In the first part of this article, you built the architecturenecessary to accept and store resumes online. In this concluding part, findout how to make use of the stored data to find suitable candidates for aparticular job, and also read about the functions available to maintain andupdate the job listings.
In the first part of this article, I explained some of the problems typically associated with data management in a HR department, and put together a functional specification for a Web-based application to make the task easier. After putting together a basic database schema and normalizing it, I proceeded to develop scripts to display job listings, accept user applications, and store these applications in the database.
While the first part of this article described the user experience, I have not yet addressed the issues of updating the job board with new information, removing existing entries, or searching for potential candidates - all of which formed part of the initial feature set of this application. And so, in this concluding article, I'm going to wrap things up by looking at some of the tasks an administrator would need to accomplish in such a system, and developing some simple scripts to accomplish these.
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