Notes: PERIODIC FEEDBACK E MAILS

Abhi. 17-06-04

Feedback - cum - Resume Form

(Ref: My note dt. 07-06-04)

In this note, I had attached the form, one section of which, is

TENTATIVE PROGRESSIVE FEEDBACK.

I would like to modify this section as follows:

TENTATIVE PROGRESSIVE FEEDBACK

Dear Sir/Madam,

Thank you for sending your resume thru JobAlert Mobile (JAM) service of https://www.google.com/search?q=World-Wide-Jobs.com, for consideration against our vacancy.

As far as your resume is concerned, we have,

Yet to evaluate it in depth

Kept it on hold

Added to our database

As and when required, we will give you further feedback and/or contact you on our own. We would appreciate, if you do not follow up. With regards

Name of Company

PS.

Added

In the meantime, you may want to visit our corporate website [blank box] and study it thoroughly to acquaint yourself with our products/services/joint-ventures/collaborators/financials/new project plans [blank box]

If you are keen on a position with us, we expect you to be able to tell us what you know about us, if and when called for an interview.

Added

Obviously, the new "Added" portion should be displayed (both to the HR manager & the candidate concerned) ONLY in those cases where, we already know the URL of that Company's website. Otherwise, this portion should remain blank.

And, we should not expect the HR manager to manually "Type/enter" his Company website URL in the box provided [blank box].

It should get filled-up, automatically.

HOW WOULD THIS FEATURE HELP?

TO HR/Recruitment Managers

If he does not know himself that his Company has a website, he would visit & find out more about his own company!
He may even find that, on his Co. website, there is no section for "Careers/HR Policy/Recruitment Policy" etc etc. He may introduce these.

He will study everything about his Company (from the website), so that it does not appear during the Interview that the Candidate seems to know much more about the Company than himself!

TO Candidate

In the message, there is a tantalizing hint that he may be called for an interview. This would prompt him to visit the website and learn everything he can, about the Company.
In absence of this paragraph - and the mention of Co. website URL - the candidate may not ever come to know that the Company has a website from where he can learn a lot.

TO WWJ/JAM.

Because of this new/added paragraph, I feel that many HR/Recruitment managers would feel like clicking on one of the 3 feedback links.

The key phrase in the last

Sentence is

".... We expect you......"

Of course, all textbooks on "How to appear for an interview? / How to prepare for an interview? / How to project yourself in an interview?" etc etc., all say the same thing, viz:

before you appear for an interview, study the company thoroughly,

But,

How many candidates ever bother to read those text-books & follow?

How-and-where can Candidates get info about prospective employers?

HR/Recruitment managers have not learnt to mention/incorporate this sentence (We expect you ----), in their INTERVIEW-CALL LETTERS! - which was, so far (until JAM Feedback form arrived on the scene!) their only chance to ADVISE the candidate, that he should come prepared!

NOW,

the "JAM Feedback Form" gives this opportunity to Recruitment managers, to ADVISE the Candidates, that it is in

his own interest to come prepared. (Who does not like to handout free advice?). And this sentence, stands translated as follows in Recruitment Manager's mind,

"Well, you Mr. Candidate, have been warned. Now, if you don't come prepared, it is your funeral!"

And, I feel no recruitment manager would want to let go of this "opportunity" - an opportunity to appear "Holier than Thou"!

an opportunity to place himself on a higher pedestal - as compared to the candidate (advisory capacity).
an opportunity to project to the Candidate, how "knowledgeable" he is about his own company!

Whatever his motivation, as long as we can get the recruitment manager to click on one of the links, our purpose is served.

Viz:

Each & every JAM applicant should get a feedback (any feedback, everytime he clicks "Apply Online".

Because, this would be an experience that he has never experienced before!

If JAM succeeds in delivering to a candidate, a feedback, everytime he clicks "Apply Online" that would be nothing short of Magic! - something that far exceeds his wildest expectation.

And that would start (put into motion), a word-of-mouth, Viral marketing. Then JAM would "market" itself!

Reena is trying to get the CD [or book] from MJ Corpol (Chennai), containing

15000 Corporate URL's.

So, it is a question of incorporating this database in WWJ and writing appropriate software - which I am sure, you can do.

