Predicting job-hopping motive of candidates using answers to open-ended interview questions

A significant proportion of voluntary employee turnover includes people who frequently move from job to job, known as job-hopping. Our work shows that language used in responding interview questions on past behaviour and situational judgement is predictive job-hopping motive measured by the Job-Hopping Motives (JHM) Scale. The study based responses over 45,000 applicants completed an online chat self-rated themselves JHM Five different methods text representation were evaluated, namely four open-vocabulary approaches (TF-IDF, LDA, Glove word embeddings Doc2Vec document embeddings) one closed-vocabulary approach (LIWC). provided best results with a correlation r = 0.35 between sequences words Further analysis also showed 0.25 language-based personality trait Openness experience -0.09 Agreeableness.