Yahoo Kickstart just launched a few days ago and it looks very promising, especially with the saturation of functions that many of the social networking sites have, which only serves as clutter that hides the purpose that companies that use these sites for. Facebook is one of the websites where there are just too many functions, and the direction at which it is going is not clear, which is probably why Yahoo is confident of pulling their newest brainchild off.

Kickstart is, at the most basic level, a social networking site – but it is defining a purpose that has not been filled by any other website of this nature to network people at the professional-career level. It aims to be the place where people will go to for more serious matters such as job-searching, showcasing their resume collaboration with other professionals for projects and mentorship.

Companies will also be part of this network, and they will be allowed to create profiles to help potential employees find them and also to find employees or interns if they so wish. It makes the job of finding employees much easier, especially since they can move away from snail mail towards instant results within a few clicks.

If you’re a college graduate, this may be one of the better things that the internet has given to you this year as it will make your career life easier, since it gives you the ability to find companies that may want to hire you in just a few clicks or even better, help companies find you – something that was not viable before this came about. Imagine getting a few e-mails a month with job offers that you can choose instead of having to send out your physical resume to ten companies that may not even need you. Now, instead of only being able to pitch yourself to the companies that you know exists, companies that you don’t ever know existed can potentially hire you and because your resume is virtually available 24 hours a day.

For college graduates who will need their information available for any potential client to find out more about them, this service will help quite a bit as well. Now, students will have a place to point these people to if they wish to find out more about who they are dealing with, and it can be used as a tool to build trust even before any deal has been made.

Here is one cool scenario that could arise with the use of this social network. One college student employed by a company that is looking to hire say, a web designer, finds out on Kickstart that his ex-classmate is now doing exactly that and recommends his job-seeking friend to the company. The company then hires his friend and they don’t just have a reunion, the friend has gotten a job. If it were not for Kickstart, the college student wouldn’t have known that his friend was a designer and looking for a job. Think about it: you probably don’t know what your friends are doing now.

If Yahoo pulls this off well and Kickstart creates the right frame around itself, it will do great for everyone that is part of the network as it will portray and symbolize values which will make it –the- trustable and reliable source of finding information about people that companies can potentially hire. As long as it is controlled well enough not to have spam or any other factor that might taint its professional image and purpose, Kickstart should do well with and become what Yahoo envisioned it to be.

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