Abstract
The prime objective of the Career Plan Tracker is to build a career plan that recommends career tasks given in the career-counseling framework called "The Serious Job Seeker". A unique career plan is generated for each individual user based on the individual user's skill set, personality type and background. A prominent part of the career plan includes recommendations of career task times for each recommended career task. Moreover, the Career Plan Tracker takes into account the various time restrictions the user may have in his life and generates a career plan for a schedule that is shorter than the recommended ideal schedule. For instance, the ideal schedule to complete the career acquisition process may require three to six months. Nevertheless, if a user has only two months, the user can still have a career plan built for just two months without losing much of the user’s chances in succeeding through the career acquisition process. The Career Plan Tracker categorizes this problem as a multi-objective optimization problem and uses a meta-heuristic algorithm called Simulated Annealing to solve it. The Career Plan Tracker is an android application developed for android devices. The backend of the application is hosted on a cloud service called Parse. With the permission of the instructors, this application is developed with the intent of publishing it in the Google play store.