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A good page is hard to find
From the consumer-facing site, after clicking on 'jobs' you'd end up here: https://jobs.zalando.de/en/ .
The four action buttons are pretty indistinguishable, and the white-on-orange small serif font is difficult
to work out even on a retina display, and for some reason it contains the actual info while the title is
noisy copy - so I just clicked on the first ("check all vacancies") link I managed to read.
At that point the other buttons disappeared, so even after thinking I made a mistake I wasn't able to
quickly see what the alternatives were.
At any rate neither me nor a friend I asked to try and find tech jobs did realise that "check all vacancies"
could mean "check all non-tech vacancies". For a moment I thought you'd stopped hiring devs at all, and it
doesn't feel right to go back to google to finally find the tech minisite.
I see why they're separated, and I'm sure the new tech careers page has huge conversion rates, but if I'd just
been casually browsing I'd have given up before having a chance to see it.
As distinct entities, "Jobs" and "Tech careers" would benefit from having the same prominence in the B2C
site footer. Also, when the first button in https://jobs.zalando.de/en/ it seems to act like a filter: there is no
hint that the others might lead you elsewhere.
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