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We’ve been hearing a lot of feedback from our users and customers about their desire to use Becomed to manage and optimize their job search beyond the old “find job opening, send resume and cover letter, rinse, repeat”. And while we’ve become really good at doing this part and guiding our users along the path of success, it’s time to take your job search optimization to the next level by integrating your networking efforts into it.

Networking, for the uninitiated, involves using your relationships and connections to achieve your goals. Specifically, learning about new job opportunities and applying for them through a network of contacts that knows you, values your skills and can vouch for you to potential employers. Networking has always been an important component of any job search, but these days it’s even more important with employers looking at hundreds of applicants for every position and seeking assurances that, if they pick you, they won’t regret it.

Networking involves building your relationships with the people around you. It means reconnecting with old bosses and colleagues, letting your family and friends know that you’re looking for a job (and what kind of job you’re looking for), and putting yourself out there, connecting with new people. Becomed’s goal is, as always, to help you organize and optimize. We want to help you maintain your existing relationships and build new ones. Over the next few weeks we’ll be releasing more and more functionality around these goals, starting with what we’ve release today.

As you may have noticed already, we’ve just released the first parts of this effort, which is event management. There’s a new section of Becomed now titled “Events”, where you can record the networking events, trade shows and conferences you attend. You can keep track of them and we’ll help you manage them through the new calendaring capabilities of our redesigned front page (the “dashboard”, as we like to call it). This will be the first start to help you get out there and build your network, and we’ll be adding more analysis and insight around networking events over the next few weeks, so stay tuned.

The other part of networking is maintaining and tending to your existing network. We already have a way for you to keep track of your various contacts in our “Contacts” section, and we’ve recently added a way for you to rank your contacts by their importance to your career, but it doesn’t stop there. We have some exciting new features planned around your contacts that will help you keep in touch and reinforce your relationships, which we’ll release in the next few weeks as well.

As always, we thrive on feedback from our users and customers about what they’d like to see on Becomed. All of your suggestions make their way into the roadmap to make Becomed the ultimate job search organization and optimization tool, so if you have a suggestion for us please write us at feedback@becomed.com . We love your emails and we’re pretty good about responding on the same day.