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Jan 25 at 12pm EST
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- API closed beta
- SSL protection
- Scheduling posts
- How the community would want a job board to function
The last topic is one we need to start discussing. The plan is to come up with a way to help match good gigs with talented developers & designers through the site.
Hi Guys, so I gathered my thoughts about the "job" component of the site. I think first the profile and resume pages can be tweaked and organized up a bit. These are just ideas. There are many ways to look at this.
I created a slideshow of my screenshots of the points presented below. Let me know if this slideshow should be taken down as it is public.
http://www.slidesnack.com/slides/130c714b3eaf54cb3edac799d1q44068
1. On a resume page, I think "profile" can be a big button just like the "message" button. I think seeing a user's "posts" would be helpful in learning more about the canindate.
It would also encourage users to contribute most "posts" to the site. (note screenshot of users who have not contributed any "posts" at all. This profile has been viewed over 30 times.
2. On the profile page, I feel the age of the person is unnecessary. And takes up prime real estate. The top of boxes is best for the most important of information.
3. I'm not sue about this thought of mine, but I'm going to throw it out there. I was thinking instead of "People" as a tab, the tab could say "Talent" instead. Maybe that's hitting people over the head?
4. Add a submenu to the resume page, just like there is one for the posts page. I think it would be easier to find talent if one could view resumes in a particular field or specialty.
5. One idea of the job board page, when posting a job could "talent" be suggested to the person posting the job? Would this be excessive, too much trouble for now?
On a side note:
1. LinkedIn has a "talent" menu link. The link goes directly to a page that asks for money. They call their search tool the "Talent Finder", interesting.
2. LinkedIn, lets users see what jobs match their profile. Knowing that it's a lot of information to look at all at once. And maybe unsure of how to encourage users to look for jobs on LinkedIn, they desperately draw in exclamatory notes like "Opportunities Abound." I think this is cheesy. At least, they didn't use an exclamation point.
Though there looks to be a job in NYC interested in my profile so I am tempted to apply to them. It's nice to get recruited in this way.
Sarah McAleer
January 28, 2012 3:10 PMSarah, this is truly invaluable feedback. First off, thanks for taking the time to put this together.
I agree with most of your points and the idea of renaming the People tab to Talent is growing on me.
What I like about your suggestions the most is that they focus on tweaking what is on the site already and you seem to have a great concept of how to increase the user flow and connectedness of the various pages.
The filtering of resumes (and for that matter talent) is outstanding.
Two things I don't think you've mentioned that I was thinking about are.
1. Allowing users to attach "Skill tags" to the profile. This would work similar to how tags for posts work. The tags would be used by the search engine and could help power the "suggested talent" feature you proposed. The jobs could use the same tags.
2. Give users a place to write out small accomplishments. An example would be "Implemented Solr fulltext search into Rails app" or "Designed a vector-based logo that won its 99designs competition".
I think #1 is something people could do quickly and easily to improve their profile. #2 would take a bit more time and due to how open ended it is many people would probably choose to not write out accomplishments.
Thoughts?
Jared Brown
January 28, 2012 3:35 PM