Design Prompt
LinkedIn decided to build a marketplace for freelancers.
Design a flow for hiring a professional.
Duration
65 min
Brief Introduction
From personal experience, having been on the platform
1. Why – Understand your goal
- Learning about LinkedIn’s mission and value statements.
- Learn why it is important.
- Learn how it gives opportunity for people looking for jobs.
- Utilizing their LinkedIn profile is a must.
- Hiring manager don’t have to go to other platforms or leave LinkedIn to hire people. Benefits: all in one place.
- Hire manager can easily scan an applicant’s profile.
2. Who – Define the audience
- Companies looking for new employees, hiring managers, director.
- Hiring someone with reputable and knowledgable skills
3. When and Where – Understand customer’s context and needs
- I need to hire the someone to complete a project or a task.
- Desktop on a browser. Desktop platform.
- Takes under 2 mins to review the candidate base on their.
- Interview. Complete the interview process.
4. What – List ideas (A, B, C…)
- Complete the interview process.
- Web desktop platform
- Accept/Decline applicant.
- Stages of the interview process.
- A way to contact each other
- Creating a job contract
- Work progress.
- Rating approval
- Price / Payment / Invoicing / Tax
- Time Hourly
- Job board / Announcement Page.
5. Prioritize and choose an idea
- Complete the interview process. (Great)
- Web desktop platform
- Accept/Decline applicant. ()
- Stages of the interview process.
- A way to contact each other
- Creating a job contract
- Work progress.
- Rating approval
- Price / Payment / Invoicing / Tax
- Time Hourly
- Job board / Announcement Page.
6. Solve
- Gets a notification or some kind of alert that a person has signed up for a job.
- The hiring manager clicks on the notification, and is brought to see the applicants profile resume and posts.
- The hiring manager reviews the application. He/She can choose whether to interview the applicant or decline application.
- The hiring manager does an interview. Determines whether he/she wants to move forward with applicant (or does round 2 of interviews) or not.
- HM proceeds to move forward by sending contract for applicant to sign and review. [Determine how payment is handled.]
- [Determine how ratings and approval is made.]
7. How
- How popular it is?
- How many people use it?
- Initially interest vs final result.
- Reviews
Every Monday for about an hour, Natalia (Website & Instagram) and I do exercises from the book called “Solving Product Design Exercises: Questions & Answers” by Artiom Dashinsky. We brainstorm points 1–5 and 7 together, and work on point 6 separately.