Method and system for prediction of proficiency of person in skills from resume

Abstract

This disclosure relates generally to predicting proficiency level of a person from resume. The proficiency levels obtained using state-of-the-art methods tends to overestimate proficiency. Moreover, the estimated proficiency levels do not satisfy several constraints that are considered key by subject matter experts. Embodiments of the present disclosure extract skills and other related information automatically from resume and capture skill related information in terms of a feature vector. A skill estimation function is learned to predict the proficiency level of the skill from the feature vector using any one of two models. A first model is learned using a constraint loss function to combine label information with domain specific constraints and a second model is learned using a clustering based technique. The disclosure predicts skill proficiency using only resume and can be used for predicting proficiency level of skills of employees from their resumes, for suitable job recommendations from job portal.