Design And Implementation Of A Distributed Recruitment Management System

1.3    Aim and Objectives of the Study
The aim of the project is to provide organizations and educational parastatals with the means to determine which Higher Institution provide the best graduates in a particular field for recruitment.
Below are the outlined objectives of the project:
1.    To provide a platform for capturing profiles of applicants.
2.    To create an online recruitment test based system based on organizational requirements.
3.    Provide applicants with results upon completion of test.
4.    Deduce patterns from applicant’s tests performance to predict likely institutions as to who produce best candidates for specific disciplines.
1.4    Methodology
The software model to be used in the development of the recruitment management system is the V-model. It consists of two main phases namely verification and validation.
The first step in the verification phase is requirement analysis here requirements of the system are collected by analysing users’ needs. Requirement gathering in the course of the development of this information system would be done via observation, document analysis. These requirements would then be analysed using models such as the use case model, data flow diagrams and entity relationship models.
In the System Design step the feasibility of requirement analysis step is determined in this step a software specification document would be generated and it would hold technical diagrams such as, the interface design of the recruitment management system, its activity diagram, its architecture diagram and the logic model of the knowledge discovery technique implemented in the recruitment management system.
In the Implementation step the front end of the proposed system would be written in H™L, JavaScript, AJAX, CSS with the help of a web based adaptive framework called Bootstrap while the backend would be written in PHP. In other for the system to make assertions as to which higher institutions produce the best graduates in a field of study an association rule mining technique would be used to predict outcomes based on available data.
The validation phase of the V-model consists of the various tests that would be carried out on software applications to ensure proper functionality. Unit testing would be carried out during the implementation step it would be executed to ensure that bugs are eliminated at the code level. It ensures that the smallest entity can function correctly when isolated from the rest of the code.
1.5    Scope and Limitation of Study
The scope of the project would be limited to staff recruitment and provision of insights about candidates and their higher institutions to external organizations as opposed to standard systems which are multipurpose and are also used for Scholarship exams, Post-utme exams, Jamb exams etc. The system would also not take into consideration the interview phase which may or may not be part of the recruitment process and in most cases would be carried out by the hiring organization.
1.6    Justification
With the rising number of universities and polytechnics in Nigeria, Employers of labour have institutions not only to learn, but also with the hope that the knowledge gained puts them in