How not to design a job board

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Comment by Brian Regan on June 17, 2008 at 12:51pm

Need to fix up the design and center the middle better. Also, seems like Search Optimization could be an issue.

Comment by Ed Taaffe on June 17, 2008 at 1:00pm

it may as well be ebaay as far as a job hunter is concerned, the immediate reaction is , " dont thy even want me to look inside?"

Comment by Jenny Robertson on June 17, 2008 at 6:24pm

They own several...all with the same design.

Comment by Jenny Robertson on June 17, 2008 at 6:26pm

Actually, maybe it's the color, the others don't seem as bad.

Comment by Dennis Gorelik on June 17, 2008 at 7:27pm

This job board doesn't have job search box available for anonymous user.
That's weird approach. I wonder why would users use it at all.

Comment by Willy Franzen on June 17, 2008 at 9:03pm

Plenty of things. The login box bothers me the most. That's an instant bounce for most visitors.

Comment by Eric Shannon on June 18, 2008 at 9:07am

416 jobs in all of Connecticut?

Comment by Chris Russell on June 18, 2008 at 9:17am

its a dying job board eric...

Comment by RecruiterGuy on June 18, 2008 at 9:17am

If I had to guess... it would seem to be an 'out of the box' solution where the new owner has fumbled through the template and killed some spacing or code around one of the tables or div's.

Unfortunately I'm seeing what I see wayyyy too much on niche boards. No place to jump right in and search. So geared up around getting the login and email data, some boards forget that they're fighting an attention span in job seekers that can only rival that of a fruit fly!

Heart set on getting that data? They should make the search functional but only allow company name or application info to be visible upon registration. Or (gasp) get the registration information in the application process so that it's seamless.

Having said that - after digging a bit through the sub-menus you can find postings, but again - this doesn't stand out, and isn't that the point if this board is really for the job seekers?
Also - I don't see any jobs on the front page... so what kind of jobs are they? what fields? where are the details?

Not trying to be brutal here, but it would seem that so many sites, boards, applications, etc. get designed by people that aren't using them. Ultimately the functionality may be there but isn't presented the way that the target audience (or user) would expect or require it. It's a shame, really. There are typically so many inexpensive and easy fixes that would make a world of difference.

Just my $0.02.
RecruiterGuy

Comment by Dennis Gorelik on June 18, 2008 at 10:19am

Chris, when did they introduce that login box?
How fast are they dying?

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