Project Management tool
First Claim
1. A process for managing temporary personnel requirements, comprising the steps of:
- (a) listing a set of attributes for a plurality of tasks performed in a predetermined field of endeavor;
(b) acquiring a personnel data base of personnel skills/competences for a plurality of individuals, said personnel data base comprising a plurality of individual records, each of said records having self-evaluations of a plurality of said attributes and factual information;
(c) using at least said factual information and picking individuals in said personnel data base for inclusion into a pool of individuals who are pre-qualified to perform at least some of said tasks;
(d) selecting at least one task and a plurality of attributes to perform said one task;
(e) weighing said self-evaluated attributes of each of said individual records of personnel in said pool; and
(f) using at least said weighted self-evaluated attributes to match said plurality of one task attributes and identifying a person for hire in said pool of individuals.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus is disclosed for managing temporary personnel requirements. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of: listing a set of attributes for a plurality of tasks; acquiring a personnel data base of personnel skills/competences, wherein the personnel data base includes self-evaluations and factual information; using the factual information and the self-evaluations and picking individuals in the data base for inclusion into a pool of persons who are pre-qualified to perform at least some of the tasks; selecting a specific task and the attributes to perform the task; weighing the self-evaluated attributes of each of the individuals in the pool; and using at least the weighted self-evaluated attributes to match specific task attributes and identifying persons in the pool for hire.
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1. A process for managing temporary personnel requirements, comprising the steps of:
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(a) listing a set of attributes for a plurality of tasks performed in a predetermined field of endeavor;
(b) acquiring a personnel data base of personnel skills/competences for a plurality of individuals, said personnel data base comprising a plurality of individual records, each of said records having self-evaluations of a plurality of said attributes and factual information;
(c) using at least said factual information and picking individuals in said personnel data base for inclusion into a pool of individuals who are pre-qualified to perform at least some of said tasks;
(d) selecting at least one task and a plurality of attributes to perform said one task;
(e) weighing said self-evaluated attributes of each of said individual records of personnel in said pool; and
(f) using at least said weighted self-evaluated attributes to match said plurality of one task attributes and identifying a person for hire in said pool of individuals. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A temporary employment process for a business engaged in a plurality of employment disciplines and having full-time employees and managers, comprising the steps of:
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(a) acquiring a data base of personnel attributes/competences by using a plurality of geographically separated input/output terminals that share a common communications network and that are accessible by individuals who have an interest in performing work tasks in an employment discipline of said business, said personnel data base comprising a plurality of personnel records that are stored in a computer memory in communication with said network and that information provided by using said terminals, each of said personnel records including a plurality of self-evaluated attributes/competences for at least one discipline;
(b) using a manager, who has predetermined knowledge of said tasks of step (a) and predetermined knowledge of attributes/competences for performing said work tasks and who uses an input/output terminal to access said records in said memory, and entering a vote into said data base as to the suitability of at least one person in said personnel data base for performing work tasks in said employment discipline;
(c) repeating step (b) at least one more time by using another manager to enter another vote with respect to said at least one person;
(d) counting the votes of said managers to select said at least one person from said personnel data base on the condition that said one person has received a majority of the votes of said managers of steps (b) and (c) and thereby defining pool of persons who are identified in said memory and who are pre-qualified to perform said work tasks in said employment discipline;
(e) identifying at least one temporary work task that is in said employment discipline and that requires a plurality of attributes/competences;
(f) weighing said attributes/competences of said persons in said pool by using a data processor that has been programmed to access said memory and to assign a score to each personnel record as a function of the attributes/competences identified in step (e);
(g) using said score to match said at least one temporary work task to said persons in said pool;
(h) using the information in said personnel data base for the persons of step (g) and indentifing a person for hire; and
(i) communicating an offer to hire to said identified person of step (h). - View Dependent Claims (16, 17)
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18. A tool for managing projects of a relatively short term duration for a long term business enterprise, each project comprising jobs performed by skilled individuals who are identified with at least one employment discipline, comprising:
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(a) a computer memory, and a plurality of terminals that are located remotely from said memory and linked to said memory by using the Internet;
(b) a plurality of electronic personnel records having a set of predetermined data fields and stored in said memory, wherein at least one subset of said terminals is used by individuals to insert job skills and competences into predetermined data fields, and wherein another subset of said terminals is used by a predetermined number of managers of said enterprise who evaluate said skills and competences in said data fields and who individually insert at least one of a negative subjective evaluation and an affirmative subjective evaluation to at least one other predetermined data field of selected personnel records;
(c) a computer that is linked to said memory and that is programmed to read and display a plurality of said data fields; and
(d) an output data base obtained by using said computer and from at least some of said selected personnel records as a function of a predetermined number of positive subjective evaluations and negative subjective evaluations inserted into said selected personnel records, wherein said computer is programmed to prevent information from any record having a predetermined number of negative subjective evaluations inserted therein from entering said output data base, and wherein records having positive subjective evaluations exceeding said predetermined number define a pre-qualified pool of individuals eligible for hiring on short notice when a project job opening is created and without prolonged re-evaluation of all individual job skills and competences. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A process for employers to hire employees, comprising the steps of:
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(a) using the Internet and soliciting persons to input personal skills/competences into a computer memory and seek employment;
(b) using the Internet and having at least some of the persons of step (a) to record personal information into said memory, said information including factual skills/competences and self-graded skills/competences, said memory comprising a plurality of data fields that digitally represent said skills/competences;
(c) using the Internet and having a plurality of current employees access said data fields of step (b) and evaluate said records and insert a vote into a data field of said personal records, said vote comprising one of an “
accept” and
a “
reject”
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(d) using a computer to read said voted records of step (c) and flag those personnel records receiving at least three “
accept”
votes and no more than one “
reject”
vote to form a data base of persons screened for employment;
(e) entering into said memory a list of needed employee skills/competences;
(f) matching said needed skills/competences with said skills/competences in said data base of step (d) to produce a list of persons who are seeking employment and who have been evaluated as qualified for employment; and
(g) using the Internet and a supervisor skill set to screen said list of qualified persons in step (f) and to initiate a job offer to at least one of said persons by means of e-mail. - View Dependent Claims (27)
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28. A tool for managing personnel for a project, comprising:
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(a) a demand data base containing a plurality of tasks requiring a plurality of predetermined skills;
(b) a supply data base containing a plurality of personnel records of persons not employed by the project, each record having factual information and having self-evaluations of a plurality of the skills to perform at least one of the tasks of said demand data base, and having individual evaluations of said information and said self-evaluated skills and wherein said individual evaluations are inserted by a plurality of current employees of the project;
(c) a processor that has been programmed to read and sort said individual evaluations in accordance with a pre-determined criteria;
(d) a pre-qualified data base formed by said processor from said supply data base and comprising those personnel records having at least a predetermined number of individual evaluations exceeding a pre-determined criteria and with regard to said skill levels inserted by the individuals; and
(e) a post-qualified data base formed by said processor from said pre-qualified data base and comprising those personnel records having self-evaluated skills matching the predetermined skills of selected tasks of step (a). - View Dependent Claims (29, 30)
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Specification