Patent ID: 11907303
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 17:
18. A method, comprising:
receiving, at a job candidate acquisition collaboration system, a job requisition identifying an open job position within a company;
receiving, at the job candidate acquisition collaboration system from each of a plurality of applicant acquisition systems, a number of potential job applicants for the job requisition, each of the potential job applicants having a corresponding profile, and wherein the potential job applicants are ranked by the corresponding applicant acquisition system, wherein each of the plurality of applicant acquisition systems corresponds to a system that finds job candidates for the job requisition;
creating, at the job candidate acquisition collaboration system, a consolidated listing of the potential job applicants by combining the potential job applicants received by each of the plurality of applicant acquisition systems into a single job applicant listing;
presenting, within a collaborative environment within the job candidate acquisition collaboration system, the consolidated listing to each of the applicant acquisition systems in a round robin format until a final ranking of the potential job applicants is reached, wherein the final ranking is identified when the plurality of applicant acquisition systems make no modifications to a version of the consolidated listing presented at the beginning of one of the plurality of round robin rounds, wherein, during a turn of the applicant acquisition system, the applicant acquisition system makes any modifications to reorder the potential job applicants within the consolidated listing using a ranking algorithm of the applicant acquisition system, the job candidate acquisition collaboration system generates a reranked version of the consolidated listing based upon the modifications and after each of the applicant acquisition system makes any modifications, and the job candidate acquisition collaboration system presents the reranked version of the consolidated listing to the next applicant acquisition system in turn within a round of the round robin format, wherein each round in the round robin is a collaborative ranking round among the plurality of applicant acquisition systems, wherein each of the plurality of applicant acquisition systems has a corresponding ranking algorithm used to rank job applicants, wherein each of the ranking algorithms utilizes a ranking of the potential job applicants on the presented version of the consolidated listing to weight each of the potential job applicants when generating the modifications, wherein a weight of rankings of the potential job applicants within a modification provided by each of the applicant acquisition systems is adjusted utilizing at one coefficient comprising a selfishness coefficient, wherein a higher selfishness coefficient of one of the applicant acquisition systems results in a lower weight of the rankings provided by the applicant acquisition systems; and
generating, within the job candidate acquisition collaboration system and upon reaching the final ranking of the potential job applicants between the applicant acquisition systems, a final overall listing of the potential job applicants having the final ranking.