[lumens]

We're building Mighty Spring (https://www.mightyspring.com) to solve the exact problem you're having: "How can I make sure that I'm not missing out on better opportunities?".

We call it 'Passive Opportunity Awareness' and it's the core of our value proposition.

We're currently in private beta, but you sound like someone who could benefit from our service in it's current form. Feel free to write me at the address in my profile if you have private questions.

ps. We're releasing a new home page within the next day or so. The current one looks a little... startuppy :)

[michaelochurch]

That seems interesting. I agree with the ideology. I don't like resume culture (do I have to list projects I didn't like or disagreed with?) and I don't use LinkedIn much because it's too wedded the old, broken way of doing things.

I feel like most career-related websites are obsessed with the past, because they're targeted toward risk-averse bean-counters because that was who one needed to impress back when people still commuted to work on the backs of pterodactyls. That's why a LinkedIn profile is a resume and the game (for those who choose to play) is about trolling for endorsements like it's Downton Abbey and one needs a formal Letter of Introduction to get a job.

What approach are you taking to this? I assume the problem is related to "hidden node discovery", i.e. taking queries like "I want to be a data scientist in 3 years" and turning them into action plans. Is this going to rely on human curation (from, e.g. employers) or will it be done with machine learning/"big data" approaches? Or do I misunderstand the problem completely?

Anyway, cool stuff. I look forward to the next version of the home page.