INTEGRATED SELF-KNOWLEDGE AND CAREER MANAGEMENT PROCESS
First Claim
1. A method for facilitating self-knowledge and career management, the method comprising:
- providing a user interface to a career management software tool including a type and temperament module, a skills and experiences module, and a career interests module, the user interface having a screen flow and including illustrated scenarios as a form of stimuli;
executing one or more of the modules to determine characteristics of a user, the executing comprising receiving information from the user via the user interface and performing user validation of the determined characteristics including altering the screen flow in response to the information;
accessing a job taxonomy database that includes occupational themes and associated occupational characteristics to select a subset of the occupational themes based on the determined characteristics of the user; and
transmitting the subset of the occupational themes to the user via the user interface.
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Abstract
A method for facilitating self-knowledge and career management including providing a user interface to a career management software tool that includes a type and temperament module, a skills and experiences module, and a career interests module. The user interface has a screen flow and includes illustrated scenarios as a form of stimuli. One or more of the modules are executed to determine characteristics of a user. The executing includes receiving information from the user via the user interface and performing user validation of the determined characteristics. The user validation includes altering the screen flow in response to the information received from the user. A job taxonomy database that includes occupational themes and associated occupational characteristics is accessed to select a subset of the occupational themes based on the determined characteristics of the user. The subset of the occupational themes is transmitted to the user via the user interface.
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28 Claims
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1. A method for facilitating self-knowledge and career management, the method comprising:
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providing a user interface to a career management software tool including a type and temperament module, a skills and experiences module, and a career interests module, the user interface having a screen flow and including illustrated scenarios as a form of stimuli; executing one or more of the modules to determine characteristics of a user, the executing comprising receiving information from the user via the user interface and performing user validation of the determined characteristics including altering the screen flow in response to the information; accessing a job taxonomy database that includes occupational themes and associated occupational characteristics to select a subset of the occupational themes based on the determined characteristics of the user; and transmitting the subset of the occupational themes to the user via the user interface. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for facilitating self-knowledge and career management, the method comprising:
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providing a user interface to a career management software tool including a type and temperament module, a skills and experiences module, and a career interests module, the user interface having a screen flow and the modules including illustrated scenarios as a form of stimuli and the modules when executing receive information from the user via the user interface and perform user validation including altering the screen flow in response to the information; executing the type and temperament module to determine type and temperament characteristics of the user; selecting a first set of records from a job taxonomy database that includes occupational themes and associated occupational characteristics and job titles, the selecting based on the type and temperament characteristics of the user; executing the skills and experiences module to determine skill characteristics of the user; selecting a second set of records from the first set of records based on the skill characteristics of the user; executing the career interests module to determine career interests characteristics of the user; selecting a third set of records from the second set of records based on the career interest characteristics of the user; and transmitting the occupational themes and the associated job titles in the third set of records to the user via the user interface.
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13. A method for facilitating self-knowledge and career self-development, the method comprising:
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executing a type and temperament module that utilizes a screen flow and illustrated scenarios to determine type and temperament characteristics of a user, the executing including communicating the determined characteristics to the user and user validation of the determined characteristics including altering the screen flow in response to the information; executing a skills and experiences module to determine current skills of the user, the skills including one or more of physical skills, social skills, information skills, and ideas skills; accessing a list of critical skills required for a job position; comparing the current skills of the user to the critical skills; and creating a development plan for the user in response to the comparing. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A computer program product for facilitating self-knowledge and career management, the computer program product comprising:
a storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising; providing a user interface to a career management software tool including a type and temperament module, a skills and experiences module, and a career interests module, the user interface having a screen flow and including illustrated scenarios as a form of stimuli; executing one or more of the modules to determine characteristics of a user, the executing comprising receiving information from the user via the user interface and performing user validation of the determined characteristics including altering the screen flow in response to the information; accessing a job taxonomy database that includes occupational themes and associated occupational characteristics to select a subset of the occupational themes based on the determined characteristics of the user; and transmitting the subset of the occupational themes to the user via the user interface.
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19. A system for facilitating self-knowledge and career management, the system comprising:
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a job taxonomy database including occupational themes and associated occupational characteristics; a processor in communication with the job taxonomy database and with a user system, the processor including instructions to facilitate a method comprising; providing a user interface to a career management software tool to a user via the user system, the tool including a type and temperament module, a skills and experiences module, and a career interests module, the user interface having a screen flow and including illustrated scenarios as a form of stimuli; executing one or more of the modules to determine characteristics of the user, the executing comprising receiving information from the user via the user interface and performing user validation of the determined characteristics including altering the screen flow in response to the information; accessing the job taxonomy database to select a subset of the job titles based on the determined characteristics of the user; and transmitting the subset of the occupational themes to the user via the user interface.
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20. A method for determining critical skills for a job position, the method comprising:
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for one or more users having a selected job position; executing a skills and experiences module to determine current skills of the user, each current skill categorized as one or more of a physical skill, a social skill, an information skill, and an ideas skill and the executing including facilitating an evaluation by the user of the importance of each of the current skills to the job position; and creating a list of critical skills for the selected job position based on the current skills and the evaluations of the users. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28)
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27. A method for determining critical skills for a team, the method comprising:
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for one or more users associated with a team; executing a type and temperament module that utilizes illustrated scenarios to determine type and temperament characteristics of the user, the executing including communicating the determined characteristics to the user and user validation of the determined characteristics including altering the screen flow in response to information received from the user; and executing a skills and experiences module to determine current skills of the user, each current skill categorized as one or more of a physical skill, a social skill, an information skill, and an ideas skill; and accessing a list of critical skills required for the team; comparing the current skills of the users to the critical skills required for the team to identify gaps between the current skills of the user and the critical skills required for the team.
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