To design an Android application for connecting a niche segment (grey collared) job seekers with it’s employers.
The jobs finding platforms out there are all evidently there to cater to all the worldly needs under the employment umbrella. You could filter out the segment, industry and nature of work and ultimately get to what you are looking for, but the needs for different segments might not fall with-in the one-size-fits-all framework. That is specially true for the grey collared segment where things like screening the right candidate by resumes and cover letter are lesser important than in other segments.
The job seekers in the segment including: restaurant cooks, waiters, delivery boys, drivers, receptionist among others.
The Employer: usually agencies that hire at scale for various organisation’s grey collared staffing requirement and sometimes the organisations (including restaurants, bars and small companies) themselves
I’m a big fan of the word and the application of designing any product that fits in a framework. A design framework is essentially an overarching guide that allows your design to always remain intact. The idea is to abstract what you are designing to a minimum possible layout and have that framework extend to a maximum possibility scenario within the scope of that project. A design framework makes room for unique scenarios without breaking the overall architecture. It also accommodates for having different user types be able to navigate the app seamlessly by only making relavant information available to them.
In designing the job platform, here on refereed to as ‘Kaam’, the idea was to have a framework that remains unchanged (except for the relevant set of data applicable within) for both the user types, viz. the jobseeker and the employer.