Career functionality v2 scope

[annezazu]

Building off of the original request to add career functionality, this issue seeks to capture some near time items for a v2 to keep momentum and focus. At a high level, the aim is build out career functionality (find jobs, post jobs, share career moments) within the WordPress.org network in line with this original source of feedback from Matt:

even better, what would it look like if we actually made our profiles as useful and iconic as Githubs, and how can we embed jobs and job-seeking into the product of the main website rather than a side thing. x.com does a really good version of this

I'm going to use the Now/Next/Later approach since there's not a set timeline for this work nor is it tied to any release cycle. Part of what's here is pulled directly from feedback from design that's been given to me (from @marko-srb) and from this dedicated call for testing that's ongoing. I will keep this updated as the work evolves as I work with @bor0 here.

Now

Profiles:

Enhancements:

• Add dropdown for each job for type of employment: Freelance, Contract, Full-time, and Part-time (feedback source).
• Add ability to upload CV to automatically fill jobs, accomplishments, etc.
• Show "Edit and Remove" buttons consistently in the same spot for key accomplishments and editing jobs (feedback source).

Bugs:

• Fix accessibility issue with the error message (the banner background color is light red and the text color is white, image here, feedback source).
• Use higher contrast for submit buttons to ensure it's seen as active rather than a disabled option (feedback source, feedback source). Enhancement: Make the buttons more visible #660
• For key accomplishments and job descriptions, fix issue with line breaks being replaced with “nn”, and some special characters being stripped out, for example, “)” is turned into “u00b7” (feedback source), feedback source)

Jobs.wordpress.net:

Enhancements:

• Incorporate badges into candidate section (feedback source)
• Remove "Open to work" badge as it's redundant (feedback source).
• Emphasize "how to apply" more when viewing individual jobs (feedback source)
• Center page content (like FAQ) to be more similar to either centered format pages like Philosophy or Documentation format pages.
• Add search functionality to both jobs and candidates (reuse search field approach from WordPress showcase for consistency).
• Remove WordPress logo in header.
• Swap nav font weight to a thinner variant.
• Make the green labels smaller for jobs. Right now, they are too prominent.
• Replace/reuse filtering from WordPress showcase to filter by type of job.

Next

Profiles:

TBD

Jobs.wordpress.net:

• Add ability to filter candidates by location WordPress Jobs - Add filters for candidates and differentiation tags #661 This will need design shaping first.
• Add ability to filter jobs by location (including remote) and type (part time, full time, contract, etc).
• Link the company name on single-job view.
• Budget field normalization. This would be a plugin change, likely requiring folks to select a currency OR a description of the budget field when submitting a job.
• Polish hero section on homepage. Needs design help.

Later

Profiles:

TBD

Jobs.wordpress.net:

• Enable a way to have event specific job and candidate interactions. For example, a WCEU focused job fair that can have a dedicated landing page with candidates and employeers who are IRL at an event. Here's a thread with more context.

[bor0]

Committed r24814 on buddypress that fixes these items from above (also ticked them):

• Employment type dropdown (Full-time, Part-time, Contract, Freelance) added to add/edit position forms, displayed inline next to the company name.
• Edit and Remove buttons now use the same horizontal layout for both jobs and accomplishments
• Error message contrast fixed
• Submit button contrast improved
• Line break and Unicode corruption fixed

Sent these props in the revision as deserved :)

annezazu, motylanogha, fubarpatsharp, gazipress, agnieszkablu, pedrofigueroa1989 for reports and testing.

Will continue tackling jobs.wordpress.net next.

[marko-srb]

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I am not sure about some of these. Also, there's an effort (starting from today) to work on several pages, per feedback [here].(https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02S78ZAL/p1776105990988729)

Can we hold off on visual changes here, so we don't double work them?

[bor0]

Yup! As we talked on Slack, I had already made progress on these four items, so I'll just ship them for now and pause work on remaining.

• Incorporate badges into candidate section (feedback source)
• Remove "Open to work" badge as it's redundant (feedback source).
• Emphasize "how to apply" more when viewing individual jobs (feedback source)
• Center page content (like FAQ) to be more similar to either centered format pages like Philosophy or Documentation format pages.

[fcoveram]

I'd like to work on this. I see a few items that need for design proposal.