applying artificial intelligence to career consultation: a case based reasoning paradigm for knowledge management

human resource plays a key role in a society and also for all kind of organization, therefore offering a reasonable and intelligent way for selection of a suitable and essential career. artificial intelligence (ai) is used today in science, engineering, business, manufacturing, management and many other fields. expert systems as a branch of ai have attracted the at-tention of mostly large and medium organizations for doing some human’s activities. case based reasoning (cbr) is also a new problem solving paradigm that in many ways is fun-damentally different from other major ai approaches. instead of relying solely on general knowledge of a problem domain, or making associations along generalized relationships be-tween problem descriptors and conclusions, cbr is able to utilize the specific knowledge of previously experienced situations. this research work presents a model for designing an intelligent career consultation system using case-based reasoning which recommends suitable jobs for applicants. this system, as a sample, has been implemented in an iranian organization.