Progressive Web App For Career Development

A brief of the platform

A job seeker can perform following key functions in the platform:

• Participate in a 10 day game that allows job seekers to experience a simulated job search.
• Access career development resources related to job search and career related information.
• Search for a job through built in Indeed for current job openings where they live.
• Determine what jobs will available in 1-2 years by accessing government sponsored labour market information.
• Receive alerts from the app administrator on job search programs and can also send out messages via the app to alert of program announcements.
• Get alerts if there’s any possible disruption in the skills / industry the job seeker is searching jobs in.

Solution Provided

• After receiving the initial brief, our Technical Business Analyst had set up a few web-meetings with the client to discuss the project in details. Each meeting led to finding new details towards how the user will access the various elements within the PWA.
• An initial user journey via wireframes was drafted and submitted to the client for review.
• The UI/UX designer then created the UIs for the progressive web app and sprint roll-out started afterwards.
• The PWA integrate to several APIs to fetch job feeds and labour market information and present it to the user.
• A secured back-office application was developed in order to offer the admin with features to manage the user-generated content in the app.
• Push-notification was programmed using Pusher for scalable delivery.