Job Searching Mobile Application using Location Awareness

This document provides the description for the FYP project titled "job Searching Mobile
Application using Location Awareness" .Location awareness is an important feature that
could help the user to know the availability of job vacancy at their current location.
However, the current job searching websites does not equip with this feature. Therefore,
the objective of the research paper is to study how location awareness feature can be
applied in job searching application using mobile computing as the platform. This
mobile application was developed for Android Operating System, which it could help
the user to search for part time job vacancy using location awareness feature.
The location awareness features could be done in mobile application using the Global
Positioning Technology (GPS) which it will detect the user's longitude and latitude.
Subsequently, the longitude and latitude will be converted into strings and will be
compared with the database. The data that match the database will be prompted to user.
The mobile application has gone through the user acceptance test with 30 users has
tested the software. Using Android, an open source operating system as the platform of
the mobile application, it targeted the user with Android smart phone to benefit using
this mobile application. As the conclusion, location awareness is a new feature that is
relevant to job searching process and it has been proven with the development of this
mobile application.