Automated profile standardization and competency profile generation

A computer-implemented method for identifying potential employees for an employer, the method comprising:

• receiving indications of interest in the employer from one or more people;
• creating a community of people that are interested in the employer based on the received indications;
• receiving a request from the employer for candidates for an unfilled position at the employer, the request including job skills associated with the unfilled position;
• identifying standardized profiles for a plurality of people from the community, each standardized profile describing employee skills accumulated by a person associated with the profile during a career of the person, wherein at least one skill described by each of the standardized competency profiles matches a job skill associated with the unfilled position;
• ranking each identified standardized competency profile based at least in part on a length of time in which the at least one skill was performed by the person associated with the identified standardized competency profile and a length of time since the at least one skill was last performed by the person;
• and
• providing a ranked list of the identified standardized competency profiles to the employer based on the ranking.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing executable code for standardizing profile information into a standardized profile, the code when executed performs the steps comprising:

• collecting profile information from one or more sources comprising at least one social networking source;
• identifying, from the collected profile information, one or more attributes of a person describing education obtained by the person, a career history of the person, and location information associated with the person;
• mapping the education obtained by the person to a standardized education level based at least in part on the location information;
• predicting, from the career history of the person, employee skills accumulated by the person during the career history;
• and
• creating the standardized profile based at least in part on the derived job skills and the standardized education level.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing executable code for identifying potential employees for an employer, the code when executed performs the steps comprising:

• receiving indications of interest in the employer from one or more people;
• creating a community of people that are interested in the employer based on the received indications;
• receiving a request from the employer for candidates for an unfilled position at the employer, the request including job skills associated with the unfilled position;
• identifying standardized profiles for a plurality of people from the community, each standardized profile describing employee skills accumulated by a person associated with the profile during a career of the person, wherein at least one skill described by each of the standardized competency profiles matches a job skill associated with the unfilled position;
• ranking each identified standardized competency profile based at least in part on a length of time in which the at least one skill was performed by the person associated with the identified standardized competency profile and a length of time since the at least one skill was last performed by the person;
• and
• providing a ranked list of the identified standardized competency profiles to the employer based on the ranking.

A computer system for standardizing profile information into a standardized profile, the computer system comprising:

• a computer processor;
• and
• a computer-readable storage medium storing executable code, the code when executed by the computer processor performs the steps comprising:
• collecting profile information from one or more sources comprising at least one social networking source;
• identifying, from the collected profile information, one or more attributes of a person describing education obtained by the person, a career history of the person, and location information associated with the person;
• mapping the education obtained by the person to a standardized education level based at least in part on the location information;
• predicting, from the career history of the person, employee skills accumulated by the person during the career history;
• and
• creating the standardized profile based at least in part on the derived job skills and the standardized education level.

A computer system for identifying potential employees for an employer, the computer system comprising:

• a computer processor;
• and
• a computer-readable storage medium storing executable code, the code when executed by the computer processor performs the steps comprising:
• receiving indications of interest in the employer from one or more people;
• creating a community of people that are interested in the employer based on the received indications;
• receiving a request from the employer for candidates for an unfilled position at the employer, the request including job skills associated with the unfilled position;
• identifying standardized profiles for a plurality of people from the community, each standardized profile describing employee skills accumulated by a person associated with the profile during a career of the person, wherein at least one skill described by each of the standardized competency profiles matches a job skill associated with the unfilled position;
• ranking each identified standardized competency profile based at least in part on a length of time in which the at least one skill was performed by the person associated with the identified standardized competency profile and a length of time since the at least one skill was last performed by the person;
• and
• providing a ranked list of the identified standardized competency profiles to the employer based on the ranking.