| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 705328000 | Career enhancement or continuing education service | 17 |
| 20110055101 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AN INTERACTIVE CAREER MANAGEMENT TOOL - A system is described for providing an interactive career management tool. The system may include a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory may store job levels and career option descriptions associated with business function and job identifiers. Each job level may be associated with experience and expectation descriptions. The processor may receive a business function and job identifier and may retrieve the associated career option descriptions and job levels along with the experience and expectation descriptions associated with each job level. The processor may transform the job levels, experience descriptions, and expectation descriptions into a table. The processor may transform the career option descriptions into an interactive display which includes several shapes. Each career option may be displayed when the user selects a shape associated with the career option description. The processor may provide the table and the interactive display to a device of the user. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110208666 | BUSINESS DRIVEN TRAINING AND QUALIFICATIONS SYSTEM - A method for business driven training includes obtaining a vocational profile for a user, where the vocational profile includes a vocational type for the user; obtaining training information for the user using the vocational type, where the training information includes assessments and completed training of the user; and determining a training program for the user based on the training information, where the training program specifies required training courses to obtain a promotion certification for the user. The method further includes generating a qualifications profile based on the training information, where the qualification profile specifies services that the user is capable of providing, and displaying the qualifications profile and a progress of the user in the training program, where the qualification profile includes a proficiency for each of the services that the user is capable of providing. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20130151431 | Management of Professional Development Plans and User Portfolios - An example system for managing professional development plans may include a plan management module for receiving data representing a development plan for one or more users and an achievement module. The achievement module may determine one or more achievements associated with the development plan and may provide the one or more achievements to a user device of a first user. The achievement module may receive an association of an achievement selected from the one or more achievements with the goal-related aspect of the development plan and associate the achievement with the goal-related aspect of the development plan. The system may further include a reporting module for generating, based on associating the achievement with the goal-related aspect, a report describing the progress of the first user on the development plan. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130226821 | METHOD & APPARTUS FOR IMPROVING THE SKILLSET OF A SALES CANDIDATE BY USING SALES COACHING APPLICATIONS COUPLED TO E-LEARNING TOOLS - A method and apparatus is disclosed to improve a set of tasks performed by a salesperson. In some embodiments, a method comprises of receiving information about competencies being performed by a salesperson in order to complete a sales transaction, wherein each of the competencies associated with a salesperson is given a quantitative value. In some embodiments, the method comprises of identifying tasks being performed by the salesperson to support said competencies and assigning an individual value to said tasks in a manner to affect the quantitative value of the competencies. In some embodiments, a method for generating revenue by hyperlinking the tasks performed by a salesperson to e-learning courses is disclosed. In some embodiments, a method comprising of determining and assigning an e-learning course for a salesperson, and negotiating billing and revenue sharing plans is disclosed. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20140074740 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING CAREER ADVICE TO COLLEGE STUDENTS - Methods and systems for providing career advice to a college student are disclosed. In some embodiments, the method may include receiving one or more user vocational interests of the college student and generating a user interest vector based on the one or more user vocational interests. The method may include receiving vocational interests of college affiliates, data regarding events, or data regarding job opportunities. The method may include assigning resource vocational interests to college affiliates, events, or job opportunities. The method may generate resource interest vectors associated with college affiliates, events, or job opportunities wherein each resource interest vector is based on the respective resource vocational interests. The method may compute one or more distances between the user interest vector and one or more resource interest vectors. The method may generate one or more recommendations of advice connections, events, or job opportunities based on the computed distances. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140236855 | Management of Professional Development Plans and User Portfolios - An example system for managing professional development plans may include a plan management module for receiving data representing a development plan for one or more users and an achievement module. The achievement module may determine one or more achievements associated with the development plan and may provide the one or more achievements to a user device of a first user. The achievement module may receive an association of an achievement selected from the one or more achievements with the goal-related aspect of the development plan and associate the achievement with the goal-related aspect of the development plan. The system may further include a reporting module for generating, based on associating the achievement with the goal-related aspect, a report describing the progress of the first user on the development plan. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140244534 | CAREER DEVELOPMENT WORKFLOW - Career development processes face three major challenges (1) simplifying steps that require input from multiple users, (2) promoting follow-through with career development plans, and (3) adapting to individual corporate business processes. These issues can be addressed by disabling access to a step if required previous steps have not yet been completed. Additionally, the user can receive a notification over a network when the required previous steps have been completed by a remote user. Follow-through with a career development plan can be promoted by dynamically altering a career development workflow to incorporate the steps of the development plan as they are created. That is, the development plan drives the definition of the career development workflow in which the user is already engaged, helping to monitor and enforce milestones of the development plan. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20150058243 | Compliance Gap Assessment and Improvement Tool - A method of assisting a person, entity, or user in achieving a target, which includes a new position, status, certification, or identifiable goal. The method includes three independent functions, wherein an initial common operations, attribute and training presentation function, and alternative target presentation function are performed. The invention includes processes that generate a single value assessment score of a user, inform the user of attributes associated with the target, provide training programs related to important attributes of the target, and provide the user with suggestions of similar targets based on the attributes and response levels of the user. