Brief Hiatus

I've spent the past week and a half working on promoting and learning more about how to improve joblish. I'd be dishonest if I didn't say that I too have been perusing the job postings and exploring what's out there. (Hey, I wouldn't like to take advice from someone that didn't have first hand experience either!) The state of the economy is scary and working in the auto industry is plain horrifying right now. I'm happy to report that although the past month and a half have been the worst I've ever seen, we are finally seeing a bit of an upswing in customer demand. But that's neither here nor there.

In my last post I was talking about testing Bright Fuse and seeing what it's all about. I created a profile for myself and quickly found out that there's not a whole lot you can do with it unless you've got connections. In order to get connections, a lot of people need to believe in its usefulness. I'd imagine that Linked In was probably like this website before it took off. It just needed time and publicity. It got me thinking about joblish in terms of what its capabilities are once people really start to use it. They're endless. All of our popular resources started somewhere and by word of mouth and various re-inventions, they became the powerhouses that we now call Monster, Career Builder, Facebook, and even IMDB! It doesn't matter what the resource is. It can be for entertainment purposes (because we all know I can finish a week without seeing what Doc Jensen from Entertainment Weekly has to say about Lost.) Or, it can be a more powerful resource that will help us secure employment as easily and efficiently as possible.

Long story short: I'm definitely not giving up on Bright Fuse - - I'll even help promote it. Because that's how it is going to become helpful to everyone. The same goes for joblish.