Abstract: A method and system capture and analyze information regarding an individual's background, capabilities, and interests into a skills genome. A genome may be a unique structured profile containing a set of skills of an individual. The information captured would reflect the essence of an individual's interests as well as skills acquired over their lifetime. The genome may be used in analysis between multiple users to compare the strength of connections to skills. In an exemplary application, candidates for a skill based position may be identified by the system based on the relative strength of skills they possess that are salient to the position.