VokaLink – Special Job Market Web Application
VokaLink
In the vocational education sector, bridging the gap between academic training and industrial demands is often a logistical challenge. VokaLink was built to solve this by transforming the traditional “Bursa Kerja Khusus” (BKK) into a scalable, cloud-based SaaS solution.
VokaLink creates a unified ecosystem connecting three key stakeholders: the educational institution, the talent (students and alumni), and the industry. For students, it digitizes the internship experience, handling attendance and daily journal recaps efficiently. For alumni, it serves as a career hub offering job listings and tracer studies to track graduate success. Simultaneously, it provides companies with a robust portal to post vacancies and manage virtual or hybrid job fairs, making recruitment seamless and data-driven.
Key Features:
- SaaS Architecture: A multi-tenant system designed to be deployed across various educational institutions with role-based access control.
- Internship Monitoring: Real-time tracking of student attendance and automated compilation of daily activity journals.
- Graduate Tracking (Tracer Study): Data-driven tools to monitor alumni career paths and gather feedback for institutional improvement.
- Job Aggregation: A robust job listing platform connecting students and alumni directly with industry needs.
- Event & Recruitment Management: Comprehensive tools for companies to post ads and manage participation in school-organized Job Fairs.
TECHNOLOGY
SQL
Engineered a unified database architecture where both Laravel applications read and write to the same source of truth. This ensures real-time data synchronization between the student's activity and the company's dashboard without complex API overhead.
CONCLUSION
Bridge the gap between Education and Industry with VokaLink! Managing a Career Center (BKK) has never been easier. VokaLink overcomes the challenge of disconnected systems by unifying two powerful applications—one for schools and one for companies—into a single, shared ecosystem. Experience effortless internship monitoring, real-time job matching, and comprehensive alumni tracking, all designed to accelerate graduate careers and streamline corporate recruitment.
Challenges Faced
- Shared Database Architecture: The primary technical challenge was architecting two separate Laravel applications (Educational vs. Corporate) that share a single database and storage path. Ensuring data integrity and preventing concurrency issues when two different systems write to the same tables required precise schema design and query management.
- Unified Asset Management: Configuring a shared storage environment where a CV uploaded in the "Student App" is immediately accessible and viewable in the "Company App" required careful handling of file permissions and path configurations.
Project Benefits
- Security & Scalability: By separating the system into two distinct applications, the platform ensures that corporate data traffic does not impact the performance of the student portal, offering better load distribution.
- Seamless Integration: Despite being separate applications, the shared database ensures that when a company posts a job, it appears instantly on the alumni dashboard, creating a real-time "VokaLink" ecosystem.
- Operational Efficiency: Digitizes the entire BKK workflow—from internship attendance to alumni tracer studies—providing institutions with a modern, paperless solution.
