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, 5 levels of which have only a single option), 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. On January 19th, 2007, Jobmine was taken offline during a critical job posting session, during which students were supposed to search and apply for newly posted co-op jobs. Jobmine later came backonline on January 22nd, and job postings were extended until 3:00 AM of January 25th. This led to consternation and confusion among the students who were scrambling to adapt to Jobmine's seemingly random crashes. The fault was later discovered to be a faulty disk array, rather than a software problem, as initially reported.
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- ^ 4.4 Student Jobmine System, Co-Op student manual
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| Faculties | Applied Health Sciences - Arts - Engineering - Environmental Studies - Mathematics - Science |
| Schools | School of Accountancy - School of Architecture - David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science - School of Optometry School of Pharmacy - School of Planning - School of Social Work |
| Colleges | Conrad Grebel - Renison - St. Jerome's - St. Paul's |
| Student Life | University of Waterloo Federation of Students - Waterloo Warriors |
| Student Publications | Imprint - mathNEWS - Iron Warrior |
| Misc. | JobMine (Co-op job search) - Elliott Avedon Museum & Archive of Games - Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing - Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research - Institute for Quantum Computing |