To repeat,

Amongst all the possible "SUCCESS FACTORS" of WWJ/JAM, getting a feedback from advertisers, is the most crucial.

That is where WWJ/JAM would differentiate itself from the jobsites.

Let us do.

PS: We have decided that we will email to the candidate, full text of each job-advt which he clicks "Apply Online". How about attaching Company's website URL link, with such email?

17/06/04

Abhi 07-06-04

Feedback - cum - Resume

Yesterday I spoke to you about this.

We are agreed that corporate feedback will play a crucial role in ramping-up of JAM

Question is, how to get the advertisers to take the trouble to click on one of the feedback links?

Our "pep-talk" about "enhancing your corporate image amongst jobseekers" may work with some HR managers - but may not be with ALL!

So we need to provide some "Quid pro quo" to those reluctant/lazy ones. We need to give them some "incentive" to click.

This can be done by redesign of our Feedback - cum - Resume form and writing some additional lines of code

see enclosed, redesigned form.

You will notice that

I have considerably "elaborated" our note/instruction to advertisers.

stressed the "FREE" aspect of our service

introduced a condition that Only those advertisers, who take the trouble to click on one of the feedback links, will get to see/view

Functional Profile
Keywords

If not for anything else, just out of Curiosity (as to what do those blank boxes might contain), I expect that an HR manager will click on one of the feedback links!

And the moment he does, right before his eyes, those blank boxes (Functional Profile/Keywords), get filled-up with "values"!

Almost like magic!

Almost like an online "game"!

Once an HR manager has "experienced" this - and, hopefully, appreciated what he has just discovered, it is very likely that, he would like to "repeat" that experience, again & again.

The CHILD hiding inside HR mgr. takes over!

Even if he does not understand "HOW" this (filling up of boxes) happens, he will be only amazed by "WHAT" happens!

And he would want to see, whether this happens in every resume, again & again, without fail!

I hope, our little trick "mesmerizes" him and develops in him, an OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder).

And if it does (-and I think, it will), then, next, it is the turn of the job-seeker to develop an OCD!

When he discovers that applying thru JAM, produces a "feedback" everytime he clicks "apply Online", he wants to click, again & again - just to know what kind of (Encouraging?) feedback he might get!

So, hopefully, we might succeed in setting into motion - a VIRTUOUS circle! - a rotating wheel that picks up speed as it rotates.

Let us ensure that this happens.

Remember my note to you,

MAKE LUCK!

[Signature/Initial]

07-06-04.

Company/Organisation: Ref:

Position/Vacancy: Source:

Dear Sir/Madam

Contact Info:

Salient Data:

FULL TEXT RESUME

Dear Corporate Advertiser

https://www.google.com/search?q=World-Wide-Jobs.com is happy to send you this resume as requested by the candidate

whom we alerted about your Vacancy as a job-alert SMS on mobile
who instructed us to forward the resume thru a click on his mobile

To you, this service is absolutely FREE

What is more, we will deliver your FEEDBACK to the candidate as an email, when you click on one of the links in the next box. Such a responsiveness on your part would go a long way to enhance your CORPORATE IMAGE amongst jobseekers. It will take a second and costs you nothing - totally FREE!

Clicking on any feedback link, will automatically display the relative standing (Percentile - Score) of this candidate amongst thousands of professionals in our database having same functional background (& sample size). This profile is determined by our AI Software GumLine and gets updated dynamically in realtime.

We know you're a busy person and unlikely to study each resume in depth at one go. You may do so over a period of time. So you may wish to give feedback in stages, eg:

First link-today (Yet to evaluate in depth)
Second link-next week (Kept on hold)
Third link-whenever (Added to our database)

Everytime you return to this page, our software will tell you

What feedback link you have clicked & when

No need for you to remember. We do it for you. Thru this FREE feedback service, we will help your Company become

JOBSEEKERS FIRST CHOICE!

Regards

https://www.google.com/search?q=World-Wide-Jobs.com (Contact@WWJ.COM)

TENTATIVE PROGRESSIVE FEEDBACK.

Dear Sir/Madam

Thank you for sending your resume thru Job Alert Mobile (JAM) service of World-Wide-Jobs.Com, for consideration against our vacancy

As far as your resume is concerned, we have,

Yet to evaluated it in depth

Kept it on hold

Added to our database

As and when required, we will give you further feedback and/or contact you on our own. We would appreciate if you do not follow-up.

