Resource toolbox: JobTitled

August 24, 8:18 AMEntry Level Careers ExaminerHeather Huhman

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It’s a problem that plagues many students and new graduates: What do I want to do when I grow up? Just because you have a degree doesn’t mean you know the answer to that question.

A tool that might be helpful to you is JobTitled, which is free and was recently launched into public beta. According to founder and CEO Brendan Mullins, “It's a new approach on a familiar problem of what to do with your career—using career analytics. Our technology is unique in that we crawl the Web gathering millions of résumés, analyze the data and build career path statistics. In many fields, the use of historical data plays a key role in making strategic decisions about the future, and we feel that career decisions should be no different.”

Mullins says there are many ways entry-level job seekers can use JobTitled to research their careers:

Goal oriented. Know what position you want but not sure how to get there? Start by putting in your job title goal, navigate the previous jobs and look at the typical education.

Not satisfied. You have a job and a degree, but you just aren't happy. Start with your job title and explore where else people like you take their careers.

Just graduated. Explore the most likely careers based on your degrees. See how long it will take to get there, and start planning your path now.

Back to school. Considering going back to school? Research the right degree for you by searching for your dream job and view their educational background. Focus your career by picking the right major.

Lead the way. Let JobTitled do the analysis for you. Enter your work history, and JobTitled will produce a career trajectory for ideas of where to go next in your career based on your background.

"The idea for JobTitled came out of my own need when I was finishing my MBA and thinking what do I want to do with my career,” said Mullins. “I was at a fork in the road looking down two career paths: one in R&D and one in marketing. The problem I had is I didn’t know what came next. Which path would I like better? A quick Google search turned up nothing but job postings. I don’t want to apply for a job yet. I don’t even know what I want to do!"

Where JobTitled is going next: “First and foremost is the data itself,” said Mullins. “We are constantly working on getting a larger pool of résumé data and improving our algorithms to get the most out of it. That is priority number-one. We also will be adding more ways for users to socially collaborate about careers and help describe, categorize and make sense of the job titles.”