EMC - Skills Refinement Portal Wireframe Challenge

Welcome to the "EMC - Skills Refinement Portal Wireframe Challenge". The purpose of this application is to give our employees the ability to identify and move into a future career path within the company. It also gives management insight into what areas of the company need the most growth and who are the best employees that fit into those positions in the company. 

At the end of this challenge, we are looking to see intuitive and easy to use (requiring no training) "wireframe concepts" that will help us design and build UI/UX in the next phase of this project!

This challenge is focused on Wireframe outputs and results. Be creative in your wireframes, we want to see your ideas!

Round 1

01. User Profile Page
02. Landing Page
03. Explore Page
04. Explore Role Comparison Page
05. Print or Email Comparison to User

Round 2

01. User Profile Page
02. Landing Page
03. Explore Page
04. Explore Role Comparison Page
05. Print or Email Comparison to User
06. Apply Page
07. Application Initiation Page
08a. Email Sample Manager Page
08b. Email Sample User Page

Background Overview
The Skills Refinement Portal will be divided into 2 main areas, Explore and Apply: 
- "Explore" will be used to help current employees identify what new career paths or areas are available to them and which ones would be best suited for them based on the skills and experience. 
- "Apply" will help guide them and walk them through the process to transition to that new career area. 

The portal also allows the managers and program directors to identify what areas of the company need the most growth and which employees would be a good fit to move into those roles. This allows them to track progress and get key analytics on how new roles are being filled, where are employees coming from and that area of the company is growing or evolving.

Notes:
- This application will be developed as a web platform and will be create as responsive apps targeting desktop and tablet. We are only focusing on desktop for this challenge but make sure your ideas and layouts will work on tablet
- Your wireframe submissions need the ability to drill down through all the page flows
- Suggest best practices for User Experience solutions that capture all required functionality as stated below.
- Please include as many details as you can into your wireframes to help us understand the application flow.

Screen Size
- This will be a responsive app, targeting desktop and tablet. We are ONLY focusing on desktop for this challenge.
- Desktop: minimum 1024px width (height adjusted accordingly)

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Use Case Scenarios:
- Please reference the attached documentation:
--- Profile-V3.xlsx
--- Skills Refinement Portal-Final.docx

Documentation
1. Profile-V3.xlsx
- User Personas and Content
- List of Skills and their Roles

2. Skills Refinement Portal-Final.docx
- Screen Flows
- User Flows mapped to User Personas
- Inspiration Examples (LinkedIn)

Content For Wireframes: 
You will find most of this in the Profile-V3.xlsx file, along with additional user scenarios and notes. Make sure your wireframe solutions capture all User Case Information, User Flow and User Case explained in Profile-V3.xlsx file, This is IMPORTANT!

Suggested Screens
The following are only suggested screens. We highly recommend that you add other screens and features that you believe will work best with the main goal of the application.

01. User Profile Page
- After user logs into the app, they will see this page first before navigating to the landing page (only applied to first time user, but should be accessible within a menu somewhere for future updates).
- Use Profile-v3.xlsx as content for this screen (Mike Jones1 or Susie Patel as initial profile)
- User will be able to see their public profile along with any skills, achievements, and other related work information.
- User will be able to update their profile and add new skills or other information into their profile page (Mike Jones 2, compare it with Mike Jones 1).
- What needs to be shown in this page that make sense for the portal? What is the best UX to show all the profile information and the best way to manage it? List of Education? List of Organization? List of Achievements?  Show us your suggestions.

02. Landing Page
- Dashboard of the application.
- This screen will become the default page after login.
- Show summary information related to the portal activity and user activity on this page
- There should be two areas that are featured, "Explore" and "Apply"
- There should be a notification area that can update the user about latest news, email/messages, etc.
- Show us the best UX for the application dashboard based on activity within the app.

03. Explore Page
- User will be able to navigate to this page from dashboard
- Listing any open positions available in the company
- Used to help current employee identify what new career paths or areas are available to them and which ones would be best suited for them based on their skills and experience
- "Recommendations" area where user can see roles/positions available that matched their current skills
- Provide the following options on this screens for roles/position category:
--- "Explore Transformation Discipline", 
--- "Explore Infrastructure Discipline",
--- "Explore Application Discipline" 
- Check word doc page 2 to get more details about these categories
- User will be able to drilled down to each role/position list from each category
- Select specific roles/positions in the company (job location, salary, interest, skills required, etc)
- User can select one or multiple roles/positions on this page (see complete roles list in Profile-v3.xlsx under Role Skills List).
- What needs to be shown on this page that make sense for the portal? Show us your suggestions.

04. Explore Role Comparison Page
- After the user finds a specific role/position and selects it, user will go to this page.
- Provide details of the job description, responsibility, and any other information (salary, tax, etc) related to the role(s)/position(s). 
- All roles/positions will be compared with user's profile information to see whether the role/position is a match for the user.
- All skill requirements needed for each role/position will be compare with user skills
- Any matched skills between the user and role/position will be marked in green or use check mark icon.
- Any unmatched skills between the user and role/position will be marked in red or use 'x' icon.
- There should be some links that guide/redirect the user to update their profile data if the position doesn't match their skills. This could be a popup or some other simple method. Look at the Skills Refinement Portal - Final.docx document for additional information around this screen.
- If the position matched their skills, there should be a button that can take them to "Apply" process. 
- Also needs a button to "Email or Print Comparison". This will take them to "05. Print or Email Comparison to User" screen.

05. Print or Email Comparison to User
- Shows a reformatted version of the Comparison page that is email/ print friendly
- Button to Print that will open to OS default print window
- Functionality to Email to the Comparison view

06. Apply Page
- User will be able to navigate to this page from dashboard.
- User will be able to see a brief description about what this page's purpose is and it's function to the user
- User will be able to find their selected roles earlier from "Explore" page in this area so they can proceed to the application initiation page.
- User will be shown the responsibility difference between their current position and the new position they are applying for.
- Once user confirms the new role/position, they can go to the application initiation page to process the job application.
- Show us your suggestion for additional content and layout ideas.

07. Application Initiation Page
- This page will show the job details information along with skill requirements, along with the user's current skills.
- User needs to enter free form text and justification text to describe their interest about the job/roles position and why they fit for the roles.
- There should be a "Submit" button to send the job application.
- Show us any additional suggestions that would be useful to the use.

08a. Email Sample Manager Page
- See "Skill Refinement Portal- Final.docx" to get the content sample for manager email
- This page will listed any email from user to the manager. 
- Response email templating? Mass reply? what features can be added to this screen? 
- Ability to create new email, select user email, edit or delete email from the inbox.

08b. Email Sample User Page
- See "Skill Refinement Portal- Final.docx" to get the content sample for user email
- User will be able to see manager response email for their job application in this page
- User will be able to see whether their job application approved or not from this page
- Show us your additional ideas or suggestions for this page.

Target Audience
The target audience for this application will be internal employees and managers within our company (professional, motivated and talented people).

Judging Criteria
- Carefully thought-out user experience and interface.
- Completeness and accuracy of the wireframe as defined in the spec requirements
- How well your wireframes provide a consistent user flow.

Submission & Source Files
Preview Image
Please create your preview image as one (1) 1024x1024px JPG or PNG file in RGB color mode at 72dpi and place a screenshot of your submission within it.

Submission File
Generated HTML files with all the requested contest requirements stated above.

Source Files
Wireframes should be built in Axure. The resulting files should have generated HTML files. Also, all the content must be listed and the pages are linked together to show page flow.

Final Fixes
As part of the Final Fix phase, you may be asked to remove, update, or change some features of the wireframe.