Members
Joy Agustin (jagustin@hawaii.edu)
Astrid Tomsic (astrid_tomsic@yahoo.com)

Memos

Plans

Requirements Analysis

Usability Testing

Conceptual Design

Prototype

Introduction

The Resume Index found on University of Hawai'i's (UH) Information and Computer Science (ICS) Department web site is an important service because it showcases the skills of students, professors and alumni of UH. The students and alumni will feel more affinity with UH if it helps them find a job. A high quality Resume Index would provide more job opportunities by bringing together recruiters and job seekers, resulting in a large, faithful user base. Currently, standards for job sites like Monster.com are very high and we believe that the ICS Resume Index needs to be improved to avoid recruiters, professors and students neglecting it in favor of those other job sites.

We believe many students, professors and alumni at UH with valuable skills are constantly overlooked due to the lack of a comprehensive and easy to use tool that allows them to share information about their skills. The current ICS Resume Index has begun to fill this need, but more improvements are needed to truly make this tool more useful.

Our proposed system improvements will provide the following benefits:

• Increased positive exposure for students, alumni and professors leading to increased positive exposure for UH and its ICS Department.
• Improved search capabilities leading to easier location of students with specific skills or skill sets.
• Improved comparison and skills sets matching capabilities of various students for work on projects or research teams.
• Recruiters can choose to be alerted by software agents if a newly posted resume contains skills that they require for a specific project.
• Added provisions with more resources to help students improve their resumes.

This project is not only limited to ICS students, professors and alumni, but can also be used by external recruiters who are looking for an employee with specific skills to fill a position. Recruiters would be more likely to re-visit the Resume Index if they can easily find the information they need.

The current Resume Index was evaluated formally and informally by three users (a faculty member, an alumni, and a student), the results of which can be found under the Usability Testing section.

Requirements

• Requirements Analysis
• Usability Testing

Design and Prototype

• Conceptual Design
• Prototype

Evaluation and Redesign

Conclusion