SELECTED DESIGN

30–70 split experience for inputting & viewing

DESIGN GUIDE

REJECTED DESIGN

We develop the user flow to know the apps screens to see the future flows and organize the ideas that we had for the app.

when applicant sign and upload the doc.

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Name of the HR who shortlisted the applicant.

Identifies this applicant is from consultancy

Consultancy name

Job function

Location of the applicant

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Experience

Salary

Qualification

Requesting for an interview

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Identifies this applicant is from consultancy

Company location

Job Profile name

Profiles which match the requirement are suggested with metric to consultancies.

Brief about the applicant with date and timing

Collaborators are the HR Managers.

Interviewer name

Web version

View for consultancy in web

View for consultancy

Showcasing "Expectation" to the user for letting them know that it carries total 10 questions, to reduce frustations.

Option to pick question category.

Mandatory option will make it compulsary for applicant to respond

Rounded progress bar, with percentage which shows the completion of profile details.

Add more question

Total number of profiles with filter

This shows who posted and when it was closed.

Mode of interview :

  1. F2F- Face to face

  2. Online

Active Metrics for the recruitment process.

Additional documment if needed to showcase

Interview feedback, with specific reason t pick.

Video resume is a feature of Workruit , This banner takes applicant to that web link, where you can record your video.

Share resume link, a feature of
Workruit resume builder.

If the Applicant chooses online, Link will be visible.

For employer, under the hired section, HR manager will confirm whether applicant joined or rejected the offer.

Status

Once offer is signed by applicant, Consultancy HR manager upload that offer letter.

Offer letter link sent by an employer to download for signature.

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Document filter : VISA, Resume, Driving license

(01) STAKE HOLDER - CONSULTANCY

CARD OF APPLICANTS & EMPLOYERS

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CARD OF DASHBOARD

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CARD OF SHARE PROFILES

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CARD OF MANAGES PROFILES

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CARD OF ACTIVITY

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CARD OF PROFILE INFORMATION

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IMPACT CREATED (10)

A tool designed to make better decisions for better recruitment and job search.

After conducting usability testing with client, we discovered that the activity feature was most effective for both the stakeholders. With valuable feedback, we iterated on the design.

An Innovative Platform Connecting Employers, Consultancies

and Job Seekers for Effortless Recruitment and Job Search.

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Workruit is a HR tech based company in India, which help college students and recruiter to get the right match inside Telangana state, Our recruitment product focuses on improving applicants resume through AI. On the other hand, Helping employers to find the right match.

This project is targeting US client, In the "Talent Linker" project, we bring together consultancies and their pool of talented applicants with employers to enhance the recruitment experience.

Our service is meticulously crafted to facilitate a seamless recruiting process between two crucial stakeholders: Employers and Consultancies, alongside their prospective candidates.

Stories worth telling about

Company

Workruit for USA

Timeline

September 2022 - Ongoing

Role

Product Designer
I led this project as the Product Designer, journey from initial exploration to final implementation, which included understanding the brief, conducting research, ideating, designing, and prototyping. Throughout,
I maintained close collaboration with the product manager and partnered closely with engineers.

Team

01 Product Designer
01 Product Manager
10 Engineers

KEY TAKEAWAY (11)

Reflection on the project outcomes

We decided to start with the must and should features, we consider that those features could solve the main problems and relieve the pain points of the user like frustration for having to fill out their profile and cv again and not having accompaniment in the job search process.

FEATURE (03)

Enabling user registration for both employers and consultancies

Employers and consultancies involves capturing essentials details such as personal information, company details and domain specifications. User are encourages to provide social media links for enhanced connectivity.

FEATURE (02)

Effortlessly Send invite to HR manager by providing their work email and specifying the department. We can send invites to multiple users, and each will receive an email prompting them to join the platform and streamline collaboration.

In the pending profiles, all invitations are consolidated in the pending tab. Once accepted by the user,
they seamlessly transition to the Existing tab.

Invite HR Managers: Streamlining Communication

  • (01) STAKE HOLDER - CONSULTANCY

    (01) STAKE HOLDER - CONSULTANCY

FEATURE (01)

The consultancy dashboard offers a comprehensive view of upcoming interviews, displaying a curated list of scheduled meetings.

