GR1 - Task analysis

User analysis

Computer Literacy is required for all users. Although ethnic backgrounds may vary, a reasonable command of the English language is assumed.

• Typical MIT student browsing work/experience opportunities- 17 to 27 years old
• College recruiters recruiting students for jobs/internships
• Start up founder/president looking for partners
• MIT Professors/graduate students seeking students to work on projects

Personas

John: John is a 20 year student at MIT. He is a sophomore pursuing his degree in Computer Science looking for a summer internship. He has attended the last two career fairs, but he didn’t get any offers. It is the spring semester and he is looking desperately for a summer internship in software development. He is looking through CareerBridge, company websites, contacting professors to find possible UROP's and also looking for possible opportunities to work with startups. He constantly keeps tracks of the e-mails he gets through the jobslists mailing list.

Ben: Ben is an MIT student studying Management (Course 15) who has a fantastic idea for a startup. He is looking for business partners to help him in the technical implementation of the product. Currently, he has e-mailed the Course 6 department mailing list, and other mailing lists such as individual dorms/fraternities. There is no web platform which can enable him to find partners from the entire MIT community, which he thinks is an obstacle to his finding the right partner.

Dr. Brian: Dr. Brian is an MIT professor in the Department of Economics. He developed a new model that describes better the interaction in the market, but he needs help developing a simulation to test this new model. He is looking for graduate students for RA’ships or undergraduate students to work as UROP’s in his lab. To advertise the position, he would send it to several department mailing lists.

Ms. Rose: Ms. Rose is an 40 year old campus recruiter for NuReax, a firm specialized in making nuclear reactors that is located in Chicago. The company is expanding and just hired Ms. Rose so the company can hire competent workers. She is advertising full-time and summer internship opportunities for MIT students at NuReax. She has been trying to advertise through department mailing lists, and also held a booth at the career fair. It is hard for her to keep track of the students who were interested in positions with the company; she has sign up sheets at info sessions and at the career fair, and also has resumes of students she received at the fair and also through career bridge or her company websites. To contact the interested students (e.g to remind them to apply online, or inform them of a deadline), she has to e-mail them all individually.

Task analysis

• Sign up (only for non-MIT users e.g recruiters, start up founders etc).
  • Preconditions: none. Frequency: once.
  • Subtasks:
    • Enter name
    • Enter role (recruiter, start up founder etc)
    • Specify e-mail address
    • Specify other contact details.

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