Gamifying online recruitment with Hironomy

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Current online recruitment platforms often suffer from a lack of technical clarity and an unintuitive user interface. They are no longer meeting the needs of both employers and employees. Potential employees are finding the job search difficult and convoluted in many cases. Consequently, employers face major challenges in locating suitable recruits. Additionally, unfavourable economic conditions have caused the quality and operation of the job market to suffer. The company Cyrilogic is seeking the expertise of Dr. Nacke's HCI Games research group to address this problem as a multifaceted technological research challenge. Software applications and websites matching employees and employers can help to mitigate these technological issues; however, these online services are not a complete solution. Often, a lack of user motivation and system clarity causes difficulties that impede the process of online recruitment. We introduce Hironomy, a gamified hiring platform, as a technical solution. We are investigating gamification, or the process of using game design to make non-gaming tasks more motivating, as a solution to this problem together with the company Cyrilogic. This proposal outlines our technological improvements and design changes for Cyrilogic's Hironomy, an online application which will gamify the recruitment process. The strength of this application stems from an interdisciplinary approach that blends concepts from computer science with other research coming from game studies, psychology, and business. With our technology-focused approach, we will build the information system Hironomy to create a software contribution, which benefits researchers studying the technical aspects of gamification, the stakeholders of the project. Most importantly, Hironomy increases access to jobs and human resources, benefiting Canada as a whole.