The proposed paper deals with the challenges of capturing and acknowledging prior learning and informal competences that have been developed through a range of previous experiences within both formal and informal learning settings in relation to the requirements of specific occupational field, in particular focusing on social care sector within the UK context. The paper aims to contribute to the development of a methodological approach for eliciting and capturing tacit skills and informal competences through graphical modelling of the process of evaluating of competences and identifying the links between competences. We have employed the dynamic concept analysis (DCA) modelling method that can be used as a tool to build conceptual models for capturing informal competences (Kontiainen 2002) and demonstrating the ways in which these skills could be recontextualised and made visible in new contexts. Within the context of I CARE project the method would contribute to the development of a tool for assessment of informal competences for specific occupations. The paper shows the potential of this approach as a method of recognition of informal competences for a specific occupational context of social care.