Case Study: UW Job Center

Client

The UW Student Job Center lists part-time, limited term employment (LTE) and summer job openings located at UW-Madison and off-campus in the private and public sectors. Both job seekers and employers need to be able to post resumes and position descriptions, respectively.

Challenge

The process of connecting job seekers with employers is potentially labor intensive and slow. To reduce the administrative burden, employers and students would have to enter and manage their own information while the web application would handle the workflow. And, the workflow would have to function smoothly, providing students and employers lots of feedback through email notifications.

Solution

The new site ( http://substitute.doit.wisc.edu/jobcenter) would be a database-driven web portal. Students would use "My Profile" and "My Jobs" to manage their job search. Employers would enter jobs in predefined categories which could easily be displayed by job seekers. The site would also provide other useful information (events, special help for international students, links, bus lines and maps) for job seekers.

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