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nodemailer

These are the links I followed to get my Nodemailer to work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va9UKGs1bwI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF9g1825mwk

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Here I have successfully sent a email through Nodemailer. The last part will be to send through an email without revealing the candidates email.

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Now made the accept and reject pages where the employers name, email and message can be sent to the client in question. Now to set up Nodemailer to actually send the information over

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modal buttons

I have now made accept and reject buttons for the user to select how they feel about the CV. If accepted they would be taken onto the accept page where they can fill out the details.

The next step is to use node mailer to send an email off from this form to inform candidates whether they have been accepted or rejected from the interview.

Web pages are just for functionality right now and better styling will be sorted later on

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Managed to get text from the CV into the modal pop up. Now to make the modal better looking and add accept and reject buttons

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first draft persona done

Persona

Fictional name: Susan Evans

Image:

Quote: “ I want our hiring process to be unbiased.”

Personal background:

age,(52) gender,(female) education,(BA degree) persona group and family status.( She has a family but children have left the house so has had to learn a lot of technology on her whole)

Professional background:

occupation( full-time job) ,income level (£40k), work experience.

User environment:

what tech devices do users have access to do, do they spend most of their time in a corporate office or a home, how often do they collaborate with others.

Location ( in corporate office), items ( laptop)

Psychographics:

users attitudes ( , interests, motivations, pain-points

Enjoys easy to use applications

Hates complicated sites that need a lot from the user

Wants to bring more fairness in the hiring process

Wants to make the CV process easier 

User end goals: user can read through CVs that have been blocked out and contact user without reviling any of that persons details

Scenario: when(At least once a year, I have to go through some sort of hiring process. I try to be as fair and unbiased as I can when looking through CVs, but can sometimes I do find myself being bias and having to ask others on their opinion on a certain CV. This cuts into my time and my co workers time. I work full time and looking through CVs can take a lot of time which can be slowed down by having to ask for extra help.) , where, how? ( Ideally, I would have a panel to help me through CVs

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Regular expressions

To block the work out of the CV, I had to use regular expressions, I used the example from here https://reactgo.com/javascript-variable-regex/

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Personas

Today I am looking into how to creat personas. I am following this guide https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/personas-why-and-how-you-should-use-them 

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I now have got working the CV blocking out part of the program. It will check the whole text and blank out every time it found the name “Katie”

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creating modal popup

The next stage of using the web application for the employer is to view and select CVs. the goal here is to present a list of applications as a list and when selected a modal pop up box will display showing the blanked CV and the option to accept tor reject that CV

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Meeting with Matty

Spoke about lighthouse and axe

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Spoke to Matty

Went through how to get the pdf to work. Might need to change the text into string form,

https://nodejs.org/api/fs.html

var fs = require("fs");

let string = fs.readFileSync("./stuffKatieDid.txt").toString('utf-8');

https://nodejs.org/api/fs.html#fs_filehandle_writefile_data_options

Spoke about personas and sign up to Interaction Design course to find out how to do the persona.

https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/personas-why-and-how-you-should-use-them

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Links

https://www.w3schools.com/nodejs/nodejs_uploadfiles.asp

https://flaviocopes.com/express-forms-files/

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Spoke to Matty

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/02/storing-images-and-files-in-indexeddb/

Matty suggested looking through this to try and work out how to store files 

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How I will handle the extraction

I have tried to use two different methods to extract text from a pdf. I used pdf-parse to extract which produced results well. I also used pure javascript to extract text from the pdf which also produced good results. I will try to use just the javascript side first as I believe it will be easier to create a companion function. 

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https://qawithexperts.com/article/javascript/read-pdf-file-using-javascript/318

I used this website to use javascript to extract and produce the pdf in text form

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I have implemented pdf-parse to extract from a pdf file and produce the text from the file. Here I extracted from my project report