Additionally, the "My Team" feature provides insights into HR manager's activity, while a dynamic status section tracks the number of applications, rejections and successful hires for efficient monitoring.

Consultancy Dashboard

  • Following the interview, feedback can be provided, and a decision to either accept or reject the candidate can be made.

FEATURE (03)

Tracking the Selection Process: Activity

Shortlisted applicants will be moved to the 'Shortlist' tab, where HR managers can schedule interviews and make necessary edits.

  • When creating a job, users can include a variety of additional information, including a questionnaire feature that empowers HR managers to formulate diverse questions, request necessary documents, and add collaborators for each job posting.

    Create Jobs

FEATURE (02)

In the Talent section, the employer's HR manager can access a comprehensive list of
consultancies along with their details, including the individual applicant profiles.

This feature enables users to effortlessly view and select applicants based on their specific details.

Talents for Employer to find out

FEATURE (01)

Employer Dashboard provides a comprehensive overview, featuring upcoming interviews with a curated list of scheduled meetings. The 'My Team' section offers insights into HR managers' activities.

Dashboard for Employers

Status display tracks the number of shortlisted candidates, conducted interviews, and successful hires for efficient monitoring and decision-making.

  • (02) STAKE HOLDER - EMPLOYERS

  • Interview Process

  • Feedback for the meeting - Individual applicant data is seamlessly transferred to the HR manager for efficient processing.

  • After being hired, the applicant will be moved to the 'Hired' tab. Users can then download the offer letter and activate the option to upload the signed offer letter.

    Accepting Offer Letter

FEATURE (09)

In the Activity section, consultancies can efficiently track and manage the
recruitment process, including stages like Applied, Interview, Hired, and Rejected.


HR managers have the ability to accept interview requests, provide feedback on
completed interviews, and accept or reject offer letters, while also facilitating the submission of signed offer letters.

Jobs activity for consultancy

FINAL VERSION OF FIDELITY DESIGN

FEATURE (08)

Applicant Detail Page & History

Users have the capability to view comprehensive applicant details, encompassing qualifications, mandatory documents, and general information and user can view applicant history. Additionally, a distinct feature allows for the inclusion of Video Resume URL and Resume URL for seamless online sharing.

FEATURE (07)

Users can monitor the completion percentage of profiles submitted by applicants. It displays the status of users as either
active or deactivated, indicating their current employment status— whether working, not working, or under notice period.

Additionally, There is a filter options based on job functions and a search features which enable users to easily find specific profiles.

Uploading Applicants and Monitoring their Data.

  • Upload single profiles or multiple profiles, each displaying the percentage of completed information. Users have the option to edit existing profiles or continue providing additional details.

    Upload Applicant Profiles

QUICK OVERVIEW

My goal was to offer consultancies/ job seeker a seamless application process tailored to their interests and requirements while ensuring that recruiters have a straightforward selection process.

FEATURE (04)

Conversation between Employer and Consultancy

HR managers can share specific details of their applicants' profiles within the conversation with their employers.

FEATURE (05)

Enhanced communication and understanding with the employer by seamlessly sharing applicant profiles. This feature includes key metrics such as role fit percentage, job function, experience, qualifications, and other pertinent details extracted from your uploaded applicant profiles.

Sharing Applicant profiles with your Employer

FEATURE (06)

Employers create a questionnaire when posting a job, and it is intended for applicants from the consultancy to fill out.

This questionnaire serves to provide the employer with a fundamental understanding of each applicant when profiles are shared.

Pre-profile Sharing Questionnaire:

FEATURE (04)

Job opportunity for consultancy

Within the jobs section, companies marked with an interested tag command special attention,
emphasising tailored opportunities. Recommended profiles within each company's detailed view.
Save jobs future action and utilise the messaging option for seamless communication.

  • My Onboarding procesess with both Consultancy and Employer.

Considering the employer and consultancy as primary stakeholders. For the mobile version, employers and consultancies each have their own distinct login pages.

CONSULTANCY (01)

I crafted this onboarding process with a focus on simplicity and user engagement, considering the employer and consultancy as primary stakeholders. Both parties will have access to their dedicated portals.

LOW-FIDELITY SKETCH (08)

We develop the user flow to know the apps screens to see the future flows and organize the ideas that we had for the app.

