HumanCode Studios™

Save it, apply to it, attach a resume to it and/or match/score that job you found online against any other others you’ve saved as potential new positions as you build your career.

As an R&D project with Monster Labs (for Monster.com), we created a “concept-car” toolbar proprietary to a consumer facing application being created in parallel to manage and “deep-dive” into any and all jobs saved to it.

The toolbar concept itself allows a user to search, save, apply, show similar, and match/score any job posting found on any of the major job boards.

Some features the toolbar includes:
- Minimize mode
- Saved searches by Zip Code, radius, salary requirements, and job type
- Previous saved searches
- Apply to Jobs directly from the toolbar
- Choose and attach a resume directly from the toolbar
- Score a job posting
- Bookmark Job postings
- Automatic Login
- Auto updating
- Personalized skins
- Search similiar jobs across the web.

A working prototype was developed primarily using Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, C++ programming language and Microsoft’s Visual Studio.

Combining a decade of “Home Page” usability and focus-group results on what Monster’s users would like most from the Monster.com home page, we created a contained experience using OpenLaszlo and Adobe Flash that provided instant user-experience gratification (no re-directs) of user controls. For Job Seekers, the functions such as job search, member login, job search results, collapsible advertising and broadcast video are all functional from within the same working view.

For Monster’s Employer home page an identical design and development approach was taken with the addition of expandable advertising “modules” to accommodate alternative revenue streams such as “featured employers” and “special offers”.

In terms of global site consistency, both versions followed the same control/feature/function layout. – i.e., searching for jobs exhibited the same user behavior as searching for resumes. Unifying user control behaviors such as this, regardless of their source (seeker or employer) created a consistent, integrated user experience for either side of the business.