Cultural Determination Engine for Candidate Entity Matching

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current job listing and matching services fail to effectively determine the relative cultural correlation between candidates and entities, despite using psychographic or personality profiling, social data analysis, and social graphs, which has not shown significant efficacy in reducing employee churn.

Innovation Solution

A system and method for determining cultural assessments and correlations between candidates and entities, involving cultural profile determination, entity assessment, and correlation calculation, using a cultural determination engine that integrates data from social networks, human resource systems, and employment networks to facilitate matching based on cultural alignment.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If psychographic or personality profiling analysis is used, then candidate assessment is enhanced, but cultural correlation determination remains ineffective

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecultural correlation determinationVSAvoidemployee churn reduction
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent transitions from traditional psychographic parameters to cultural parameter assessments, changing the measurement dimensions from personality traits to cultural alignment metrics. This involves defining new cultural parameters such as cultural values, beliefs, and behavioral patterns that directly measure cultural correlation rather than general personality characteristics.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent segments the cultural assessment into multiple distinct components including cultural values assessment, cultural behaviors analysis, and cultural correlation calculation. This segmentation allows for more precise measurement of specific cultural dimensions rather than treating cultural fit as a single undifferentiated metric.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Measurement precision

If social data analysis including semantic analysis and sentiment analysis is used, then candidate profiling is enhanced, but cultural correlation determination remains ineffective

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecultural correlation determinationVSAvoidanalysis system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts and isolates the specific cultural correlation determination function from the broader candidate assessment system. By creating a dedicated cultural determination engine that focuses solely on cultural parameters, the system reduces complexity by separating cultural analysis from general psychographic and social data analysis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a cultural determination engine as an intermediary component that bridges candidate assessment and entity assessment. This mediator translates various input data sources into standardized cultural parameters and calculates cultural correlation, simplifying the overall system architecture by providing a dedicated translation and calculation layer.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Measurement precision

If social graphs defining networks of connections are used, then social data utilization is enhanced, but cultural correlation determination remains ineffective

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecultural correlation determinationVSAvoidassessment processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary cultural parameter assessments for both candidates and entities before the actual matching process. By pre-calculating and storing cultural parameters in advance, the system eliminates the need for real-time cultural analysis during candidate evaluation, significantly reducing processing time while maintaining measurement precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS10846712B2Cultural determination engine
Publication Date: 2020.11.24 FORTAY INC
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AI summary

A cultural determination engine is provided. The cultural determination engine is configured to assess a cultural profile by computing a distance between a received response to a query and a reference response.