HumanCode Studios™

As the Director of Design & Development of Monster Labs LLC, a since dispersed division of Monster Technologies for Monster Worldwide (Monster.com), My team was responsible for visual design technology R&D, focused on information search and retrieval, rich Internet applications and emerging Web technology. We worked closely with Laszlo’s Professional Services group on the West coast to provide the following proof of concept.

OpenLaszlo technology proved to be an outstanding resource for rapid, advanced media development. One of the first Laszlo challenges we put to the test was Monster’s core competency: Job Search.

The following demo is “canned” for demo purposes only. All of the jobs were fed to the previously live interface via a secure, jobs XML feed. From the main page you’ll see the latest job postings flowing into the interface via a user’s saved “Job Search Agent”. In this case, we’ve used “Executive” as the primary keyword. Provided this was live, this feature would return the latest “Executive” jobs for this user.

To begin the demo, just click “GO” from the search box to start exploring the app. Again, this is s proof of concept, not all features are functional or present. The actual job posting references have been removed.

Some features to explore:

• Sliding Filter controls
• Results layout format (cards or list)
• 3D Keyword Map – this “DNA-Strand” interface demonstrated how job seekers could effectively help refine their job search by discovering alternate job titles that applied to the same or similiar skill-sets. Essentially, job strands were joined together by variable sized spheres that:
  • By it’s relative size, conveyed the number of jobs in the database with that title.
  • By the adjoining titles gave some indication to how alternate titles could be attached to the same job description
  • By clicking a titled sphere, “re-strung” the DNA based on the job title. This in turn would also provide updated search results at the same time.

  Click the + tab attached to the keyword map to open in full view.

You can take it for a TEST-DRIVE HERE