JAUS - Job Application Update Services

A mobile app that updates the user with their job application statuses and keeps track of it using a spreadsheet.

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Inspiration

A few of us wanted an efficient and easy way to track our job application statuses. This vision was suggested to us by our teammate Aashwin and after discussing it over we realized the potential in this project.

What it does

It extracts data from Gmail emails using specific keyword combinations in Python and sends the data to a spreadsheet to be displayed to the user on the mobile app.

How we built it

We used Gmail API, Python, and javascript to retrieve the OAuth token to give us access to parse the data to begin with.

Challenges we ran into

There were many challenges we ran into to begin with. At first, we had issues conceptualizing the approach of creating a sample size of emails to test with. We wanted a large enough sample size, with enough variety to give us an accurate set of data to work with. Another major issue we ran into was bypassing the authentication to parse the data from gmail to begin with. In particular, the OAuth 2.0 authentication. Lastly, we had an issue coming up with an intuitive and flexible approach to parsing data that related to job applications in Gmail.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud that we were able to coordinate with one another with relatively no issues and work together to make something that we're all satisfied with. We are also proud to all have learned a great deal about technologies, frameworks, and APIs during this endeavor.

What we learned

We learned how to pace ourselves, especially when making projects with limited resources and limited time. We also learned a lot about the Google API, the OAuth token, as well as hosting websites and how that process is done.

What's next for JAUS - Job Application Update Services

There are still things we can patch and fix up with JAUS. With the restricted time frame we were given, it is definitely far from what we envisioned the final product to be. We believe an idea like this may be very useful. We may possibly, in the future, follow through with this after the hackathon to see if we can reach the initial vision we had for the project.

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