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GR1 - Task analysis

User analysis

General: Most of the Resumazing! users will fall generally into the category of people involved in the job hunt. That is, whether looking for employment or looking for potential candidates, these people are fundamentally interested in previous work experience (either sharing or browsing). Since our product targets the population that would need an interesting, enhanced resume to share with potential employers, and those employers are interested in details regarding education and projects, our tasks and user interface will be geared towards users comfortable on the computer with some prior experience interacting with web applications.

  • People posting resumes
    • Interested in finding a job or internship
    • Skewed towards the younger end of our user population (all our potential users were under 30, with a majority between 18-22)
    • Want to maximize benefit for time spent*** Spending much time already on job hunt
      • Won’t use an additional service unless it provides tangible gain
      • On potential user remarked: “I’m already on LinkedIn and have a profile on CareerBridge. I’d need to have a good reason to use a new service, too.”
    • Might already have an existing (traditional) resume (all our potential users did, sometimes multiple versions for different sectors, i.e. finance vs. tech)
    • Has interesting projects or educational experience that cannot be best transmitted in the traditional format*** Presentations
      • Reports
      • Videos
      • Code Samples
    • Persona: Rupert, a 22 year old senior at MIT, who is interested in finding a full time position. He has a few interesting projects and examples resulting from past internships, and a video and report from his 2.009 project. Although his traditional resume is well made, he feels that the full extent and interesting nature of his projects doesn’t get across without these additional materials.

Task analysis

Domain analysis

  • User
  • Resume
  • User has one resume
  • Extra media (the azing in Resumazing)** code sample** images** video** Design portfolios
  • Resume has any number of extra media (estimate 1-2 per project, 5 total projects, so 5-10 total)
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