London Recruitment Agency Evaluation

CV Screen is a leading IT Recruitment Agency which recruits for organisations throughout the UK. London based IT Recruitment Agency specialises in recruiting Information Technology professionals for organisations throughout the UK. The purpose of the site is to help people who are interested in the Information Technology sector find suitable careers for them. I think the intended users for this website are mainly Graduates or anyone who is interested in finding a job related to Information Technology. After Graduating the next step is finding a professional job related to what you have studied so I believe this website is aimed at male or female aged 22-50.

Weaknesses

I think the website doesn’t make good use of the space on the screen very effective. The site is consistent in having the same layout on each page but I believe the layout of the page is not professional because the page is centred leaving the left and right edges blank. This is a waste of space and it is difficult for the user to read the text because it is all cramped in the centre of the page and the user needs to keep scrolling down to read all the information.

The homepage looks overcrowded with text and pictures. It is very difficult for the user to allocate the pages or information needed because there is no clear structure or navigation bar for the user. The website contains a lot of external and internal links which can be difficult for the user to use because they can get lost.

In my opinion the website uses too much colour for the text within each section. The web designer has changed the colour so that it stands out but I think this can be off-putting for a user when they keeps revisiting the website. The website needs to use more neutral colours.

Strenghts

One of the strenghts of the website is that you can view all the organisations and companies recruiting and add all the jobs that you are interested in to basket and view these later. This makes it easyer for the user because you can decide on many jobs rather than keep going back to the page and view all the jobs again. This saves time.

Tasks

For the task to be performed on website i have chosen to first search for a job. When typing in appropriate fields the search is completed and comes up with a list of jobs which are related to the job criteria. If you haven’t typed in a certain field criteria the search will not happen and an error message will appear informing the user they have forgotten to add information to one of the boxes.

The second task I attempted was to register my C.V which again I had to fill in another form. When completing the form I had to upload my C.V, but when browsing for my C.V an error message kept occurring informing me that the size of the file was to big.

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Micro-Blogging is a form of multimedia Blogging that allows users to communicate by sending short messages or Micro Media such as photos or audio clips and publish them, which then can be viewed by anyone chosen by the user. The main limitations are that users are restricted from writing long messages due to the 140 characteristics limit. Also personal security can be an issue.

The latest hype is around, Twitter which is a free worldwide Micro-Blogging service. Once you have joined Twitter you can use their search tool to find specific people, companies, and their tweets and have useful discussion on selected topics.

Edmodo is another example of Micro-Blogging, which provides a way for teachers and students to share notes, links, and files. Teachers have the ability to send alerts, events, and assignments to students and have a public component which allows teachers to post any privately shared item to a public timeline and RSS feed.

 

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging

http://www.blueverse.com/2008/03/30/microblogging-what-is-microblogging/

http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2007/05/your-guide-to-micro-blogging-and-twitter135.html

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