4. The method of claim 3 , wherein said method further comprises the steps of: assigning a candidate qualification relevancy index to at least one of said candidate qualifications for said first candidate; determining an overall candidate qualification index for said first candidate based upon said candidate qualification relevancy index; and wherein said step of generating a ranking of said first candidate among a plurality of candidates is based, at least in part, upon the candidate qualification index for said first candidate.
3. The method of claim 2 , wherein said candidate matching algorithm further uses an ontology based classification of said job posting database.