Project: TalentConnect

TalentConnect is a desktop address book application for freelancer third-party recruiters, with functionality to enhance the recruitment management experience. This includes matching job listings to candidates and tagging successful candidates to companies for billing.

Given below are my contributions to the project.

  • New Feature: Added the ability to add companies into the address book.
    • What it does: Allows the user to add representations of companies into the address book.
    • Justification: Jobs are tied to companies, and so recruiters inevitably have to work with companies as well. Adding companies to the address book allows recruiters to manage companies associated to their job listings and contacts, and enhance their existing workflow.
    • Highlights: This enhancement required the team to consider the predicate to a company being unique and how companies will interact with jobs and contacts in the address book.
  • New Feature: Added the ability to list all companies in the address book.
    • What it does: Allows the user to list all companies stored in the address book.
    • Justification: Companies need to be easily shown to recruiters for them to include companies and company-related features into their workflow.
    • Highlights: The structure of the address book’s GUI had to be debated when the company list was added.
  • New Feature: Added the integration between companies and jobs.
    • What it does: Tags jobs to a company when a job is created, and deletes all jobs tagged to a company when the company is deleted.
    • Justification: A job has to come from a company, so the constraint that jobs must be tagged to a company already existing in the address book should be followed. This facilitates other features that require the association between a job and a company to enhance a recruiter’s workflow.
    • Highlights: This enhancement had to be done in a non-conventional way due to how the address book is saved, and was the subject of quite a few discussions as to how to handle the integrations.

  • Code contributed: RepoSense Link

  • Project management:
    • Managed release v1.4 on GitHub

  • Enhancements to existing features: NIL

  • Documentation:
    • User Guide:
      • Updated User Guide to include all features up to release v1.4 #131
    • Developer Guide:
      • Added use cases for company features #45
  • Code Review: