Four Job Boards. One Spreadsheet.
What the founder wanted to work on next
The agency places students in Singapore internships. The team was growing its student base and wanted to serve more candidates without proportionally growing the team. The bottleneck wasn’t placement quality — it was the hours spent collecting and organizing opportunities before any placement work could begin.
Where they were stuck
Every week, the same manual cycle: open each of four job boards separately, search for relevant listings, copy them into spreadsheets, deduplicate by hand, standardize company names, classify industries manually, then share updates with students.
The same cycle every week. Data went stale between checks. Good opportunities slipped through before anyone saw them. More students meant more hours doing the same manual collection work — collecting information instead of placing people.
How we worked together through the CGA
We mapped the weekly collection workflow end to end — which boards, which search parameters, how listings were deduplicated, how industries were classified, and how the final output reached students. The entire cycle was manual, repetitive, and time-bound. Every hour spent collecting was an hour not spent placing.
The build
An automated scraping system that runs every Sunday night, pulling listings from all four job boards simultaneously. The system deduplicates across sources, standardizes company names, classifies industries, and extracts required skills as searchable tags.
A web dashboard with filters — industry, skills, date, source — gives the team instant access to the week’s opportunities. One-click CSV export for offline use. A manual scrape button triggers on-demand updates between scheduled runs. Weekly email summaries go out automatically. Old listings auto-expire after 4 weeks to keep the database current.
The outcome
10 hours per recruiter per week recovered — redirected from data collection to actual placement work. Four job boards unified into one dashboard with automated weekly collection that runs overnight, no manual work required.
The same team now places more students without hiring additional staff. Adding more students or more source boards scales without additional human effort. The system turned a weekly manual grind into a background process.
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