Value-added assessment of career planning for vocational competence based on deep learning

To address the static limitations of current career assessment methods and the lack of a long-term perspective in planning strategies, this study constructs an intelligent analysis framework named Deep learning-driven Value-added Career Analytics Model (DV-CAM). Integrating Deep Learning (DL) with value-added assessment, the framework aims to realize dynamic and accurate evaluation of individual professional competencies and generate personalized career planning paths that maximize the benefits of long-term development. Specifically, DV-CAM first leverages Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) to extract and dynamically update individual competency profiles from multi-source time-series data. Second, it designs a value-added evaluation index system covering the absolute level of competency, growth slope, growth curvature and stability to quantitatively diagnose development potential. Finally, under the framework of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL), this study takes competency status, value-added potential and job requirements as joint state inputs, and solves for the optimal sequence of career development actions by optimizing long-term cumulative rewards. Experiments based on the public Occupational Information Network (O*NET) dataset show that DV-CAM achieves a mean squared error of 0.0312 and a mean absolute error of 0.1289 for competency assessment on the test set. In planning tasks, its long-term cumulative reward and target job matching degree improvement rate reach 185.3% and 42.7% respectively, both outperforming various benchmark models. The results demonstrate that DV-CAM can diagnose competency status more accurately, and effectively guide individuals to achieve long-term career development goals through its forward-looking planning strategies. By combining the concept of value-added assessment with advanced deep learning technologies, this study provides a data-driven, dynamically perceivable and long-term oriented new paradigm for the fields of career planning and competency assessment.