Team members Joshua Chao Jinghua Luo Jaime Parada

Team members: Joshua Chao Jinghua Luo Jaime Parada Yun Kyung Jung Academic Advisor: Yale braunstein

Our Story Potential Problem Our Investigation A Potential Solution

Potential Problem

Problems with job boards l Job seekers and job providers not connected effectively l Low hiring rates for Job boards (below 4%) Why? Nick Corcodilos, “Job Board Journalism: Selling Out the American Job Hunter”, Ask the Head Hunter, June 17, 2003.

Job Providers: Often existing systems do not simplify their search, filter & selection process Many unqualified applicants applying for the job Job Seekers: Systems that are complex and inconvenient to use Applicants have little flexibility in customizing their professional information according to their needs

Our Solution A clean and easy-to-use vertical search application called "hirecloud"

Competitive Analysis Jobby Monster Friendster Linked. In Facebook

We believe bringing in supplementary professional documents in the job hiring process can alleviate the problem of employment matching. We primarily focused on hiring in the market for the technical community because they are rich in supplementary information.

The Investigation

Interviews We wanted to understand: l Job seekers’ searching/applying process l Job providers’ hiring process

Interviews l Technical job seeker l Non-technical job seeker l HR specialist l Hiring manager

Interviews For job seekers 1. Go to job board 2. Browse jobs 3. (Register) 4. Apply For job providers 1. Post job openings 2. Wait 3. Manually filter 4. In-dept background search 5. Phone interview 6. F 2 F interview Wants to include additional information Work samples are useful l Many irrelevant applications l

Survey Target groups l Job seekers l Job providers Implementation l Mailing lists l Online forums

Survey

Survey Job provider Important Cover letter (77% of participant) Personal website (56%) Academic/professional publication (50%) Search engine result (47%) Trivial Blog (65%)

Survey Job seeker Important Cover letter (88% of participant) Academic/professional publication (72%) Personal website (50%) Code samples (48%) Trivial Blog (78%)

Survey – Key Findings Job Seekers l l l 1 -2 printed page resume Difficult to fit their professional qualifications Want to provide other supportive information Job Providers l l l Manually filter Many irrelevant job applications Other resources could be useful

Potential Solution

Our Solution l Easy to find relevant job applicants l Quick snapshots of qualifications l Factor in other professional information or resources

Design Evolution l Low-fi Prototype 1 l User Test 1 l Low-fi Prototype 2 l User Test 2 l Interactive Prototype

Low-fi Prototype 1

User test 1 “Create Application Form” difficult to use “Weighting interface” too confusing Workflow modeling too restrictive

Low-fi Prototype 2

User Test 2 System was intuitive and simple to use User liked break-down of supportive documents “Public Cloud” vs. “My Cloud” unfamiliar to user

Process Flow

Interactive Prototype - Dashboard

Interactive Prototype – Search Results

Interactive Prototype – Applicant Profile

Next Steps – Where do we go from here? 1. Perform user tests 2. Perform heuristic evaluation 3. Implement 4. Pilot test 5. Launch 6. Continuously refine and improve

Conclusion l Application of design methodologies l Focus on user needs l Foundation for a useful web application

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