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Qandidates

A hiring platform where IT professionals stay anonymous until they choose otherwise, and recruiters can still find them.

No longer public
  • Web app
  • Marketplace
  • Design system
Role
Design Lead
Industry
Recruitment, IT
Scope
Web app, design system
Duration
Three months
Qandidates hiring platform shown on desktop and mobile.
Anonymous candidate profiles, and the recruiter side that searches them.

The short version

Qandidates, in three parts

  1. The problem

    Recruiters could not find skilled IT people. The people they did reach got generic offers and stopped answering. And the platform itself never said what made it different from the dozen others doing the same thing worse.

  2. What I did

    Surveys on why developers actually switch jobs, interviews on both sides of the marketplace, and a competitor read that found nobody balancing candidate anonymity against recruiter usability. Two things came back over and over: show the salary up front, and stop sending irrelevant roles.

  3. What shipped

    Anonymous profiles with per-skill visibility controls, so a candidate decides how much is findable. Recruiter search with filters that can be saved and re-run. Contact details stay hidden until the candidate approves the conversation, and offers are matched against the conditions the candidate set.

What moved

What changed, and by how much.

Candidates placed in new roles within six months
100+Candidates placed in new roles within six months
Faster recruiter search, through the new filtering
40%Faster recruiter search, through the new filtering
More candidate sign-ups, driven by anonymity
30%More candidate sign-ups, driven by anonymity

The work

What shipped.

  • Qandidates candidate profile with skill-level visibility controls.
    The candidate profile. Skills visible, identity not.
  • Recruiter search view with filters applied to a candidate list.
    Recruiter search, with filters worth saving.
  • Qandidates messaging view between a recruiter and a candidate.
    The conversation, once the candidate has agreed to have it.
  • Qandidates onboarding stepper collecting candidate conditions.
    Onboarding, which is where the matching conditions get set.
  • Qandidates interface shown on a laptop on a desk.
    In use.
  • Qandidates interface shown on a mobile device.
    And on a phone, where most candidates first arrive.

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