phill at GE
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- Nov 25, 2005
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Hi,
I have searched for something I can use to solve my problem but its difficult to know what to look for when you can't envisage the solution.
Bearing in mind I did Mathematics at Uni I should be able to solve this but, hey, it was a few years ago!
Problem
I have ~20 ppl to place in different jobs. They each have 3 main choices (upto 5 in total), but I want to place them in one of their top 3 locations. I would also like somehow to weight the preferences, so not only everyone gets a top3 but overall the av.pick is minimised (i.e. overall people get their 1.3rd choice say)
In a more perfect world, I would also like to rank the person, so I have say 10 ppl I definately want to get top 2, whilst still keeping everyone else in top3. In know this sounds (a) complicated and (b) harsh (!!) but it's faster and fairer than a pick & choose methodology.
Hope this makes sense and sorry if it has been covered elsewhere.
Regards,
Phill
I have searched for something I can use to solve my problem but its difficult to know what to look for when you can't envisage the solution.
Bearing in mind I did Mathematics at Uni I should be able to solve this but, hey, it was a few years ago!
Problem
I have ~20 ppl to place in different jobs. They each have 3 main choices (upto 5 in total), but I want to place them in one of their top 3 locations. I would also like somehow to weight the preferences, so not only everyone gets a top3 but overall the av.pick is minimised (i.e. overall people get their 1.3rd choice say)
In a more perfect world, I would also like to rank the person, so I have say 10 ppl I definately want to get top 2, whilst still keeping everyone else in top3. In know this sounds (a) complicated and (b) harsh (!!) but it's faster and fairer than a pick & choose methodology.
Hope this makes sense and sorry if it has been covered elsewhere.
Regards,
Phill