ROUND THE CLOCK

Rajeev
cc: Vikram, Rahul
Date: 02/08/05

Round The Clock

We need to rest at night but computers don’t!
In fact, all computers hosting websites work round the clock — 24×365.

This (running computers round-the-clock) becomes even more critical for companies who are funds-starved and who cannot afford to let their important resources remain idle — even at night.

So even offline businesses must find ways and means to utilize their computing resources at night, doing things and running processes which do not require human attention/intervention.

Soon our Reliance servers will get busy attending to the interactions/commands of visitors to WWJ–GR–IR, etc., etc.
These services must be kept “free” for that purpose.
Whatever else they are doing—and which can be done offline—must be transferred to our local machines.
And local machines can work at night!

What can local m/cs do at night?

• Download job adverts
  — Besides Naukri, we need to start downloading from Monster / JobsAhead / TimesJobs / Cric / JobStreet, etc.
• Download resumes
  — We have a subscription from Monster.

Next, extract resumes using GuruMine.
Then send out emails to those candidates (enclosing their user ID / password), asking them to login and EDIT.

If we stabilize this process for Monster, we could start subscribing to Naukri as well (maybe 3 months subscription to experiment with).

• Extract keywords from all downloaded (and otherwise “posted”) resumes, index to calculate frequency of usage, and allot fresh weightages.

These fresh/revised weightages to be used to recalculate/recompute raw scores and percentile scores of—

…all resumes, in order to draw up revised functional profile graphs.

You must decide whether this process should be done incrementally every day or,
once a week — take the total/entire cumulated resume database of all the resumes (whether downloaded or posted) and run the process over the weekend.

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Benchmark (B)

(i.e., comparing several resumes with any given Job Advert — i.e., the benchmark job ad).

This would require processing all job adverts through GuruMine to find:

1. Function
2. Keywords (Indexing)
3. Frequency of usage & weightage
4. Raw score / percentile score of each job advert

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Like offline/night-time processing of resumes, this processing of job adverts too would be a massive data-enriching operation and therefore must be done offline at night.
Once again, you must decide whether to do it incrementally or once a week.

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Match-making Processes

For JAM / JAD	For RAM / RAB
Job Preferences forms filled in by Jobseekers	Job Adverts (Post Job Ad forms) filled in by HR Managers

Supporting data sources:

• Benchmark documents
• Job Adverts (downloaded / posted)
• Resumes (shortlists, stock, and all subsequent postings)

 

This match-making process will generate 160-character SMS messages to be delivered to:

• Jobseekers (JAM / JAB)
• Recruiters (RAM / RAB)

Perhaps these processes could be run offline and at night.

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Delay of JAS to newspapers

(and maybe TV channels?)

Once again, this process need not:

• Run on the Reliance server
• Nor during daytime

I am sure we could run offline at night.
Please also look up my note “PROCESSES” dated 12/02/06.

Once you reach a conclusion about which processes could run offline and at night,
you may advise Reena to upgrade our PCs, if required.

(signed)
02/08/06