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Joshua Chao Jinghua Luo Jaime Parada Yun Kyung Jung

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. Job seekers and job providers not connected effectively

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Joshua Chao Jinghua Luo Jaime Parada Yun Kyung Jung

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

  2. Our Story • Potential Problem • Our Investigation • A Potential Solution

  3. Potential Problem

  4. Problems with job boards • Job seekers and job providers not connected effectively • 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.

  5. 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

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

  7. Competitive Analysis Jobby Monster Friendster LinkedIn Facebook

  8. We believe bringing insupplementary professional documentsin the job hiring process can alleviate the problem of employment matching. We primarily focused on hiring in the market for thetechnical communitybecause they are rich in supplementary information.

  9. The Investigation

  10. Interviews • We wanted to understand: • Job seekers’ searching/applying process • Job providers’ hiring process

  11. Interviews • Technical job seeker • Non-technical job seeker • HR specialist • Hiring manager

  12. Interviews Wants to include additional information For job seekers • Go to job board • Browse jobs • (Register) • Apply • For job providers • Post job openings • Wait • Manually filter • In-dept background search • Phone interview • F2F interview • Work samples are useful • Many irrelevant applications

  13. Survey • Target groups • Job seekers • Job providers Implementation • Mailing lists • Online forums

  14. Survey

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

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

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

  18. Potential Solution

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

  20. Design Evolution • Low-fi Prototype 1 • User Test 1 • Low-fi Prototype 2 • User Test 2 • Interactive Prototype

  21. Low-fi Prototype 1

  22. Low-fi Prototype 1

  23. Low-fi Prototype 1

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

  25. Low-fi Prototype 2

  26. Low-fi Prototype 2

  27. 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

  28. Process Flow

  29. Interactive Prototype - Dashboard

  30. Interactive Prototype – Search Results

  31. Interactive Prototype – Search Results

  32. Interactive Prototype – Search Results

  33. Interactive Prototype – Applicant Profile

  34. Interactive Prototype – Applicant Profile

  35. Next Steps – Where do we go from here? • Perform user tests • Perform heuristic evaluation • Implement • Pilot test • Launch • Continuously refine and improve

  36. Conclusion • Application of design methodologies • Focus on user needs • Foundation for a useful web application

  37. Thank you 감사합니다 Gracias 谢谢

  38. Questions…

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