No application built for "the end user" by itself will be able to track this for two simple reasons... (1) It takes too much time to enter the data and that's "not their job"... (2) Too many times the "cube dweller" just doesn't know what they don't know when it comes to relating key pieces of info/data together.

It takes a skilled person who has knowledge of the product/team/dept/division/company/industry to pull the info (say... in a phone interview) from the cube dweller and piece it all together.

Take the actions of that person... let's say that is part of the job description of someone we call a "Talent Manager" assigned to a "specific level/group" inside a company... and give them a piece of technology pie that allows them to enter the data in an organized manner that relates those key pieces of data (even with other data inputted by other Talent Mangers) with information inside their company walls and outside their company walls (like... you know.. the industry they're in)... well... then... you might have something there.

After you do that... than add in a piece where you are not only managing the collaboration of internal employees... but also with your external vendors... all in the same application.

Hey... that would be cool.

Side note...this collaboration mapping has been going on as an off line hack in third party recruiting for years... its called org charting. Throw in a little "mind mapping" style to it when it comes to projects/applications that the interviewee participated in... and you got your collaboration network. But, the only person who gets to benefit from it is that specific recruiter... so that sucks.

Its something they can throw in their "hipster pda" but not something that can be shared on the web with all current and future coworkers.

If you don't org chart in your pre-employment interviews... shame on you. Take your punishment and now go talk to Lou Adler... he teaches how to do it... its not that hard, either. If you are in San Diego for the ERE Recruiting Conference, Lou will be giving teaching a workshop on April 17th on recruiting in general.