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I think the cards are, at least as presented on the landing page, really elegant and sharp looking. I would present my career related information this way. Con

I think the cards are, at least as presented on the landing page, really elegant and sharp looking. I would present my career related information this way. Constructive Criticism/ Devilishly Advocating: In agreement with root comment, it's much saner to target employers, which you seem to agree with. Therefore, it seems like presentation of the information doesn't really matter to employers looking to fill a role when compared to how easily searchable, filterable, and readable (both machine and human) that information is. Therefore, having the service become something more of a "General purpose learning tracking" tool feels at odds with this. Inherently increasing the noise in your system and making it harder for employers to find experts that possess the skillset to meet their need.In other words, it seems like general purpose accomplishment tracking would increase the noise (as presented to employers) and diminish the signal employers are willing to pay for. Have you noticed this issue or given any thought to how to handle it? Of course, I'm not privvy to your back-end or what you're presenting to employers; the above criticism was just my first thought based on your reply.

dannyking 13y ago
Thanks for the kind words! The feedback is much apprecaited too. It's currently used largely as a learning tracking tool by our beta community (we intend to launch the open beta early Q1 2014!). We started to focus on the employer side a lot earlier than we had planned due to user feedback and encouragement from startup employers (we wanted to avoid the chicken/egg situation, which is why we focused on building up the consumer side as a learning tracking platform first). Keeping people's data searchable, filterable and readable is certainly top of our minds as we flesh this side out and this is indeed one of our bigger challenges at the moment. We are still working out the best way to tackle this without sacrificing too much flexibility, but at the moment (with a smallish user base) a system of tagging your cards and narratives with skills and then backing that up with a combination of attached evidence and references (using LinkedIn profiles to verify referee identity) for credibility seems to be working pretty well.

dannyking 13y ago

Thanks for the kind words! The feedback is much apprecaited too. It's currently used largely as a learning tracking tool by our beta community (we intend to launch the open beta early Q1 2014!). We started to focus on the employer side a lot earlier than we had planned due to user feedback and encouragement from startup employers (we wanted to avoid the chicken/egg situation, which is why we focused on building up the consumer side as a learning tracking platform first). Keeping people's data searchable, filterable and readable is certainly top of our minds as we flesh this side out and this is indeed one of our bigger challenges at the moment. We are still working out the best way to tackle this without sacrificing too much flexibility, but at the moment (with a smallish user base) a system of tagging your cards and narratives with skills and then backing that up with a combination of attached evidence and references (using LinkedIn profiles to verify referee identity) for credibility seems to be working pretty well.