Connected: Build Report Tool

Project Description:

Connected is a company that guides international students through the complex journey of studying abroad and finding employment in their desired field. Services offered by Connected include finding the right program and institution for each student, assistance with the applications to each desired academic institution, visa processing assistance and career planning.

One of the core functions of Connected is creating personalized reports to succinctly detail programs that are a best-fit for the student. The process starts with an assessment of the student’s academic goals and educational background. Next, Connected employees procure a list of programs in cities that offer the best combination of institution-program notoriety, employment opportunity, and overall student experience. Additional factors considered in the program selection include: tuition costs, academic requirements, English language requirements and more.

Connected builds the student reports through lengthy, manually extracted information from institution’s program pages. Each of these reports can take up to six hours to construct. Thus, Connected sought to remediate the arduous process.

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Our team conducted a meeting with Connected’s founder, Syed Zeehad, to learn about Connected business operations and the company’s software needs. We learned Connected builds its student reports detailing best-fit programs with respect to employment opportunities through tedious, time-consuming processes. It became clear very quickly what Syed was in search of and how we could help. In fact, Syed had completed a lot of the application design beforehand and came to us with a very solidified idea. It was very evident the report processing time could be greatly decreased which could allow employees to allocate more time to generate sales and respond to clients faster. Further, it sets the stage for future company growth and expansion.

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Team HelloWorld took Syed’s designs and set out to build the tool Connected employees needed. As a team we had our own planning to do in order to create an application that best-fit for his team’s needs. Together, we chose to build an authenticating web application with an easy to use page flow that built a report beginning from student intake to generating a final report.

The application is comprised of Node.Js, Express.Js, HTML, CSS, and MySQL.

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