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Site Architecture For A Job Portal
Posted By: asharma* on 9/2/2004 3:30 AM (CST) 125 Points
Hi all,

I need to make site Architecture for a Job Portal. I have visited many of such sites, and the more I see the more I get confused :). The portal will provide things like registration for job seekers, submit their CVs, track jobs, articles abt making CVs, search by industry, position, etc.

From the employers point of view, it ll list out hot or featured employers. Employers login etc.

I need to categorise all this kind of information to make it simple for a user to go about doing his task.
i would appreciate if anyone can tell me the approach of doing this.

Thanks

Posted by: Jett* Accepted Answer
9/2/2004 7:28 AM (CST)
Well, the best way (aide from hiring someone to do it for you) is to compare the navigation and service structure of some of the most popular sites.

Try these:

www.talantzoo.com

www.careerbuilder.com

www.monster.com

www.elance.com

www.oklahomacityhelpwanted.com

Talentzoo.com seems to match your description of what you are trying to do.

I hope this helps!

Good Luck!
 
Posted by: ASVP/ChrisB Accepted Answer
9/2/2004 8:01 AM (CST)
Why re-invent the wheel?

Here's some even better sites:

www.seek.com.au
www.careerone.com.au
www.mycareer.com.au

Hope these help

ChrisB
 
Posted by: asharma* Author Response
9/2/2004 8:38 AM (CST)
Hi people.

Thanks for the response. I have gone thru the sites mentioned by you guyz.. To be more precise, the portal is for a Gulf based organisation. Now does this information need a change in my approach to cater to the local taste of people there ?

More importantly I need to know the approach as to how should I go about categorising the content of the job portal. A Job portal does 100 different things like submissions of CVs, mailing job postings, reference articles, career counselling, company research, Educational guidance, Learning Centre etc. etc.

I need to come up with a comprehensive Architecture and organise all the above into a clean and usable Job Portal, thereby conforming the Usability concept of Web Designs.

Can anyone help me for a good approach to take up this task.


Thanks in advance.
 
Posted by: W.M.M.A. Accepted Answer
9/2/2004 10:53 AM (CST)
I would like to suggest that you contact a person named Brian Bearden of Zephyr-Salvo.
www.zsalvo.com. He has a lot of experience in the design of direct response and informational sites.
 
Posted by: thinkmor Accepted Answer
9/8/2004 11:19 AM (CST)
Hi Asharma

Do you know who you are targetting? Locally based or International?

Is this a specialist or generalist job site?

With this sort of concept, you need to find jobs to post first, so your first priority should be profiling the businesses and finding the vacancies.

At the same time, by using some of the example sites above (try also http://www.totaljobs.com http://jobs.guardian.co.uk ), compare what all sites offer customers and break them down in core and essential criteria that customers expect and use.

You'll need to evaluate both prospects visiting your site and your business customers.

Keep the approach simple and reflect this in the site but make the architecture modular that can be expanded as you develop the site.

If you need any help design or build wise, please contact me directly.


Hope this helps you.

Zahid Adil
 
Posted by: jcmorand Accepted Answer
9/14/2004 10:01 AM (CST)
Think out of the box! All past examples are valid for historical reasons. Look for new SW architecture ideas such as:

- Use an XML schema to classify all the job according to an industry taxonomy.
- Use RDF to classify the job and candidates profiles
- offer RSS feed to alerts job seekers or employers.
 
Posted by: Sharon Moderator Response
9/25/2004 6:23 PM (CST)
Hello all. I am closing this question. This is standard procedure when the question author gets busy and falls out of the conversation for a while – or doesn’t understand the procedure for closing.

Thanks for participating!
 


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