Skyllz - The Universal Proof-of-Skill Protocol

April 03, 2018

The world is changing incredibly fast. The demand for new and specific skills from the labor market makes it harder than ever the adaptation of professional and personal profiles to the requirements of the market.
In addition, new talent scouting and recruiting is more and more on empirical evidences of your skills (the "what"), the way that you apply them (the "how"), and what really drives you (the "why") . Tangibilizing human skills that are the basis of work behaviors such as problem-facing, solutions analysis, and team roles, is a key factor in order to meet the needs in this fast-paced environment.
There are no limits to the skills you can showcase, and put into practice in any aspect of your life. Skyllz by Workkola fulfills this new idea of no limitation of possible skills you can develop, proof, share and use.
"Skyllz by Workkola aims to build a distributed, meritocratic, transparent and unified platform to assess, validate and empower human skills."
It is a result of more than 2 years working in a way of curating talent, and hosting 1,000 projects that have attracted 20k users to their current platform: Workkola.
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 the status quo in talent assessment and skills certification.
In order to get the vision of Skyllz by Workkola, a powerful ecosystem is born: the Skyllz Distributed Platform (SDP) - the open-source, public, blockchain-based and distributed skills-validation protocol.

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.
Do not let institutions like universities or schools decide your value. If you fit into the labor market, you're fit.
No matter where you are born, studied or worked, you should be able to build your talent and use it to make a living.
Every single skill should be considered under a universal proof-of-skill protocol, making recruitment decisions fairer and easier.
Every activity where a skill is acquired, From watching a YouTube tutorial to leading a team. From attending to an event to publishing an article in Medium.

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 EthereuBlockchain.

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

The Skyllz Token (SKT):

TheSkyllzToken (SKT), an ERC-20 compliant utility 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 the talents get access to work and jobs gained access to talent, the workkola team takes up steps to embrace all the possibilities of blockchain technology for the scale and impact of the globe with Skyllz.