Engzig.com Slide Deck: A Justice System for Human Resourcing in Engineering

1. engzig.com
The competency passport for oil and gas professionals

2. The CV Industrial Complex
• The CV (work history and character
references)
– Piece of paper among many pieces of paper
– ‘He’s an alright bloke I guess’
• The recruiter (a telesales agent/networker)
– 2nd degree networked verification with a point of
blame at cost (managers essentially pay to defer
blame to a 3rd party)*

3. The CV Industrial Complex
• LinkedIn (the social network/internet web 2.0)
– 1st degree networked verification without a point of
blame/accountability at no cost (recruiters defer the
responsibility of relationship building to the
platform)*
• Institutions(qualification/chartership)
– Becoming increasingly devalued and disconnected
from reality
– Beyond blame or accountability
• Banter (peer to peer subjective verification)

4. Web 1.0 (simple but therefore clear in
its deficiencies. A dumb pipe!)

5. Web 2.0 (is this machine optimised for
the real world or just self-referential?)
For further reading: JARON LANIER - WHO OWNS THE FUTURE?
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/video/2010/feb/20/jaron-
lanier-web20

6. How does this work in real life?
• Actual competency management becomes the
responsibility of no one!
– Not managers! (Whose real job is often to defer
accountability.)*
– Not recruiters! (Whose real job is to sell.)
– Not references (‘He’s an alright bloke I guess…’)
– Not LinkedIn! (It’s not designed for that.)
– Not qualifications/chartership bodies! (They’re far
too important!)

7. How does this work in real life?
• When it’s a serious hire we rely upon ‘banter’
because it’s the most trustworthy source of
information
– It wins by default
– Judging people based upon banter is, objectively,
a bad way to judge people
– This is why we have a justice system
– We need to start again with transparent
EVIDENCE!

8. What would a complete solution look like?
• A new kind of web 2.0 ‘Professional Network’
– Where 1st degree networked verification has a
definite point of accountability*
– Where content becomes EVIDENCE
– Where the ‘comment’ and the ‘like’ turns that
EVIDENCE into CROSS-EXAMINED EVIDENCE
– CROSS-EXAMINED EVIDENCE ‘tags’ to a COMPETENCY
MAP
– Where profiles ARE an INDIVIDUAL COMPETENCY
MAP fully REFERENCED against CROSS EXAMINED
EVIDENCE

9. Engzig.com is an online JUDICIAL SYSTEM for oil and
gas professional reputations!

10. API Functionality (Huge Leverage!)
• E-Portfolio Content
– via EVERNOTE: Available on all devices!
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjn6YkCY2yA
• Online Achievement and Recognition
– via Open Badges managed via CREDLY
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuAQ3P_TN0
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11. Network Web 2.0 Functionality for all
Evernote and Credly Content
• ‘Likes’
• ‘Comments’
• ‘Tagging’
• ‘Contacts’
• ‘Newsfeed’
• Privacy Settings for Each Individual Piece of
Content
• LETS’S HAVE A LOOK! (DEMONSTRATION)

12. Engzig Training
• E-Learning Platform
• Paypal Functionality
• Quizzes to
Demonstrate
Knowledge
• Aim is one course and
one quiz for every
competency element
• Digital Badges Issued
– Can be then integrated
into the user’s Engzig
profile
• LET’S TAKE A LOOK!

13. Current State of Play
• Onboarding initial users gaining feedback to
begin LEAN build process
• VI Energy generating training and quiz content
• Delon Dotson (former Netscape CTO) is
business development advisor helping to
secure further funding
• Seeking web of influence, contacts, a route to
market and support for ongoing parallel LEAN
build process while scaling

14. The Startup Curve

15. Thanks!
• We see great possibility for positive change
and disruption!
• Order of Magnitude Improvement in current
ways of working
• Possible application in other fields, not just oil
and gas!
• Let’s Discuss!