4 of the Coolest Networking Apps for Job Seekers - CareerEnlightenment.com

You can see how many connections you have, add more connections and indicate which skills you have for potential employers to find you by. Below, see where your friends work, and follow brands that you are interested in.Highlight  is a mobile networking tool not for the faint of heart…or those who have issues with location-based apps. Highlight uses your location and tells you when you are nearby other Highlight users. Your name and profile picture are pulled from your connected Facebook account, and you can include where you live, your job title as well as links to your Facebook and Twitter account if you like. Throughout the day, Highlight tracks where you’ve been in relation to other users.  Meeteor  is a professional networking tool that differs from Branchout in that it does not run as a Facebook app. Connect Meeteor to Facebook or LinkedIn and watch as your professional network, and your knowledge about the people in your professional network, grows. Meeteor is unique, howe ver, in that it offers suggestions for who you should introduce yourself to, based on your existing network and your interests. In other words, it finds the people you should know and tells you to go network with them.Cardmunch  is a more traditional tool for this list, but not behind the times by any means. While we are constantly reading articles about how to use Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn for professional networking, we seem to have forgotten about the good old-fashioned business card. Cardmuch is a tool for mobile devices that not only allows users to take pictures of business cards and save them to a mobile device, but provides detailed information like which connections users have in common, immediately after snapping the photo. Check out this Cardmuch video to see the app in action: