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- He said he had a more wholesome experience on MITJobs when he thought of himself as a job seeker than when he thought of himself as somebody who is offering a job post. When he created a job post, the application deadline he entered was earlier than the other posts in the system, and hence his post got appended to the end (as we had sorted posts on Date). To quote him: “For some reason, the browsing scheme seems a lot smoother than the posting scheme. When I post something, it does not show up at the front page, it goes to the end of the list of posted things. Despite the fact that the ‘Create Post’ button stands conspicuously at the top of the page, the user is equally served if he can see his post immediately after creating it -- he shouldn’t have to go to the last post to see it. On the other hand, the filtering scheme for browsing is the big shot feature over here, I believe. It’s what makes browsing smooth. Maybe increase the filtering categories to allow filtering by company too.”” To address his main concern, we would add some feedback for post creation such as a message at the top of the screen "Post has been created".
- He proposed displaying the “My Posts” tab only for the recruiters, and moving the “Posts I am Following” from the “My Posts” tab to the “Browse” tab. As for recruiters (non-MIT affiliates, this tab would only have "My Posts" and not "Posts I am Following", we had not envisioned that it would be a problem for a user who could potentially be a browser and a recruiter. The "My Posts" tab thus merges the 2 views together for such a user, and these parts should be separated. He said the “My Posts” tab was just confusing when he thought of himself as a job seeker, both in its name and its content. Both suggestions were good.
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