Downloadable open-source computer software for production of standardized, machine-readable, searchable data and definitions aligning to labor market needs, job roles, and industry specific taxonomies; software development services; providing an open database of searchable skill data and definitions aligning to labor market needs, job roles, and industry specific taxonomies; association services, namely, promoting the interests of a coalition of members in the nature of employers, educational institutions, military organizations, and businesses by creating a common skills language to help match industry employment and job needs with candidates possessing relevant skills-based education and credentials; providing a website featuring information and content, namely, online registration for association membership and news in the field of job-related skills data and hiring needs to help employers find job candidates; providing a website featuring educational information in the field of development of skills-based learning and hiring; development services for skills data, namely, development of databases featuring information related to skills-based educational programs and hiring in order to accelerate the adoption of skills-based education and hiring as standard practice