Posts

  1. Improving the creating an account journey for jobseekers

  2. Adding more school type filters to the job and school search journeys

  3. Pre-populating a candidates profile from a previous application

  4. Adding guidance for international teachers on search result pages

  5. Hiding a candidates profile from schools and trusts

  6. Adding logos to job listings

  7. Preventing job seekers from turning on their candidate profile if they do not add their personal details or job preferences

  8. Handling incomplete sections of a candidate profile

  9. Filtering by jobs that use the application form (quick apply)

  10. Adding sub navigation to candidate profile pages

  11. Adding an 'Invitees' section to job listing pages

  12. Adding a school photo

  13. Removing the ‘What the school offers its staff’ field from the school profile and organisation profile

  14. Only showing qualified teaching status for candidates interested in teaching roles

  15. Changing the interstitial to make hiring staff aware of candidate profiles

  16. Changing the interstitial that prompts hiring staff to complete their school profile

  17. Changing ‘jobseeker profiles’ to ‘candidate profiles’

  18. Adding a school logo iteration 2

  19. How school profiles affect creating a job listing

  20. Job listing page iteration

  21. Prompting hiring staff to complete their school profile

  22. Prompting hiring staff to complete their organisation profile

  23. Creating an organisation profile

  24. Creating a school profile

  25. Notifying hiring staff about matching jobseeker profiles

  26. Making hiring staff aware of jobseeker profiles

  27. Viewing jobseeker profiles and inviting jobseekers to apply for a job

  28. Creating a jobseeker profile iteration 2

  29. Stopping draft job listings from having a publish date in the past

  30. Creating a job listing iteration 2

  31. Changing the interstitial after copying a job listing

  32. A/B test: position of similar jobs feature (desktop view)

    We decided to keep the similar jobs feature at the bottom of job listings on the desktop view of the service

  33. A/B test: popular searches (quick links) on home page

    The popular searches quick links were implemented because we deemed it unlikely that they would worsen users’ search experiences

  34. A/B test: Map-based search results

    A/B test for map-based search results

  35. Automatically deleting old draft jobs listings

  36. Finding schools

  37. Creating a jobseeker profile

  38. Handling draft job listings with a publish date in the past

  39. Copying a job listing iteration

  40. Creating job listing iteration

  41. Middle leader analysis

    Analysis of middle leader categorisation

  42. A/B test: more personalised subject lines on job alert emails

    Subject line variant 2* was implemented because it generated a higher click-through rate (CTR) to a vacancy from the job alert emails.

  43. A/B test: subject filters

    Subject filters were implemented because users do engage with them when they are present, and because they will be necessary to enable future work of mapping search terms to filters.

  44. A/B test: collapse keyword & location fields into a pop up in search results for mobile users

    Collapsing these fields into a pop up reduced the proportion of searchers who found relevant results and significantly reduced the proportion who refined their search

  45. A/B test: move keyword & location fields to the top of search results for desktop users

    Moving the fields had no impact on search success, but encouraged searchers to refine searches using filters more often

  46. Notifications for hiring staff users

    Creating a notification system to notify hiring staff users when an application has been received for one of their job listings.

  47. Create a job - making it easier to copy an existing job

    Allowing hiring staff to copy an existing job listing when creating a new job.

  48. End-to-end application journey - round 3

    A round of usability testing, where we aimed to be ambitious with our prototype and think bigger for future development of the application feature.

  49. Reminding users about the application feature

    Signposting the applications feature for existing users.

  50. Application management features as of November 2021

    Looking at the application management features we tested in round three of the end-to-end application journey research.