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150142687 | STUDENT ACCOUNT DATA SYSTEM - A student account data system is provided. The system includes one or more processors and a machine-readable mediums storing a set of instructions that, when executed by the processor cause it to execute operations including gathering student data from at least a first program, create a student profile from the student data, and award at least one achievement based on the student data. Other operations may include providing a social media platform, gathering and displaying employment data, building a resume, providing a payment gateway, providing financial analysis, providing a communication gateway, and providing alerts when students reach specified criteria. The operations may be carried out via an application programming interface. Student data may include name, demographic information, achievements, benchmarks, financial information, curriculum, events, examples of student work, employment information, contacts, messages, social media, services performed, retail sales, grade information, client information, resume, continuing education information, attendance information, and/or class rank. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150317759 | Presenting Career Paths Based On Observed Employment Information - In some implementations, a computer-implemented method is provided that includes accessing a database of career path data structures, each career path data structure including an initial node that represents an initial career position, a subsequent node that represents a subsequent career position, and a path element that represents a career transition between the initial career position and the subsequent career position and is associated with data regarding people that have made the career transition between the initial career position and the subsequent career position. The method includes receiving a career path query. The method includes identifying a set of the career path data structures based on the career path query. The method includes generating a set of career paths from the career path data structures, each career path including a directed graph that includes two or more nodes. The method includes providing a representation of the set of career paths. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150317760 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR IDENTIFYING A CAREER PATH - An apparatus, computer-readable medium, and computer-implemented method for identifying a career path includes receiving, career-related information from a user, the career-related information including at least one of a career start point, a career end point, a career start location, and a career end location, selecting a plurality of career path records from a data store based at least in part on the career-related information received from the user, each of the plurality of career path records including a plurality of career points comprising a career path, grouping the plurality of career path records into career path clusters, each career path cluster corresponding to a unique career path, identifying a career path cluster in the career path clusters which contains the greatest number of career path records, the identified career path cluster having a corresponding career path, and transmitting information regarding the corresponding career path. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150356700 | EDUCATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING CREDITS TO BE ADMITTED BASED ON TALENTS AND CAREERS - Provided are an education management system and an education management method which enable talents and careers to be admitted as credits, the education management system connected to a user terminal and an authentication server through a network, including: a receiving unit configured to receive career data from the user terminal; a career assessment unit configured to assess career matters included in the career data on the basis of predetermined standards; and a credit-awarding unit configured to give credits corresponding to grades resulting from career assessment for a student's major to the career matters. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20160012559 | CAREER RECOGNITION AND DEVELOPMENT | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160078577 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATING THE ACCOUNTABILITY OF SERVICE PROFESSIONALS VIA CONSUMER EDUCATION AND RATING | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160104259 | PRACTITIONER CAREER MANAGEMENT METHOD AND TOOL - The practitioner career assessment is a method and device for providing career development and advancement management within hiring organizations. The method includes the steps of consolidating all of a user's career experiences, knowledge, skills and abilities, and automating career guidance and a career pathway roadmap of the user's career development and advancement. As a result, the assessment is operated by a hiring organization, under the complete control of the user, and conducted in a confidential manner, free of any judgment prejudice, and devoid of known and unknown biases associated with human factor or supervisory factors to provide guidance and create a career pathway roadmap to goals and advancement. The device includes a number of modules including a system access, user homepage, user profile or census, core and optional goal assessments, assessment generation, guidance, outreach, reporting, and requirements traceability matrix (RTM) modules. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160104260 | Practitioner Career Management Assessment Interviewer Method and Tool - The practitioner career assessment is a method and device for providing career development and advancement management within hiring organizations. The method includes the steps of consolidating all of a user's career experiences, knowledge, skills and abilities, and automating career guidance and a career pathway roadmap of the user's career development and advancement. As a result, the assessment is operated by a hiring organization, under the complete control of the user, and conducted in a confidential manner, free of any judgment prejudice, and devoid of known and unknown biases associated with human factor or supervisory factors to provide guidance and create a career pathway roadmap to goals and advancement. The device includes a number of modules including a system access, user homepage, user profile or census, core and optional goal assessments, assessment generation, guidance, outreach, reporting, and requirements traceability matrix (RTM) modules. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160132980 | Techniques for Managing External Learning Content - A framework for facilitating the management of, and access to, external learning content within an organization is provided. In various embodiments, a computer system (or group of computer systems) implementing the framework can, e.g.: (1) import, into the organization's learning management system (LMS), metadata for external learning content items provided by an external content provider; (2) enable an organization administrator to assign each of the external learning content items to one or more users or programs/catalogs/curricula in the organization; (3) enable organization users to search for and launch their assigned external learning content items directly from the LMS; (4) automatically log the organization users into the external content provider systems as part of the item launch process; and (5) automatically track completion of the external learning content items. | 05-12-2016 |
