What is Goatconnect???

Goatconnect is a platform where alumni of WPI athletic teams can recruit current players for professional roles in their company. This provides more opportunities for current athletes, as well as trustworthy candidates for hiring alumni. Student Athletes at WPI (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) have great connections with their current teammates, thus while transitioning out of college and searching for jobs and internships, connections with former athletes and alumni are great resources for gaining opportunities. Currently, these connections are facilitated by the team's coaches – Alumni working for companies that have positions open reach out to the coach and the coach forwards the opportunity to their team. An application specifically designed for helping make connections between former and current WPI Athletes would help reduce the amount of work coaches have to do, while also opening opportunities to more athletes. The goal of this MQP is to analyze similar services and create a networking application named Goatconnect to serve as an enhanced athlete-oriented web application to help student athletes on the football team get job opportunities. This project was done as part as a Major Qualifying Project (MQP), worked on by Jacob Feiss, Loren DiLoreto, and Harrison Kyriacou — and will be continued in future years by other students at Worcester Polytechnic Instiute