SKYLLZ - Will Change The Way You Get Access To Work

Februari 24, 2018

SKYLLZ - Will Change The Way You Get Access To Work

The job market is fast evolving as what worked yesterday might not be relevant today and is likely to be obsolete tomorrow, chiefly due to advances being made in the technological arena every day. As a result of such advances job roles are fast changing as new coding technologies, marketing techniques etc keep on being introduced now and then.

What this means is that traditional education is now lagging behind in most cases and in some instances rendered redundant due to cheaper ways of acquiring knowledge that have come into existence such as Webinars, YouTube, Facebook live videos, Wikipedia etc.

Due to the problems alluded to above there is need for a rapid and robust skills delivering platform that taps into the growing market of skills sharing and acquisition. Market research into education technology predicts that the market will be worth 94 billion US by 2020.

Skyllz aims to standardise and unifies the validation of every skill whether it is professional skill or not you acquire, apply or improve on the Ethereum Blockchain. The team behind Skyllz has been actively involved Workkola, an already proven talent branding solution replacing CVs with a human-centred system of metrics, validations and endorsements based on hard and soft skills. This time around the team with Skyllz is planning to enable users to participate, transact, and automatically track their self-development freely across the applications on top of the protocol (the Skills Touchpoints Applications, STapps).

The Skyllz Token (SKT):

TheSkyllzToken(SKT), an ERC-20compliantutility token,enables users to access and transact on the SDP.
They serve as units of account that enable users to participate and get validations of their skills on or across any application of the ecosystem.

SKT is a utility token of fixed supply that can be integrated into applications as the transactional layer of value.

The Workkola team, the team behind Skyllz, began designing the future of empowering talent back in February 2015.

As part of their primary mission to change the way talents get access to work and jobs gained access to talent, and to create meaning and solutions that change the game, the Workkola team took further steps to embrace all the possibilities of blockchain technology for the scale and impact of the globe with Skyllz.

Introducing Skyllz :

Skyllz reinvents how talent gets access to work and work gets access to talent in an open ecosystem where meritocracy, transparency and decentralization play together to disrupt status quo in talent assessment, skills certification and allocation of talent and knowledge.

In order to nurture the vision of Skyllz, a powerful ecosystem is born: the Skyllz Distributed Platform (SDP) — the open-source, public, blockchain-based and distributed skills validation protocol from the Skyllz project

The SDP ecosystem is fueled by two different but closely linked elements:

Proof-of-Skill, which is the reputation related to every specific skill on the SDP, is non-tradeable and handles skills validations as traceable annotations on the Ethereum Blockchain.

SKT (Skyllz tokens), an exchangeable ERC-20 compliant token that fuels the SDP ecosystem and operations within and across Skill Touchpoint applications (STapps). It enables users to participate in the ecosystem, and validate skills.

Skyllz’s motivations :

Focus on working hard and living according to your unique talents. Forget about tracking your steps. Let the system and the community validate and showcase your skills for you.
Don’t let institutions like universities or schools decide your value. If you fit into the labor market, you fit.
No matter where you were born, studied or worked, you should be able to develop your talent and use it to make a living.
Every single skill should be considered under an universal proof-of-skill protocol, making recruitment decisions fairer and easier.
Every activity where a skill is acquired, applied or improved should be automatically recorded on a blockchain and become part of your professional ID. From watching a YouTube tutorial to leading a team. From attending to an event to publishing an article in Medium.

From Competitive Landscape to Cooperating Landscape

Given that blockchain and smart contracts are a very new technology. The development, competition in the field of talent tokenisasi and knowledge is very rare. There is players - the first mover - find themselves in the early stages of technology deployment and product / market trials.

However, the following graph maps the various "old schools" and technology-based players in talent recruitment-talent management industry, with the goal of appearing widely the scope of direct and indirect competition.

Roadmap

Founding Team

Workkola’s team, the team behind Skyllz, started to design the future of talent empowerment back in February 2015.
As part of their main mission of changing the way talents get access to work and work gets access to talents, and in order to create a meaningful and game-changing solution, Workkola’s team takes a step further on embracing all the possibilities of the blockchain technology to scale and impact the globe with Skyllz.

Alvaro Mancilla Moreno
CEO & Cofounder
Entrepreneur-by-nature and comfort-zone breaker. 2.5+ years working at Workkola.

Jesús Chacón Ávila
CTO & Cofounder
Full-stack developer and blockchain developer. Background in Computer Sciences. 2.5 years working at Workkola.

Antonio Negrillo Román
CMO & Cofounder
Marketing and growth hacking background. 2.5+ years working at Workkola.

Team

Alejandro Jurado
Full-stack developer
Background in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and master degree in Web development. Patent pending owner

Giorgio Fidei
B2B Growth & Business Developer
Background in Economics and Management, master degree in e-commerce. Startups specialist.

Elsa Camí
UX/UI designer
Background in UX and Arts. Previously: UX designer @ Techstars London, Startup Bootcamp Barcelona and headliner.io

Rebeca Canal
Communication & Content
Background in Communication and Media. Digital Entrepreneur. Previously: publishing and fashion industry

Hugo Immink
HR & Organizational psycologist
Background in Organizational Psychology, Coaching and Leadership. Previously: HR manager @ HCC Global, professor @ EADA and professional coach.

Brice Chalopet
Senior Lead Generation
Background in Marketing and Business Development. Previously: Facebook account manager in Ireland (6 years)

Advisors

David Riudor
Blockchain Advisor
Blockchain technical expert and entrepreneur. Formerly part of Real Markets (REAL) Team (blockchain-based real estate investing platform)

Carlos Rodríguez
Blockchain Advisor
Full-stack and blockchain developer. Entrepreneur. Formerly part of Real Markets (REAL) Team (blockchain-based real estate investing platform)

Brent Nally
Advisor
Senior Account Executive at LinkedIn Learning Enterprise (SFO, CA). Known at LinkedIn as the “cryptoguy”. He hosts his own Youtube channel on cryptoassets (https://www.youtube.com/user/BrentAltonNally)

Flavio Escribano
Advisor
Research Team Leader in Motivational Design and Gamification application in Soft Skills acquisition (xBadges Project), education and quality of working life.
PhD degree in Videogames as Art Education Tool. Lecturer & researcher (European Commission, DIAGEO, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe,…) in gamification, videogames, education and training.

José Luis Minguez
Advisor
Business Angel. Blockchain enthusiast, geek and Investor. Mentor at different Startups accelerators and partner at different VC Funds.

Álvaro Villacorta
Advisor
Serial entrepreneur & Investor. Sold his company to Rocket Internet. Previously Rocket Internet Managing Director (Foodora). Founder @ Likido, Tokenized VC Fund.