PROGRAMMING PRACTICAL QUESTIONS

 

PROGRAMMING PRACTICAL QUESTION       

As an application developer, you are assigned by the Public Service Recruitment Secretariat to develop a simplified system that manages job listings, applications, and application evaluations. Your system should simulate the core features involved in connecting candidates with job opportunities

 

PART 1. Authorization and Authentication

 

You are required to implement a secure authentication and authorization service for a web application. The system should support user registration, secure login, role-based access control, session management. Additionally, APIs exposed to third-party services must be secured using API key authentication.

 

Functional Requirements:

 

a)     User Registration & Login

 

•        Implement a secure registration endpoint that stores user credentials using password hashing (e.g., borypt)

 

•        Provide a login endpoint that returns a session token or JWT on successful authentication

 

b)    Password Reset Functionality

 

c)     Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

 

•        Users can have roles such as admin, editor, and viewer

 

•        Access to specific routes or resources must be restricted based on user roles

 

d)    Session Management

 

•        Store session tokens securely.

 

•        Implement session expiration and logout functionality.

 

e)      API Key Authentication

 

 

PART 2: Job Recruitment System

 

Requirements:

 

Implement a program (in any language of your choice) with the following functionalities:

 

I.          Job Listings Management

 

•        Add jobs with details such as title, department, location, ang salary

 

•        View all active job postings.

 

II.          Candidate Application Handling

 

Allow a candidate to apply for a specific job by submitting.

 

•        Name, Email, Position ID

 

•        Resume text or brief profile summary

 

•        Store applications in-memory

III.          Location Based Priority

 

As part of the application review process, you are required to assign additional priority points to candidates based on the location of the job they are applying for (not the candidate's location). This ensures a consistent and deterministic evaluation process during interviews or automated scoring.

 

Scoring Rules Based on Job Location:

 

•        Jobs located in "Remote" settings: +3 points

 

•        Jobs based in "DAR ES SALAAM": +2 points

 

•        Jobs in any other location: +1 point

 

These points are added to the candidate's resume score to compute a final evaluation score.

 

 

 

IV.        Application Review

 

Simulate the evaluation of each candidate's applicant score based on resume quality and job location-based priority

 

a)     Resume Quality Score

 

Assign a score between 1 and 10 to evaluate the candidate’s resume. This score can be mocked randomly or fixed for simulation process.

 

b)      Location Priority Score

 

Use the job's location (not the candidate's location) to determine priority points:

 

•        Jobs located in "Remote" settings: +3 points

 

•        Jobs based in "DAR ES SALAAM": +2 points

 

•        Jobs in any other location: +1 point

 

c)       Final Score Calculation

 

 

 

d)    Review Summary Output

 

After processing each application, display a summary that indicates:

 

i.                 Candidate Name

 

ii.               Position Applied For

 

iii.             Resume Score

 

iv.             Location Priority Points

 

v.               Final Score

Constraits:

 

•        Use classes or modules for separation of concern

 

•        Store jobs and applications in-database.

 

•          Ensure each candidate can apply only once per job

 

Sample Input Flow:

 

1. Add Job "Software Engineer", IT, Remote, Tsh 1,200,000.

 

2. Add Job: "HR Officer", Human Resources, DAR

 

3. Apply: Ally Mdoka, amdoka@example.com, Job Python and Java."

 

4.  View Summary

 

 

 

1.     Software Engineer (Remote) - Tsh. 1,200,000

 

2.       HR Officer (DAR ES SALAAM) – Tsh. 750,000

 

Application Received: Name: Ally Mdoka Position: Software Engineer Resume Score: 7 Location Priority: 3

 

Final Score: 10

 

Application processed successfully.

 

Implementation Guidelines:

 

•        Use any modern back-end franework (e.g., Laravet, Django, Flask, Ex Spring Boot).

 

•        For Frontend use (Angular, React or Vue js)

 

•        Use a relational database (PostgreSQL or MySQL)

 

•        Passwords must be hashed and never stored in plain text.

 

•        Provide proper error handling and logging for authentication

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