With regards

[Name of Company box]

APPLICANT'S FUNCTIONAL PROFILE / RESUME KEYWORDS

(To view, click any feedback link in box above)

FUNCTION PROFILE

Function	Raw Score	Sample Size	Percentile

KEYWORDS

FEEDBACK HISTORY

Feedback Link	Date

Abhi 03-06-04

Corporate Feedback-cum-Resume Forwarding Message (Step # 10/JAM Communication Flow-chart)

Enclosed find a draft of Combination-form, which Supercedes earlier form sent to you.

You will notice following:-

I have covered all the details (about the candidate) which you had incorporated in the draft shown to me yesterday

To your draft, I have added

Function Profile Tabulation
Short list of Keywords (Comma Separated)

Combined Feedback Section.

I feel that, even if a recruiter does not find time to go thru detailed text resume, with the help/addition of "Function Profiles" and "Keywords", he has now more than enough data to decide whether

Candidate is interesting
Resume (details) is worth reading
Genuine feedback (of course TENTATIVE) can be sent.

Feedback

I have purposely called it "TENTATIVE" to overcome the "resistance/reluctance" of an HR manager - who, at this stage, may not want to "COMMIT" himself to the candidate! - One way or other !!

By adding "you need not follow-up. As & When required, we will contact you", I am further inducing the HR mgr. to use the Feedback Form. NOW, with one stone, they are able to kill two birds!

Objective # 1

Impress the jobseekers that they are a "responsive" company. Let this "fact" circulate amongst millions of jobseekers so that a positive Corporate Image gets built-up.

Objective # 2

Put off the candidate! Get him off your back. Ensure he does not keep phoning you/emailing you, while giving him an impression that you have gone thru his resume - or at least glanced at it!

We are managing to meet this objective by some "Vague" responses! No one knows what exactly the HR manager "means"! But a feedback, nevertheless!!

To rapidly build-up reputation of JAM service amongst jobseekers as the only-service which manages to get a feedback everytime you apply - the FEEDBACK part is CRUCIAL.

If, somehow, Corporate HR Managers, fall for our "Feedback Trick" and start using it, then JAM would take-off like a rocket!!

Jobseekers would be simply "DELIGHTED" because this (feedback) is far above their highest "Expectations"! They have never come across anything like this!

Of course, as of now, we have nothing, by way of an "Incentive" which we can offer to the HR managers to "induce" them to use the feedback form - except that it is very simple and takes a second.

But, in course of time, we will think up of some "free/analytical data" which we can make available to HR managers - if they give regular feedback to candidates.

[Signature/Initial]

Company/Organisation:	Ref:
Position/Vacancy:
Source:

Dear Sir/Madam

I would like to be considered for the above-mentioned opening and attach my resume. I would highly appreciate your initial/tentative feedback thru a couple of clicks below in Feedback Form.

With regards

Abhinandan Patil

World-Wide-Jobs Permanent Executive No (PEN): 38505801

Name: Abhinandan Patil

Contact Info	Salient Data
B-1, Lok Bharati Complex	Date of Birth:
Marol Maroshi Road, Andheri(E)	Total Exp:
Mumbai - 400059	Current Employer:
INDIA	Designation:
email: abhi.dba@yahoo.com	Location:
Phone: +91-22-56991554	Education:
Mobile: 022-38505801

Based on keywords found in this resume and the no. of similar resumes in its database (sample size), World-Wide-Jobs has developed following Function Profiles for this Candidate:

Functions	Raw Score (%)	Sample Size	My Percentile	Keywords
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT	59	11163	100
INTERNET-WEBMASTER	24	4950	65
ANALYSIS	21	2150	90

TENTATIVE FEEDBACK

Dear Corporate Advertiser:

When you select a radio button and click [Send], we will deliver your Feedback as an email to the applicant. Such a responsiveness on your part would go a long way to enhance your Corporate Image amongst jobseekers. It will take a second - and cost you nothing!

Thank you for Sending your resume, which, we have,
yet to evaluate in depth
Kept on hold
Shortlisted for database
You need not follow up. As & when required, we will contact you.

https://www.google.com/search?q=World-Wide-Jobs.com.

