Newsweek has a fun little toy on their website that imports your LinkedIn profile data (or lets you simply fill out a form) and create a ‘treemap’ of your work history.
Your career tree traces the branches of your education and work life, and lets you connect with others who share similar paths. Every addition causes your tree to grow a new branch so the bigger the career, the bigger the tree. And you can share it with Facebook friends and on Twitter!
See my tree above. The size of the circles indicate the length of the job, although I can’t really figure out the rhyme or reason of the branching.
It’s a fun toy, but it has limited use. Merging in information like recommendation, friends, or at least a popup with the description of the job would be more useful.
