That's a good question. In practice everybody can see all the job positions and their own applications, but not other people's applications. However, in this assignment we don't keep track of users, so it's difficult to tell who is "this user" and who are "other people". So for this assignment it's OK that an applicant cannot view his/her own application.

cthanh wrote:

Would that also mean that an applicant could apply for the same position multiple times?

In this assignment, yes, but we'll assume it won't happen.