DETAILED RESUME

SEND VOLTAS

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CAREER - SEARCH

Interactive Response Page

Advertiser Name:	My Name: Ajit Mahajan
Advt. Ref. No:	hPhone: (91-022)6434078
Advt. Date:	wPhone:
Media / Source:	Mobile:
Position Applied for:	E-Mail: Ajit_mahajan@rediffmail.com

HR CHIEF'S DECISION SPACE

DECISION AREA	DECISION
Suitability Rating	Excellent Good Fair Not Suitable
Resume Disposal	Add to Database Delete Forward
Interview Status	Call Keep on Hold

HR CHIEF'S FEEDBACK SPACE (ONLY following Feedback gets emailed to Applicant automatically, when you click on SEND MAIL button. Works with MS-Outlook only. Please enable the Macros to use it.)

◯ I need some clarifications. Please phone me on
Although you have an impressive track-record, we are unable to consider your application due to our differing requirements. We wish you good-luck for your future career-growth.
We are retaining your resume in our database and will get in touch with you whenever a suitable opening comes up.
We would like to meet you for an interview on at . Venue (add) . Please send confirmation through email
You will be reimbursed return travel-fare as per company's rules.
You will not be reimbursed any travel-fare.

Sender's Name		Preview	Send Mail
Designation		Email ID

From a plain, unstructured resume this "ImageBuilder" version of resume was created using GuruMine - An Artificial Intelligence Software (An online web service of www.RecruitGuru.com)

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RESUME - SUMMARY

✓ My Permanent Executive No. (PEN)	1043332
Personal Data	Current Employment status:
Name: Ajit Mahajan	Company: GEEBS Software International Pvt. Ltd
Address: AJIT MAHAJAN, Bldg. 29/1556, Bandra (E), Mumbai 400 051	Designation: SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Date of Birth: 01/05/1976
Contact Info:	Educational Qualification:
City: MUMBAI	Degree: BE
Country: INDIA	Branch: ELECTRONICS
Home Phone: (91-022)6434078	Level: GRADUATE (BACHELOR DEGREE)
Mobile:
Work Phone:
Email: Ajit_mahajan@rediffmail.com

MY CAREER HISTORY

Sr. No.	Name of Employer Reverse Chronological order (Current / Last job at top)	Period	At the time of leaving
		Joined (M/Y)	Designation
1.		Left (M/Y)
		Total Years
2.		Joined (M/Y)
		Left (M/Y)
		Total Years
3.		Joined (M/Y)
		Left (M/Y)
		Total Years
4.		Joined (M/Y)
		Left (M/Y)
		Total Years
Total No. of Years Experience:

From a plain, unstructured resume this "ImageBuilder" version of resume was created using GuruMine - An Artificial Intelligence Software (An online web service of www.RecruitGuru.com)

Annexure A

The email format to send Candidate Resume to advertiser

Dear Sir/Madam,

World-Wide-Jobs PEN: 38505801

✓ Abhinandan Patil	✓ E-Mail: abhi.dba@yahoo.com
B-1, Lok Bharati Complex	Phone: +91-22-56991554
Marol Maroshi Road, Andheri(E)	Mobile: 02238505801
Mumbai-400059
INDIA
Date of Birth:
Total Experience: 7.5 years
Current Employer: 3P Consultntnts Pvt. Ltd.
Current Designation: Project Manager
Education: B. Sc (Computer Science)
Current Location: Mumbai

Detail Resume:

[Blank box for detailed resume]

Future "FEATURES" for JAM: 23/05/04

Feedback to Applicant

As soon as a jobseeker clicks "Apply online" against a job-alert, a feedback SMS will immediately appear on his mobile-screen, as follows:

Thank You for applying. Your resume Successfully delivered to Advertiser
Statistics about JOB-ADVT No: 39643.
Total Resumes forwarded: 494
Highest Raw Score: 62
Lowest Raw Score: 28
Your Raw Score: 45
Your Percentile Standing: 84%

Feedback to Corporate Job-Advertiser - Advt wise

This could be an email to the Corpo. job-advertiser, say, 15 days after appearance

Company Name:
Advt. No: Source Date
Advertised Position
Delivered as Job Alert on mobile phones of how many JAM subscribers? 4896
How many asked us to deliver their resumes to you by clicking on their mobile-phones? 684