FLIGHT DECK RECRUITGURU

“RecruitGuru – Flight Deck”

Visitors will get to see this page, when they click on Flightdeck link on homepage

RECRUITGURU

Flight Deck

Dear (potential) Subscriber:

Having read Groundline and Courseware, you know how your business productivity will go up manifold when you subscribe to Recruitguru. If there are any doubts, our 30 day Free Trial will convince you.

But you may still wonder:

How does pay-per-use and pay-when-use actually work? Would I get to decide, who (from my Company) will use what and when? How do I make subscription-payment? How much have I used-up and how much money is there in my credit, at any point of time?

Clicking on links alongside will convince you that Recruitguru’s SELF-SERVICE is completely transparent and YOU are in absolute control the entire time.

What you see here are static pages but once you login as a Subscriber, they become interactive — ready to obey your clicking commands!

Welcome to the Wonderland of Recruitguru!

 

“Users”

RECRUITGURU

USERS

Instructions

Dear Administrator:

• Only Administrator(s) will be able to access this page.
• On this page, they can add/delete/update user information.

ADD →

When you click on this link at the bottom of this page, a new row will appear. In this, enter the User Name, User Login, Password, Email ID, User Type, and FTP password. Refer to Tariff Chart for charges.

UPDATE →

For editing/adding/deletion of users, click “Update Users” link at the bottom after making changes.

DELETE →

Select the checkbox ☑ in “delete” column against the name of the user you want to delete. Then click on “Update Users” link at the bottom.

If you are a Multi-plant / Multi-office / Decentralized Organization, you will need to add more users as your operations grow.

 

“Usage Statistics”

Dear Administrator,

If you have authorized several executives to use Recruitguru, you would certainly want to check up, from time to time, which executive is doing what activity, when, and how much does this cost you!

On this page, you can monitor such statistics — and you can view usage statistics for:

• All users (combined) or any one given user
• All months (combined) or any one given month
• All activities (combined) or any one given activity
• Any combination of User / Month / Activity

As an enlightened manager, you want to empower your executives without giving up your responsibility to monitor!

“User Activity Permission”

Dear Administrator,

If you have authorized several users to use Recruitguru, it is quite possible that their “need-to-use” differs. Keeping in mind this “need-factor,” you may want to decide which user can/will use which activity.

On this page, you record/document your authorization by:

• Selecting users — one by one — one at a time.
• Ticking ☑ in checkbox against activities which, in your opinion, the user would need to use.
• When completed, clicking on “Update Permission” link on top of the table.

Of course, you can reverse your authorization anytime by clicking again on the checkbox, at anytime.

“Environment”

Dear Administrator,

The Environment Values shown in the box below are set / altered by Recruitguru Support Team to enable you to get the best results.

But if you have your own compelling reasons to change these settings, first phone up our Mr. Sanjeev Tiwari (CH) 3-850-5802 (Rekhawe / Mumbai) and consult him before making any change.

Any unilateral change could result in severe functionality defects!

Once Sanjeev agrees with your proposed changes, you may do so and then click “Update” link.

“Tariff Chart”

Dear Administrator,

Here is our promise of PAY-PER-USE!

No need for you to shell out lakhs of rupees (or thousands of dollars) right upfront for any legacy software installed on your server or on a huge annual subscription to a jobsite, irrespective of:

• your actual need-based usage
• the number of features that you really need

If the Tariff shown below appears insignificant (which it is!), then after just one month’s usage, you will find that your recruitment-process productivity has sky-rocketed!

And — you don’t have to keep buying upgrade versions every six months!

“Subscription Payment Form”

Dear Administrator,

Please use this form to enter Subscription Payment Details.

You have the following options to remit money:

• Demand Draft
• Cheque
• Wire Transfer
• Credit Card (As soon as our payment gateway is ready)

Obviously, if you are effecting payment through Demand Draft or Cheque, you will need to send these to our postal address through a Courier Agency.

When sending, along with your covering letter, please do enclose a printout of this form, duly filled in with full details.

Although no paper instruments are involved in wire transfer or credit card-based payments, it is advisable to send us an email (accounts@recruitguru.com) incorporating the remittance details.

As soon as your payment is realized, we will activate your account and inform you through email.

“Fee Payment History”

Dear Administrator,

On this page, you get to see the entire history of payments (subscriptions) made by you, right from your very first payment — in the reverse chronological order (latest payment details on the top).

Of course, the payment details on this page are entered by us when we “realize” the payment, and a unique PO ID (Pay Order) is generated with each update. Please refer to this PO ID in future correspondence.

