💼 Job Hunt – Your Gateway to Opportunities

Highlights 🚀

• Streamlined job portal connecting applicants and recruiters
• Secure authentication with JWT and role-based access control
• Media uploads via Cloudinary; fully responsive UI with Tailwind and Framer Motion
• Deployed live on Render with CI/CD pipeline

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🚀 Live Demo

Explore the live application here: https://job-hunt-gcpq.onrender.com

Demo Credentials (optional)

• Recruiter
  Email: recruiter@example.com
  Password: 123

• Applicant
  Email: applicant@example.com
  Password: applicant123

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✨ Major Features

🧑‍💼 Recruiter

• Post, edit, delete jobs
• View applicants & update application status
• Admin dashboard for job/company management
• Upload company logo via Cloudinary

👨‍🎓 Applicant

• Signup/login with secure auth (JWT)
• Apply for jobs & check statuses
• Upload/download resume via Cloudinary
• Personal profile dashboard (skills, bio, contact, applied jobs)
• Filter/search jobs by location, industry, salary
• View latest & featured jobs

🎯 General

• Role-based access control (Applicant vs Recruiter)
• Protected routes with JWT + Redux Persist
• UI animations via Framer Motion
• Custom React hooks for API handling
• Responsive design with ShadCN UI + Tailwind CSS

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🖼️ Screenshots

Home Page

Jobs Page

Latest Jobs

Job Details

Post Job

Login Page

Sign Up Page

Profile Page

Recruiter Dashboard

🛠️ Tech Stack Backend Node.js + Express.js

MongoDB Atlas (jobhunt DB) via Mongoose

Multer + Cloudinary for file uploads

JWT authentication with role-based middleware

Frontend React.js + Vite

Redux Toolkit + Redux Persist

ShadCN UI + Tailwind CSS

Framer Motion for animations

🌍 Environment Variables Create a .env file in both frontend and backend with the following:

🔐 Backend .env PORT=5000 MONGO_URI=your_mongodb_connection_string JWT_SECRET=your_jwt_secret_key CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME=your_cloud_name CLOUDINARY_API_KEY=your_api_key CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET=your_api_secret 🌐 Frontend .env VITE_BASE_URL=http://localhost:5000/api/v1

🗃️ Database Database Name: jobhunt

Collections: users, jobs, applications, companies

Credentials are securely handled via JWT—no hardcoded secrets.

📁 Project Structure 📁 server/ ┣ controllers/ ┣ models/ ┣ routes/ ┣ middleware/ ┗ config/ 📁 client/ ┣ components/ ┣ pages/ ┣ redux/ ┣ services/ ┗ hooks/ 🧪 Testing Backend APIs tested via Postman

Token verification middleware validated

Frontend manually tested across flows with validation and alert messaging

🤝 Contributing Your contributions are welcome! To contribute:

git clone https://github.com/Restymohit/Job-Hunt cd job-hunt npm install Submit issues or pull requests to help improve the project.

🙋‍♂️ Contact Mohit Sharma

LinkedIn: mohit-sharma-75435b232

Email: mksharma7724@gmail.com

📄 License This project is open-sourced under the MIT License. Feel free to use, modify, and distribute it!