An Intelligent Trainee Selection Model Mohamad Farhan Mohamad Mohsin, Faudziah Ahmad, Aniza Mohd Din, Ku Ruhana Ku Mahamud, Roshidi Din School of Computing, UUM College of Arts & Sciences Universiti Utara Malaysia Kedah, Malaysia {farhan, fudz, anizamd, ruhana, roshidi}@uum.edu.my Abstract- This paper proposed an intelligent model that is aimed at facilitating key workers select suitable trainees for a training program. The proposed model is initiated because it has been found that many motivational training programs fail to meet their objectives because there is a mismatch between the needs of training programs and the integrity levels of trainees. The proposed model consists of three modules namely personality characteristics identification, training program requirements identification, and trainee selection agent. A dataset for the study called Trainees Integrity Dataset (TID) is mined using association rule to discover important personality characteristics. TID is obtained from Langkawi District Education Office (LDEO) and it has 1500 respondents which represents secondary school teachers in Pulau Langkawi, Kedah, Malaysia who attended a training program organized by LDEO in 2009. The proposed model is intended to produce an efficient selection process and suitable trainees. Keyword: selection model, intelligent, association mining, data mining. I. INTRODUCTION Integrity is vital to individuals, groups, organizations and society. It is a key success to everyone and many organizations have benefited enormous performance increases when their employees own good integrity behavior. As stated in [1] nothing can work without the present of integrity. Therefore, human resource department holds high responsibility to monitor integrity among its staff will always positions at good level. Providing appropriate motivation training is one of the actions can be taken to maintain the high level of integrity. Many motivational training programs fail to meet their objectives because there is a mismatch between the needs of training programs and the integrity levels of trainees. For example, a training program to improve teachers’ integrity would require those teachers that are problematic such as demotivated, indiscipline and abusive. Teachers who do not possess such negative attitudes would not be suitable for an integrity program. If this category of teachers is selected by random chance, this results in a mismatch of supply and demand of needs and cause failure in integrity training programs to achieve its goals. According to some studies, selecting the wrong person can cost businesses between 30% and 200% of a person’s annual salary. If a role worth $70,000 a year is filled with the wrong candidate, it could end up costing between $21,000 and $140,000 – a loss most businesses can’t afford to make [2]. Integrity refers to adherence to moral principles [7]. Measuring integrity is crucial in order to know the level of integrity and supply the right candidate for an integrity training program. Training, also known as enabling learning and personal development is essential for an organization. It helps develop quality, customer satisfaction, productivity, morale, management succession, business development and profitability. Aspects of training include components such as: ethics and morality; attitude and behavior; leadership and determination, as well as skills and knowledge. The most important quality which makes good performers is attitudinal. Skills and knowledge, and the processes available to people, are less critical [2]. What makes people effective and valuable to any organization is their attitude. Attitude includes qualities that require different training and learning methods. Attitude stems from a person's mind-set, belief system, emotional maturity, self-confidence, and experience. Training is nothing without the motivation to apply it effectively. A strong capability to plan and manage skills training, the acquisition of knowledge, and the development of motivation and attitude, largely determines how well people perform in their training programs. Trainee selection is the process of putting right men on right training program. It is a procedure of matching training program’s requirements with the skills and characteristics of people. Effective selection can be done only when there is effective matching. By selecting best candidate for the required training program, the organization will get quality performance of employees. By selecting right candidate for the required training program, organization will also save time and money. Proper screening of candidates takes place during selection procedure. Currently, selection is made through top-down or bottom-up approach. Top-down approach usually selects candidates randomly thus, most of the time shortlist a number of candidates who do not fit for the integrity program’s 390 brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by UUM Repository