Inspiration
Recruiters at career fairs meet hundreds of candidates and attend tens of such career fairs. This entails having thousands of paper resumes to go through to find the correct fit for a job(s). The candidates on the other hand have to constantly worry about changing their resumes at a thousand places Linkedin, handshake, MS word , etc. We aspire to introduce a tool that streamlines the hiring process, specifically at the career/job fairs. Using ResumeXchange the recruiters will constantly maintain events (job fairs) under which they will have electronic resumes of the candidates they met. Which will always keep them in touch only with the fresh talent and applying our provided filters, they can search for the best candidates suited for the job. This means we will have to really understand our customers. I've seen this problem several times but hadnt acted upon it until the opportunity of this hackthon came to me. I've built a prototype of the app and will continue building it to turn it into a service which eases the hiring process,
What it does for the
Candidate (Job Seeker) : Upon registration, The candidate will fill out provide us with the details regarding their academic background , known skills, professional experience and interests and we will provide a unique 4 digital code which we call rxcode. Whenever the candidate meets a recruiter who is our registered user, the candidate will simply provide their rxcode which the recruiter puts in to our web app and gain access to the candidate's resume instantly. Now imagine, if this candidate goes to a job fair with 50 recruiters who use our service. This saves the job seeker 50 pages, a free hand (from being busy holding the holder), an opportunity to be really discovered and the pleasure of being eco-friendly. Any updates in the Candidates profile will also be reflected in the Recruiters view of that resume instantly, even after being sent. Thus the Candidate will have to update their resume at only one place.
Recruiter (Candidate Seeker): Our niche would be recruiters recruiting majorly from career/job fairs, since they will desperately fall in love with the service, these people will not have to go through a thousand resumes to find their golden nuggets. (future features) They can simply apply filters and search based on experience, skill-sets, passion, interests (cultural aspect) and education on these resumes and get only those resumes where the candidates are truly qualified. Plus the ease of having all of this on their finger-tips (literally).
How I built it
- I've took the pleasure to use the traditional LAMP stack to build it.
Challenges I ran into
- Schema design was a bit challenging, Thanks to my Database professor for drilling those huge ER Schemas in my brain to be able to solve such problems. Rest was pretty easy since i knew what i was doing.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
- Being awake 36 hours straight with no coffee and absolute focus.
What I learned
Nothing is hard, consistency is key.
What's next for ResumeXchange
We want to focus on one thing and we want to do it really well. Our target group currently will be the Recruiters and Candidates who go to the career fairs with a purpose to hire or get hired. This solution will provide uniformity to the currently cluttered hiring process since the Since i could only build a working prototype in these 36 hours, The next step would be to:
- Adding Resumes dynamically under each event name at which the recruiter meets candidates
- Integration of Social media API's to know our users better
- In-Built Email service for the hiring process exclusively
- Analytics for recruiters to gain insights regarding the recruiting channels (job fairs), to see if the channel is resourceful of just a waste of time-money and opportunity costs
Note:// the URL provided below will not work until the next 1-2 hours (approximately 11:30 pm 1/22/2017) as i just registered the domain and is under processing.
For questions, comments, concerns, please contact amanmeghrajani@gmail.com
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