Negative Search

Negative Search involves the elimination of irrelevant pieces of information from a mass of content in order to present to a user a range of relevant and less relevant items of content from which the user makes a selection.
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Negative Search is different to both Positive Search and Discovery Search. Positive Search uses the selection of relevance as its primary mechanism. Discovery uses calculation of relatedness (between both user intent and content)to present to users relevant alternatives of which they may not have been aware.

Negative Search has application to those forms of searches where the user has the intention of finding a specific actionable piece information but lacks the knowledge of what that specific information is or might be.


Negative Search can also apply to those forms of searching where the user has a clear understanding of Negative Intent (what they don't want) rather than what they do.


Examples of Negative Intent are:

- job searching: someone knows they want a new job but they have no idea what it might be. They just know what they don't want.

- dating searching: someone is looking for a dating partner, but cannot identify what criteria they are looking for. They just know what they don't want

- an investigator is looking for a car but has no other car-related information criteria on which to base a search.

WiZeefa

WiZeefa (webpage) is a search engine for careers throughout the Middle East. The creators of WiZeefa want to ease the pains of searching through countless websites to find an exact job match. WiZeefa's aim is to ease the job search for Middle East job seekers.

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In order to achieve this goal, WiZeefa uses an almost effortless keyword search in which the job seeker types his/her keyword or locations and instantaneous receives accurate job results from hundreds of websites and thousands of job postings throughout the Middle East and the rest of the world. With this simple technology, we plan to change the Middle East job market forever!

In addition to our search engine, you may save your searches and have jobs delivered to you by email alert, iGoogle, or other RSS feed readers. With iGoogle account, for example, you may save your WiZeefa search with a click.

Scheduling

Drexel's academic calendar has shaped itself around the co-op program, with quarters similar to the quarters used in the business world. Students choose different degree programs based on their majors and the length of the programs they intend to take. Students interested in co-op are randomly assigned a "cycle," defining what part of the year they will be on co-op; the two possible cycles are "Fall-Winter" and "Spring-Summer". All of the degree programs offer the same amount of class experience, but they differ in their involvement with the internship program.

For students not interested in co-op, Drexel offers a typical 4-year curriculum, with Fall, Winter, and Spring terms devoted to class, and Summer as vacation.
Drexel also has an option for a 4-year degree with co-op, in which the Summer breaks of the Sophomore and Junior year are replaced with class, and either the Fall and Winter or Spring and Summer of the junior year is spent on co-op, depending on the student's cycle.
For those interested in even more co-op experience, Drexel's 5-year program offers the equivalent of a 4-year degree plus 18 months of internship experience. In the 5-year program the middle three years (called the Sophomore, Pre-Junior, and Junior years) are spent alternating between co-op and college classes, depending on the student's assigned cycle.
A more detailed description of the co-op scheduling system, with charts, is available at Drexel's co-op website.

The Market

With up to 80% of companies generally expecting to encounter difficulties in the recruitment process from year to year, . It's obvious that there exists a market for broad recruitment solutions. Companies will generally employ a number of different methods to fill their recruitment needs including employee referral, company websites, recruitment agencies and job boards. Generally, it's found that around 27.1% of recruitment is done through employee referral - making it the largest source of company recruitment , with standard recruitment making up around 5.2% of overall recruitment.

The future of the recruitment industry is generally considered by industry analysts to be in 'Career Networks' , that can provide employee's with the backup necessary to optimize their job searching process - including having access to a 'career coach', utilizing niche recruitment channels, building a profile and receiving positive feedback.