📌 Placement Management System

A full-stack MERN project for managing the college placement process, including:

• Student application tracking
• Interview scheduling
• Company coordination
• Placement drive management
• Reports & analytics

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🚀 Live Demo

• Frontend (Netlify): Placement Management System Frontend
• Backend (Render): Placement Management System API

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🔑 Demo Login Credentials

You can use the following demo accounts to explore the system:

• Admin Email: admin@gmail.com Password: 123456

• Company Email: company@gmail.com Password: 123456

• Student Create your own test account using the signup option.

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👨‍💻 Roles & Features

🧑‍🎓 Student

• Submit applications with resume & cover letter (resumes stored securely in Cloudinary)
• Track application status
• Receive email notifications (via Nodemailer) for updates
• View & manage interview schedules
• Attend interviews via integrated Jitsi Meet video conferencing

🏢 Company

• Choose placement drive & post job openings
• Manage company profile
• View applications received (resumes fetched from Cloudinary)
• Update application status (triggers email to student)
• Schedule interviews and update results (emails sent to student)
• Conduct video interviews directly using Jitsi integration

👨‍💼 Admin

• Post & manage placement drives
• Manage student lists
• Create new placement drives
• View reports of past drives
• Export reports as PDF (using jsPDF / html-pdf)
• Visualize reports using Recharts

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⚙️ Tech Stack

• Frontend: React.js, TailwindCSS, Redux (for state management)

• Backend: Node.js, Express.js

• Database: MongoDB

• Authentication: JWT

• File Storage: Cloudinary (for resumes and documents)

• Video Conferencing: Jitsi Meet (for online interviews)

• Email Notifications: Nodemailer

• State Management: Redux (used for managing authentication, roles, job postings, placement drives, interviews, and reports data consistently across the app)

• Charts & Reports: Recharts

• PDF Export: jsPDF / html-pdf

• Deployment:

  • Frontend → Netlify
  • Backend → Render

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🗂️ Project Structure

/Placement-Management-System
 ├── backend   # Express.js API, MongoDB models & controllers
 ├── frontend  # React.js with TailwindCSS + Redux (slices, store, state management)
 └── README.md

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🛠️ Getting Started

1️⃣ Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/Subramaniyajothi6/Placement-Management-System.git
cd Placement-Management-System

2️⃣ Setup Backend

cd backend
npm install
npm start

3️⃣ Setup Frontend

cd frontend
npm install
npm run dev

4️⃣ Environment Variables

Create a .env file in backend:

MONGO_URI=your_mongodb_connection_string
JWT_SECRET=your_secret
EMAIL_USER=your_email@example.com
EMAIL_PASS=your_email_password

# Cloudinary
CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME=your_cloud_name
CLOUDINARY_API_KEY=your_api_key
CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET=your_api_secret

# Jitsi (optional if you use custom domain/config)
JITSI_DOMAIN=meet.jit.si

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📊 Reports & Analytics

• Track number of participants, interviews, offers, and placements
• Visualize placement statistics with charts
• Export results to PDF for official records

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⚠️ Note

• This project is for educational/demo purposes only
• Do not use real credentials when testing
• Student account credentials are kept private

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📜 License

This project is open-source under the MIT License.