You soung like you want a kludge.
So I can see two great kludges that might work here.
If your data is, in fact binary -- yes/no only, then use binary math and XORs and pack 8 pieces of information on each byte.
If your data is not binary, i.e. skills are measured 9 = Great, 5 = Average, 0 = Bad, then you can pack your information onto a string.
Each employee can have a 200 character (heck a 512 byte) string, associated with them. So mine might have the first 20 chars something like"
99869878696798987979
Now to make it even uglier, store it in a spreadsheet (not a table, and not a text file). Use Instr() functions to read individual characters. Have fun wondering why you didn't make a set of two tables with a realation table in between (look at other comments).