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

Potential Problem Our Investigation A Potential Solution Our Story

Potential Problem

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

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

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

Jobby LinkedIn Monster Friendster Facebook Competitive Analysis

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

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

Technical job seeker Non-technical job seeker HR specialist 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.F2F interview Wants to include additional information Work samples are useful Interviews Many irrelevant applications

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

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

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

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

Potential Solution

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

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

Low-fi Prototype 1

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

Low-fi Prototype 2

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

Process Flow

Interactive Prototype - Dashboard

Interactive Prototype – Search Results

Interactive Prototype – Applicant Profile

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

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

감사합니다 Thank you 谢谢 Gracias

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