DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A DISTRIBUTED RECRUITMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Abstract

The recruitment process has always been critical to the success or failure of organizations. 

Organizations constantly seek better methods of recruiting staff that will require minimal 

effort to seamlessly fit in with the organizations business processes and thus provide 

recruitment agencies with the means with which to determine which universities provide the 

best graduates in a particular field for recruitment.

This project work utilized a V-model software methodology, in the verification phase 

requirements are gathered via observation and document analysis these requirements are then 

analysed using use case models data flow diagrams and entity relationship diagrams. In the 

Systems Design phase a software specification document is generated and it holds technical 

diagrams such as, the interface design of the recruitment management system (R.M.S), its 

activity diagram, its architecture diagram and the logic model of the Apriori Algorithm 

implemented in the R.M.S. In the implementation phase various web technologies were used 

to implement the R.M.S, PHP was used to implement the Apriori Algorithm used to make 

assertions as to which higher institutions produce the best graduates in a field of study and 

finally in the validation phase unit tests were carried to ensure the R.M.S is fault free.

The R.M.S developed is user friendly with interactive modules that enables organizations 

generate various reports and make predictions about schools that produce the best recruits in 

a particular field of study. It also enables organizations schedule various exams for various 

candidates hence cutting out third party recruitment agencies. 

Various organizations run different business processes. It is common knowledge that 

organizations spend a lot of resources adapting new recruits to their business processes and 

still get mixed results; With R.M.S organizations are guaranteed greater value for invest resources