An improved system of organizing candidates

A task analysis to capture every user action

Working with my product manager, we mapped out every possible user action on the pipeline including interactions of different roles in a recruiting team such as interactions between a hiring manager and a recruiter, based on the 1500 customized hiring processes we studied.

Translating the task analysis into a "Stage and Status" system

The user flow chart is translated into a stage and segmentation system that makes up the new information architecture of the pipeline. The additional layer of sub-groupings under the progressive stages follows the mental model of recruiters when they organize candidates and take actions accordingly. I chose to combine two existing design components to represent the sub-groupings as users were familiar with their meaning and function. I created a new visual design of the stages to represent its visual hierarchy more accurately.

More succinct and action-driven candidate cards

In order for recruiters to know what actions to be taken once they've landed on the pipeline page, I synthesized 3 types of info that were important for recruiters from user research. Iterations were explored and critiqued by the design team. The final design provides a clear action-taking status indicator and only relevant information for recruiters to review before taking an action. Statuses can be reassigned after an action is taken.

Final Design - an organized pipeline for action taking

By piecing the building blocks together, I designed a stage and status system that divides candidates in a stage further into subgroups with the concept of "status". To save time, recruiters can filter candidates by statuses and take bulk actions. Different stages have different corresponding statuses.
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The "exported" page has a different view as the page acts as a status tracker which serves a different purpose from other stages.