A Cloud-based Educational and Career Guidance Model using Fuzzy Logic Concepts

Choosing a career is an important objective for students and graduates, since the choice is done at a relatively early age, and based on several criteria. The right decision for choosing a career will affects positively on the academic level of students and professional life of the graduates, and vice versa. As a result the importance of career guidance increases. Career guidance services include three main components: career information, career counseling and career education. The main services models for cloud computing includes: software, platform and infrastructure (as a service), to satisfy the needs of different kinds of organizations. By using cloud computing concepts, we will open some important area that is likely to have positive implications for career guidance. From cloud computing point of view, we introduce the proposed application as Career-as-a-Service (CAAS) model. The identification of system inputs, outputs, and rules are controlled by fuzzy logic operations. The main objectives of the proposed system model includes: (1) help students to choose appropriate colleges that suitable to their academic ability; (2) help and support graduates to choose the appropriate job (or career) to their ability, scientific skills, and practical experiences; (3) provide graduates with the required training courses to accept them in a specific career; (4) to contribute for implementing an applied software product that can be used in relevant organization and companies in KSA and Egypt. This research study presents a prototype development of a career guidance system that provides a career guidance services to students and graduates automatically using fuzzy logic and cloud computing concepts.