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Led UX Research — Conducted research to understand candidate, recruiter, and business needs across the job search experience.
Connecting Talent
with Opportunity
From Job searching to Job finding.
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project overview
Helping You Find Your Next Job — Faster & Easier
With more people turning to digital platforms to find work, the job search experience has become increasingly fragmented. We saw an opportunity to simplify that journey—helping Guatemalans discover relevant opportunities faster and connect with employers in one accessible experience.
my role and ownership
Experience strategy through delivery
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Facilitated Recruiter Workshops — Led workshops with recruiters to uncover pain points, requirements, and opportunities to improve hiring workflows.
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Owned End-to-End UX Delivery — Led the UX process from discovery and strategy through interaction design, high-fidelity UI, and final delivery.
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Delivered accessible Web and Mobile Web design through close cross-functional team handoff.
research
Digital is changing
how Guatemala finds work.
Recruiter Interviews
Interviewed recruiters to understand hiring needs and uncover workflow pain points.
Experience audit
Audited the experience to identify friction, gaps, and improvement opportunities.
Other reviews
Abandonment across creating profiles or reviewing candidates.
what we wanted to learn
Questions that guided the study.
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How do people currently search and apply for jobs online?
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What makes a job platform easy or difficult to use?
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What opportunities could improve the experience for candidates and recruiters?
Strategy
From job search to the right fit
Four key moments emerged: understanding job seekers’ needs, helping them discover relevant roles, matching them with the right fit, and completing the application with confidence.
Understand
Pain point
Job seekers use multiple channels to find opportunities.
Opportunity
Create a more accessible and focused starting point.
Discover
Pain point
Too many listings make relevant jobs harder to find.
Opportunity
Make job discovery clearer and more relevant.
Match
Pain point
Candidates struggle to evaluate which jobs fit their profile.
Opportunity
Surface key information to help them find a better fit.
Apply
Pain point
Friction in the application process can discourage candidates.
Opportunity
Create a simpler path from discovery to application.
design principles
One meaningful experience
Reduce pain points and frustrating choices through simple design, and keep progress visible.
Confidence through the journey
Surface specific, relevant information to make decisions easy.
Status is part of the experience
Confirm actions, explain exceptions, and make success feel delightful.
solution
Building better candidate profiles
Helping candidates showcase their skills, experience, and goals.
- Partnered with leadership and Engineering to align requirements, validate solutions, and ensure successful delivery.
- Leveraged AI-assisted design workflows with tools like Figma Make to accelerate ideation, exploration, and prototyping.
- Led end-to-end UX across candidate, recruiter, and admin experiences on mobile web and desktop, creating a cohesive product experience across the platform.
Making opportunities easier to find
We redesigned job discovery to make opportunities easier to search, explore, and evaluate—helping candidates quickly find roles that better fit their skills and goals.
- Simplified Job Discovery — Created intuitive search, navigation, and filtering to help candidates find relevant opportunities faster.
- Improved Job Information — Structured key details to make roles easier to understand and compare.
- Streamlined Applications — Reduced friction between discovering a job and taking the next step.
validation
4,000+ and Growing
With 4,000+ active subscribers and participation in employment fairs, the platform is helping candidates and recruiters connect and creating more opportunities for talent across Guatemala.
Active Subscribers
4,000+
Connecting candidates and recruiters in the first months.
