JobBox

As students in the CS field, we found it hard to find jobs that would aid us in preparing for the positions in the real world. We found that most job search websites were needlessly cluttered, showed too many irrelevant job postings, and made it difficult to navigate through today's tumultuous job market. This inspired our group to develop, jobBox, a job search website from current job searchers to provide students/job searchers of today with a means of having all relevant job searches from a number of sources and having all your relevant positions centralized in one easy to navigate website.

We learned the means to collaborate as a group and figures out how to divide labour. We learned where we should focus our energy and how we should proceed in possible future hackathons.

We built our project using mainly firebase for our backend and React for our frontend. We utilized firebase as a way to perform user authentication and to be able to track all the applications for a specific user. We created summaries of all job listenings utilizing OpenAi to allow users to easily access information about a given position. We also used the JSearch API to collect and fetch all the positions from across a multitude of different sources.

One challenge that we faced was that we almost ran out of time to implement some of our features. Although we were able to finish everything in time, we were a little bit overly ambitious in our goals and some things were not completed to our satisfaction.