADCS '18: 23rd Australasian Document Computing Symposium
December 11 - 12, 2018
Dunedin, New Zealand

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  • (2023)Understanding Recruiters’ Information Seeking Behavior in Talent SearchProceedings of the 2023 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval10.1145/3576840.3578311(14-23)Online publication date: 19-Mar-2023
  • (2019)Modeling User Actions in Job SearchAdvances in Information Retrieval10.1007/978-3-030-15712-8_42(652-664)Online publication date: 7-Apr-2019

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