Edwin Mol from JavaJobs pointed out that there is already an open-source Job-Posting and Candidate Tracking project out there, written in J2EE (Struts and EJBs) called FlashRecruit.
Check out a demo here, which looks very promising.

FlashRecruit uses a GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE meaning that we can use this code as a basis and work ontop of this for the missing functionality, maybe migrate it to Spring/Hibernate etc. ?! Even if we don't use it it will give us some extra information on terminology, functionality, etc.

Suggestions are welcome

Stephan