JobMine

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JobMine is a system developed at the University of Waterloo to help employers and students find each other. JobMine is an integral part of the university's cooperative education program. It is responsible for handling most of the employer-student matching process, starting with job listings and ending with post-job interview ranking and matching. Once logged in to JobMine, students can look through job postings, apply for jobs, sign up for interviews, rank employers following an interview, and check for any matches (indicating the student will receive a job offer). JobMine also hosts other important information relevant to the coop student, including previous work report history and marks, contact information, and job history and evaluations.

The system is based on a service called PeopleTools, created by PeopleSoft (now Oracle Corporation), and as a result it looks and acts differently from most other university websites.

JobMine is also a target of frequent grumbles from University of Waterloo students, who complain of problems ranging from illogical navigation structure (it takes 7 levels of navigation to get from the first page following log-in to the interviews list), non-functioning browser "Back" button, difficulties uploading resumes, limited job filtering capabilities, and the site's "hours of operation" (the website is inactive from 3am to 7am-12pm, depending on the day of week^[1]). Another grievance amongst students is Jobmine often inexplicably adding random ASCII characters to a student's resume.

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• University of Waterloo

[edit] External links

• JobMine web site
• Cosmetic review of JobMine system
• Co-op Rankings