Joshua Chao

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

• Potential Problem
• Our Investigation
• A Potential Solution

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• Potential Problem

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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.
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• 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
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Our Solution

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

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Competitive Analysis
Jobby
Monster
Friendster
LinkedIn
Facebook
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• 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.

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• The Investigation

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Interviews

• We wanted to understand
• Job seekers searching/applying process
• Job providers hiring process

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Interviews

• Technical job seeker
• Non-technical job seeker
• HR specialist
• Hiring manager

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Interviews

• For job seekers
• Go to job board
• Browse jobs
• (Register)
• Apply

Wants to include additional information

• For job providers
• Post job openings
• Wait
• Manually filter
• In-dept background search
• Phone interview
• F2F interview

• Work samples are useful

• Many irrelevant applications

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Survey

• Target groups
• Job seekers
• Job providers

Implementation

• Mailing lists
• Online forums

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Survey
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Survey
Job provider
Important
Trivial
Blog (65)
Cover letter (77 of participant) Personal
website (56) Academic/professional publication
(50) Search engine result (47)
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Survey
Job seeker
Important
Trivial
Blog (78)
Cover letter (88 of participant) Academic/profess
ional publication (72) Personal website
(50) Code samples (48)
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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

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• Potential Solution

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Our Solution

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

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Design Evolution

• Low-fi Prototype 1
• User Test 1
• Low-fi Prototype 2
• User Test 2
• Interactive Prototype

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Low-fi Prototype 1
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Low-fi Prototype 1
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Low-fi Prototype 1
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User test 1

• Create Application Form difficult to use

Weighting interface too confusing
Workflow modeling too restrictive
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Low-fi Prototype 2
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Low-fi Prototype 2
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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

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Process Flow
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Interactive Prototype - Dashboard
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Interactive Prototype Search Results
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Interactive Prototype Search Results
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Interactive Prototype Search Results
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Interactive Prototype Applicant Profile
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Interactive Prototype Applicant Profile
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Next Steps Where do we go from here?

• Perform user tests
• Perform heuristic evaluation
• Implement
• Pilot test
• Launch
• Continuously refine and improve

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Conclusion

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

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Thank you
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Gracias
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Questions