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Yahoo Inc. launched a new professional social network called Y! Kickstart yesterday aimed at helping college students take the social networking skills they perfected for fun during college and use them to launch their professional lives. Kickstart is designed to connect college students and recent graduates with alums and professionals to find jobs, internships and career advice, said Scott Gatz, Yahoo senior director of advanced products, who wrote in a blog post about Kickstart. For many college students, “submitting resumes to job sites or companies seems like a black hole,” Gatz noted. “Enter Kickstart. It’s based on the premise that everyone does have a network: the school you went to, the frat/sorority you were in, the professional/interest group you are in, the companies you interned with or worked at. Kickstart makes it easy to create and browse that kind of network.”

The site now is in a “preview” release, Yahoo noted, with the company now mainly focused on getting alumni and professionals to join. The U.S. college with the most alumni signed up on Kickstart will get a $25,000 donation to their alumni program, Gatz added. Although this project may have some potential and benefit for its users, I still don’t get the whole hype about social networks. What’s wrong with ol’ school hanging out and meeting new people in the real life?

Source: Computerworld 

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