Job Search Automation Toolkit

Job Search Automation Toolkit

Tools and Libraries

• Golang: The primary programming language for building the toolkit.
  • Chosen in order to learn the language to better sell my Platform Engineering skillset
• Colly: A powerful and easy-to-use web scraping framework for golang.
  • Used for scraping job listings from various job boards and company career

Themes Explored

• Concurrency - golang's concurrency model using goroutines and channels
• Web Scraping - using Colly to extract job listings and relevant data
• Modularity
  • initial implementation makes use of a single service in order to focus on learning golang's concurrency model
  • Eventually, the deployment will be moved to a wasmcloud deployment that moves concurrency out of the application code and into the platform
• Debugging integration - integrating debugging tools to troubleshoot issues during scraping
• Observability - implementing logging and monitoring to track the toolkit's performance and usage
• Durable Execution - ensuring the toolkit can handle long-running tasks and recover from failures (useful for integrating with external AI services)