Skills tracking solutions?

June 1, 2009 10:34 AM

I'm trying to come up with a way to track the skills of about 100 - 200 employees and job applicants. The purpose is so that I can easily find people with skills x, y and z. I'm not an HR person. Help!

Please tell me what you use / what your company uses to maintain a Skills Matrix? Excel? Something else? Is there any web-based software out there that can track and search employee/applicant skills?

I've looked at Hiredesk, CATS and TrackStar Skills Tracking Software. They all have their pros and cons and none of them fit the bill entirely.

I'm open to all kinds of solutions, but ideally, it would be a web-based service that allows for:

- boolean searching (in records or resumes)
- report generation
- automated importing of resume data into predefined fields
- low administrative overhead

I do realize that this is quite the wish list, but can anyone offer some suggestions? How would you solve this problem?

posted by kitcat to Work & Money (4 answers total)

Response by poster: Note to self: never again waste another question on work-related stuff.


PS. Could someone at least try to point out to me why no one is answering?
posted by kitcat at 1:55 PM on June 1, 2009

I'm doing this on a much, much smaller scale (around 20 employees) so I'd be interested in answers that anyone can provide.

I'm currently using Excel, but I'm considering teaching myself Access at some point to make things easier to find and aggregate.

Good luck!
posted by nayrb5 at 3:23 PM on June 1, 2009

Response by poster: Access is one of the solutions I'm considering. It's just that it would be a lot of work. And I'd have to learn it, too.

Can anyone help us?
posted by kitcat at 6:28 PM on June 1, 2009

Best answer: sorry you're not getting more answers. I'm not HR either, so I can't speak to task-specific software, but having taught myself Access, I think it's more trouble than it's worth for this job. Probably easier to use excel with autofilter to sort through and isolate applicants. With some intelligent matrix design up front, it should be functional and flexible enough for your needs. Only other thing you might look at is zoho people.
posted by Chris4d at 3:10 PM on June 2, 2009