With JOByte, you can track your entire job search process. You can enter a position you are interested in pursuing, note where you are in the hiring process, log recruiter interactions, and link actions items with a job.
Rather than manage you job candidacy information on disorganized sticky notes or a spreadsheet, use the JOByte app instead.
Try it at https://jobyte.herokuapp.com/.
After you create an account and sign in at https://jobyte.herokuapp.com/, start by adding a job to your dashboard. The dashboard, which will be empty until you add a job, is your central location to see the overall view of your job search in a graph, as well as a complete listing of the jobs you have added to JOByte.
To add a job, you need to enter a company, position title, and link to the positing, and choose a status, such as Applied or Interviewing. After you add a job to your account, you can view it and make changes to it, including updating the status.
Use the dashboard to view a listing of all jobs.
Each job can have actions related to it. An action has a date, and could be used to track past and future interactions about a particular job. For example, you can use an action to record the date you applied to a position, and then make an entry about any status updates you have with a company. You can also use actions to track required tasks, such as if a recruiter asks you to send an updated resume. After you have sent the information, mark the action completed.
All your actions across all jobs in JOByte appear on your monthly calendar, which you can access from the Calendar tab on the sidebar navigation panel.
Because networking is a key component of a job search, you can also use JOByte to enter contact information. You might want to add contacts for recruiters, people you meet at events or are working in your desired industry, references, or any others who can help you with your job search.
Use JOByte in your browser on a computer or mobile device. The app is designed to be mobile-responsive, so the amount of content shown on the sidebar and on your dashboard reflects the available screen size.
This is a full-stack JavaScript MongoDB/Express/React/Node.js (MERN) app and the architecture follows a model-view-controller pattern.
On the backend, MongoDB, through Mongoose models, stores the data. There are collections for actions, contacts, jobs, and users. MongoDB was used to have more flexibility over the content than possible with a relational database.
Authentication is through email and password, with hashing and salting from bcrypt.
These must be installed to run the app locally:
You first need to make a local MongoDB database named jobyte. Then, in a terminal window, navigate into the folder where you downloaded this app and type yarn in the root. Repeat the yarn command to install in the client directory.
To start the app, type yarn start at the root and open your browser to localhost:3000.
- JavaScript, HTML, CSS
- MongoDB
- Express.js
- React
- Node.js
- various packages: axios, bcrypt, body-parser, express, moment, mongoose, react-big-calendar
- Heroku for deployment
- Thanks to Abraham, Amber, Arpad, and Jerome for support.
This project is licensed under the MIT License; see the LICENSE.md file for details