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Alyssa, an MIT student, visits the MIT Jobs site to look for an internship for the summer. She clicks on the MIT tab at the left and is presented with the interface on page 1.
She then clicks on the huge “Sign In with MIT Certificate” button at the center of the page. She is now presented with the interface at page 5.
The few tabs at the top allow her to transition between viewing all posts, posts she is keeping track of, updates to posts she is tracking and her messages. Since she is looking for an internship, Alyssa clicks on the “Browse” tab at the top left of the page so that she is within the set of all posts to MIT Jobs. She then adds some filters, say “internship”, “summer” and the set of posts that are displayed becomes more specific to her suchsearch. Eventually, she singles out Ben’s post as a potential good match. She clicks on the post and it is displayed in the right panel of the interface. she reads the specifications of the position and figures she fit the profile. She clicks the “follow” link at the bottom right so that she can get updates on the position. She also decides to send a message to Ben to express her interest in the post. She clicks the “Message” link at the bottom right. A textbox appears below the Job post with a “send” and “discard” button under it. She types her message and clicks “send” when she is done.
Dragos, another MIT student, follows the same procedure as Alyssa to log into the MIT Jobs site and to search for an internship for the summer. He also likes Ben’s post. Unlike Alyssa who is not already interviewing with any companies yet, Dragos is in the third round of interviews with two companies that he really likes. He decides to “follow” the post from Ben, more like as a back-up option in case his other interviews do not go well. He clicks on the “follow” link at the bottom right of the page -- this enables him to receive notification on any updates that are made to the advertised position. He also sends a message directly to Ben, to notify him of his current job-search situation.
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Dragos will see the message in his message inbox, and know that the position is filled
