Product design question

How can the retention rate be increased on a web/mobile job portal app?

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What this question tests

Product sense for a job portal's specific retention drivers, distinguishing job seekers from employers.

Clarify which side, job seekers or employers, since retention drivers differ, and state you will focus on job seekers.
Identify the core churn reason, users leave once they find a job or get discouraged by low response rates.
Propose features extending value beyond active search, salary insights, career content, or passive job alerts.
Propose a feature improving the core loop, showing application status and response likelihood to cut frustration driven churn.
Define the metric, 90 day return rate segmented by whether the user is actively searching or passively browsing.

Names the real churn driver, users leaving once hired or after unanswered applications, rather than a generic UX answer.
Proposes a specific retention feature, personalized job alerts plus application status visibility, keeping value flowing during low activity periods.
Sets a segmented metric, 90 day return rate for passive versus active seekers, since a flat number hides very different behaviors.

Not distinguishing job seeker retention from employer or recruiter retention.
Ignoring that getting hired is a successful churn that should not be penalized the same as frustration driven churn.
No specific feature proposed, just generic engagement advice.

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