DOI: 10.4018/JITR.2018100107 Journal of Information Technology Research Volume 11 • Issue 4 • October-December 2018 Copyright © 2018, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. 99 Automatic Detection of Career Recommendation Using Fuzzy Approach Rajalakshmi Krishnamurthi, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India Mukta Goyal, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India ABSTRACT In today’s era where personalization of the learning material is a key factor towards the success of learning goal for any student according to their personality traits, learning style and cognitive style, choosing a career according to personality traits is also become a key to success of job satisfaction. Hence, this article proposes the recommendation of career on the basis of candidate personality attributes. In this article, Holland’s theory is used to detect candidate’s personality. Weights are assigned to each personality traits to calculate the scores are calibrated manually with help of research work done in this domain before and the feedback. A survey is conducted to test the accuracy of proposed method on 217 responses. The result shows the 74.35% candidates are satisfied with the recommended career and average rating for personality traits score was 3.58/5. This article also suggests a fuzzy approach to automatic detection of career recommendation based on personality score. KeywoRDS Fuzzy Approach, Holland’s Code Theory, Personality Score, Recommendation 1. INTRoDUCTIoN Career represents one of the major successful millstones achieved by the person in his life (Adekola, 2011). The career choices are highly dependent on their personality traits, activities engaged by individual, behaviourism towards facing challenges and attitudes developed to approach problems (Asanov, 2011; Bimrose, Brown and Barnes, 2005). Particularly, today there is a need to explore the role of guidance and counselling in preparing learners for work from primary to university levels of education (Borchert, 2002; Bublitz, 2013; Chen Lulu, 2002; Firkola, 2005). In developed or underdeveloped nation’s education system designed in such a way that very limited options are available for people. Moreover, it is less supportive in the exploration of new careers or to choose the right one for oneself (Erdogan and Bauer, 2005; Gardner et al., 2011; Frank and Shen, 2016). Today, choosing the wrong career is one of the most important criteria of job dissatisfaction. The objective of this work is to develop a career path recommendation system for targeted population of higher secondary school (HSS) students. As, the primary issue with HSS students found to be confused while choosing a career path, due to existence of diverse human influential factors like family members, friends, teachers, government or non- government organization (Heckman, 2012; Janger and Nowotny, 2013; Murugami & Nel, 2012). Therefore, better understanding and analysis of diverse career options enhance students to gain better acumen of different types of jobs they would want to explore in future. It is essential for HSS students to get motivated and to develop great knowledge quest through process of good education beforehand of career path selection. Figure 1 shows the influencing factors and its outcome on higher secondary school student career path selection.