Job Scoper

Main page after scoping a job
Preparing to analyze resume

Inspiration

As an LGBT+ person who'd rather not drive to work, I can be a bit picky about where I apply to jobs. Our team wanted to make it easy to vibe check each job posting we came across. That's why we came out with Job Scoper.

What it does

Simply find a job on Indeed or LinkedIn and grab a link to the posting. Copy and paste it to our Job Scope site and get some insights! Currently, we display commuting information from WalkScore, information about gender discrimination laws and reproductive rights, and LGBT+ acceptance for the area of the job.

You can also submit your resume as a PDF and get a summary of how well your resume fits with the job description - powered by OpenAI.

How we built it

Our frontend is built from React. We have a flask server hosting an API that gathers all of the information for our front end.

Here's the back end tech:

Selenium is used to scrape the job posting from the web to get raw job description and location data.
Google Maps API and Google's Geocoding API are used to clean up the raw location data.
Databases and APIs such as Equaldex, WalkScore, and the Center of Reproductive Rights are used to provide location based insights.
The OpenAI API is used to compare your resume with the job description.

Challenges we ran into

With such a big tech stack, things seemed really daunting. Luckily, we were able to stay organized and bring everything together.

(It was also difficult creating a web app as a group of backend engineers and business majors.)

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're really proud to have created an app gives more power to those applying for jobs. We plan to use this app ourselves as we job search after graduation.

What we learned

We went from never touching front end to creating a full-fledged React app. We also learned a lot about various non-profits that provide data for social justice which we plan to use in future projects.