Brazen Careerist, a network for Generation Y and the employers looking to hire them, has launched a new career management site.
This new social network makes young professionals visible to employers through an ideas-based resume, and allows them to build a network of peers with a customized feed.
Brazen Careerist’s co-founder and CEO, Penelope Trunk, has spent the last decade writing career advice to Generation Y through her column and her blog.
“Traditional career management sites don’t allow users to express themselves, become known for their ideas, find a voice or find out who they are,” said Trunk. “In contrast to the static resume approach, Brazen Careerist allows professionals to present a dynamic picture of their strengths – not just their experience. The result is the ability to find a career that’s financially rewarding and that you truly love, which is the most important thing. That’s what you learn to do on Brazen Careerist.”
Brazen Careerist dismisses the traditional online resume approach and replaces it with a job-seeker profile that has a social “idea feed.” After creating a free account, members fill in basic information on their goals, interests and specialties; import their blog feed, Twitter feed and other social links, and network with an active community of their fellow peers. All of this networking activity is then aggregated to create their social idea feed.
“It’s a self-expressive feed like the one on Facebook or your blog,” said Ryan Healy, Co-Founder of Brazen Careerist. “The difference is you benefit professionally by keeping it distinct from your personal posts on Facebook. Brazen Careerist helps you bring your professional ideas to the forefront so that you’re no longer limited by your experience and background.”
Each generation has had their own way of getting a job. Baby boomers used newspapers. Generation Jones used Monster.com. Generation X uses LinkedIn. Brazen Careerist provides a set of social media-based tools for Generation Y to have conversation-based networking, and collaborative, peer-to-peer career management.
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