Tyler Watts

Demographics

1. Gender: male

2. Age: 31

3. Experience: 0-1 years

4. Profession: McKay Books manager

5. Level of Formal Edu: High School diploma

6. Type of Professional Education: Freecodecamp

7. Soft skillset and level:

1. Hard skillset and level:

• JS (0 - 1 years/intermediate)
• React (0-1/Beg)
• NodeJS (0-1/Beg)
• Express (0-1/Beg)
• MongoDB (0-1/Beg)
• HTML (0-1/Beg)
• CSS (0-1/Beg)
• C# (Beg)
• .Net (Beg)

1. Tech Saaviness: 8
2. Adoption Style: 8

Key Behavior Questions

1. What do you expect from a job portal?

• like to be able to filter by experience level
• qualifications
• tech stack
• remote/location
• name of company
• title of position
• details about project(s)

• members of team

• SCRUM? AGILE? methods
• at least a salary range
• how longs the job has been posted

1. How do you search for jobs?

• LinkedIn
• Indeed
• Stackoverflow
• Dice
• ZipRecruiter
• Google
• Peer-to-peer networking

1. What gets you excited about a potential job? What turns you off?

• Excited:
  • That he meets the qualifications: tech stack, experience level, tech that he lacks
  • Decent salary range
  • Company that has a good reputation (or not a bad one)
• Turns off:
  • Seems qualified but "entry-level dev with exposure to a language AND must have a 4-year degree in CS"
  • arbitrary qualification that has no sway on ability to do the job but blocks the opportunity

1. Which method do you used the most/least? why?

• Most: LinkedIn - likes that LI profile is the resume and lets it apply with that; makes it easy to apply
• Least: Stackoverlfow - not a lot of people post there

Needs & Frustrations

1. What helps you decide to respond to a job posting?

• Meeting the qualifications
• Reading the description and feeling comfortable with the company culture
• Needs to be within 50 miles of where I live

1. What is most frustrating about searching for jobs online?

• minimum qualifications blocking ...
  • entry level posting ==? 8 years
• job posters being held accountable for accurate representation
• same job posting over and over
• filtering companies I don't want to see
• filter out by type (recruiter, direct hire, ...)

1. What is most frustrating about applying to jobs online?

• going to an external website and creating a new account in order to apply/rejected
• LinkedIn split view -> clicked read full description -> full description didn't have apply button? (user error?)

1. What's your biggest fear about the job search phase?

• that it is going to take much longer than it is estimated to take
  • 6 month window
• get into an interview and be trash at it, forget how code works

Goals

1. What kind of job are you/would you be looking for now?

• Full time
• contract-to-hire ok
• uses tech stacks that he is exposed to
• offer some ability to work remote (family reasons)
• salary comparable to what he's making

1. What would you want a job portal/board to do, ideally?

• see a name and picture with the posting; it's not just some anonymous poster
• job post: at a glance, what exactly the job position is for; job title consistency
• title should have level incorporated into it

1. What kind of information are you expecting from a job posting? Before you click on it? On the job post page?

• Before:
  • Level of experience
  • Job title
  • Tech stack
  • Company, city and state
• Job Post:
  • like to be able to filter by experience level
  • qualifications
  • tech stack
  • remote/location and address
  • name of company
  • title of position
  • details about project(s)

  • members of team

  • SCRUM? AGILE? methods
  • at least a salary range
  • how longs the job has been posted
  • aim of the company and the programs
  • am I working in multiple programs/projects
  • who is the end user
  • HR email address
  • link to the company website
  • the poster and their title
  • feedback about the poster (verified) and activity (upwork)

1. What kind of information would help you improve your chances of finding the right job? Blog? Sidebar information?

• I don't know that until after I get the job
• Blog developer stories in detail (wish I would have known)
• Podcasts
• Having a mentor that is currently a pro developer