Should I really become an explosives worker? Spencer Thompson's Sokanu wants to be like a Match.com for careers.
There aren't many 21-year-olds you should talk with for career advice. But when that 21-year-old, like Spencer Thompson, has built an elegant website that uses survey questions and data to find a career that suits you best, you might want to listen. Sokanu (pronounced “so can you,” though Thompson acknowledges the name scans more “like a Japanese noodle company”) contains a database of some 500 careers, with metrics on what sort of person thrives in that career. By posing a series of survey questions, Sokanu can begin matching you with your ideal career.
Today, Sokanu launches a new service called “Career Stories,” about how people came to be what they are. Here, lessons on choosing a career at a time when some people question whether the very notion is obsolete.
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