Student Employment System: The Pros and Cons of Building a Homegrown Application and Using Student Programmers

摘要

The College of New Jersey has recently completed an enterprise application that controls job postings, student application and employment contracts for on-campus jobs. The departments of Enterprise Applications and Career Services collaborated together to design and develop the Student Employment System with help from student programmers in our Computer Science department. This paper will review the functions of the system as well as the pros and cons of building homegrown software and using student programmers. The Student Employment System allows departments on campus to post jobs and students to apply for those jobs on-line. Career Services manages the approval process of jobs and applications and contracts the students for their employment term. The system took over two years to develop and build. Initially student programmers were brought on to work with the design and programming of the system until problems arose when feeding payroll information to the new PeopleSoft HR system.