A New Perspective to Career Advancement
Through Facebook, someone I chatted with awhile back (through a different platform) sent me an invitation to a private beta for this interesting career-related social networking site called FDCareer.com that mixes some elements of networking, education, and gaming.
It has a few bugs still, but they’ve been very responsive so far.
Despite the bugs, I think it’s an interesting approach to professional advancement that facilitates and rewards participation and learning. In particular, the “quests” include a mixture of networking tasks that help grow the community and learning tasks that both increase the participant’s status, or “level,” and at the same time, if the users take it seriously, it can really get them to think.
In addition, the participants get to review the companies they’ve worked for according to several criteria. In that way, it can also be a useful listening device to see if there might be cause for concern about employee morale.
Check it out. I’d love to see a career platform succeed that is built on encouraging self-improvement and is more than building the biggest contact list. - Cam Beck
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