As longtime partners, Carney Sandoe reached out to Cloud Construct in need of recommendations for updating their educator recruitment site and its functionality. They wanted to provide their users with a more streamlined recruiting and hiring process and update the look and feel to their Online Recruiting Management (ORM) and Candidate Connect portals. The experts at Cloud Construct created detailed roadmaps for both a custom built and "off the shelf" solution. Our experience design team embedded with CS&A's placement staff to discover pain points, understand daily activities and real-world workflows and settle on functional requirements for a bespoke, purpose-built software option for their daily productivity. We delivered multiple rounds of design deliverables over a 3-month period of in-depth design work, that demonstrated the possibilities of a custom solution, and we left the Carney team with interactive prototypes off of which to base critical decision-making. Once the decision was made to forgo a custom built solution, our team assisted with the vendor selection and implemented a robust architecture to support integration of the new software choice. Carney Sandoe brought in our team to migrate their 4D database into SQL replacement and retrofit the new tech investment.