Program
The 6th RecSys in HR workshop will take place on September 28, 2026 from 13:30-17:30 (CDT).
| Start | End | |
|---|---|---|
| 13:30 | 13:40 | Opening (chair: Toine Bogers) |
| 13:40 | 14:45 | Panel (chair: Jens-Joris Decorte) [in-person + online] |
| 14:45 | 15:30 | Paper session 1 (chair: Toine Bogers) |
| 14:45 | 15:00 | JobHop v2: A Large-Scale Career Trajectory Dataset from Unstructured Resumes (Iman Johary, Guillaume Bied, Alexandru Mara and Tijl De Bie) [online] |
| 15:00 | 15:15 | Deep Sourcing: Agentic Multi-Strategy Search with Iterative Reflection for Talent Discovery (Joshua H. Levy, Willy Lew Yuk Vong, Jacob Plains, Ravi Kiran Divvela, Kevin Ka’Aumoana Duarte, Wenhui Liu, Manasvi Nishith Vohra and Bhushan Shitole) [in-person] |
| 15:15 | 15:30 | Not All Matches Are Equally Valuable: An Online Experiment of Retention-Focused Recommendation in a Job-Matching Platform (Tatsuya Ute, Chiaki Ichimura and Yuta Saito) [in-person] |
| 15:30 | 16:00 | ☕️ Coffee break |
| 16:00 | 16:30 | Paper session 2 (chair: Josh Levy) |
| 16:00 | 16:15 | Fine-Tuning Strategy, Not Just Data: A Statistically Rigorous Audit of Gender and Stereotypical Bias in Embedding Models for HR Recommendation Systems (Ekta Yadav) [in-person] |
| 16:15 | 16:30 | Suspenders: A Deployed Guardrail for Policy Filtering of LLM-Generated Job-Recommendation Explanations (Jasmine Qi, Danylo Dantsev and Jeff Kohls) [in-person] |
| 16:30 | 16:55 | Challenge session (chairs: Warre Veys + Jens-Joris Decorte) |
| 16:30 | 16:40 | Introduction to the Challenge |
| 16:40 | 16:55 | Presentation by Challenge winners |
| 16:55 | 17:00 | Closing (chair: Toine Bogers) |
| 17:00 | 17:30 | Poster session (will continue after official workshop end) |