CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Online activities have a recent past replaced virtually every form of transactions. This is because of the advent of the internets which provide a globle network connection for all such activities. With this technology, many institution have their ten lades spread across the globle. In line with this trend, job search activities and job providers need to join the band wagon of the globle community in shearing their their information across internet. The project work is base on the nation .

A web portal, also known as a links page, presents information from diverse sources in a unified way. Apart from the standard search engine feature, web portals offer other services such as Email, news, stock price, information, databases, and entertainment. Portals provid a way for enterprises to provide a consistent look feel with access control and procedures for multiple applications and databases, which otherwise would have been different entities altogether.

1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

Individual website need to be created so that client can access their desired information directly.

The sudden increase in the number of recruitments enroll in each school has transcended the manipulation of the existing system used by the school administrators and this prompted a lot of problems which encompass the inaccurate computation of students result by the staffs on the account of nonavailability of adequate number of computer systems for the computation. This is a very ugly development.

Also, it was very complicated to observe when the enrolment of students should cease since there was no efficient system for the estimation of enrolment ratio to give a signal when the enrolment tends to move beyond the projection. All these and more are encountered due to the debilitation of the prevailing system used. It was very difficult to point out students who cheat in the course of examination as attributed to the nonstandard measure used in the supervision of the examination.

The school complained seriously on the unnecessary stress encountered while making the recruitment enrollment manually.

1.3OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY

The practical objective of this work is to design and implement an online recruitment portal, one of the most important objective of this project is to contribute to academic research work while the subsidiary objective include;

To help employers to post their job offer online and their vacant job positions

Providing the possibility for job seekers to build their curriculum vitae CVs online, look for new job opportunities in industries and organizations, get Email notification of interesting job vacancies and apply directly through the website.

To help organizations attract, test, recruit, employ and retain qualify staff with minimal amount of administration.

To reduce or totally remove the malpractice that goes among the recruitment agents or personnel managers.

1.4SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

If this prototype is fully developed it will be very useful in many areas such as;

It will ease the work of the personnel department of the any organization.

It will create more employment opportunities for our youth

The government can also review and deploy it to other sectors

Private individuals can also find it interesting

1.5SCOPE OF THE STUDY

This project will go as far as deploying web technologies in the implementation.

Dreamweaver will be used as the major development tools. Database connection using MySQL will extensively be covered in this work, studies were carried out in the various institutions that conduct interviews and recruitments. The scheme used is closed tag to the information collected at the point of research all forms and database designed followed the pattern of the manual means by the employer of labour.

This project was deployed using a local server which runs on a standalone pc and not deployable to the internet.

1.6DEFINITION OF TERMS/VARIABLES

Recruitment: this refer to the process of attracting screening qualified people for a job at an organization or firm

Web: a web refers to a vehicle for accessing and sharing of information

Sever: is a computer or program managing access to a resource or service in a network.

Portal: a web application that is designed to represent a ton of information in a concise and centered way there by making the internet easier to use e.g. Yahoo.com, netscape.com etc

Ontology: ontology in computer science and information technology is a formal representation of the knowledge by the set of concept within a domain and the relationship between those concepts.

Metadata: this is loosely defined as data about data. It is concept that applies mainly to electronically archived data and is used to describe the definition structure and administration of data file with all contents in context to ease the use of the captured and archived data for further use.

SQL: Structured Query Language is a database computer language designed for managing data in relational database management system RDBMS and originally base upon relational algebra. It scope include data query and update, schema creation and modification, and date access control.

Database: this is designed to offer an organized Mechanism for storing managing and retrieving information.

Dreamweaver: this is a proprietary web development applications originally create by macromedia; it is now developed by adobe system which acquired macromedia in 2005

Markup: this implies inserting keys or codes into a web document as desired when web user download the web page.