Digital Skills Certificate Verification via Blockchain

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Solution Overview

Problem

The challenge in the job market is verifying a candidate's work history, education, and skills accurately, especially for smaller companies lacking a significant human resources department, often leading to hiring unqualified individuals or overlooking qualified ones due to reliance on self-reported information.

Innovation Solution

A host platform generates and verifies digital skills certificates using market data, employment history validation, and blockchain technology to create a trustworthy document that employers can rely on, indicating verified and unverified skills.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If employers rely on self-reported information from candidates, then the hiring process is simple and quick, but the reliability of hiring decisions deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvereliability of hiring decisionsVSAvoidcomplexity of verification process

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

A third-party verification system acts as an intermediary between candidates and employers. The system collects, validates, and stores candidate information from multiple sources (employers, educational institutions, professional organizations) and provides verified credentials to potential employers, eliminating the need for employers to directly verify each claim while maintaining high reliability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

Candidate information is collected, validated, and stored in advance before the hiring process. Verification credentials are prepared and made available beforehand, allowing employers to quickly access pre-verified information without conducting time-consuming verification procedures during the hiring process

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If employers conduct thorough verification of candidate information, then the reliability of hiring decisions improves, but the time and resources required increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccuracy of candidate qualificationsVSAvoidtime for verification

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

All verification activities are performed in advance by the third-party system before the hiring decision is needed. Candidate credentials are validated, cross-checked, and stored in a centralized database, allowing employers to access pre-verified information instantly without spending time on verification during the hiring process

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates and maintains digital copies of verified credentials and employment records in a centralized database. Employers can access these digital copies without needing to contact original sources, significantly reducing verification time while maintaining accuracy

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS20230359972A1Skills certification

Publication Date: 2023.11.09 STEADY PLATFORM INC

AI summary

Provided are systems and methods for building a skills certificate. In some embodiments, the host platform may be a web server, a cloud platform, a database, or the like, which hosts an application such as a mobile application, a progressive web application, or the like.