A web based job application portal for Strathmore University
Date
2021
Authors
Raymond, Bidii Kisyang’a
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Strathmore University
Abstract
Over the past few years, it has been noted there has been an increase in demand of jobs
worldwide. Due to this, companies have been receiving various applications therefore making
the process of application for these jobs for university students who are about to graduate or
have graduated frustrating for them therefore leading them to apply for jobs that they do not
want, or they do not have the required skill. However, Strathmore’s University Career
Development Office has tried to help Strathmore students overcome these challenges by
offering free advice and accepting manual applications which can be tiresome to manage since
these applications are paper based therefore making it difficult to track various student’s
applications by the career development officers therefore making it a burden to them due to the
heavy workload of reviewing and filing various applications.
The developed system is meant to help Strathmore University with their job application
process. The developed system is an online web-based job application portal that is meant to
be implemented in Strathmore’s University Website under the Career Development Site
(CDS). The developed enables students to login and submit their various applications,
companies to have their own profiles which will show their details, for example, various
vacancies, interview dates and various events. This will encourage students to select their
careers wisely and in turn land in good working places of their wish.
The developed system has been developed using Prototyping methodology since it is user and
time friendly when it comes to developing the system and one can easily make changes to the
developed system since it is an actual mockup of how the actual system will look like. Other
tools that were used include MySQL as the DBMS and PHP as the programming language and
Laravel as the framework
Description
An Information System Project proposal submitted to the School of Computing and
Engineering Sciences in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the
Bachelor’s Degree in Business Information Technology of
Strathmore University