Essential Features in an eLearning Software

eLearning softwares and deciding its features is one of my most favourite areas to speak, read and write upon. In a sense, I eat, drink and sleep them... well, most of the time.

I want to write on this immediately, after speaking, reading and thinking a lot on it. But it's a little late in the night, I am more tired and have to leave for my company HQ tomorrow.

Wish me a Happy Journey! Catch up with you all a week later. I would be very busy this week. A lot of learning and eLearning stuff coming up...

Resume Unification

Continuing from my previous write-up, I would explain by what I mean by "Resume Unification"^©.

If you are into recruitment, you would, for sure, know about the pains in filtering the resume for any opening. Wouldn't it be just great if this job is already done for you so that you shortlist from amongst the shortlisted ones?

What we are trying to do is formalize a standard format so that there do not float around different styles of resumes in n-different formats, like MS Word doc, Adobe PDF, pure HTML, RTF etc.

I Googled for resume sample and got more than 700k results! It is good that you can get lot of help to write your resume. The pain is all to the recruiter, who has to understand all those different formats, prioritize based upon the content in different styles and finally shortlist from them.

This is exactly the problem that I wish to address. Putting up resume in a standard format so that it can not only be easily looked up by human beings but also filtered by automation - unifying the n-different styles of resume or n-types of file formats is what I call Resume Unification.

Starting with Resume Unification, I want to go to something very portable - that can fit in a floppy. Ok... may not be in a floppy, but not more than a couple of MBs.

This small file contains all details of your skillset, education, work experience, achievements etc - all signed / authorized by one or more rating agencies (something like you have Crisil ratings on any Mutual Funds stability) and encrypted so that not even the owner of the resume cannot tamper with it.

This resume is ready to participate in automation of selection procedure.

What I have been thinking of is nothing new and I am not a master-mind to be the only one to think in this direction. Ask Google and it will give you more than 25k search results for ePortfolio. What more - ePortfolio initiatives yields more than 1000 results. Quite a healthy result.

I stop here... sometime later, I would blog on ePortfolio.

Some links that may be useful for you:

• Chalk & Wire Professional Development Inc.
• The Open Source Portfolio Initiative
• The e-Portfolio Consortium
• A proposal to Andrew W. Mellon Foundation by Indiana University.
• ePortfolio at IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc.

Competency Management System

Organizations competing in today's marketplace need to maintain a competitive edge if they want distinguish themselves from their competitors.

Employees must have the ability to quickly learn new skills, acquire new product information and adapt to changing business environments.

Competency Management is an integrated part of TeN™ iLMS. It provides the structure for developing employee and organizational developmental plans and the deployment of competency models and competency-gap analysis.

Competency Management System is useful not only to employers but also to recruitment companies. How?

Using CMS, the recruitment companies can build an individual's profile. This profile can then be used to filter the jobs openings. Another advantage of this e-profile or e-portfolio, or whatever you like to call, is that the employers can quote a minimum competency required while posting any opening and the system can, then, automatically filter the job-seekers.

What does it translate into? HR / Recruitment department of the company can sit at ease and do away with major task of filtering the resume. Resumes are in various kinds of format and style, making it very difficult for the HR person to filter them for an opening.

The recruiter can also see graphical mapping of the competencies required and available for the resumes.

In the next article we shall discuss about how this CMS can bring about what I call Resume-Unification.