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First, the boring part: during the last couple of weeks we’ve been busy doing a makeover for Becomed.com’s infrastructure. It is not something that you, the user, can see, but trust me it’s very important and will make adding features and functionality to Becomed a lot easier.

Ok, now for the sexy parts – new features:

Goal Tracking

Job searching can be a daunting, frustrating task. Job search experts advise the unemployed to treat their job search like a job – keep a record of everything you’re doing, have goals and achieve them. Becomed has been helping with the first part since its inception, but now we’ve added a feature that allows you to easily create and maintain your job search goals. We’re going to start by tracking how many job searches you’ve been applying for each week and each month, and allowing you to set a goal. For example, you can decide that you want to apply to at least 5 positions a week; just let us know through your Profile page, and we’ll keep track and show you your progress every time you go into Becomed in a nice bar graph.

Because you’re already entering your job applications and progress into Becomed (right?), there’s nothing else you need to do except continue using Becomed the way you were doing – we’ll do the rest for you.

Importing Contacts from Gmail

Joshua Waldman from Career Enlightenment asked that we add a feature to import contacts directly from Gmail, and we thought that it was a great idea! We’ve now implemented this feature, and are working towards adding automatic contact imports from other services as well. Thank you, Joshua!

Giving Becomed a Face Lift

We’re definitely not graphic designers here at Becomed, but we’ve given the site a bit of a facelift over the last few weeks. We’re always trying to make the site look more appealing and friendly. We might not always get it right the first time around, but we’re giving it our best.

Stay tuned, we’ve got a lot more in the works. If you have a suggestion for Becomed, please send it to support@becomed.com . As you can see, we love and listen to our users.