As an engineer, the measure of your experience is in what you’ve done and what tools you’ve used.  It’s crucial to your career that you not only keep ahead of the learning curve, but ensure that people know what you’re good at - what you’ve used and how well you know a technology.

This is where rating a product can help your profile within the industry and help the community at the same time.  While writing a review is a clearer indication of your abilities, we don’t always have the time.  Rating a product can be done in just a few minutes.

Why rate a product:

• Show future employers your depth of experience

By rating a product you’re showing that you’ve used it enough to have a good understanding of what it can do.  Its pros and cons.  More than that however, it also gives an indication that you have an appreciation of higher level concepts beyond the functionality of a technology - “Quality” could be considered a subjective metric, but we know good quality when we see it and it is good to work with people with a good appreciation and high standards of quality.

• Give guidance to fellow engineers

Other potential users of a product appreciate what another user thinks of a technology.  Everyone is busy, and so the rating of a product by a fellow engineer can help someone in the community.

• Give vendors feedback

Technology vendors also appreciate objective feedback on how their product is perceived in the field.  They need to know how their product is being used and where they can improve it to better meet the requirements of the users.

With just a few clicks you can promote yourself, provide the community input and give vendors feedback to improve their products.

Sign-in to the Xuropa Platform and click on the “Rate a Product” button on the left hand side.

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