Visions, Principles and Goals 2023

• Become the go-to platform for CSE students seeking professional opportunities.

• Retain and attract more sponsors that would be able to support the above vision.

• Improve the technical, leadership and social skills of subcommittee members through developing production software and bonding events.

• Ensure consistent engagement from Jobsboard stakeholders

  • Collaboration with careers and sponsors

  • Subcom experience

• Party hard and produce good work!

• Be kind and respectful to each other <3

• Growth mindset and open to new ideas

• Own up and be accountable of your work

• Strong emphasis on good code quality and design

• Be transparent of your work and commitments

• Cultivate an environment where we are friends first, work colleagues second

• Pursue excellence!!

• Set crazy big goals and make them happen!

General Goals

• Enhance the performance, safety, and developer experience of Jobsboard by

  • Experimenting with technology such as NextJS 13, tRPC, ZOD, etc

  • Improve existing code quality and adopt better software engineering practices

• Encourage subcommittee members to raise new ideas and help them to turn their ideas into reality

• Encourage a ‘friends’ first before ‘co-workers’ vibe

• Ensure the codebase is maintainable and improve the developer experience:

  • typescript (actual usage of typescript over typecasting) and eslint

  • best practices - good code style

  • frontend specific

    • ensure reusable components are made

    • consistent use of css (i.e. tailwind + stitches?)

• Operate in agile development? TBD - need to discuss with @Matthew Liu (Unlicensed)

• Ensure responsibilities of managing jobsboard and careers are clearly defined and managed between us and the careers portfolio.

Team Orientated Goals

• Have in-person fornightly meetings/retros to reflect on progress

• Hold atleast 2 bonding activities that consists outside of dinners + dessert

  • i.e. golf, hikes, beach days?, arcade?

• Have in-person 1-1s with subcom atleast once per term to catch up on a more casual basis and check up if there are any issues.

• Ensure subcom are engaged in meetings (maintain attendance) and have them accountable with commitments with Jobsboard. (3 warnings and your out ).

  • Set expectations that they can be transparent with us :)

Short Term Goals (T1)

• Streamline the verification process of approving companies/sponsors and job postings before T1 W5.

  • automate process of verifying companies through a verification code

  • admins are able to invite companies to signup through an admin panel

• Improve the authentication process of users

  • Ensure users are able to be logged in and handle persistent with sessions

• Finish of v2 release and market it towards student.

  • Ideally, should be marketed during the internship hunting season (~Feb-Apr)

• Setup user profiles to tailor job recommendations.

  • users are able to create a profile to preference which jobs are shown (WAM marks, penultimate, visa requirements)

  • provides a dashboard where they can view current and past applications

Mid Term Goals (~T2)

• Increased customisability for students by releasing a user profile system that would allow

  • Jobs to be recommended to students based on skills and interests

  • Jobs to be favourited / saved for easy access

  • Users to be notified of new opportunities based on their preferences

• Setup company profiles to give companies customisation of their profile.

  • i.e. logo changes, password reset

• Release dark mode.

• Improve the way how we recommend jobs and job listings.

  • implement a subscription system where users can get notified on a new job listing or ‘watch’ job listings for specific companies

  • consistent reminders that shows new job listings periodically

  • click history on which jobs users have applied for

  • job filtering based on some heuristics?

• Rewrite the internal logging system

Long Term Goals (~T3)

• Make the github repo public

• Incorporate the working-in-progress authorisation service for all CSESoc projects to Jobsboard

  • dependant on technical

• Improve the admin panel experience

  • unauthenticating companies

  • hiding approved jobs

• Release at least the MVP for a system like CSElectives but for companies and their recruitment processes

• Ensure that jobsboard is in a good state by the end of the year so that companies next year can use it to promote intership/graduate roles (~Dec-Feb)

• Ensure a test suite exists for the frontend and backend