UpMo is an innovative career management tool with a twist - they have created "portfolios" of successful professionals, and the site encourages you to pick a role model and use his/her career trajectory to help chart your own job path.
This is a good site for tracking your career progress, seeing possible next steps, and setting up an action plan to move toward your objectives. You can develop a plan of attach for your job search, rather than randomly grabbing whatever job opens up. However, in this economy many people are going to have to "grab" what comes along, so it will be interesting to see if those are considered "detours" along the way.
UpMo sees itself, in part, as a personal brand management tool, and there aren't many of those available yet. It's also on hunt for successful professionals in a wide range of career fields, so even if you don't think you could make use of their tool features...you might consider contacting them as possible role model.
UpMo is a fabulous web freebie for at least a little while yet...it's free to sign up for now, but after they leave beta they will have a range of fees to use the service.
Jane, Promise Phelon here the founder and CEO of UpMo. Know that I am an advocate for keeping and loving customers. (Enjoy your blog!)
As far as UpMo--it's an online career manager that leverages science to help people find jobs and move up. In August we do begin charging for our service. However, we will always offer free tools (assessments), AND there will be free trial periods where folks can test-drive UpMo for themselves at no cost.
Best of luck with your blog and we're honored to be acknowledged here. -Promise Phelon
Posted by: Promise Phelon | July 30, 2009 at 08:01 PM
Promise (that is a great name)!
I'm honored that you're honored :-). I think your site is a terrific idea - innovation in the job search/career management space is definitely needed. I wish you and your team the best of luck, and I'll be watching to see how it goes (well, I hope).
Now, we need something similar to inspire great young entrepreneurs, no?
Jane
Posted by: Jane Neumiller-Bustad | July 30, 2009 at 08:37 PM