Notes: BILL BOARD (JOB-SEARCH) MODULE (19)

FOR BILL READ MODULE

SENIOR EXECUTIVE POSITIONS

(READER SERVICE PAGE)

BUSINESS INDIA

Given in Business India

Addition Info. Need by us for carrying-out different type of analysis

A) Designation

By must be using a SCREEN to enter the data from various publications

We can try to get every fortnight, a floppy from BI or read this page int an OCCR/Convert to d-base file & then create a database which can be manipulated to give various types of “Analysis” mentioned in my earlier note on this subject

1) Industry

Can be guessed from name of Company-if given

2) Function

Can be guessed from Designation itself

B) (Posting) Location

C) (Sal.) Salary

D) (Age/Q/fu.) Age

E) Qualification

F) Contact

1) Company

2) Placement Agency

G) Publication & Date

23-02-94

BULLETIN BOARDS

One person is operating a Computerized bulletin board in Powai area. There are a few more in Bombay and about 50,000 in U. S. A. (Business World).

We, too, should plan on offering such a service to our CANDIDATES – only to those who have registered with us.

In fact this (service) should be held-out as a “bait” to professionals at large to register with us.

The service will consist of a run-down on Job-opportunities

By us

Directly by Companies

New Projects Coming-up

Such an (Computerized) “analysis” should be

- Industry-Wise

- Function-Wise

- Designation-Wise

- Location-Wise (City/Region)

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Obviously each vacancy/position would have to be

- Codified (for sorting)

- Carry a unique number

Idea is not to reveal the identity of the advertise/requester/employer but provide sufficient information to arouse the interest of the candidate (I think Business world or Business India, publishes such “Summary” of the advts appearing in that issue).

We want the candidate to go thru us (Not practical!)

For this reason, we should throw-open this service to just anybody who in interested in a job-change. Once he finds on our Bulletin Board a VACANCY which is ideal from his point of view, he would be tempted to register with us.

We are trying to give him an impression that all these hundreds (or thousands) of jobs are pending with US.

And only it thousands of vacancies are codified, then only each executive

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Trying to “access” our bill-ward, will find one which comes close to his IDEAL.

For that matter, the job need not exist. The position could have been already filled-or if the jobs are advertised by others, we have no means to find out that the position is filled or not.

But the whole idea is to lure the person to register with us.

In fact, if IDEAL (for a given advt.) persons start registering with us, we could, after 2/3 months, write to the advertiser, with a coded, one-live statement, offering our DATABANK of person who meet his “advertised-criteria” in case he did not find one OR whenever he needs one in future. When he find that a lot of SUITABLE persons are available in our databank, next time he is more likely to approach us first before advertising.

Candidate will have to access us thru a computer/modem/P & T live link.

We will have to REGULARLY (weekly?) advertise in leading newspapers

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All over the country, how (step-by-step procedure) any candidate can instantly “access” our billboard database to locate his DREAM-JOB.

He could see on his screen a HELP-MENU which asks him questions re: his “interests” – interest as to what kind of a job he is on look-out for. Step-by-step, the software should guide him to the ideal job.

There is a distinct possibility of mis-use. It cannot be totally eliminated but it can be minimised.

As a first step (to minimise misuse), the software will insists that the executive enters on the screen his

- Name

- Address/Phone No. (Residential & office)

- Designation & Co. working for

- Phone No. from which trying to access.

Unless he has entered this data, he will not be allowed to proceed with the search.

Of course a person can always fill-in false details-and we can do very little.

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Further, software will not allow a generalized search e-g.

Pl. show me all vacancies in Northern Region

Show me all vacancies at the level of “General Manager”

All vacancies in “Automotive” industry

All vacancies in “Finance Function”.

To minimize misuse, we could also consider following alternative.

- Executive enters certain details about himself (including his tax no/office address)

- He enters the type of job (search parameter) that he is looking for

- Software searches and tells him that we have “X no”

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Of such vacancies pending/listed in our database and the details of which will be mailed to him (at his residential address) as soon as we receive his detailed bio-data.

So, no “revealing” unless we first get his biodata-so we know he is not a “take” trying to take us for a ride.

But if he is already registered with us (with permanent executive NO-PEN assigned by us), then he can see on the screen all the details of the “short-listed” vacancies. The software (Help-menu) shall announce this feature, so that a genuine SEEKER is tempted to register with us so that, thereafter, for ever he can access our bulletin board.

Even here we have to be careful. It is possible that someone/anyone can key-in a fake PEN (Permanent Executive No – Afterall it is going to be a simple, number having 8 or 9 or 10 digits) and try to

- Search vacancy-situation

- Alter/modify “his” biodata on screen.

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To protect our database, after an executive enters his PEN, the software shall further ask him to enter the SALENT DATA about himself,

Then the software shall compare it with the data we have in the computer memory, verity its accuracy-and if everything tallies, allow the executive to proceed with further search/query/bio-data updating.

Preparing-and keeping up-dated a database of vacancies is going to be a major/marathon task. It is just not possible to key-in hundreds of Adots appearing daily in dozens of major, regional/national newspapers/magazines.

Scanning appears to be the only solution which can cope-up with such volumes.

But scanning, by itself, is not enough.

Each Advt. must be “code”, with respect to the SEARCH-PARAMETER including name of the

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Advertising company-wherever known.

Data/Media should also be entered.

Each Advt. must be given a unique no. as well, so that, at any time, a hard-copy can be obtained.

Having scanned and got it into memory, we should be able to MOVE/MANIPULATE the information into a d-base/wordster format such as appearing in next page:

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