Final Report: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZfPcr0qd9JfwfSy9evFjaMGI0iQDI99Uj6QnABjf4v8/edit?usp=sharing
API blueprint: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f0E2IFWKJpyCwDqSWkeAMy-VrVE3pY0qMF_GdLFkSJM/edit?usp=sharing
The problems encountered by engineering and computer science students looking for internships are common,this led to the birth of a feature in LinkedIn that eased the hardships of job searching,significantly but not completely. The problem interests us mainly due to the hardships we have faced while looking for intern level jobs. The Problem is solved to some extent but the current state of solution is impractical as most of these features are segregated over different applications making the entire process of job-searchingextremely tedious, Some of these applications include:
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- platform for professional networking and career development,connects employers to prospect employees
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- platform to organize and keep track of your job search, aids indiscovering new opportunities.
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- platform that possess job listings, job searchers can apply to theirdream jobs directly from the indeed website.
SWE Seek further simplifies the issues by bringing together the features of manydifferent job search tools, with an added touch of our own features to make job search an easy-going experience. SWESeek is a mobile-friendly web application with numerous features aimed at easing the job search process for the users made possible by utilizing multiple coding segments like Web Scraping, DBMS and Machine Learning.
- Provides users with personalized job recommendations based on multipleparameters like years of experience, previous employment, personal skills etc.
- Keeps track of all the companies applied to, status of each application, locationand pay info, and files submitted for each application like CV, Resume and CoverLetter.
- Provides resources to ace technical interviews and optimize applicationdocuments such as Resume and Cover Letters based on the type of job beingapplied to.
- Visualizing the data provided by the user to facilitate easy tracking of progress foreach application as well as overall job seek statistics.
SWE Seek is a project which stems from our personal frustration as Interns unable toreadily find suitable jobs and essential employment securing strategies at our fingertips. Most of the current systems aimed at easing job-searching experience essentially perform as job-search engines which lack personalization and essential features like progress visualization and resource banks which forces the users to seek multiple external applications making the process extremely tedious and inconvenient. Our application SWE Seek is a one-stop-shop for all your job-search related needs. It is a mobile-friendly web application which provides job-seekers a seamless job-searching experience, made possible by incorporating Web Scraping, DBMS and Machine Learning