🚀 TalentBridgePro – Smart Job Portal Platform

📌 Introduction

TalentBridgePro is a smart job portal platform built using ASP.NET MVC with a modular API-based architecture.
The project aims to streamline the recruitment process by connecting applicants and recruiters through:

🔐 Secure authentication

🔍 Intelligent job & applicant search

🔔 Real-time notifications

🤖 AI-powered features like ATS resume scoring and job description generation , used elasticsearch for better searching

The platform is designed with a strong focus on scalability, security, and performance, using modern technologies such as JWT authentication, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, Redis, and PostgreSQL.

🚧 Project Status

⚠️ This project is currently under development

✅ Applicant Panel – Completed

✅ Recruiter Panel – Completed

🚧 Admin Panel – Under active development

⚙️ Getting Started

Follow the steps below to run the project locally.

🔧 1. Installation Process

Clone the repository from GitHub

Open the solution in Visual Studio

Configure the PostgreSQL database connection

Add required API keys and environment variables

Run the backend API and MVC application

🧰 2. Software Dependencies

ASP.NET MVC (.NET)

PostgreSQL (PgSQL)

Elasticsearch

RabbitMQ

Redis

JWT Authentication

SMTP (Email Service)

Hugging Face API

⚠️ Important:
To generate AI-based job descriptions and ATS resume scores, you must use your own Hugging Face API key.

📦 3. Latest Releases

This project is in active development.
Stable releases will be published once the Admin module is completed.

🔗 4. API References

The application follows a RESTful API-based architecture with separate APIs for:

👤 Applicant

🧑‍💼 Recruiter

🛠️ Admin

All APIs are secured using JWT-based authentication.

🧪 Build and Test

Build the project using Visual Studio or dotnet build

Run the application using dotnet run

Test API endpoints using Postman or Swagger

🧩 Manual testing is implemented; automated tests will be added in future releases

🤝 Contribute

Contributions are always welcome! You can help improve this project by:

🐞 Reporting bugs

💡 Suggesting new features

🎨 Enhancing UI/UX

⚡ Optimizing backend APIs

🧪 Adding tests and documentation

Please fork the repository, create a new branch, and submit a pull request.