Creating job makers, not job seekers

SKILLx Share

Job making, not seeking

• The key to SKILLxShare is that it is based on sharing skills and interest locally to build relationships and partnerships that can make new jobs for people themselves.

• It is for pre-entrepreneurs: people who do not yet have the confidence, cash or range of skills to start a business alone but can by sharing and working with others.

Finding your skills• The key interest is finding out what

a user thinks of as their key skills and interests.

• This is not a CV but a way of actually communicating what motivates a person and what they want to do.

• The survey covers both their skills (graphic, web, sales, accountancy) and their interests (making stuff to sell locally, working together to win council contracts, helping older people).

Skill & Interest Pie• The Skill and Interests survey

is reformatted into a Pie Chart.

• This allows a colour coded rather than text based identification of personal qualities.

• The Pie is the base level of public information a user provides without authorising release of more personal data.

Swirl badge• The user "swirls' their SKILLxShare

pie to create a personalised Swirl.

• The Swirl is the general icon for app and web use and other users can drill down through the Swirl to the Pie.

• This can be used as an icon for app/online ID as well as printed as a badge.

• The Swirl can be used with both 2D and Augmented Reality systems to link to more user detail.

Finding people• Projected onto local map data,

everyone can see each other.

• The Swirl is the basic icon.

• A user can highlight another person and select their icon

• The Swirl transforms to Pie and allows a greater amount of detail on skills and interests

• A user can then Tweet or FaceBook the other person to start a conversation.

Making jobs • Having found a possible partner

with skills needed or similar interest, the user can use Twitter or Facebook to start a conversation and find out more.

• Users can share more detail from their Pie of specific skills.

• People can use the geo-location to meet up and talk face to face about what they can do together to make jobs for themselves.

ContactAlastair Somerville

+44 (0)7808 480749 @SKILLxShare