Test results for Jobs - find a council job
Here is the table of test results for this task. The score on each row is out of a possible total of 20, and the importance column is a rating of 1-5 according to how important testers considered being able to complete this task was.
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Council | Navigation | A-Z | Site search | Score | Tests | Importance | |
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Argyll and Bute Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 3 | |
Birmingham City Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 3 | |
Birmingham City Council | Very easy | Very easy | Easy | Easy | 16 | 3 | |
Birmingham City Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 5 | 3 | |
Birmingham City Council | Easy | Very easy | Easy | Easy | 9 | 5 | |
Bracknell Forest Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 3 | |
Bradford Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 3 | |
Bradford Council | Very easy | Easy | Very easy | Very easy | 8 | 3 | |
Carlisle City Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 3 | |
Cheshire East Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 3 | |
Cheshire East Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 3 | |
Copeland Borough Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 15 | 5 | |
Coventry City Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Easy | 18 | 5 | |
Coventry City Council | Untested | ||||||
Coventry City Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Easy | 18 | 3 | |
Coventry City Council | Very easy | Easy | Very easy | Very easy | 18 | 3 | |
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council | Difficult | Very easy | Difficult | Difficult | 3 | 3 | |
Ealing Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 3 | |
Great Yarmouth Borough Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 5 | |
Harrow Council | Easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 8 | 3 | |
Ipswich Borough Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 5 | 3 | |
Lambeth Council | Difficult | Easy | Very easy | Very easy | 14 | 5 | |
Lambeth Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 15 | 3 | |
Lambeth Council | Very easy | Gave up | Very easy | Very easy | 12 | 3 | |
Liverpool City Council | Easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 18 | 5 | |
London Borough of Hillingdon | Easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 13 | 3 | |
London Borough of Lewisham | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 3 | |
Manchester City Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Easy | 8 | 3 | |
Manchester City Council | Easy | Very easy | Gave up | Gave up | -3 | 3 | |
Manchester City Council | Difficult | Very easy | Very easy | Easy | 9 | 3 | |
Milton Keynes Council | Easy | Very easy | Easy | Easy | 9 | 3 | |
Newcastle City Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 3 | |
Norfolk County Council | Difficult | Very easy | Very easy | Difficult | 12 | 0 | |
North Lincolnshire Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 3 | |
Nottingham City Council | Difficult | Difficult | Very easy | Very easy | 7 | 3 | |
Nottingham City Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 5 | 3 | |
Oxford City Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 3 | |
Oxfordshire County Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Difficult | 16 | 3 | |
Plymouth City Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 15 | 3 | |
Royal Borough of Greenwich | Easy | Gave up | Easy | Difficult | 4 | 1 | |
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 3 | |
Wandsworth Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 3 | |
Wandsworth Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 3 | |
West Lindsey District Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 5 |
Specific comments made about this task
Birmingham City Council - 2014-02-06
Overall, it was quite easy to find this. The most easiest searches were the navigation and A-Z result. On the navigation, on the left hand side, it said 'Jobs' and this redirected you to the 'Job Vacancies' page and on the A-Z, you could search in the letter 'J' for 'Jobs' or the letter 'V' for 'Vacancies'. The Internal and Google search were easy but not as easy because the most relevant ones weren't at the top of the page. Overall, very good and well organised.
Birmingham City Council - 2017-01-12
Finding the jobs page is easy, but the display of the full list of jobs is really difficult to scan through.
Bracknell Forest Council - 2014-03-20
Job content is hosted on jobsgopublic
Carlisle City Council - 2014-04-14
Informative and easy to follow how to apply for job vacancies.
Copeland Borough Council - 2014-02-12
I did like the fact that there's a page which basically is open and honest about them being more likely to be cutting jobs than creating them.
Coventry City Council - 2014-01-09
Typing the word 'jobs' into the search field gave me a list of options. I selected 'jobs at the Council' and was taken to a page with a link to current jobs. Clicking on that link gave me the FTTP 404 - not found error message.
Coventry City Council - 2014-02-06
It was all quite easy. On the Internal search, there were quite alot of options so you didn't know which one to choose. However, they all seemed relevant in differnt ways and it depends on what you wanted to search for so it was very specific.
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council - 2018-08-28
It took me a while to twig that the big grey box was a link to WMJobs where the actual jobs are listed. I'm not sure what the blah text about Dudley being a unique and special place brought to the party, and all the latest news and what's on stuff below the big grey box was completely confusing.
The top link on internal search was a press release about how 4,000 people have been put into jobs and training, it was link three before I got to the main jobs page.
Great Yarmouth Borough Council - 2014-09-04
all very easy to find.
Liverpool City Council - 2013-12-17
Bottom of the home page, not top. General note: A-Z pages being in three columns is actually quite difficult; another site where lists are not in alphabetical order.
London Borough of Hillingdon - 2014-02-04
All clearly signposted - current vacancies easily displayed. Not so obvious in navigation though - but then spotted a quick link at the very top of the page
Manchester City Council - 2013-12-04
General note - overall, the random ordering of what serves for menu entries makes finding anything much harder than it needs to be; search engine results page makes 'featured' results near-invisible.
Manchester City Council - 2014-02-27
Not obvious navigation, but search is easy
Milton Keynes Council - 2022-05-03
Test
North Lincolnshire Council - 2014-02-26
easy to find on the homepage, included in A-Z list, site and google searches produced top results, easy to read, didn't complete the form
Oxfordshire County Council - 2013-12-16
Internal search generated specialist pages for certain job areas, not the main jobs site. One link from the internal search was to http://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/cms/content/jobs-available at which I was informed I was "Not authorized"! Best link was on p.3