Patent ID: 7249145

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for determining candidates to interview, said method comprising the steps of: providing pre-determined desired qualities for a candidate, the desired qualities include at least two of analytical ability, self-confidence, initiative, change orientation, and interpersonal skills; prompting a user to determine and input into a computer whether the candidate possesses at least one of a plurality of independent characteristics, a predetermined combination of characteristics being indicative of a degree to which the candidate possesses the desired qualities; prompting the user to input the candidate's educational background and personal background; generating a database in a computer readable medium including at least one characteristic for each candidate wherein the at least one characteristic is correlative to the desired qualities; normalizing the characteristics, normalizing includes comparing a total number of characteristics, possessed by the candidate, of a combination of characteristics that determine each desired quality, to a total number of possibly possessed characteristics for the desired quality, and assigning a value to each desired quality based on the comparison; displaying results for each candidate based on the desired quality values; selecting at least one candidate to interview based on the desired quality values; and displaying, in at least one of a tabular form and a graphical form, the results, the educational background, and the personal background for each of the at least one candidate selected, to enable the user to compare the selected candidates.