US 2019/0096016 A1 · CAREER SKILLS VISUALIZATION, TRACKING AND GUIDANCE

Abstract

An online career guidance system generates and displays superimposed polygons to a user for a corresponding career. The first polygon may have three to eight vertices, with each vertex representing a career skill. The distance from a focus to each vertex represents a career skill level predetermined to be needed for that career skill for that career. The second polygon has the same number of vertices as the first polygon that represent the same career skills and shares the same focus. The distance from the focus to each vertex of the second polygon represents a user skill level determined from previous achievements of the user. The distance between a career skill level and a user skill level (preferably both normalized to the same scale) visually represents any career skill deficits (or over qualifications) the user may have for the selected career. The online career guidance system may determine, recommend and register the user into one or more classes, clubs and/or projects that are likely to reduce or eliminate any career skill deficits of the user.

An online career guidance system for providing career guidance to a user, comprising:

a plurality of servers;
a first database;
a second database;
and
a communication network in electronic communication between the plurality of servers and the first database and the second database;
wherein the online career guidance system is configured to:
authenticate and login a user in to a user account;
read from the first database a plurality of user scores, wherein each user score is determined from a different achievement of the user;
convert each user score in the plurality of user scores into one or more user skill levels thereby generating a plurality of user skill levels, wherein each user skill level represents a predicted level of a skill of the user for a particular skill predetermined to be desired in one or more careers;
normalize the plurality of user skill levels to a desired scale to generate a plurality of normalized user skill levels;
read from the second database a plurality of careers and a plurality of career skill levels for each of the plurality of careers, wherein each career skill level for each of the plurality of careers represents a level of a skill predetermined to be desired in the career;
normalize the plurality of career skill levels to generate a plurality of normalized career skill levels;
display the plurality of careers to the user on the client;
receive from the user a selection of a career in the plurality of careers displayed to the user;
display on the client to the user a first polygon having a first plurality of vertices and a first focus, wherein each vertex of the first polygon is spaced a distance from the first focus based on a normalized career skill level in the plurality of normalized career skill levels for the selected career;
display on the client to the user a second polygon, superimposed with the first polygon, having a second plurality of vertices and a second focus, wherein the first polygon and the second polygon have the same number of vertices and the second focus is located at the same position on the client as the first focus, wherein each vertex of the second polygon is spaced a distance from the second focus based on a normalized user skill level in the plurality of normalized user skill levels for the selected career, wherein each vertex of the second polygon is located on a hypothetical line defined by the first focus and a corresponding vertex of the first polygon and wherein each vertex of the first polygon or the second polygon is labeled with a career skill that corresponds with the normalized career skill level and the normalized user skill level for that vertex;
determine a career skill deficit between a normalized career skill level in the plurality of normalized career skill levels for the selected career and a corresponding normalized user career skill level in the plurality of normalized user career skill levels;
select an action that has previously been determined to reduce the career skill deficit;
and
determine and display an action on the client to the user near the first polygon and the second polygon.

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