Networking is not everyone's game. According to LinkedIn's Opportunity index 2020, 76% believe that networking can lead to better jobs but only 22% are actively pursuing that route. Therefore, the jobs page is very much desired.
Significant time is wasted because job listings lack adequate details for users to click them
Research findings suggests that clicking a job listing is not only about investing time and energy, but is also about being hopeful. A misleading job kills all of it.
Findings clearly showed that many job posts are text-heavy and time consuming unnecessarily.
Many value the 'Open to Work' feature but its benefits are seldom experienced. Hiring managers unanimously regard LinkedIn Jobs as a productive tool whereas job seekers dont.
AFSW enables users to search for jobs efficiently by reducing repetition, increasing transparency, streamlining access, and leading users to results where every job clicked converts to an application submission.
Currently 39% of LinkedIn users i.e. premium users, bring only 10% of the revenue. This share can increase if LinkedIn jobs UX is improved.
While actively job hunting, it was evident that LinkedIn does not dedicate much resource to improving the jobs page. Statistics and user reviews on LinkedIn jobs suggest severe bias towards hiring over job searching.
While LinkedIn curates jobs, provides adequate features, insights and access to recruiters/hiring managers, it causes cognitive overload and fear of loss by providing so many ways to search for jobs.
Other well known platforms that are primarily job boards were researched and compared to LinkedIn to isolate best practices. Each column is ranked for the given row.
Defining the user is extremely crucial for a jobs page as it determines the kind of value LinkedIn jobs would provide.
LinkedIn jobs provides several collections to choose jobs but the choices also induce fear of missing out
One of the biggest drawbacks of LinkedIn jobs is the cognitive overload it causes - one listing after the other
Ensuring each listing is valuable and actionable
One of LinkedIn's core feature is the filter function which plays an invaluable role while job searching. Therefore ease of use is vital
The revised design rolled back the filter feature to its original layout, but with a few minor design elements from version 1. This change allowed for other aspects of the page to be optimized as well.
The open to work feature must be the cornerstone of LinkedIn jobs as it can streamline the job search process significantly by setting one-time preferences.
The experience filter has been greatly criticized for its unreliability. Furthermore, other meaningful data driven filters are much desired by LinkedIn users.
The current LinkedIn Jobs shows to many different collections to job search causing unneccessary stress. The revised design removes choices and allows users to control what they see.
Tailoring job listing descriptions to the user can significantly increase their productivity
Providing a summary option can reduce cognitive overload significantly. Furthermore, converting key sections to tabs provides visibility into what LinkedIn offers for each job and inform the job seeker's decision making process.
Making LinkedIn Jobs page suggestions relevant to the task or purposeful can boost the job seekers.
