Journal of Technology Informatics and Engineering
Vol. 4 No. 3 (2025): DECEMBER | JTIE : Journal of Technology Informatics and Engineering

Calibrated Resume-Job Matching for Trustworthy LLM-Assisted Recruiter Screening: Pairwise Matching, Probability Calibration, and Selective Refusal on Two Public Recruitment Datasets

Binghua Zhou (Computer Science, USC, CA, USA)
Jiaying Jin (Applied Analytics, Columbia University, NY, USA)
David Zhao (Data Science, Columbia University, NY, USA)



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Publish Date
20 Dec 2025

Abstract

Recruiter screening increasingly relies on large language model (LLM)-assisted workflows, but high-stakes applications require reproducible matching, calibrated probabilities, and reliable handling of uncertain cases. This study evaluates a screening framework combining matching, calibration, and selective refusal using two public datasets: resume-job-description-fit for supervised pairwise learning and Resume-Screening-Dataset for benchmarking and external generalization. After deterministic preprocessing, we compared cosine similarity, alignment features, TF-IDF pairwise models, and hybrid models integrating text, alignment, and title information. The strongest probabilistic models were calibrated with Platt scaling and isotonic regression and evaluated under confidence-based refusal. On the resume-job-description-fit test set, the best three-class model achieved a macro-F1 of 0.450. For binary shortlist-versus-reject screening, the title-augmented hybrid model obtained 0.654 balanced accuracy, 0.647 F1, and 0.699 AUROC. Platt calibration improved probability estimates by reducing the Brier score from 0.232 to 0.226 and negative log-likelihood from 0.772 to 0.675. Selective refusal further improved in-domain accuracy, while cross-dataset transfer remained weak (AUROC 0.47–0.51). These results indicate that matching, calibration, and selective refusal enhance trustworthy within-domain screening, although human review remains essential under distribution shift.

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jtie

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Computer Science & IT

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