Scenario
Paul Williams is a rising Senior in 6-3 at MIT. He has just finished a summer internship at Facebook where he was allowed to plan his own summer project and given significant freedom as to its design and implementation. It went live on the site at the end of the summer and now 25 million users regularly use the feature he implemented. Realizing this is a rarity, he wanted to tell other people about his positive experience so Paul goes to Jobious to post a review about his experience. After logging in, he navigates to the review submission page and completes a survey about his internship.
After posting his review, he wonders what steps people make did after they had this internship. He searches for the Facebook software internship he held and begins reading the reviews, most of which describe an experience similar to his. He doesn't recognize any of the names of students that held the internship in previous years, but they have listed their contact information. Using this he sends Charlie Williams, a recently graduated alumnus who held the Facebook internship the year before Paul and now works for Amazon in the electronic services division, a message saying he would like to know more about the positions that will be open to him. Charlie and Paul exchange messages a few times trading both stories about their time at Facebook and commentary about the next steps in both of their careers, leading Paul to apply for a position at Amazon as per Charlie's recommendation.
Designs
Minimal
Tree
The tree design is based up the idea that the mouse is the main way of interacting with application.
Home/Best Matches
On login the user is presented with the positions that we have automatically matched to their profile preferences.
All Jobs and Filter
This view is accessible by clicking the All Jobs link in the top of the page. This view allows the user to click navigate to positions by major or to filter the large number of positions using the ranking metrics or keywords.
Reviews of the Position and Contact Holders of Position
The user uses the tree representation and/or the breadcrumbs at the top of the page to find the position in which the user is interested. Once they have found a position, they can contact users who have posted reviews if the review was not posted anonymously by clicking on the user's name. This will provide an email address and a launch the preferred client of the user.
Post Review
This allows the user to post a review. In order to post a review you must first navigate to the position page as shown in the first 2 thumbnails. Once you have found the company position that you have had, clicking on the plus sign allows you to post a review of it by bringing up the contextual dialog to fill in your review of the positon.
By forcing the user to navigate to the position we ensure that we do not post myriad of reviews stored in different locations about the same position.