Joshua ChaoJinghua LuoJaime ParadaYun Kyung Jung

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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, 2003.

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 seekers1. Go to job board2. Browse jobs3. (Register) 4. Apply

For job providers1. Post job openings 2. Wait3. Manually filter4. In-dept background search5. Phone interview6. 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

Survey

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

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Top Keywords: Java, C++, XML, Autocad, Wireless, Visio, Management

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Education: University of California, Berkeley, MS in Computer Science, 1999 – 2001

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, BS in Computer Science, 1995-1999

Experience: International Business Machines Corporation, Senior Software Engineer, 2001 - Present

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Education: Stanford University, MS in Computer Science, 1999 – 2001

University of California, Berkeley, BS in Computer Science, 1995-1999

Experience: Intel, Senior Software Engineer, 2001 - Present

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Low-fi Prototype 1

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

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

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Process Flow

Interactive Prototype - Dashboard

Interactive Prototype – Search Results

Interactive Prototype – Search Results

Interactive Prototype – Search Results

Interactive Prototype – Applicant Profile

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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