Scenario
We based our scenario on several conversations with international students in our dormitories and living groups. We also spoke with a recruiter at a large multi-national company that recruits for both domestic and international positions and a tech startup recruiter. We plan to discuss the idea further with recent graduates and the MIT Career Services Office.
Isamu is an 18 year old who attends Brown University. He immigrated from Nagoya, Japan to the U.S. for his freshman year of college. He has quickly learned about the American way of college--late nights studying, dealing with a roommate, and eating two meals a day in the dining hall (he always sleeps through breakfast). It’s early spring and Isamu has heard a lot of buzz about needing to find an internship for the summer. Isamu has some previous wet-lab experience and would love to work in a research and development group at a biomedical firm near Providence, RI. He notices that everyone has been polishing up their resumes and getting their dress clothes ready for Friday’s career fair. Another Japanese student points Isamu towards IvyPlusResumes and suggests that he use the site to build his first resume before the career fair.
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Design 1: The Wizard Approach
Storyboard
1.1 - Having decided to use IvyPlusResumes, Isamu points his browser to the website , and decides to sign signs up. Very simply, the signup interface asks him to provide his email and a password.
1.2 - After Isamu signs up, he will be directed to enter his basic information such as name, contact info, and address in order to be used in the future resume. Nothing out of the ordinary here, just filling the various fields and checking some options from a drop down menu.
2.3 - Now Isamu arrives to the very first step of resume building. He is asked to provide information regarding his college and high school education. Using each add field, Isamu adds Brown University and his highschool, and high-school. He can add more information for each one item via the "Add More Info" button (which supposedly will bring a pop-up pops up a window with fields to add more data).
2.4 - Afterwards, Isamu is asked to supply different experiences to his resume. He can use the "Add Experience" field to insert an experience or a position to his resume, and then click the "Add More Information" for each experience to augmented with additional information add details such as the position, the dates of start and /end dates, and the different tasks accomplished in each experience.
2.5 - Next, Isamu repeats the exact process for his leadership experiences and adds the enters his different leadership positions to his resumeexperiences.
2.6 - When Isamu arrives to this page, he would have has finished entering the information of for each category (Education, Experience, Leadership, etc.). In this pageHere, therefore, Isamu can change the order of categories and subcategories in the resume, and removes things that he does not want to show. The different panels has an offordance have the affordance of dragging , (encouraged via a small icon) and are easily removable, giving a great form of flexibility in reordering and selection.
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