VS,
Here is an idea for Phase2 : A product that
sells itself : A Marketing Guy's Dream
ResumeSYNC will upload thousands
of TEXT resumes daily ( onto Central
Server ) , from hard disks of thousands of Employers
These will get parsed to create
a " Structures / Searchable " database
But , as quite likely , in each
such structured resume , values in some fields may be wrong and some fields may
be totally missing ( Parsing extracts 23 fields ! ) . Could be a parsing error or an error
inherently present in the original text resume
How do we correct these ?
By asking the Resume Owner himself ( - who does not
even know that we have his resume ! )
As soon as each resume gets
" parsed / structured " , following email will go out ( automatically ) to each resume-owner (
fortunately , in parsing , email IDs get extracted accurately ):
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Dear Ajay Krishna,
* Your resume was uploaded
on our web site by (registered User name)
* But it is incomplete (
missing or wrong or obsolete data )
* We urge you to EDIT ( hyperlink to edit
page ) , using your following :
#
User ID...........................
#
Password........................
* Editing will enable you
to use our following FREE services :
#
Job Search and Apply Online , against short
listed job advts ( hyperlinks )
#
Receive perfectly matching Job Alerts by downloading mobile app , " My Jobs / Resume Blaster "
Apply directly from your mobile ( no need to waste time in job-searching ! )
#
Online " Skype / Facetime " based Interviews being conducted by Employers in OnlineJobsFair
You can appear for interview at the date / time intimated , from wherever you
happen to be
( If selected , get Appointment Letter Email , in 5 minutes ! )
#
At any time access full history of " Jobs Applied for / Interviews
appeared in / Interview Outcome /
No of times your resume got short-listed and by whom "
with regards,
VS
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VS,
In IndiaRecruiter.net , we had
one useful feature
As soon as an Employer posted a
job and clicked " SUBMIT " , within 5 seconds , our software searched
entire resume database , shortlisted " suitable / matching "
candidates and displayed the search results in a tabulation below ( while asking
employer to " Just Wait / Finding Suitable Resumes " )
I believe , now this feature is
common on most job portals
Logic is simple
Take a look at the fields in
" Post Job " form
You will find these are the SAME
in " Resume Search " form ! Two sides of the same coin !
Incidentally , in your proposed
site , just below the " Post Job " form , you will need to add
following , before " SUBMIT " button :
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Pl activate this job posting for
:
* OFFLINE
interviewing ( after Job Search / Apply Online by Jobseekers ).... Check Box
* ONLINE
interviewing ( thru OnlineJobsFair virtual cabin
)........................ Check Box
* Both Type of
Interviewing.........................................................................
Check Box
SUBMIT
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hcp
VS,
After reading this last mail ,
Kartavya will turn around and ask :
" How is this any different
from RecruitGuru.com of 10 years ago ?
There too , Users
had to upload their TEXT resumes , in order
to get these parsed ? "
Here are the differences :
# Uploading of Text
Resumes ( for parsing ) in RecruitGuru was " Voluntary
"
In
proposed version , uploading will be " Mandatory " . In fact , it will be " Automatic " ,
without
needing any
action on the part of the Users , once he installs ResumeSYNC
And he is not
considered " Registered " user unless he " ACTIVATES " ResumeSYNC after downloading
# In RecruitGuru ,
every user's database ( of parsed resumes ) was kept separate and can be
accessed
only by
him ( partitioned ) . No other user can access / search it
In current
version , we plan to merge ALL parsed resumes into ONE SINGLE COMMON database , for
ALL users to access / search / short
list / send out Interview Calls
So , in
return for sharing their own small personal databases , every user gets to
access a HUGE
database ! A
classic case of " Network Externality "
Those Employers who
realize ( and that will be the main job of your Marketing Team ) that every
single
resume arriving in
their mailbox , can also be found in mailboxes of hundreds of other Employers ,
will
be only too happy
to give up on this " Perceived Unique Ownership
" , and join us so that , henceforth
he has no need to
pay Naukri a hefty subscription ( Rs 6
lakh / year ) !
He will find in our
CENTRAL COMMON database , all the
resumes that he will ever need !
# In proposed
version , all registered / active users get to interview candidates "
Online " , using
OnlineJobsFair feature
. This was not there in RecruitGuru .
