Posts about searching for a job
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Updating all school roles categories
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Expanding the service to show all school roles when searching for a job
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Allowing hiring staff to list all school roles on the service
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Adding more working pattern options to jobs
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Invalidating locations from outside the UK when creating job alerts
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Updating the statutory induction year question in the jobseeker application journey
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Adding a visa sponsorship filter to the job search journey
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Showing if a role can offer visa sponsorship
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Allowing jobseekers to sort roles by distance
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Making our job roles on the service more specific 2
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Adding a right to work in the UK question to candidate profiles
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Making our job roles on the service more specific
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Improving the creating an account journey for jobseekers
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Adding more school type filters to the job and school search journeys
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Adding guidance for international teachers on search result pages
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Adding logos to job listings
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Changing the homepage to be the job listings page
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Filtering by jobs that use the application form (quick apply)
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Job listing page iteration
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Middle leader analysis
Analysis of middle leader categorisation
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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Reminding users about the application feature
Signposting the applications feature for existing users.
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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.
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A/B test: inline form designs for jobseeker account creation
Experimenting with create an account form position and appearance.".
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Sharing equality and diversity data
Sharing jobseeker equality and diversity data with schools.
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Automatically detect gaps in employment
An iteration on how we ask for details about gaps in employment
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Updating the search for a job form
Usability improvements to the search form on the service start page.
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Scope expansion - jobseekers
A round of usability testing to better understand how those looking for a job in education support search for jobs.
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The use of filters when searching
Optimising the usability and frequency of filter use when searching.
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A/B test: radius expansion links in site searches with no results
Radius expansion links helped users find vacancies without distracting them.
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Point and Polygon location searches
A brief history of location search on Teaching Vacancies; how we transitioned from text based search to a point/polygon location system to provide more accurate search results.
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A/B test: jobseeker account creation from home page
A more obtrusive button distracted users from finding vacancies.
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End-to-end application journey - round 1
A short discovery aiming to build our understanding of what the end-to-end teacher recruitment journey looks like for hiring staff.
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Teacher’s application testing - rounds 1,2 & 3
Three rounds of testing with teachers to assess the usability of the prototyped application form.