From Scratch to Internship: Day 1 of Building an AI Job Portal

🚀 Day 1 – “HireMe” — An AI-Powered Recruitment Platform

Hey devs 👋

I'm kicking off a 30-day challenge to build a major full-stack project that will not only sharpen my skills but also help me land a solid internship. I'm documenting the entire journey here on Dev.to — #LearnInPublic style!

💡 Project Idea: "HireMe"

HireMe is an AI-powered recruitment platform where:

👨‍💼 Recruiters can:

✅ Create, edit, and manage job posts

✅ View applicants and their AI interview results

✅ Approve or reject candidates

👩‍💻 Candidates can:

✅ Browse and apply to jobs

✅ Upload resumes

✅ Take AI-driven interviews (Voice/Text/Video)

✅ Track application status

🧠 AI Interview System:

✅ Analyzes resumes

✅ Asks tailored questions

✅ Evaluates answers using LLMs

✅ Generates scores to assist recruiters

🔨 Day 1 – What I Did

🔧 Initialized the project using Next.js with Tailwind CSS and ShadCN UI

🔐 Set up NextAuth (Auth.js) for authentication with:

Google login
GitHub login
Credentials (email/password)

🗃️ Integrated Prisma ORM with PostgreSQL

🧑‍💼 Created initial schema for User, Candidate, and Recruiter

🧪 Built role-based login & signup flows with clean UI

🍪 Stored role in cookies during OAuth registration and updated it post-login

🧠 Why This Project?

I wanted to simulate a real-world hiring experience, but with a twist —

Let AI handle the first-round interviews, saving time for both sides.

It’s a great mix of: