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A 'CRM' style application for discovering new companies who might hire you and keeping track of your job search through a set of helpful and informative tools.

landing

dashboard

example profile

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The Problem Statement

I am a job hunter. I want a website that will help me:

  • Discover new companies who might hire me

  • Keep track of my job applications

So What's Here?

Right now, there's just the basics of our platform

  • The ability for users to populate companies, people and jobs,
  • The ability to discover new jobs listed on outside resources via our /web/jobs API
  • Informative pages on companies, people and jobs
  • WebScrapers implemented to make contributing to the database as simple and painless as possible
  • Local user authentication
  • Application tracking system to make keeping a lid on your job hunt nice and easy

Technologies

API/Server

  • Python
  • Flask
  • Postgres/SQLAlchemy
  • User Authentication with Flask-Security
  • Web scraping of dynamic JavaScript pages conducted using Selenium
  • Tested with Flask-Testing (a framework which extends on unittest) and nose
  • Jobs API sourced from Indeed.com

Client

  • AngularJS
  • HTML5
  • SCSS
  • Tested with Jasmine, Karma and Protractor

Linking Client with API/Server

  • JSON
  • Initial testing using Postman, automation of testing enabled using nose

Installation Instructions

You will require nodeJS, python3 and postgres installed to make this application work.

Clone from github and move into directory.

$ git@github.com:michaellennox/jobber.git
$ cd jobber

Create and start your virtual environment.

$ pip3 install virtualenv
$ virtualenv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate

Install all dependencies and export required env vars.

$ npm run setup
$ export APP_SETTINGS=config.DevelopmentConfig
$ export

Create the database and build the schema

$ psql
>> CREATE DATABASE jobber_dev
>> \q
$ python3 manage.py build_db

Start the server.

$ npm start

You can now use the Job Huntr application locally by visiting http://localhost:8080/

Future Improvements

  • Integrate applicant tracking system with a mentor/coach system so coaches can contribute to a job hunter's search
  • Implement superusers so modifications to data can be carried out via app instead of DB
  • Extract external resources (scrapers and APIs) from main application to their own box, connect either via an API gateway or MQ system
  • Expand scrapers with spiders which can carry out database population without human guidance
  • Implement search functionality

Contributions

Feel free to get involved! Our waffleboard is available at https://waffle.io/michaellennox/jobber

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