The Jobster team shipped a number of new features for professionals last night, as described by Jason.  

Personalized url.  Now, every jobster user can have their own personalized url. 

        [phil writes: mine is http://www.jobster.com/people/philbo]

Get your own by visiting your home page on jobster.  Having your own personalized url on jobster is an easy way to direct people to your career profile, whether you are looking for a job, hiring, or just networking for your career.  Act fast to get yours before someone else claims it.

Personalized home page.  Now, every registered jobster user gets their own personalized homepage with real-time suggestions of jobs that match their interests and experiences.  To see this feature, you will need to create a free jobster account.

Video profiles.  This is a feature that we’ve received many requests for and are now doing some in-production testing with. 

Video profiles are a hot topic of late, as noted here in the Wall Street Journal and here on NPR.  Many of us also remember the story of Aleksey Vayner and his misfire here as well.

In our first implementation of video profiles, any Jobster user can add a YouTube video to their Jobster profile.  For instance, you can see mine here. This is a potentially great way for candidates to stand out by posting a video resume. We’ve also had a lot of interest from employers in using this feature to post videos about what it’s like to work at their companies or in their particular groups, or to just better explain what they are looking for in a candidate. 

We’ll see how this one develops.  A recent poll i conducted on this blog found that 4 out of 10 people would be interested in adding video to their career profile (higher than expected), and that there was considerable interest in posting video resumes and/or videos about what it’s like to work at a company.  Again, we’ll see how this one goes…