Navigation for Wise Scout - A blog about our online adventures while creating our job board - February, 2007

Ran the idea past a friend who has been in recruitment for the last 8 years or so. He quite rightly pointed out that they had something similar internal to their company but even this didn't match across the parameters we will put in our system. Quite motivating really.

Got a list of the hard parts of the system to get chewed into, in isolation they all appear manageable but the location based matching looks like  it is going to be the most difficult.

Cracked the initial page by page brief of all the functions we need and where they go. It is going to be quite hard to show any visual differentiation from our competitors but I hope the way ours works will give us something different from our competition.

 

To create a recruitment site for contractors (initially UK only) that adds some additional functionality that I haven't been able to find in any site I have visited, this is truly scratching my own itch as I am a contractor myself. The key problems I wanted to solve:

A. to be able to search one site for all contract specific jobs
B. to be able to create location and rate based searches to take into account the fact contractors usually need different minimum day rates depending on where they work
C. to keep track of where the other contractors are working but more importantly when they are looking for their next contract

I know some of these are covered in some forms on other sites but I hope I can make a site that does all of this and hopefully I wont be the only one who wants to use it.