With
competition getting fierce by the second , who has time to ,
* Post a
job advt on Naukri / Monster / Timesjobs
* Wait
for 10 days for jobseekers to " discover " your ad and Apply Online
* Read
/ Rate / Rank the resumes ( Excellent / Good / Fair / Poor ) trickling into
your mailbox
* Send out
Interview Call emails and wait for confirmations
* Keep
yourself ( and your Interview Panel Members ) , free on the day of the
interview , only to
find that 5 out of 10 candidates failed to turn up
*
Conduct FINAL interview on another date / time
In short , as far as requirement
of FRESH GRADUATES is concerned , I strongly believe , OnlineJobsFair would change the Rules of the Game
And do not forget one thing as
far as persuading 4 million MSMEs , who
have , so far , never used Naukri / Monster / Timesjobs , because they need to
fill only 2 / 5 vacancies per year
Obviously , since they are
practically unknown among the jobseekers , they are NOT receiving ANY
unsolicited resumes in their mailboxes
But even then , they can
download / install ResumeSYNC on their hard-disks
And even if morning after
morning , they fail to contribute , a single
resume , they are still eligible for full unrestricted access to COMMON
database !
Today , these 4 million are (
in the words of Christensen ) , " NON -
CONSUMERS " of online recruitment industry
Through our offering , we plan
to make them " Consumers " !
hcp
VS,
Here is a classic example of
" afterthought " !
Why should Resume Text Parsing Engine be built into the
tool " ResumeSYNC " and the
parsing of the text resumes ( arriving into the mail boxes of thousands of
Users ) , be carried out on those thousands of hard-disks ?
Would it not be much better -
and a lot easier - that tool " ResumeSYNC " only,
* Reads the Inbox ( Inbox Reader designed by Kartavya's colleague , Vikram )
* Separates incoming emails into > with
attachments > without attachments
* Opens / reads the attachments ( to confirm
these are actually " resumes " )
{ I have
prepared a detailed LOGIC }
* Next morning , uploads all of these TEXT resumes onto the
CLOUD , where the parsing takes place
Am I goofing up somewhere ?
hcp
VS,
Take a look at the following " Draft " for the
Functional Specifications " for,
hcp
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This
site will have 2 main sections named : Jobseekers : Employers
We
need to keep provision to later insert a 3rd section named : Public
Main
features will be as follows :
# Jobseekers
* Registration ( ie: Submit Resume
)
This
will be same 5 stage form as in CustomizeResume
After submission , outputs will be > A plain TEXT resume > A graphical
set of Profiles
After conducting a Job-Search and short listing
a few jobs , before clicking " APPLY " button , a jobseeker will need
to select :
*
Send my plain text resume ( FREE ) , or
*
Send my Graphical Profile , as well ( PAID
/ Re 1 per apply ? ) ( Payment thru online ccAvenue
gateway / Recharge , as in B2B site )
In
CustomizeResume , we have 2 different REGISTRATION FORMS ( Fresh Graduates and
Experienced Professionals )
VS to decide
whether he wants to keep both or just one
* Job search
and Apply Online
More
or less , this will follow the same structure as in CustomizeResume
This
feature will incorporate " Job
Recommendation System " , a very elementary version of which can be
found in
CustomizeResume
site
For
logic of this advanced version , refer to my notes on > Job Recommendation
System > Match Index System
Jobs
will be displayed in the Descending Order
of the Index
This
will also determine the " Job Alerts
" for any given jobseeker , delivered thru " My Jobs cum Resume Blaster " App
There
will be no provision online for display
of such Job Alerts or Apply Online
In
CustomizeResume , we have provided for many different types of " Job
searches "
VS to decide
which ones to keep and which ones to discard
* MY JOBS cum
RESUME BLASTER
Existing
source codes will need to be re-written , for combining these two currently
separate Apps into ONE offering
This
combined App will become a " Publisher " for InMobi Ad Network ( or
any other similar ad network )
In
Phase 2 , we will introduce , " Ad-Sharp " and " Ad-Compose
" for which Concept Notes are ready
This is a key feature of the entire site , since it has a
built-in Revenue Model thru delivery of Advts from InMobi
In
current version , first 5 job alerts are delivered FREE to the App User
For
fetching additional job alerts , he must CLICK on a delivered Ad , thereby earning money
On
clicking " Apply Online " in this App , text resumes get emailed to
the concerned job-advertisers ( FREE )
I
think , we should NOT allow Resume Blasting online from the web site ( as in
CustomizeResume )
# OnlineJobsFair
This
entire offering is explained in great details in my hand-written notes (
including User Interfaces and Page Write-ups )
VS to prepare a list of questions , if any , concerning this
offering and send to me in advance ( before his visit to Mumbai ) , so that I
can keep the answers ready
# Job Market Analytics
We introduced this feature only a few weeks ago - only
to discover that Job Advts RSS feeds ( from leading Job Portals ) have stopped
working !
