All user data in one content type or split in different content types
I build a job portal for students. There are two different kind of users: the students who are looking for a job and the employers offering jobs. As the students can write about their qualification the user accounts have a lot of fields.
My question is: is it useful to create two content profiles for the students: one for their personal data and one for the additional fields like qualification and experience? The reason to split it up would be the better usability for the student when editing his profile. With views I can combine the data from two content profiles. Are there some drawbacks why I shouldn't do that and instead place all data of a student in one content_profile?
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I have the same question but
I have the same question but for faculty, staff in my program. I have a subset of faculty who are on steering committee and must be listed on one page with a brief profile. I have another page that needs to list all faculty but with research interests. And I have yet another page that must list staff, steering commitee, director and mention the faculty-at-large. Like you, I am using one content type and figuring that VIEWS will help me separate groups and use the fields I want..when and where. Images I haven't got figured out yet but working on. The crop thing is an issue for me, as I want the ability to isolate the part of the image that I want cropped for just the small images but to retain the large image for use elsewhere. I am thinking about each profile having several image fields in order to select images for dif. uses.
But, my question is your question. Is this one content type route the best way to go? It seems logical to me to center all info in one place. But my reading has me wondering.
Anybody have any insight on this?