Sunday, April 20, 2008

Now a site to help you plan your next career move

Interesting NYC based startup called Path101. These guys promote the concept of 'career discovery' as opposed to just being a job site. I think Careerbuilder, Monster and HotJobs all claim to help you plan your next career move, but they are nothing more than a collection of job listings. I'm not saying they're not important (in fact they play an important role acting as a bulletin board of sorts), just that they don't close the loop on job hunting. Path101 claims to be doing just that.

One punchline that stood out as I browsed through their slides was 'what do other people like you do?'. Neat. Just what people want. That's the reason why Facebook, MySpace and the gazillions of other social networking sites generate tons of user traffic - its because people (at least the new generation netizens) are always on the lookout for folks like themselves, and want to know what those people do!