Talent Intelligence

Problem

Recruiters, candidates, and clients needed one system for talent data without fragmenting the workflows.

Responsibilities

• Synthesized stakeholder and user input to align candidate, client, and admin workflows with business goals and product constraints.
• Defined the information architecture and role-based navigation across admin, candidate, client, and authentication flows.
• Designed the dashboard, candidate management, profile editor, skills taxonomy, shared profiles, and audit log experiences.
• Simplified dense tables and form-heavy workflows with filters, deep links, reusable components, and progressive disclosure.
• Designed the tokenized candidate skill-assessment flow to support autosave, resume state, and accessible navigation.
• Shaped the read-only shared profile experience for clients, with clear visibility into link status and expiration.
• Collaborated on loading, empty, error, and retry states to make operational workflows resilient.

Key Challenges

• Balancing a data-heavy admin interface with clarity, speed, and low-friction editing.
• Supporting multiple user roles and permissions without fragmenting the experience.
• Designing secure public flows that work without standard login while still protecting candidate data.
• Making candidate skill submission reliable across interruptions, refreshes, and session recovery.
• Keeping the product scalable as the skills taxonomy, profile sections, and sharing workflows expand.

Key Design Decisions

• Used a persistent admin shell with deep-linkable pages so users can move quickly between tasks.
• Prioritized dashboard metrics, filters, and tables to make candidate health and sharing activity immediately visible.
• Structured candidate profiles into clear modules for about, experience, education, projects, skills, and media.
• Kept candidate and client journeys intentionally minimal, removing admin controls and unnecessary navigation.
• Added explicit loading, empty, and error states so teams can trust the system during day-to-day use.
• Designed around secure token-based workflows to support shared access without exposing full application access.

Impact

• Created a single, structured workflow for candidate data, skills, and sharing.
• Improved operational visibility through dashboard metrics, filters, and auditability.
• Reduced friction in candidate self-assessment with a guided, resumable flow.
• Enabled safe client sharing through expiring, revocable links.