myOneFlow

Job Search Portal

Built for the People LinkedIn Forgot

A workforce platform that made job seekers dependent on case managers to do everything. We redesigned it so they didn't have to wait anymore and case managers got their time back.

Industry

Workforce Management

Workforce Management

Role

Product Strategy +

Design

Product Strategy + Design

Product Strategy +

Design

Platform

Web | B2C

Web | B2C

Team

Product Manager, Owner and Developers

Product Manager, Owner and Developers

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Who is this really for?

Before redesigning anything, we needed to understand who was actually using this and what their day looked like.

Clients: Job Seekers & Students
The heart of the system

Looking for jobs, training programs, and career support.

Case Managers

Hands-on guides who enable client success

Guiding clients, recommending opportunities & tracking progress.

Admins

System architects

Configuring workflows, managing permissions & ensuring compliance.

Employers

The Opportunity Providers

Posting jobs, reviewing applications, and connecting with candidates.

THE HUMAN BEHIND THIS

Meet Rosa

She's not a tech-savvy millennial job hopper. She's the user I was actually designing for.

Rosa, 47

Factory worker · Laid off · Referred via local workforce board

Rosa has never applied for a job online. She doesn't have a LinkedIn profile. She was referred to myOneFlow through her state's workforce assistance program after losing her job of 11 years. English is her second language.

Her caseworker, Maria, is managing 60 other clients exactly like her.

"I just want to know — is there a job for me? Can someone tell me what to do?"

Rosa, 47

Factory worker · Laid off · Referred via local workforce board

Rosa has never applied for a job online. She doesn't have a LinkedIn profile. She was referred to myOneFlow through her state's workforce assistance program after losing her job of 11 years. English is her second language.

Her caseworker, Maria, is managing 60 other clients exactly like her.

"I just want to know — is there a job for me? Can someone tell me what to do?"

Rosa isn't the exception. She's the majority. The people who need this platform most are also the ones least equipped to navigate it alone and the current system made that worse, not better.

Meet Maria

Rosa's case manager. And 99 other people's too.

Avg. clients per case manager

Avg. clients per case manager

100+
Plus support calls

100+
Plus support calls

Average salary for one case manager

Average salary for one case manager

~$53,000/year

~$53,000/year

Case managers currently on platform

Case managers currently on platform

500+ case managers across 12 states

500+ case managers across 12 states

Every design decision we made had Maria in mind and a government budget behind her.

Every design decision we made had Maria in mind and a government budget behind her.

Now MEET MARIA. Rosa's case manager. And 99 other people's too.

Every design decision we made had Maria in mind and a government budget behind her.

Avg. clients per case manager

100+
Plus support calls

Average salary for one case manager

~$53,000/year

Case managers currently on platform

500+ case managers across 12 states

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Fewer inbound support calls from job seekers asking what to do next

400

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300

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Reduction in operational staffing costs for case manager teams

3x

Growth in job seekers a single case manager can support simultaneously

Increase in self-served job applications without case manager involvement

250

%

WHAT CHANGES

From dependency to guided autonomy — These are the numbers we're targeting.

From dependency to guided autonomy

THE PLATFORM'S BIG IDEA

Think of it like having a career agent — not just a job board.


LinkedIn and Indeed hand you a database and leave the rest to you.

myOneFlow is different. It pairs job seekers with case managers who act like career agents, guiding them toward opportunities that match their skills, training history, and long-term goals.


Much like how actors rely on agents to connect them with auditions and roles, case managers guide job seekers toward opportunities that match their skills, training programs, and long-term career goals.

The business logic is brilliant. The operational reality? It is quietly breaking.

WHAT WE FOUND

The "agents" became the entire system.
And the system couldn't scale.

Client Management

Case Manager

One person. Every decision. No way to scale.

Job Matching & Applications

Communication & Coordination

Jobs unfilled

Employers waiting.

Job seekers stuck.

After auditing workflows and interviewing stakeholders across job seekers, case managers, and employers, we identified four structural cracks in the foundation.

Flaw 01

Job seekers couldn't self-serve

  • Every action — from browsing jobs to applying — required case manager involvement. Zero self-serve.

Flaw 02

Case managers were maxed out

  • Approvals, follow-ups, manual recommendations — one case manager handling 60 clients, one task at a time. The ceiling was low.

Flaw 03

Job matching was 100% manual

  • No system intelligence. Every match was a human judgment call, every recommendation a one-off task. No consistency, no speed, no scale.

Flaw 04

Employers were losing confidence

  • Open roles stayed unfilled for too long. Employers stopped trusting the platform to deliver candidates. Churn was growing quietly.

My responsibility as the product designer was to ensure the product experience could support this necessary shift in operational strategy.

Want to know the trade-offs?

Every constraint, every stakeholder conflict, every decision that didn't make it into the final design — I'm happy to walk through all of it. Reach out.

The reality behind the workflows

Who is this really for?

To understand what was breaking, we first needed to understand who was using the system and under what conditions.

Before redesigning anything, we needed to understand who was actually using this and what their day looked like.

Clients: Job Seekers & Students
The heart of the system

Looking for jobs, training programs, and career support.

Case Managers

Hands-on guides who enable client success

Guiding clients, recommending opportunities & tracking progress.

Admins

System architects

Configuring workflows, managing permissions & ensuring compliance.

Employers

The Opportunity Providers

Posting jobs, reviewing applications, and connecting with candidates.

Clients: Job Seekers & Students
The heart of the system

Looking for jobs, training programs, and career support.

Case Managers

Hands-on guides who enable client success

Guiding clients, recommending opportunities & tracking progress.

Admins

System architects

Configuring workflows, managing permissions & ensuring compliance.

Employers

The Opportunity Providers

Posting jobs, reviewing applications, and connecting with candidates.