DEFINATION OF FEATURES

Task prioritization using the MOSCOW Method

We decided to start with the must and should features, we consider that those features could solve the main problems and relieve the pain points of the user like frustration for having to fill out their profile and cv again and not having accompaniment in the job search process.

BUCKETING USER JOURNEY

Bucketing user jobs into the stages of the user journey

User jobs from the Jobs-To-Done exercises helped us see patterns and map out the user journey
into seven broad buckets. For the MVP we ideated concepts under each of these buckets.

COMPETITOR ANALYSIS

DESIGN GOAL (05)

The experience review helped us define our focus areas for creating this newly platform.

USERS OF TALENT LINKER (04)

Talent linker platform will be used by different personas across various roles in businesses. In addition to our direct customers, even our customer's customer(end-users) fall under our user pool.

Our users include Main HR, HR Manager, Consultancy Main HR, Consultancy HR Manager & in future individual applicants. However Talent Linker will be widely used by various bodies, Our personas have to be flexible and inclusive of consultancy, job seekers & employer as well.

WHAT ARE THE USER NEEDS?

INSIGHTS

We interviewed 5 users in an average of 30 minutes to ask some questions about their experience when looking for a job, we found an interesting data.

USER RESEARCH RESULTS & FINDING (03)

We analyzed the survey data looking for coincidences and patterns, focusing
on things that could be improved and pain-point when looking for a job:

EXPERT INTERVIEW

Qualification is an important factor that is affecting the market in US. Many vacancies are not being filled due to a lack of qualification, which mean that there is a mismatch between supply and demand.

  • Our Study profile has been based on the unemployed and employees in active search for work, aged between 25 and 45 years.

DESIGN PROCESS (03)

Following the design processes doesn't just give users an intuitive and pleasurable experience - it poses an opportunity for designers to iterate and improve their designs.

  • BREAKDOWN OF THE PROBLEM

Streamlining the process between consultancies & employers for job roles.

Crafting a seamless flow where employers find the right match.

Organizing essential information, qualifications for efficient processing

Establishing a system for seamless registration of multiple applicants.

CHALLENGE (02)

  • Our primary challenge was creating a streamlined solution for consultancies
    to effortlessly share diverse applicant lists, including vital professional information like qualifications and VISA document.

  • Additionally, How to empower consultancies in promoting applicant's profiles to specific employers.

WHAT WAS THE PROBLEM?

WHAT ARE WE SOLVING?

  • We've developed a flexible web and mobile platform for Consultancies and Employers.

  • Employers and teams can streamline candidate shortlisting and create job postings with questions in this centralized hub.

  • Targeting the U.S. audience, we've added essential filters for an enhanced user experience.

  • Consultancy account support multiple users, facilitating easy access, applicant uploads, categorization, simultaneous sharing of lists with job posts and improved shortlisting.

  • Employers gain advantages with multiple profiles and access to Consultancy profiles.

  • How to ensure that employers could easily review and select applicants linked with multiple consultancies, visible on their job posts.

  • TALENT LINKER

MY DESIGN APPROACH (01)

My design approach places a strong emphasis on the platform's core features, allowing consultancies and employers
to create profiles, manage applications, and efficiently navigate through the recruitment life cycle. This includes the crucial steps of interviewing applicants, making hiring decisions, or respectfully declining applications.

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PROCESS (06)

Enrolling our triad into our design workshops worked out wonderfully as our engineers and program managers came with deep product knowledge about the legacy and history of hiring and the product's backend infra. This gave us diverse & comprehensive perspectives as we charted out a plan for MVP.

Identifying & Prioritizing User jobs

A comprehensive list of user jobs across personas were framed and stack ranked. This exercise laid the foundation for our MVP.

USER FLOW (07)

Structure and streamlining the concepts

We develop the user flow to know the apps screens see the future flows, and organize the ideas that we had for the app.

USABILITY STUDY (09)

After completing the low fidelity prototype, We approached the participants that were initially interviewed during my primary research phase to conduct a moderated usability test to analyse how users will interact with the app. The following were the findings acquired:

There should be a prompt asking if the user wants to submit the application or not.
• There should be a page asking questions related to the job.