Is it time for a career switch?

Tenure is a critical factor for an individual to consider when making a job transition. For instance, software engineers make a job transition to senior software engineers in a span of 2 years on average, or it takes for approximately 3 years for realtors to switch to brokers. While most existing work on recommender systems focuses on finding what to recommend to a user, this paper places emphasis on when to make appropriate recommendations and its impact on the item selection in the context of a job recommender system. The approach we propose, however, is general and can be applied to any recommendation scenario where the decision-making process is dependent on the tenure (i.e., the time interval) between successive decisions.