The present invention is directed to a system for cataloging,
inventorying, selecting, measuring, valuing and matching Intellectual
Capital skills and matching or inquiring of an individual's skills, and
particularly to a system for finding candidates for an employment or
consulting position having requisite skills, and more particularly to a
system for creating a searchable knowledge base of individuals skills
indexed in a hierarchical cataloging, measuring and valuation system. The
present invention includes generating a list of Intellectual Capital
Codes based upon a standardized skills catalog which contains a set of
skill categories organized in a hierarchical manner with a unique code
assigned to each category within each hierarchical level, wherein the
combination of at least one code from at least one of the hierarchical
levels forms an Intellectual Capital code.