This
will need to be re-started and thereafter , this feature should be enlarged to
incorporate my latest emailed specifications to Shuklendu
Rest
of this feature ( covered by my emails to Rohini and T C Anant ) to be taken up
in Phase 2
# EMPLOYERS
The
following are the main services / features for the Employers
# Registration
By
and large , this can be same as in CustomizeResume but do take a look at the
Registration Form in B2B
# Post Jobs
This
too can be same as in CustomizeResume , with a provision ( for Phase 2 ) , to
enable Employers to be able to post their " PRODUCT
/ SERVICE " advertisements as well ( to take care of Ad-Sharp )
# Resume Search
Only
last week , I said , we should not have " Resume Search " feature on
this web site
Today
, I say , " we should provide for this " !
Here
is why :
# ResumeSYNC
As
envisaged in my handwritten notes , ResumeSYNC was
supposed to carry out the Synchronization of the Resume Databases of thousands
of Users ( Employers who have downloaded and installed ResumeSYNC on their
hard-disks ) , by " downloading " ALL resumes from the CENTRAL SERVER , every morning - and then enable
such a User to be able to search his ( rapidly growing ) resume database ,
OFFLINE , using search-tool " Guru-Search
" built into ResumeSYNC
Of
course , every morning , as soon as such a User ( of ResumeSYNC ) goes online , all the parsed resumes of the
preceding 24 hours , get automatically UPLOADED onto the CENTRAL SERVER ,
before the DOWNLOADING starts
But
now I realize that this ( downloading in order to synchronize ), is entirely
unnecessary !
Those
millions of parsed resumes can continue to remain in the CLOUD ( Central Server
) !
All
that we need to do is to enable a User to conduct Resume Search , online on our
site , using Guru-Search engine ( developed by Kartavya , in RecruitGuru.com )
And
, as done in our tool " Resume Rater " , enable that User to short
list suitable candidates and send out Interview Calls , from the web site
itself !
In
any case , such a provision has also been made in
" OnlineJobsFair " feature
What does this lead to ?
*
One type of " Interview Calls " going out AFTER conducting Guru-Search and short listing by the
User, is strictly for OFFLINE ( on
the ground ) interviews in the BRICK and MORTAR
cabin of the Interviewer ( where he must , not only spell out date / time /
physical address , but also things such as > You will be reimbursed first
class return air-fare / may be required to stay overnight etc
*
Second type of " Interview Calls " , in OnlineJobsFair feature where .
> there is no
prior " Online Resume Search "
by the Recruiters
> jobseekers who are Online ,
look up what jobs are listed by Recruiters exclusively
for " Online Interviewing "
> jobseekers submit their resumes ( again
and again ) for being interviewed by different recruiters
> Recruiters book ( any numbers ) Virtual Interview Cabins and display
list of Interviewer for each cabin
> Recruiters assign " Interview Schedule " ( date / time /
virtual cabin number ) to each candidate selected for
interviewing
> Many other features listed inOnlineJobsFair
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In
my opinion , an IDEAL
FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICATION for any web site , would
consist of a comprehensive set of User Interfaces / Page Write-ups / Result Displays
( after each action by a Jobseeker or an Employer )
I
have always followed this practice in all of my earlier web sites , starting
with www.3pJobs.com ( 14 Nov 1997 )
As
a result , the Developer / SW coder , does NOT need to " guess " , what I have in mind when I " write " specs
This
also meant , speedier , more accurate and faithful
development at minimum cost ( because the
developer does not need to build into his quotation , certain amount for "
afterthoughts " by the customer )
This
also leads to minimum disputes and maximum satisfaction with the final outcome
And , above all , such COMPREHENSIVENESS
, will result in immediate FUNDING by VC !
Incidentally
, I suppose , the site will need to be Mobile Friendly
I suggest VS quickly discuss this note with his colleagues
and forward his views / comments / questions to , both kartavya and me . by 2nd
Oct 2016
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hcp
/ 30 Sept 2016
