Recruit – an Adaptable Recruitment Platform

Abstract: The rapid growth of the tech industry has led to a deficiency of qualified developers. Employing developers with adequate skills requires accurate assessments of the candidates. Today, an abundance of tools exists that companies can use in their recruitment processes. These tools are commonly prebuilt and often unadaptable, as well as being unrealistic in terms of real working life. In a normal work process, tasks have a duration of weeks instead of hours and developers can cooperate to solve assignments. Most companies today use recruitment tools created by external companies to facilitate their recruitment process. These tools are often rigid and cannot be adapted to the specific needs of the company. The consequences of these prebuilt tools have led to companies' rising desire to use an adaptable recruitment platform. The problem is that no such platform exists that provides a tool where companies can create their own assessments and adapt them according to their needs, with respect to the choice of tasks. The purpose of this thesis is to create an adaptable platform providing a tool for companies to use in their recruitment process, where tasks can be modified according to the requirements for the Recruit platform. The goal is to facilitate the recruitment process by creating an adaptable and expandable tool. The project strategy used for the development of the platform was an agile method inspired by Scrum. The development process resulted in a platform called Recruit that was built with a microservice architecture that fulfilled all the requirements for the functionality. This thesis was conducted on behalf of Knightec. The focus lies in building the platform with microservices using the cloud computing infrastructure of Amazon Web Services. The platform was built around social events where candidates can play a game proving their coding and problem-solving abilities. The implemented game supports different levels of difficulty and is accessed through API (Application Programming Interface) requests. Instead of candidates focusing on how to use the platform, the difficulty in the challenge lies in the focus of the candidates’ ability to create a solution to play the game. The development method used in this thesis is an agile method inspired by Scrum that is a part of a project method. The project method consists of five phases where the platform was designed and implemented, and lastly evaluated. The evaluation of this thesis concerned the project evaluation, prototype evaluation, and requirements evaluation. To prove that the requirements of the platform were fulfilled, semi-open interviews were conducted as well as acceptance tests. The discussion concerning the type of game resulted in implementing a turn-based single-player game, because of the increased complexity of implementing real-time or multiplayer games.