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Client Requirement

Client required a platform in which job seeking personals would get access to real world opportunities that could help them achieve their goals and realize their dreams. Also to give the Employer an edge over other websites to select the best employee for their organization. A platform that will be one-stop to post a job for free, search resumes, screen candidates and streamline your entire hiring process.

Strategic Intent:

To provide a streamlined hiring process for the Employer and Job seekers

Target Audience:

The site was primarily targeted towards two different genres.

• Job Seekers
• Employers

Extensive study of these variedly characterized categories of stakeholders enabled us to design and develop the site that will provide vigorous working conditions for diverse business all around the globe.

Challenges

Development of every web based portal had myriad inherent challenges and constraints.

The most critical problem that our team had faced was to understand the online recruiting model and functioning of the same. At the same time it became imperative for us to study the psyche of clusters of target customers, their need, their taste, choice etc.

Besides this, we had many other constraints like-

1) Developing a Robust framework for the site which is capable of managing millions of users at a time without buckling down the system and site.

2) Despite having complex structure and system, ensuring the easy navigation through the implementation Web Usability Functions.

To overcome the aforementioned challenges and provide a robust web application to the client as per his requirements we used various technological approaches that are discussed in the next part.

Tools and technologies used

Probably the most popular language on the Internet used for web based scripting. Very fast interaction with databases. Read more Free, highly customizable low maintenance database management system. Consistently stable in high volume data environment with a wide range of support available for free over various forums and support portals. The preferred database used with PHP as a scripting language. Read more JavaScript and Asynchronous JavaScript and XML used for Crossover browser support, quick data updates. Scalable JavaScript used to provide enhanced user experience and validation. Open source and license free, sturdy platform with powerful capabilities used as Server.

Resources

Project manager 1 Business analyst 1 Designer(s) 2 Programmer(s) 5 Testing & QA stuff 3 Total manpower 12

Planning

With the prior experience in developing web based applications, Agile Technosys followed a Multi-tire approach towards the development starting from: The Database layer containing MY SQL Server Database, Tables, Stored procedures and so on The Data Access layer containing the libraries responsible for accessing data from database The Business Logic layer consisting of all business logic procedures for modules like User Profiles and Report generations, Invoice generation etc The User Interface Layer which forms the Graphical User, Interface of the website.

Architecture

PHP and MySQL formed the basis of development as the site has a program of Social Networking portal with extensive features. Company Profiles, Inquiries, Job Listings, Applying for Jobs, Job seekers Profile, Search and Advanced Search and other modules were developed in PHP such that they can be executed directly from the UI layer. These PHP files consisted of all Business logics used for respective modules like Save (Add/Update), Delete, Get single object, get multiple objects for listing and were designed to be capable of handling many more logics which were not related to the database. The Data Access layer contained the libraries responsible for accessing data from database and built a generic query for insert, update, delete and select, depending on the business class. All business layer components were coded to use this library for data accessing process from database. The UI layer was kept free of any business logic with images, applications and data being called from their respective servers. Sub-domains were used for the different areas of the website to guarantee scalability.