According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, only 15.4% of the employees in the tech industry are of minority descent. Of the minorities in the tech industry, 4% of them are women. By giving job searching minorities a platform where they can connect with tech companies directly and search for tech jobs, our app aims to change that!
You can sign up on the app and connect with employers directly or search the job board and get tailored results based on your location and job query.
For the frontend, we used React (JS)/(Bootstrap) and FontAwesome to create a visual and accessible way for users to communicate.
To store user data, we took advantage of Firebase and used Axios to fetch any data required from firebase. We also used react-router-dom to handle routing inside of React(JS).
For the recommendation feature, we used Pandas, Numpy and Seaborn to preprocess our data. We trained our model using Sklearn on 21,000 different job listings.
Check out our full app demo here! https://devpost.com/software/diversify-vf8lm9?ref_content=user-portfolio&ref_feature=in_progress
We were plagued with challenges throughout BCHacks because 3 of us are first time hackers.
Some Challenges include:
Getting reactJS to work on everyone's computer Organizing schedules Finding a good dataset for job listings Getting multiplier reactJS pages to work together seamlessly
As a team consisting of 3 first time hackers and 1 semi-experienced hacker, we accomplished A LOT during the past 24 hours!
Some notable accomplishments include:
Figuring out how Github push, pulls and branches work (Finally understand Git!!) Designing the app from scratch (we just found out about figma) Using so many tools, languages and frameworks at once, and making them work together :D
Implement a chat feature so users can talk amongst themselves and employers Expand on the search feature (add more search terms) Make our job board more aesthetically pleasing Have a 'posts' area where users can talk about their experiences and give advice Possibly have a resume builder built in to the app to help users with their application process
font-awesome numpy pandas python react react-router-dom seaborn sklearn