Inspiration
Inspired by our own chaotic journeys in navigating full-time recruiting, we wanted to create a platform for job-seekers to better manage their applications and prepare themselves for interviews.
What it does
jobarchi.tech assists job-seekers through their job hunt journey from application to offer. jobarchi.tech tracks your applications as you submit them through our Google Chrome extension and consolidates your applications in our web dashboard. The dashboard organizes your applications by application status and last updated date. In addition to application management, jobarchi.tech offers interview prep assistance with personalized feedback and recommendations based on your audio responses to our interview questions.
How we built it
Blood, sweat, tears, and sleep deprivation.
We first created our standalone backend API’s on Google Cloud Run which interfaced with our Firestone database. Next, we tapped into that database to populate our React web app. Finally, we created a companion Chrome extension which will allow you to add job listings to your dashboard with just two clicks. The first opens the extension pulls all relevant info from the page and the second submits and sends it off to Firebase.
Challenges we ran into
Audio recording, Firebase, Deployment
We struggled with handling the user audio for our interview prep feature. After serializing the audio in order to send it to our backend we struggled to get it back into a usable format. After a bit of head scratching we got the base64 audio encoding into a temp wav file which we were able to use with Google Cloud NLP. Deployment is always a headache and we had our minor missteps which help us back. Finally, we didn’t plan far enough ahead so it was a time crunch to get our DNS records updated in time for our hosting URL.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Teamwork, finished product, designs, audio recording, use of Google-APIs and Cloud Console
It is always an accomplishment to walk away from a hackathon with a submission you’re happy with. This project has taken the extra step of being a tool that we imagine ourselves using in the future and hopefully make our future job and internship searches far easier.
What we learned
Cloud hosting, Firebase, Firestore, NLP, Speech to text
What's next for jobarchi.tech
A lot of sleep! And then! Hopefully, we will be able to build out a more mature authentication system to allow for us to invite our friends to try it out!
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