Check Out My Yahoo Kickstart Profile & Get Yours

Today, Yahoo launched their new social networking site geared towards college students and alumni named Kickstart. We first wrote about it over here, where we described that this service will help college students looking for jobs connect with alumni who already have jobs and might be hiring. There is more coverage of the Kickstart launch […]

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Today, Yahoo launched their new social networking site geared towards college students and alumni named Kickstart. We first wrote about it over here, where we described that this service will help college students looking for jobs connect with alumni who already have jobs and might be hiring. There is more coverage of the Kickstart launch at Techmeme.

I decided to give it a try, and this is what my profile looks like at the moment:

Yahoo Kickstart


Let me take you through the process of signing up.

(1) Go to Kickstart and click on “Getting Started.”

(2) I was logged into Yahoo, so they asked me to find my college:

Yahoo Kickstart

(3) I typed the college name into the search box and it came up below, so I selected it:

Yahoo Kickstart

(4) Then I entered the details of my college experience into Kickstart:

Yahoo Kickstart

(5) I then filled out details about myself:

Yahoo Kickstart

(6) Added my classic icon, aka, my photo:

Yahoo Kickstart

(7) At that point, it took me to my profile page, where I was able to add more details about myself. Such details included places I have worked and my interests:

Yahoo Kickstart

That pretty much covers it. I have yet to connect to any people, so feel free to search for me and connect with me. My profile should be available over here.


About the author

Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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