Students can now access the CareerLAB Student Job and Internship Board after an outage that lasted from Thursday afternoon to Monday afternoon. The failure was caused by a "critical hardware outage on the part of the vendor" Symplicity Corporation, said Andrew Simmons, director of the CareerLAB.
CareerLAB staff worked with employers to ensure students would not miss application deadlines or interviews they had scheduled, Simmons said.
"I want to emphasize that our staff has been working very, very hard to mitigate any potential impacts on students," he said.
Approximately 1,000 other colleges and universities that use the system were also affected, Simmons wrote in an email to the student body Monday.
It took slightly longer for the University to repair its job board because of its password authentication system, Simmons told The Herald.
"It was just annoying," Scott Freitag '14 said. "There was no information about why it was down" on the webpage, he said.
"These things do happen," Simmons said. "These are large databases that are subject to occasional failure."
