This is a very simple suggestion. You may already employ it. But perhaps tagging would add that something extra you are looking for. Connecting seeker to job and job to seeker may be facilitated by searches that are aided by lots of metadata. Tagging, though free form and therefore a little messy, may give you the depth of metadata you need without having to put people through extensive questionnaires like a dating service.
Joseph Selbie Founder, CEO Tristream Web Application Design http://www.tristream.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryan Minihan Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 5:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Guidance on building a job-search engine I'm moving on from my current job to a tech lead position building a social-networking-esque startup that connects people looking for opportunities to people who provide them. Basically, it's a job-search site for a niche market. The nature of the niche requires users to upload videos of their work, so leveraging an existing service probably won't work. I'm under NDA for now but may be able to provide more details in the future... Anyway, from the above description, you can guess that I've already identified this as basically a matching process, and I hope to optimize that process to help the users of the site. I have TONS of ideas for how to improve things, since right now there is no real connectivity built in - you enter your profile, send in your video, and hope for the best. I'm looking for some literature or books that might help me look at this process more holistically, learn from others who have built successful matchmaking or job-search sites, and avoid running down the impossible paths. I'll be building the tech team from scratch, so need some gritty details to go with an overall approach to the user's problem (so read: algorithms, plus possible sample personas and process flows). I don't know if the above exists, but if you want to learn more let me know, or if you can recommend any good reading on the topic of sites that connect people (with a purpose) together, please post or let me know via email. Thanks! - Bryan http://www.bryanminihan.com ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
