Human resource management and semantic Web technologies

CommOnCV is a project which aims at dealing with the problems of e-recruitment by considering a new approach based on competency management. The idea consists in allowing a job seeker (respectively a recruiter) to identify and formally represent the competencies underlying its resume or Curriculum Vitae (respectively its job offer). These competencies, which allow knowledge, skills, abilities, traits and motives acquired by a person (respectively required for a job) to be made explicit, are then used to refine the matching process between "supply and demand". From a technical viewpoint, these competencies correspond to ontology-based annotations, which are formally represented by using semantic Web languages. In order to enable the development of such new powerful Web job matching services based on competency management, CommOnCV is based on (1) a competency model and (2) a process dedicated to the management (i.e. identification, formal representation and exploitation) of the competencies underlying a resource related to e-recruitment (mainly a CV or a job offer).