Engineering Career Fair Mobile App

APPLICATION OVERVIEW

Texas A&M has one of the largest Career Fairs in the nation. More than 10,000 engineers attend the Engineering Career Fair every year looking to get hired by a company. I created a mobile application that allows students to have all the company recruiting information they need at the palm of their hands.

MOBILE

Students can look up companies live while they’re at the career fair and make notes on the phone after they’ve talked to them.

WEBSITE COMMUNICATION

The app communicates with the SEC Website through an API, thus the information app is always up to date.

RECRUITING INFORMATION

Students will be able to easily find where companies are located on the floor, an issue we faced previously with paper booklets. Students can selectively show companies based on majors and positions they’re hiring for.

STUDENTS

This app was created to help students find a job after College. I took no monetary proceeds in making this app and it is a service that I provided to the students of the A&M College of Engineering

APP SUMMARY


The SEC Engineering Career Fair helps more than 10,000 engineers find employment every year. This app was designed to help students find companies that are looking for candidates that fit their profile.

The app has several features that make it useful to student. The most useful feature is the ability to favorite companies and see them on the Reed Arena Map. One of the biggest issues in previous fairs was that students had a hard time finding the companies that they wanted to apply to. Now students can immediately know where the companies that they want to talk to are.

The app allows students to filter the companies that are shown based on the majors, degrees, and positions that the companies are hiring. This makes students able to find companies that they might not otherwise look for easier than before. There was no way previously for students to see what companies where offering the positions they wanted previously and this is a big improvement over that.

The app communicates with the SEC Career Fair Website through an API that I created. Since companies are always being dropped and added to the fair it’s important that students know exactly what companies are present at the fair. Since we were previously handing out booklets with the company locations, there are many companies that are left out of the booklet if they join the fair early.

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