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The Skills Mapping Tool in depth. May 23rd, 2006. What is it?.
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The Skills Mapping Tool in depth May 23rd, 2006
What is it? • It is a tool designed to cross-interact people, their skills and their knowlegde level on that given skill; it is a searching and grouping tool which finds the professional that you want, with the skills that you need and assemble your own virtual teams. • John Smith, Team Lead: • Looking for skilled web developers for the new incoming brand website project • Sarah Johnson, web developer: • Average xHTML knowledge; • High-level Javascript programmer; • Has teaching skills in PHP; • Wide researches about 3D modeling.
Features highlights • Allows you to find the right professional for the right project by several different ways: searching by the name, by the desired skills, or viewing a whole manager’s team. • The tool also organizes your search results, so you can better know your staff and the professionals you’ve just searched for. • The search by skill gives you a tree-based list, allowing you search by a lot of criteria at the same time: moreprecision; • A star-based ranking allows you to quickly view the knowledge levels; • A dynamic help window guides you to better understand what each skill means; • Its interface is at same time fast, easy and powerful, using cutting-edge web technologies.
Search • There are three ways to perform your search: • by the employee name; • by skill and level; • A popup with a tree of skills will be opened. You can even select more than one skill. • by employee manager. • choose one of the above methods, and simply press
Results • A list of all skills for this employee. • A star ranking gives you an easy preview of each knowledge level • Person’s BlueCard allows you to see detailed information retrieved from BluePages records. • A list of all employees with the desired skill levels. • On mouse over: skill’s brief definition.
Virtual Teams • With Virtual Teams you’ll be able to create a team for a project or a study group. Perhaps a common-skilled group which can solve problems. Or arrange a training session for developers in your team with low levels in a given technology. Possibilities are endless. • For the Global Staffing initiative, the Virtual Teams feature will allow you to group skilled professionals from different geographies
Technologies • PHP 5 outputting XML and xHTML; • mySQL Server or any SQL-based database; • BluePages LDAP; • Javascript using AJAX techniques. • This application is Web 2.0
Contact information If you need further information about the Skills Mapping Tool, please do not hesitate contacting any of the following people: • Alexander Blagus/Brazil/Contr/IBM • Walter Gongora Junior/Brazil/Contr/IBM The beta version is up and running at: • http://skillsmapping.bluehost.ibm.com/