VAGAS.com is a Brazilian recruitment platform connecting companies and candidates. As part of the B2B team, I worked on the experience recruiters use to manage applications to their open positions.
The project focused on a familiar recruiting challenge: how to review a large volume of applicants, understand their qualifications, and move the right people forward without losing sight of the hiring process.
An initial version of the new B2B platform had already improved on the legacy experience. Customer feedback, however, revealed an important gap: screening applications was still cumbersome when recruiters needed to consider several candidates at once.
The next iteration needed to make the hiring pipeline easier to scan, support movement between stages, and give companies the flexibility to organize a process around their own needs.
We explored the problem with customers and the product team through collaborative prototyping sessions. A CSD matrix captured what we knew, assumed, and still needed to learn; a recruiter journey map helped us examine the workflow beyond individual screens.
I led the solution design and usability assessment, using ProtoPie to create a more realistic prototype. The sessions helped us work toward a proposal that customers could understand and the team could implement.
The redesigned vacancy dashboard organizes applicants into a stage-by-stage board. It brings the structure of familiar tools such as Trello and Jira into a workflow designed specifically for recruiting.
Candidate cards keep key information visible during screening, while the board makes it possible to move applicants through the process. Companies can customize stages to reflect how their own teams hire.
A card provides an overview; a hiring decision requires more detail. The candidate view opens the full CV alongside evaluation, comments, and application actions, keeping the information needed to assess a person together.
Recruiters can review qualifications and work history, record an evaluation, or take the next step in the application from the same view.
Communication is part of managing an application. The message composer lets recruiters contact candidates from the vacancy workflow, with a subject, message templates, and formatting controls in a focused dialog.
The surrounding board remains visible, preserving the context of the position while a recruiter writes to an applicant.
The new workflow also needed an introduction. An onboarding dialog welcomes recruiters to the updated vacancy management experience and offers a guided tour, with the option to return later.
This first touchpoint presents the change before asking people to navigate a different way of working.
The final proposal connected the pipeline, candidate details, communication, and onboarding into one recruiting workflow. Its central idea was to make the process visible while keeping detailed information close to the decisions recruiters needed to make.
For me, the project reinforced the value of designing with customers and testing realistic interactions. Those conversations helped align user expectations with technical feasibility throughout the solution design.
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