Ux
Ui
Web Design
GradLaunch
Making applying that much easier.
GradLaunch
Making applying that much easier.
2-3 Months
Mobile Application
UX/UI Designer
How can we help users build a community within and outside work with other grads?
How can we hold interviews accountable and provide feedback on why they weren’t hired?
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To help users have more control when applying for jobs and have a community to lean on, I created a desktop application to ease the process of applying to jobs while helping users track their interview results and build a community with like-minded individuals.
The Solution
Age between 16-40yo, many of the complaints I’ve heard, seen, and researched have been the younger generations.
Those living in the United States of America, since this is the area I’m most familiar with.
Soon to be or recent graduates, those who may be either graduating from colleges, certifications, or trade schools
When researching who my audience is, it became clear that main category of users that’ll I’d end up designing and solving this problem for are:
Who’s Our Users Exactly?
What can I use from them that might help my own endeavors? Their information layout, design etc...
What our users actively complaining about?
What do users like about them? Their features, looks, design, functionality etc...
Pain Points
Jobs are posted even though they aren’t available
Lack of transparency and legitimacy of employers
Unrelated job postings for users
Pain Points
Specifically only for university/college students
Job legitimacy
Less focus on Non-traditional jobs, caters towards corporate jobs
Filters jobs by majors
Pain Points
Irrelevant job options
Employers not responding to users after
Lack of customization for job preference and/or jop alerts
Lack of good quality jobs
Way up
HandShake
CollegeRecrutier
After building up a basic understanding of the problem at hand, I researched and analyzed three different competitors doing things similar to me, those three being College Recruiter, WayUp, and Handshake. When analyzing their sites, I wanted to keep in mind three things:
Once I set down the questions I wanted to ask and a basic foundation, I moved on to gather data and researching more competitors to see what I can learn from. Below are some snippets of my competitors site along with notes and thoughts I jot down.
After researching and understanding users perspectives and issues with job applications, I noted three main patters:
Who’s Our Competitors?
Lack of quality job postings, some job applications being fake, unrelated to what the user is doing, or not available.
Lack of customization, being able to customize job recommendations or profile to get the jobs and alerts you want/need.
Lack of ways to communicate with employers, and not knowing how their application process is going.
Their Goals
Whether it be applying, posting etc.
Time Spent
How often/long do they job hunt for?
Their Frustrations
Applying, posting, navigating...
What do they want?
What do they think would make it better?
Now that I have a solid idea and direction of what needs to happen, I moved on to curating questions and interviewing 5 users, 2 who are attending a university, 1 who dropped out, and 2 who are taking/did certifications instead of school. The general main idea of the questions I asked was:
Tackling Interviews
Users encountered fake jobs and ended up almost falling for them.
100%
Users ended up job hunting for more than 1 month after graduating
80%
Found it annoying and disheartninh when no one reaches out after an interview
100%
Hate the applying process.
100%
Dislike the lack of community and profile customization to get jobs recommended for them.
100%
From the interviews, we found that:
Interview Findings
Persona
Persona
Once we established our users, we created some personas to really narrow down and understand our audience’s needs as best we could.
Personas
How Might We’s
Either snaps from figma or build in the case study
Started to create How Might We’s to ideate ways that could potential help users with their painpoints and struggles.
How Might We...
User Flow
Either snaps from figma or build in the case study
After establishing and concreting the research, I moved on to creating a user flow that would best benefit users to make sure the process is as intuitive and simple to use as possible.
User Flow
User Content
IMGS from Figma
User Content
IMGS from Figma
User Content
IMGS from Figma
Establishing all content that’s going into a screen before designing to make sure everything is designed and present for user navigation.
Screen Content
When I started sketching, I started focusing on designing a flow that ensures users can easily see and know what to interact with and that promotes them to explore the features available to them.
Wireframes
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The Sign Up Process
Tracking Your Application
Hi-Fi Solution
A platform that focuses on guiding graduates to obtaining jobs in their respected industry through workplace professionals.
We’ve all been there, put in over 100 job applications only to get an interview back from one, and the interview being conducted by an AI Chatbot. Not fun. We can go on and on about some of the issues when applying to jobs, but the main problems we’ll be tackling today is:
How can users view the progress of whether they’ll be hired after their interview?
The Job Applying Experience
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