Career Co-Pilot 🚀

Career Co-Pilot is a full-stack web application that recommends career paths based on a user’s skills.
Users can enter their skills, receive a recommended career along with a learning roadmap, and track their search history.

This project demonstrates modern full-stack development practices, including authentication, REST APIs, and database integration.

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🌍 Live Demo

Frontend:
https://career-co-pilot-sigma.vercel.app

Backend API:
https://career-co-pilot-1-szo7.onrender.com

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🧰 Tech Stack

Frontend

• React (Vite)
• Fetch API
• CSS

Backend

• Flask (Python)
• JWT Authentication
• Bcrypt password hashing

Database

• PostgreSQL (Render)

Deployment

• Frontend: Vercel
• Backend: Render
• Database: Render PostgreSQL

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✨ Features

• 🔐 User registration and login
• 🧠 Skill-based career recommendation
• 📚 Learning roadmap suggestions
• 📜 Search history tracking
• 🗑 Delete history entries
• 📄 Pagination for history results
• 🔒 Protected API routes using JWT
• ⚡ Centralized API request handler (api.js)
• 🌍 Deployed full-stack application (Vercel + Render)

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🧠 How It Works

1. User enters skills in the frontend UI.
2. React converts the input into an array.
3. Skills are sent to the Flask backend via a POST request.
4. Flask processes the skills using rule-based logic.
5. Backend returns the recommended career and roadmap.
6. React dynamically displays the results and stores search history.

🏗 System Architecture

        ┌──────────────────────┐
        │     React Frontend   │
        │   (Vite + Fetch API) │
        └───────────┬──────────┘
                    │
                    ▼
        ┌──────────────────────┐
        │       Flask API      │
        │     REST Endpoints   │
        └───────────┬──────────┘
                    │
                    ▼
        ┌──────────────────────┐
        │   JWT Authentication │
        │ Token Generation &   │
        │ Token Verification   │
        └───────────┬──────────┘
                    │
                    ▼
        ┌──────────────────────┐
        │    PostgreSQL DB     │
        │ Users + SearchHistory│
        └──────────────────────┘

📡 API Endpoints

Register User

POST /register

Registers a new user.

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Login User

POST /login

Authenticates user and returns JWT token.

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Recommend Career

POST /recommend

Input:

{ "skills": ["python", "sql"] }

Returns recommended career and roadmap.

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Get Search History

GET /history?page=1

Returns paginated user search history.

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Delete History Entry

DELETE /history/:id

Deletes a specific history entry.

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▶️ Running the Project Locally

1️⃣ Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/abhilash2124/career-co-pilot.git
cd career-co-pilot


2️⃣ Backend Setup
cd backend
python -m venv venv
pip install -r requirements.txt
python app.py

Backend runs on:
http://127.0.0.1:5000


3️⃣ Frontend Setup
cd frontend
npm install
npm run dev

Frontend runs on:
http://localhost:5173


🔐 Environment Variables
Create a .env file inside the backend folder:
JWT_SECRET_KEY=your_secret_key
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_NAME=career_copilot
DB_USER=postgres
DB_PASSWORD=your_password


📌 Future Improvements
AI/ML based career recommendation model
Improved UI/UX design
Expanded career dataset
Advanced recommendation system

👨‍💻 Author
Abhilash Addagatla
GitHub:
https://github.com/abhilash2124




![Home](./screenshots/Home.png)
![login](screenshots/login.png)