Yahoo! Kickstarts its Social Network for Students

Yahoo! Kickstart is a professional social networking site with a distinct purpose: to connect college students, recent grads, professionals and alumni to discover internships and jobs, or get career advice and mentorship.

Unlike other social networks Yahoo! Kickstart allows students to create and maintain a professional profile, browse company profiles and network with their peers, professors, alumni and potential employers. Kickstart is Yahoo!’s answer to LinkedIn a famous business oriented social networking website.

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Yahoo may be too late to the social networking game to attract anything like the 50 million members who call Facebook home or the 200 million nestled on MySpace. Still, the Internet portal aims to carve out its own niche with Kickstart, a job-hunting network that targets recent college grads. It will be vying primarily with the well-established LinkedIn network for professionals.

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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.”

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