Abstract

There are several processes and technological tools used in hiring an employee and managing various skills. Recent advancement in employment technology and job search procedure has mandated a shift in paradigm for skill and competency management. Companies require specific level of competency in various types of skills. The competency level in any skill(s) categories can help employers to choose the right candidate for a vacancy. Several researches have shown that companies often find it difficult to properly verify or validate most applicant submission and hence hire job seekers based on their individual skills which are declared in submitted CVs. More than 75 percent of employers have once hired the wrong person(s) for a position and for every one ‘bad hire’, the companies lost $17,000 on average per year. Some professional career network such as LinkedIn and Jobcase do not auto-verify any skill-set added by a user or skill rating done by individuals. Therefore, there is need to have a closed system that can combact fasle skill decalartions and help the human resource department to identify the most qualified employee .The outcome of this paper called DEW is a web-base career network which proposes as skill market-place where both jobseekers and companies can create profiles while ensuring that skill(s) listed by jobseekers can be rated and published not only users but majorly by registered and verified companies. Professional Career Networks can adopt this strategy towards improving the employment technology for skill-set and competnecy level continuum.

Keywords— Competency, Human Resource Information System, Performance Management System, Skills Verification