#3. Confessions of a Job Seeker – Sept. 2012
This series is based on a design journal that I kept between 09/12 – 02/13. New? Start here.

My initial attempts at job search were fairly unpleasant, and the use of job boards proved to be especially uninspiring. What really struck me about the experience, however, is that job search makes people feel bad about themselves. While at first glance this might seem like an obvious truth, I think it’s an important one to acknowledge because people rarely speak of it.

This is a critical design challenge for any of the job search or career tools out there. It kind of blows my mind how outdated some of the conventions of job search are and the extent to which we continue to use them. Anyone who is involved in product development understands the importance of user experience (I would hope). Yet when it comes to job search it seems like we’ve completely missed the point.