How 'bout that?
My sister Dorothy introduced me to this "Career Matchmaker" toy (use the username nycareers and the password landmark) yesterday. I plugged in my preferences and came up with the following career suggestions list after a single pass:
1. Planner
2. Civil Engineering Tech
3. Home Inspector
4. Cartographer
5. Electrical Engineer
etc.
Astute observers will note that the #1 suggestion, Planner, is, in fact, my actual career. #5, Electrical Engineer, is, more or less, what I was doing before I became a planner. My Bachelor's degree was in Geology, and Geologist is their #15 suggestion. Not bad.
My sister's actual career, high school teacher, came in third on her list, but I think that was after making a bunch of refinements to her preferences. I think originally her list had things like "upholstery cleaner" on it. The odd thing is that I think she's about as well-suited to teaching high school as anybody ever was.
UPDATE: See the comments; I guess that username wasn't supposed to be public, and now it doesn't work.
posted by Adam Villani @ 9/17/2007 09:11:00 AM
3 comments
3 Comments:
My refinements were things like, "what kind of educational level do you want to have"
I think it's because I do enjoy a certain amount of tedious, physical, repetitive work that I don't have to think about. I indicated that on the first pass and it came up with a bunch of stuff like, "carpet installer."
I think the constant brainwork and flexibility that teaching requires makes me long to do things like paint fences.
the username/password combination didn't work for me. =( that's too bad. i was really interested to see what it came up with for me.
Somebody on Dorothy's site said that apparently that password was stolen or otherwise wasn't supposed to become public, since I guess it's normally a pay site. So I guess that they finally got around to canceling that username. Anyway, I guess their service is pretty accurate, if you have strong preferences.
Post a Comment
<< Home