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A Decision Support Software on Bidding for Job Interviews in College Placement Offices

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  • Hon-Shiang Lau

    (College of Business Administration, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078)

  • Marilyn G. Kletke

    (College of Business Administration, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078)

Abstract

Many university placement offices employ a bidding system to allocate on-campus recruiter interview slots to students. Typically, a student is given (say) 700 points each week to bid on the firms visiting that week. Interview slots for each firm are assigned beginning with the highest bidder until all slots are filled. This paper describes the mathematical modeling behind a decision support system for helping students to bid in such a system. It has three components. The first component elicits a student's utilities of getting an interview with the various firms. The second component estimates the probability of getting an interview with a particular firm for a given bid amount. The final component considers our bidding problem as the maximization of a student's expected utility, which can be formulated as a nonlinear integer programming (IP) problem. It is shown that this IP problem can be transformed into a number of nonlinear programming problems without integer requirements, which can then be solved very rapidly to give on-line bidding recommendations to a large number of students.

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  • Hon-Shiang Lau & Marilyn G. Kletke, 1994. "A Decision Support Software on Bidding for Job Interviews in College Placement Offices," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 40(7), pages 842-845, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ormnsc:v:40:y:1994:i:7:p:842-845
    DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.40.7.842
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    1. Rajiv D. Banker & Robert J. Kauffman, 2004. "50th Anniversary Article: The Evolution of Research on Information Systems: A Fiftieth-Year Survey of the Literature in Management Science," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 50(3), pages 281-298, March.

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