Jason Sole, a member of the HR Open Standards Consortium’s board of directors since 2015, has been re-elected and named 2017 board secretary.

The group is partnering with companies and programmers to create worldwide standards for the human resources field in a Javascript exchange code that allows information to be sent between computers.

Sole is production director at DirectEmployers, a collaboration between large companies that facilitates federal job sourcing.

"I'm honored to be a part of this member-led community," Sole said in a news release. "Over the past two years, I've been granted insight into how other organizations operate and have broadened our scope in working with technical people. I'm proud to say that this has given us a voice in establishing industry standards for the HR community."

The consortium details its objectives on http://HROpenStandards.org.