IITB Portal design hackathon
Brief of the work
So, if you already know me I’v currently graduated but no job. But in this scenario I’ve got some pending tasks from Uni to complete. Right now the biggest in this pipeline is the re-vamp of placement portal and honestly I actually regret for taking up this work. I was told that I’ll be paid but let’s wait for pratik to keep his word. Anyways the goal is to bring the portal design to a step where anyone can pick up this workand complete it, preferably juniors.
To start with I’ll give you an idea of the current status of the design work. There are three important actors on this portal. Student, Recruiter, Co-ordinator(IPT member).
Student
So this is the jobs view for a student profile. The left nav contains all the tabs for navigation. When you open the ‘Jobs’ tab it shows you the list of jobs like a regular list but in cards. Each job card cotains the company name(which you can click and look at the company page), job title, Job type(Metatag, which you can click and filter the jobs with that metatag), a short desc about the job because a little short desc wouldn’t hurt, Location of the job(Same, filter with that location), Eligible stamp.
On the top there are 2 filters, well actually one ‘view by’ and the other is ‘list by’. The view filter contains 4 filters:
- Time
- Alphabetical
- Job Type
- Company
This is the view filter I would want as a student looking for jobs in the uni placements.
Then I started with the filters for ‘List by’:
- IT/Software
- Design
- Business
So now what are the filters the students need while finding jobs. Let’s see…
I’m looking for jobs obviously in the field I’m stdying in i.e., UG Department, Masters specialisation, Research specialisation. I’m not sure how many Ph.D studetns use portal much but looking at UG and PG folks I should look at kind of role keywords for each discipline:
- Design - Design
- Computer science - IT/Software
Btw, these are the filters that LinekdIn uses:
Seems like LinkedIn uses A.I to show the jobs which is not what we are doing in the portal. LinkedIn is about finding jobs worldwide with any keyword search. In our portal what we are aiming is showing the jobs with simple filters where students from the uni can find jobs easily. Students look for jobs from their own department to continue career path i.e., core jobs. These core jobs should match with their department that means while craeting the job we need to ask the company about the department that the job is relavant to and the type of job(Design, IT/Software etc.,)