GR1 - Task analysis
User analysis
Computer Literacy and good command of the English language assumed for all users
- 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, and also trying to find possible UROP's or opportunities to work with startups.
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 can e-mail 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.
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.
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.
- Sign in
- Preconditions: Sign up (using username and password for non-MIT users and using MIT certificate for MIT community)
- Create Job Position:
- Preconditon: Sign in
- Subtasks:
- Specify the position.
- Specify the job group.
- Specify the required competences.
- Specify the location.
- Specify instructions to apply (e.g. provide company website “Apply Online” link, careerbridge company posting link etc.)
- Specify a deadline
- Specify any other details.
- Browse job postings
- Precondition: Have MIT certificate
- Subtasks: Select department, job-group and job type
- Follow job posting
- Precondition: have MIT certificate
- Subtasks:
- Browse job postings
- select that you want to follow a given posting
- Send question to Job offerer (Company recruiter, Professor, etc).
- Precondition: Have MIT certificate
- Edit job position:
- Precondition: Sign in, be creator of the post you want to edit
- Subtasks (all optional):
- Change the location.
- Change the required competences.
- Change the deadline
- Delete job posting
- Preconditions: Sign in, be creator of the post you want to delete
