colima / ApplicantTracking

An applicant tracking system using video submissions

Applicant Tracking

Ziggeo API (http://ziggeo.com) allows you to integrate video recording and playback with only two lines of code in your site, service or app.

This is a simple applicant tracking system featuring video interviews. It was originally built by Union Square Ventures (http://usv.com).

Technology

Built with:

• Python / Tornado
• Mongodb
• Ziggeo
• Filepicker

Setup

1. Obtain source code

• 1.1 Clone our repository into an empty directory.
• 1.2 Delete .git directory

2. Sign up for Heroku

• 2.1 Go to Heroku and create an account
• 2.2 Create a Heroku application
• 2.3 Add a Credit Card
• 2.4 Add MongoLab Addon
• 2.5 Install the Heroku Toolbelt

3. Sign up for Ziggeo

• 3.1 Go to Ziggeo and create an account.

4. Configure repository

• 4.1 In your directory, start with git init
• 4.2 heroku accounts:add yourappname --auto
• 4.3 heroku git:remote -a yourappname --account yourappname
• 4.4 heroku accounts:set yourappname

5. Configure API / service keys

• 5.1 Open settings.py in an editor
• 5.2 Change COOKIE_SECRET to something random
• 5.3 Run heroku config to obtain DB_NAME, MONGODB_URL.
• 5.4 Go to the Ziggeo application to obtain ZIGGEO_TOKEN.

6. Customize application by editing source code.

• 6.1 Change the title in settings.py
• 6.2 Add your administrators to settings.py
• 6.3 Update questions & videos in settings.py
• 6.4 Open the template files to change the overall look. (options)

7. Push to production

• 7.1 git add .
• 7.2 git commit -a -m "Initial Commit"
• 7.3 git push heroku master

Run the application locally

1. Start a local instance of mongo by running ./mongod or configure your app to use a cloud-based mongo instance, by setting "MONGODB_URL" and "DB_NAME" in settings.py

2. Start the web server python tornado_server.py

3. Visit application by navigating to http://localhost:8001