Print Email Facebook Twitter Using Github Profiles in Software Developer Recruitment and Hiring Title Using Github Profiles in Software Developer Recruitment and Hiring Author Nagaram, A.R. Contributor Hauff, C. (mentor) Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Department Computer Science Programme Software Technology Date 2015-08-20 Abstract Social coding platforms can provide initial understanding about the skills exhibited by the developers on these platforms. In contexts where candidates social profile information is useful for recruiting software developers, the information regarding the developers on these platforms can be leveraged by the recruiters with some software knowledge. However, recruiters have to put many efforts in inferring about a developer skill on social coding platforms. In this thesis, we investigate on providing relevant information regarding software developer capabilities on a social coding platform to the recruiters. We used GitHub as our social coding platform for this purpose. We explored regarding, the attributes to use for indicating the skills exhibited by a developer on GitHub. We also investigated GitHub as a resource containing some potential software developer candidates by recommending GitHub developer profile, solely based on skill set requirements of job advertisements. Our results indicate that the generated developer skill profiles have a valid set of attributes when combined, to indicate the regarding three skills exhibited by a software developer on GitHub. However, the generated profile was slightly preferred by the technical recruiters because of the profile's complexity in understanding and incompleteness. In the investigation of recommending developer profiles to suit job advertisement requirements our recommendation strategy could only achieve a precision of 0.39 on average and an Normalized Distance Based Performance Measure (NDPM) ranking accuracy value of 0.43 on average. Subject GitHub DataSoftware Job AdvertisementsContent-Based Recommendation To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:7179edff-b498-4c3b-900d-62d61f8665df Embargo date 2015-08-21 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2015 Nagaram, A.R. Files PDF A.R.Nagaram_ThesisReport.pdf 2.69 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:7179edff-b498-4c3b-900d-62d61f8665df/datastream/OBJ/view