Int. J. Advanced Networking and Applications Volume: 04 Issue: 06 Pages:1766-1771 (2013) ISSN : 0975-0290 1766 Deployment of Multicriteria Decision System for National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Afolayan A. Obiniyi Department of Mathematics, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Nigeria Email: aaobiniyi@gmail.com Christiana N. Anujeonye Department of computer Science Federal College of Education (FCE), Zaria, Nigeria Email: anujeonyechristy@yahoo.com Olumide S. Adewale Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria Email: adewale@futa.edu.ng -------------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT-------------------------------------------------------------- National Youth Service Corps deployment programme is the process of deploying corps members to their places of primary assignment. This paper focused on the use of multicriteria decision system for deployment exercise of corps members to their places of primary assignment instead of manual method. The model was developed using corps members disciplines, genders and tribes among others and requests from organisations. The Multicriteria decision system was implemented using Windows, Apache, MySQL and Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) Apache as the web server, PHP as script language, MySQL as the relational database system with windows as operating system and it made use of a single client called the web browser. It is expected that the Multicriteria decision system will increase the efficiency, accuracy and timely posting of the Corps members and that the National youth service corps official should implement the use of the system for their deployment exercise. Keywords  assignment, deployment, method, multicriteria, primary. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date of Submission: April 28, 2013 Date of Acceptance: June 09, 2013 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Introduction The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme is a programme that involves Nigerian graduates in the development and integration of their country. The programme is meant for graduates from universities, polytechnics, and other degree awarding schools. Marenin, [1] states that one of the expectations of the programme is that corps members should be posted to cities and states far from their homes and states of origin. They are expected to mix with people of other tribes, social and family backgrounds, to learn the culture of the indigenes in the place they are posted to. It is a way to engender unity in Nigeria, to help youths appreciate other ethnic groupings in the country. The problems associated with manual system of corps members deployment give rise to the need for development of computerised model that can be used to carry out the deployment process with a view to: reducing the time it takes to process the deployment of corps members to their places of primary assignment; have fair and impartial deployment, placement and to minimize the incidence of rejection of corps members by organisations. The traditional recruiting process is typically a step-by- step sequential process whereby the subsequent phase starts the required tasks only after the previous phase completes its tasks [2]. Labour-intensive hiring tools like face-to-face interviews, paper and pencil tests, and job previews are widely used in traditional recruiting. The traditional process has been fraught with task delays and miscommunications, which result in the long hiring process and high hiring cost. The traditional recruiting process consists of the following iterative phases: identification of hiring needs; submission of job requisition and approval; job posting, submission of job applications; screening of rØsumØ/application; interviewing; pre-employment screening; and job offer and employment contract. Both hiring managers and recruiters rely on hard-copy documents and conventional delivery mechanisms to complete the recruiting process. Computers had been used in the traditional recruiting process even before the introduction of e-recruiting. However, computer applications were limited to the automation of internal processes rather than the rationalisation of the process. Software packages could not communicate with each other, and the quantity and quality of the job applications remained the same. Even with automation, most recruiting processes were still batch processes. The advent of e-recruiting moved the computer application of the recruiting process to a higher level. The e-recruiting system is a Web-enabled, anytime-anyplace, ubiquitous system for both job seekers and recruiters [3]. The e-recruiting process consists of the following iterative steps: identification of hiring needs; submission of job requisition; approval of the job requisition via a job database; job posting on the Internet; online search of the