Applicant Tracking System for Nigeria Federal Road Safety Corps

Abstract

This paper presents a solution designed and developed to solve the problem of recruitment experienced by the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) of Nigeria. Since the establishment of the Corps in February 1988, the recruitment process has been manually conducted. This has resulted in enormous and completely avoidable financial and human costs. In addition to cost of travel and man-hours expended, FRSC personnel lives have been lost in accidents as they travel around the country to conduct recruitment exercises. In order to alleviate these problems, an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) is proposed to handle the FRSC recruitment exercise, keep track of various processes and make reports easily available. In this paper the approach taken to develop the ATS is discussed, technologies utilized to build the system are described, as well as how the system is used to improve the overall FRSC recruitment process. Furthermore, the system is qualitatively evaluated to measure its potential utility and effectiveness. The ATS is shown to not only have contributed to the enhancement of FRSC’s overall recruitment process, but also reduced the risks of sending FRSC staff on long distance trips around the country to manually conduct personnel recruitment exercises.