Perfect Timing for a Company Offering Practical Career Advice
February 20, 2009 – 4:20 pm | by Matt Ackerson
Today I had a chance to check out the recently launched FoundYourCareer.com. FoundYourCareer offers advice for individuals looking for a more practical approach to landing their next job. I was skeptical at first if the price of the service could possibly match the value offered after sign-up. However, I am impressed having now tried the service. I would recommend it to other current students or individuals seeking to get a leg up on how to interview and develop their interpersonal skills, among other key factors that will contribute to landing a new job.
I will give a few examples of how FoundYourCareer offers value to job seekers.
- It has a great video clip to go with each Lesson (this was one of the first things I noticed). In each video, a member of the Found Your Career team discusses in a personal and personable way the topic of the lesson. They tend to give examples of how the knowledge applies from experience, which makes the information much easier to understand and remember.
- The written part of the lessons, similar to the videos offer practical knowledge that can actively employed and adsorbed, whether you’re networking with people at various companies or you’re going on interviews.
- There are over 35 lessons total and over an hour of video footage to supplement.
- Many of the posts are written with numbers and bullet points, which make them extremely user-friendly to read through and review.
The only possible negative I could find was a lacking design. However, this could be viewed a positive as well since a minimalist design simply serves to put more of the focus on the content/product which is high quality in this case.
Overall FoundYourCareer has entered the market at the right time considering of the abismal state of the economy. There are a lot of job seekers out there and the numbers are only growing. Products like FoundYourCareer offer benevolent value in the form of career-seeking knowledge.
