Idea for a LinkedIn application
Kevin Day, December 11th, 2007Since LinkedIn will be allowing 3rd party applications as part of its involvement with OpenSocial, here’s one application I’d like to see:
A status bar showing how I compare to other people with my current job. Take my experience and education and compare those with everyone else with a job similar to mine. I am a design engineer with a master’s degree and 1.5 years of experience. My estimate is that my lack of experience would put me somewhere around the lower 25th percentile of all design engineers.
In addition to my current status, let me know how far I would move up with an extra year of experience, a certification, or another degree. Also, how would I stack up against Senior Design Engineers?
I think now that I’m out of college, I’m grasping for another metric for which to rate myself against others. Regardless, it would help people better set goals in their professional life.
I’m not sure if the Open Social API would allow access to all those other profiles, or if this would require a lot of messy screen scraping. Alternatively, if someone from LinkedIn gets wind of this idea, maybe they could add it themselves (and pay me for the idea too).