At the bottom of this page you get to see:

A ➤ Total (Cumulative) Amount paid by you so far

B ➤ Total Debit = Cumulative value of all Activities carried out by your users so far

(A – B) ➤ Credit Balance = Value still available for your use

“Software Development Priorities for Next 30 Days”

Dated: 29-09-03

Names Mentioned: Kartavya, Atthi, Sanjeev

Software Development Priorities for Next 30 Days

• Enclosed find my suggestions.
• In case there are any doubts/questions, please feel free to see me — preferably together.
• I suppose Kartavya would prepare a Project Plan laying down who will do what and when. We should monitor it weekly.

During the next 3–4 weeks, Atthi will concentrate on:

1️⃣ Processing 2 lakh job cards through Auto-Converter to create detailed, separate activity keywords and 1-55-5-index keywords for each vacancy name.

  (To help create Occupational Profiles for sectors like IT/ITES companies.)

2️⃣ Develop / Buy software for downloading resumes — so that Viltan can do more meaningful work.

“Recruitguru: Priorities for Additional Features”

Dated: 29-09-03

Priorities for Additional Features

1️⃣ Flight Deck (Subscribers & our own) — separate folder sent today.
2️⃣ Counter on Homepage:

  “Aggregate of Resumes Extracted”

3️⃣ Speed / Accuracy (Cumulative) Graphs

4️⃣ Facility for a Subscriber to bounce back extracted resumes back to the concerned candidates, asking them to self-update at our Hiring Section, after directly logging on to a specified link on Recruitguru and uploading online CVs.

Subscriber should be able to bounce-back to a batch of candidates with just one click (Mass Bounce-Back).

I am seriously considering to offer this transaction FREE.

Our Advantage →

When thousands of candidates edit/update and upload their extracted resumes on Recruitguru’s Private Databases, subscribers benefit directly.

“Optional Access for Jobseekers”

A subscriber may or may not want any jobseeker to be able to access his PRIVATE database at will for the purpose of editing.

He may think the integrity/security of his private database may get compromised by granting such access to thousands of candidates!

So any such solution of “Edit/Update/Upload” directly by candidates will have to be OPTIONAL as far as the subscribers are concerned.

We may consider providing a button on the Command Page (next to EXTRACT button) which reads:

Automatically forward extracted resumes to concerned candidates for editing/updating/uploading back into my private database (as far as this batch is concerned)

☐ Yes

☐ No

Note:

• This service is currently FREE.
• One of these boxes must be ticked for extraction process to start.

We should provide a STANDARD EMAIL BOX where follow-up messages will appear and remain online, editable by subscriber if so desired.

“Edit Your Resume” (Template for Candidates)

Dear Sir/Madam,

Some time back you had sent us your resume against one of the vacancies advertised by us.

Using the services of Recruitguru.com, we have converted your plain email resume into a structured, searchable resume. This will help us store it permanently in our database and be able to search/retrieve it in future in a matter of seconds.

It is, however, possible that some fields could not be extracted or where data was missing in your resume.

If you want us to consider your application for the vacancy advertised — and also to store it in our database for future reference — we request you to edit/update your CONVERTED RESUME attached and then upload it back on Recruitguru.com by as follows:

Step No. 1

Step No. 2

Step No. 3

Please ensure that the CAREER HISTORY section is filled in accurately before uploading.

With regards,

(Subscriber / Client Name)

(E-Mail ID)

“Making the Service Free: Strategic Rationale”

By making this service FREE, I want to encourage our subscribers to use it (i.e., click “YES” ☑), all the time — even though it might impose considerable load on our web server.

Reason is simple:

Assuming that:

• All subscribers will use this free service, and
• All candidates will edit or upload their resumes,

we will be able to carry out “data mining” of the Career-History section of each edited resume.

This will enable us to capture data and plot the following graphical profiles:

• Salary Profile
• Designation-Level Profile
• Tenure (Length of Experience) / Years Profile

Once we have data for 50,000 candidates, we will plot these graphs on our server, dynamically, and then sell access for ₹10/- (viewing + downloading combined).

HR / Recruitment Managers would simply love these graphs when they:

• Want to compare any particular candidate with active population (sample size ~50,000)
• Want to figure out:
• What salary to offer to him?
• What designation?
• Is he a job-jumper or a steady person?

 

“Graph-Based Analytics Monetization”

They may want to compare any particular candidate with their own internal employees (“Apple for Apple comparison”) before making any salary or designation offer — so as not to “upset the Apple-cart”!

And when you take into account all the variables we are capturing in Recruitguru, viz.:

• Function (42)
• Designation Level (10)
• Edu Level (19)
• Exp (yrs) (10 slots)
• Age (20 values)
• City (200+)
• Industry (10 sectors, etc.)

Then, it is possible to generate millions of unique combinations of graphs (as explained in my earlier notes)!

I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever that, in the course of the next 12 months, we will make 10 times more money out of these graphs than from extraction or search!