THE PLATFORM'S BIG IDEA

Think of it like having a career agent — not just a job board.


LinkedIn and Indeed hand you a database and leave the rest to you.

myOneFlow is different. It pairs job seekers with case managers who act like career agents, guiding them toward opportunities that match their skills, training history, and long-term goals.


Much like how actors rely on agents to connect them with auditions and roles, case managers guide job seekers toward opportunities that match their skills, training programs, and long-term career goals.

The business logic is brilliant. The operational reality? It is quietly breaking.

At one point I stopped asking 'how do we make this easier to use' and started asking 'why does this require so much human effort in the first place.' That question changed everything about how I approached the redesign.

Four problems. Four interventions.
One shift in how the platform works.

This wasn't a UI polish job. Each design decision was a direct response to an operational failure. Here's what we changed and why.

PROBLEM 1

Waiting on a human for every move.

Job seekers had no agency. No profile. No preferences on file. The system didn't know anything about them until a case manager told it.

DESIGN DECISION 1

Onboarding that sets you free

What used to be a 30-minute call is now a 5-minute self-serve flow. The system learns her goals upfront and personalises from day one.

For the first time, Rosa doesn't need anyone's help to get started.

Video: The newly introduced onboarding and job-exploration flow

PROBLEM 2

One client at a time, all day long

Case managers were processing approvals and updates individually. A task that should take 5 minutes per client was taking an hour spread across 60.

DESIGN DECISION 2

Bulk actions for case managers

  • Bulk selection across clients — approve, update, flag a cohort in one action

  • Grouped workflows replaced one-by-one task processing

  • What took Maria a morning now takes 10 minutes.

Video: Introduction of Bulk Action feature

PROBLEM 3

Human intuition doing machine work

Every job recommendation was a manual decision. No consistency, no speed, no ability to match at scale.

DESIGN DECISION 3

Hybrid matching — human + system

  • This was only possible because of Decision 1.

  • Onboarding gave us the data. Now the system generates match scores automatically.

  • Maria reviews. She no longer recommends from scratch.

  • From guessing to verifying.

Video: The hybrid approach

PROBLEM 4

Employers were losing confidence

Open roles stayed unfilled for too long. Employers stopped trusting the platform to deliver candidates. Churn was growing quietly.

DESIGN DECISION 4

Employers finally see the right candidates — not just any candidates.

  • Because job seekers completed onboarding, employers now get ranked matches with match % scores.

  • Case managers pre-shortlist the most suitable applicants before employers even log in.

Video: New Employer Journey

THE REAL INSIGHT

This wasn't a design problem. It was a systems problem.

The interface was a symptom. The real issue was that the entire operating model placed one person — the case manager — at the center of every decision, every user, every step.

Too much control created bottlenecks. Too little guidance removed value. The solution wasn't choosing one or the other — it was designing a model where autonomy and support could coexist. Rosa gets to explore on her own terms. Maria still has her back. The system handles the rest.

The biggest shift I made wasn't in the UI.

It was convincing stakeholders that the product needed a new operational philosophy before it needed new screens.

WHAT CHANGES

From dependency to guided autonomy

Fewer inbound support calls from job seekers asking what to do next

400

%

300

%

Reduction in operational staffing costs for case manager teams

3x

Growth in job seekers a single case manager can support simultaneously

Increase in self-served job applications without case manager involvement

250

%

Key Takeaways: Learning and Growing Through Challenges

Design the system, not just the screen

The real work happened before any wireframe — the operating model was broken, not the UI.

Constraints sharpen decisions

Compliance, a tech migration, four stakeholders — every constraint forced a better, more defensible design choice.

Autonomy and support aren't opposites

Rosa needed freedom. Maria needed capacity. The answer wasn't choosing one — it was designing so both could win.

WHAT WE FOUND

The "agents" became the entire system.
And the system couldn't scale.

After auditing workflows and interviewing stakeholders across job seekers, case managers, and employers, we identified four structural cracks in the foundation.

Client Management

Case Manager

One person. Every decision. No way to scale.

Job Matching & Applications

Communication & Coordination

Jobs unfilled

Employers waiting.

Job seekers stuck.

My responsibility as the product designer was to ensure the product experience could support this necessary shift in operational strategy.

To accomplish this, we introduced 4 key design interventions, each directly addressing one of the operational flaws.

My responsibility as the product designer was to ensure the product experience could support this necessary shift in operational strategy.

My responsibility as the product designer was to ensure the product experience could support this necessary shift in operational strategy.

Flaw 01

Job seekers couldn't self-serve

  • Every action — from browsing jobs to applying — required case manager involvement. Rosa couldn't do anything without waiting for Maria.

Flaw 01

Job seekers couldn't self-serve

  • Every action — from browsing jobs to applying — required case manager involvement. Zero self-serve.

Flaw 02

Case managers were maxed out

  • Approvals, follow-ups, manual recommendations — one case manager handling 60 clients, one task at a time. The ceiling was low.

Flaw 03

Job matching was 100% manual

  • No system intelligence. Every match was a human judgment call, every recommendation a one-off task. Slow and impossible to scale.

Flaw 03

Job matching was 100% manual

  • No system intelligence. Every match was a human judgment call, every recommendation a one-off task. No consistency, no speed, no scale.

Flaw 04

Employers were losing confidence

  • Open roles stayed unfilled for too long. Employers stopped trusting the platform to deliver candidates. Churn was growing quietly.

At some point I stopped asking 'how do we make this easier to use' and started asking 'why does this require so much human effort in the first place.' That question changed everything about how I approached the redesign.

Want to know the trade-offs?

Every constraint, every stakeholder conflict, every decision that didn't make it into the final design — I'm happy to walk through all of it. Reach out.

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