Applicant tracking systems are complex SaaS products that companies use to seek talent, gather candidates, assess necessary skills, and hire for positions.
Hiring processes are a complicated process because not only does it involve job candidates and skills, but is integrated into a complex system of people management including employee engagement tracking, skills training, and organization maps/headcount systems.
The main problems can be summarized into three main points:
Business success is driven by having the right people in the right place. Effective hiring practices directly correlates to employee engagement, which can contribute to the overall success of employee driven businesses.
The stages of job recruitment include: analyzing requirement, planning recruitment process, attracting candidates, and selecting candidates. Recruitment and selection of qualified candidates play a critical role in businesses success and organizational development. Long recruitment cycles and discriminatory job requirements are obstacles that both recruiters and candidates experience.
Jazmin is one of the main user personas for this product-- a busy, 31 year old technical recruiter currently in peak hiring season at the software company she works for.
This chart displays Jazmin's journey map as a technical recruiter. Her expectations are to post multiple job listings, track candidate progress, and design an efficient interview process for her candidates.
The MVP called for the following main features:
These are the initial wireframes in the ideation phase.
For the visual direction, I decided to go for a minimal, sophisticated look to reduce the clutter especially for a complex product like an ATS & people management platform.
The values this design system reflects are user-centered design, intuitive design through minimalism, and accessible navigation.
My client wanted a simple and minimalistic branding to the product. I went for limited primary colors with a simple and clean font to achieve this look.
Some common patterns in the design system include:
Organizes extensive information on the platform including candidate profiles, job creation, and planning components.
Used in the job board view, job listings (candidate view), and candidate resources.
Organizes the candidate pipeline.
Here's a collection of some of the main components used in the product.
The final MVP with basic functionalities (use full screen for interactions).
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