Systems and Methods for Managing Career Development Experiences Within a Company

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016005000-A1
Application number	US-201414322865-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 2, 2014
Priority date	Jul 2, 2014
Publication date	Jan 7, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for managing career development experiences within a company. One exemplary system includes a memory configured to store, in an offer database, development experience information for multiple career development experiences, and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to generate a development experience, in response to an experience creation request from a first employee of the company directed to a second employee of the company. The development experience includes at least one task outside a plurality of job duties of the second employee. The processor is also configured to post the development experience to the offer database, and notify the first employee of an experience acceptance reply from the second employee when the second employee indicates interest in participating in the posted development experience.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A system for managing career development experiences within a company, the system comprising:
a memory configured to store, in an offer database, development experience information for multiple career development experiences; and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to:
generate a development experience, in response to an experience creation request from a first employee of the company directed to a second employee of the company, the development experience including at least one task outside a plurality of job duties of the second employee;
post the development experience to the offer database; and
notify the first employee of an experience acceptance reply from the second employee, when the second employee indicates interest in participating in the development experience.

2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
generate a reply selection, in response to the second employee being chosen by the first employee to participate in the development experience; and notify the second employee of the selection by the first employee.

3 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to cause the development experience, posted to the offer database, to be displayed at a display device.

4 . The system of claim 3 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
search for particular development experiences in the offer database, in response to a search inquiry from the second employee; and cause the particular development experiences to be displayed at the display device.

5 . The system of claim 1 , wherein each of the development experiences in the offer database has a total time period of less than or equal to about one day.

6 . The system of claim 1 , wherein each of the development experiences in the offer database has a total time period of less than or equal to about ten hours.

7 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the offer database is accessible to employees of the company through an internal network of the company.

8 . The system of claim 1 , wherein each of the development experiences in the offer database does not include a new job posting or new assignment posting.

9 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to generate an experience wanted posting, indicative of a request from the second employee for a specific type of development experience.

10 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the experience acceptance reply includes a message from the second employee, the message including credentials and/or motivation information related to potential participation of the second employee in the development experience.

11 . The system of claim 1 , wherein each of the development experiences in the offer database includes one or more of a subject, a location, a time commitment, a length of the development experience, a skill to be developed, a description of the development experience, a number of employees needed to fill the development experience, a date of availability, and a date of expiration.

12 . A computer implemented method of managing career development within a company having multiple employees, the method comprising:
receiving, at a computing device, multiple experience creation requests from multiple creators employed with the company, each experience creation request relating to an offer of a development experience to at least one other employee of the company, the development experience including at least one task outside a plurality of job duties of the at least one other employee; compiling a database of the multiple development experiences, using the computing device, based on the multiple experience creation requests, the database accessible to multiple seekers employed with the company; receiving, at the computing device, experience acceptance replies from the seekers for the development experiences in the database; and notifying the creators of the development experiences of the experience acceptance replies from the seekers for said development experiences.

13 . The method of claim 12 , further comprising receiving, at the computing device, a reply selection from at least one of the creators indicating one or more seekers to participate in the development experience associated with the at least one of the creators.

14 . The method of claim 12 , further comprising receiving, at the computing device, search inquiries from the seekers relating to the development experiences in the database.

15 . The method of claim 12 , further comprising:
receiving, at the computing device, multiple development experience wanted requests from the seekers; and compiling, at the computing device, a database of the development experience wanted requests.

16 . A non-transitory computer readable media comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:
generate development experiences, based on requests from creators employed with a company, relating to offers of career development directed to at least one other employee of the company, wherein the development experiences do not include new jobs or new assignment postings; post the development experiences to an offering list accessible to seekers employed with the company; cause an interface to display and, via the interface, receive input from the seekers relating to experience acceptance replies for the development experiences on the offering list; and for each development experience on the offering list, maintain a reply list of seekers, based on the received experience acceptance replies for said development experience.

17 . The non-transitory computer readable media of claim 16 , wherein the computer-executable instructions further cause the at least one processor to cause an interface to display and, via the interface, receive input from the creators, for each of the development experiences, relating to one or more reply selections of said development experience, the one or more reply selections indicating one or more seekers on the reply list to participate in the development experience.

18 . The non-transitory computer readable media of claim 16 , wherein the computer-executable instructions further cause the at least one processor to cause an interface to display and, via the interface, receive input from the seekers relating to search inquiries of the development experiences on the offering list, to which the seekers may reply for potential participation.

19 . The non-transitory computer readable media of claim 16 , wherein the computer-executable instructions further cause the at least one processor to:
generate development experience wanted postings, based on requests from the seekers; and maintain a list of the development experience wanted postings.

20 . The non-transitory computer readable media of claim 16 , wherein each of the development experiences includes at least two of a subject, a location, a time commitment, a length of the development experience, a skill to be developed, a description of the development experience, a number of seekers needed to fill the development experience, a date of availability, and a date of expiration.

Assignees

• Mastercard International Inc

Inventors

• Ross Susan
• Davis Barbara

Classifications

• G06Q10/1053 Primary

  Employment or hiring · CPC title