“Flight Deck Proposal”

Dated: 28-09-03

To: Kartavya, Atthi, Sanjeev (Individual Copies)

CC: Nimit

FLIGHT DECK

Enclosed find my proposal for:

• Subscriber’s Flight Deck
• Recruitguru Flight Deck

Neither the lists nor the contents of various UIs are comprehensive/final.

As time goes, we will need to add some more.

Even now, you are welcome to add/delete/edit/modify/combine, if you feel that such changes would make a subscriber’s life easy.

Making a subscriber’s life simple, easy, uncomplicated, and intuitive is an important goal.

But we have to make a beginning — present to the subscribers, see their reaction, then ask their feedback. In 6 months’ time, we will have enough feedback to go back and improve.

“Flight Deck Development Timeline”

In the meantime, we have next 28 days to design/develop/deploy enclosed 28 UIs!

We have to do this before the 30-day free trial period runs out on the first batch of 58 companies who have registered.

There are some UIs which they will need immediately upon completion of the free-trial period. I have marked these (H) = High Priority — to be taken up on a completed-first basis.

Similarly, for us also, there are some UIs which are high-priority since we want to capture the trace-back/usage statistics during the free trial period (from day one of launch). Then only we can:
→ Know the “price of promotion” (subscriber-wise)

→ Predict who we can persuade to become a regular subscriber (based on free trial period usage)
→ Work out the server load + fine-tuning

Long before the free-trial period gets over (say by Oct-30), our payment gateway must become operational to accept credit-card payments.

No web-service can exist without this option.

But at the same time, we know that…

“Subscription Payment & Reconciliation Process”

Almost all the Indian companies would prefer to make payments through cheque / DD, which they will send to us by courier. (We have to incorporate this instruction – to-do).

Even then, a subscriber must enter these details online in the subscription form (even if Sanjeev is sitting in front of the client).

This is our only capturing screen to acquire all types of payments.

But when cheque / DD are received and deposited in Recruitguru A/c in Saraswat Bank by Sanjeev, there has to be an offline/backend reconciliation with what the subscriber has filled up online in the subscription payment form.
Please evolve the mechanism with the help of Sanjeev.

Remember — some cheques will:

• not get covered,
• get lost on the way,
• get rejected due to errors,
• or remain “funds not available,” etc.

There must be a mechanism to stop the services in such cases (unless we say we will not activate the services in the first place itself unless cheque is realized).

Maybe initially we need to take such a stand — but, in any case, reconciliation mechanism is a must, because
→ one part of the process is online,

→ second part is offline,

and human intervention becomes necessary!

“Importance of Billing & Reconciliation Mechanism”

I wish to repeat what I have repeatedly said in the past, viz.:

Despite a fantastic product and a huge waiting market — and a fabulous marketing team and wonderful technical support —

A company can and will go bust if it does not have in place, right from the beginning, an airtight billing/accounting/recovery mechanism!

Without the aforementioned reconciliation (between online data and offline data), when I look up statement #4 (Subscription Received – Cash Flow), I may feel very happy that right from launch, the system shows that between all subscribers (cumulatively put together) I have received online payments amounting to ₹1 crore & 53 lakhs,

whereas my Recruitguru Saraswat Bank A/c passbook shows a cumulative deposit of only ₹98 lakhs!

That would be a disaster!

Remember — software can go wrong or data can get out of sync — so anticipate it before any human frailty strikes!

“Un-Reconciled Payment Statement”

Dated: 28-09-03

So, in Recruitguru Admin Console, I would like you to develop — with help from Ashutosh — a

“UN-RECONCILED PAYMENT STATEMENT”,

in which I should be able to look up all unreconciled payments every day, along with all details — including Age/Period for which a particular payment is remaining unreconciled.

This would be quite like a Customer Outstanding Statement, which can be rearranged at will:

• By period/duration for which outstanding (reverse chronological),
•   OR
• By magnitude of Amount Outstanding (in descending order).

Obviously —

• ₹5 lakh outstanding for 5 days is far more important than
• ₹500 outstanding for 5 years!

Now let us get cracking!!

(signed)
H. P.

28/09/03

“Postscript: Homepage & Flight Deck Access”

P.S.

• Consider placing the following links on homepage:
• Log-In
• How to Subscribe
• Flight Deck
•   (This is to arouse curiosity of visitors to click & see)

As far as Subscriber’s Flight Deck is concerned, it is essential that any casual visitor is able to click on any of those 14 links and get to see the Tables / User Interfaces drawn by me.

This alone can convince him why he should subscribe to Recruitguru!

What he will get to see will be only blank tables without any data.

(We may even consider filling in some fictitious data to appear absolutely genuine!)

But when a regular subscriber clicks on any of these 14 links, he would obviously do so after entering his User ID / Password.

This will ensure that he will get to see each UI with his own data already filled in.