Inspiration
studying in a government college, we have seen our faculties working tediously. similarly, we wondered if there are other scenarios that need automation. So we were inspired to create an opportunities platform that includes features that simplify life.
What it does
Hirest is an all-in-one hiring platform that includes job posting, job application, job application tracking system and receiving it's updates on the phone as text messages using Twilio. Also, we have implemented the unique feature of a broadcasting service for reducing the tediousness of sharing the same documents to multiple users. This feature reads a list of recipients from a CSV file and then broadcasts it to them.
There are other features like Skill Development Suggestion, Skill-Based Job Suggestions, Resume builder, and a rigorous filtering system to help you find exactly what you are looking for.
Also, we have uploaded our code on GitHub and registered the domain name for our platform as "hirest.co" from GoDaddy Registry. For generating the resume, we have used the ApyHub API to convert the profile into a Resume of the user
How we built it
Here's a brief high-level overview of the tech stack the Well app uses:
- This project uses the django. Django is a python back-end framework that supports MVC architecture.
- For persistent storage (database), the app uses the SQLite package which allows the app to create a custom storage schema and save it to a local database.
- To engage with users and provide them with life-changing updates, the platform uses Twilio.
Challenges we ran into
The only challenge we faced included a minor Django problem that the backend wasn't receiving the files uploaded from the frontend. Also we tried implementing Auth0 but there was some error which we couldn't solve so we ended up using OAuth.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Developing the entire platform in this time bound environment.
What we learned
Many new libraries of python were explored as we were on track for building our application. also we learned to face the challenges since we had to complete the project in the limited time period.
What's next for Hirest
We are planning to include features like chat application and video calling application so that the interviews can be conducted remotely using our platform.
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