For those of you who haven’t heard, last week was important for job hoppers around the world. UpMo, an online service with the tag line: GPS Your Career, turned 1!
Taken from their website:
“Your greatest risk during tough times is not unemployment; it’s the risk of losing career control and direction.”
As a self-proclaimed strategic job hopper, I’m an advocate of tools that empower people to manage their careers strategically. For several reasons, UpMo achieves that.
It offers:
- Customized feedback that’s supported by actionable advice. The “Network Readiness Evaluator” takes about ten minutes to complete. As its name implies, it rates your networking readiness. More important, it also offers personalized advice on the areas that you can improve upon. (Hint: answer honestly – as if no one’s watching)
- Benchmarking information. The team at UpMo was not afraid to set the bar high. They reverse engineered the careers of professionals earning upwards of $200,000. That means that their advice is based on the habits of high achievers, offering you a unique opportunity to size up your career against theirs.
- A powerful tool to plan your career with the end in mind. UpMo has a tool which lets you play forward your career decisions. For example, it will help you find out how an MBA will impact your longer-term goals. And what about taking time off? All based on the paths of high achievers.
- Visually appealing tools. For visual learners, UpMo will feel like candy for your brain. For those who have trouble visualizing, the colorful graphs are likely to kick start your mental juices.
- Tools and templates for you to apply their feedback. Almost from the get go you can start working on the areas of your career that need improvement. UpMo offers several straightforward tools like “My Action Plan” which helps you track your immediate, weekly, monthly and longer term progress.
Indeed, UpMo set out on an ambitious mission. For now it’s delivering on its promises by offering users a one-stop-shop career planner.
Careerists of the world, what are you waiting for to move up?