JobMeow

PAWsition yourself for success! Organize your job search now.

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Inspiration

As a group of upcoming new grads and a UX/UI design, we know the recruitment process can get quite stressful. When applying, it's hard to keep track of the countless amount of job applications and the number of automated emails sent to your inbox. Similar to an agenda, we brainstormed the idea of having an organized application strictly focused on organizing your job search in order to keep track of your progress and to help keep yourself motivated! Introducing JobMeow, a play on words of 'Job Now', an organized agenda to keep track of your job search journey!

What it does

JobMeow is a job application tracking tool & community discussion board aimed to help new grads & early in career professionals organize their job search to keep themselves accountable & connect with those who have gone through similar circumstances. We have a dedicated tracking page for all your submitted applications as well as a calendar to keep track of upcoming events and interviews. We also have a Community tab intended to spark meaningful discussions on interview tips & prior interview experiences. New grads will be able to view links to job postings, communicate with fellow new grads and mentors. Mentors are users who sign up to JobMeow to help new grads. Mentors are based on their years of experience.

How we built it

We built JobMeow by creating the concept and the features our application would have. Once we were happy with the features, we designed two prototypes on Figma and chose the most user-friendly and visually appealing version. As some of us worked on the backend of the application the others worked on the frontend. Every few hours we would check on each other's progress and offer help when it was needed. We worked like this until completion.

Challenges we ran into

The challenges we ran into mostly came from actually coding our application. From the backend, we used an online IDE so we could code together. This meant that we could test reading from a file using the online IDE but not to write to a file. To test if we were actually writing to the file we used our local machines. This meant that when we put the two concepts together, for some reason that needs further investigation they did not work together on our local machines OR online IDE. The next challenge we had was that HTML5 removed tags we were familiar with and we did not know. This made it difficult to design out the website as we had to troubleshoot a way to center our objects

Accomplishments that we're proud of

This year we are proud of having a semi-functional project. Last year the members that did compete in sheHacks5 were unable to make a project outside of Figma and the other member has never coded in HTML/CSS/Javascript before so it is a great accomplishment to have been able to implement our ideas! We are also proud of how much we improved our knowledge in Figma and HTML/CSS/Javascript. We pushed ourselves and each other to try new aspects of the languages and software and it really paid off to see how much we progressed.

What we learned

One of the first things we learned was how to use Figma. Figma was a powerful tool that helped us organize our thoughts and make a prototype. Since some of us were new to Figma, it was difficult at times to figure out how to use Figma to its full potential. By the end of the hackathon, we have become pretty proficient in the software. Another thing we learned was the improve our CSS and Javascript knowledge. In CSS we learned how to make buttons more interactive and functional using the hover feature. We also learned how to center objects and efficiently move text. In Javascript we learned how to read and write to a file even if they did not work together they worked well independently.

What's next for JobMeow

For the future of JobMeow, we plan to implement the features that we did not have time for during this hackathon. That would include a functioning notification tab and search engine. We would also want to properly implement the community feature of JobMeow. We would also want to store and get our information from a server/database. By doing this, we could have multiple users at once interacting with each other.

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