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6/16/01

Microsoft bets on interactive TV in diversification bid

LISBON 4 JUNE

US SOFTWARE powerhouse Microsoft takes aim at the couch potato market this week with the high-stakes launch of its top interactive TV product on a Portuguese cable network.

The much-delayed roll-out of Microsoft's software on Thursday is part of a multibillion-dollar bet that the world's 1.5 bn television sets could be a new focus for the Washington-based firm. Underscoring its importance, Microsoft chief executive, Steve Ballmer, will be in Lisbon for the kickoff.¹²³⁴

"It's a very important launch for us indeed," Mark Le Goy, Microsoft TV's marketing chief in Europe, told Reuters. "Interactive TV is core to Microsoft's strategy and direction."⁵⁶⁷⁸

The⁹ rollout over Portugal's TV Cabo system marks part of a shift by Microsoft, the world's biggest maker of personal computer software, away from the relatively slow-growing¹⁰ PC market. Besides interactive TV, Microsoft is also investing in gadgets like handheld devices, video games and mobile phones.¹¹¹²

Interactive TV lets viewers do such things as plac¹³e bets, shop, get e-mail, play games and bank through a set-top box. Fea¹⁴tures of Microsoft's TV Advanced digital system include recording live programs, displaying live programming frame by frame and personalized viewing besides high-speed internet access. Video on demand is scheduled for the near future.

TV Cabo will be the first cable network in the world to have the Microsoft digital product available on a broadband, or high-speed digital, system. — Reuters

5/01/01

STEVE BALLMER:

THE SHOW IS ON

Attn: Mr. Nitish Tipnis

Videocon

Cyril is still in Dubai. I will let you know, as soon as he is back, so that Rohit / Yogesh could meet him. I hope you have briefed them about our last meeting at Vxeed.

Regards,

[Signature]

21/06


From:	nirmat nirmat@3pjobs.com
To:	robin robin@3pjobs.com
Sent:	Thursday, June 21, 2001 12:03 PM
Subject:	Fw: Technologies/Development platform used on 3pjobs

give this to hcp

From: Santosh

To: yogesh.gurjar@ygyan.com

Cc: hcp

Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 11:51 AM

Subject: Technologies/Development platform used on 3pjobs

Dear Yogesh,

The following will briefly summarize the technologies/development platform used on 3pjobs. All the outputs are in HTML format on the web browser.

The webserver is WINNT4.0 with SP 6a and IIS 4.0. For the database we use Sql Server 7.0.

As for the front end most part of the site is developed using ASP scripting. These ASP pages uses underlying some COM objects on the server. The COM Object are built in Delphi 5.0.

Other than ASP we use ISAPI script for process intensive parts. These ISAPI DLLs are also developed in Delphi 6.0.

The front end validation are done using Java Script.

For server run scheduled processes we use either VB Script files or Application built in Delphi 5.0.

I hope this will gives brief idea of what is being used on the server side.

Regards,

Santosh,

Vxeed Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

CYRIL

15/06/01

Videocon interactive TV project

We are meeting in your office on Monday (18th) to discuss this.

From Videocon side, I expect following to participate

Mr. Tipnis
Mr. Anant Padmanathan (MD-Vigyan)
Mr. Rohit Jain (Vigyan)

Most likely Nirmit will join us.

I suppose, you will ask Santosh/Tukaram to join.

I will let you know exact time of the meeting on Saturday afternoon.

In the meantime, I enclose for your study a note on my thoughts on RESUME FORWARDING SERVICE which, we want to launch thru Videocon TV.

With regards

[Signature]

RESUME FORWARDING SERVICE FOR CORPORATES:

1/11

What should be the important features of this service?

FEATURES

Free
Voluntary
Facilities To

	online	By fax	By email	over Phone
- Subscribe (Initiate)
- Unsubscribe (Suspend)
- Resubscribe (Restart)

From a Single Company, any number of executives can subscribe to this service. They could be from different functional backgrounds such as

Sales
Mktg
Mfg
R&D
Finance
Accounts
Personnel
Administration
etc.

To ensure "genuine-ness", registration-form (subscription-form) should require limited personal-info/data of such executives. (Of course, this is no guarantee!)

2/11

An ADMIN TOOL (online) will permit a subscriber to choose/select

What kind of resumes he would like to receive

eg. IT Professionals [Checkbox]
Non-IT " [Checkbox]
College Students [Checkbox]
Fresh Graduates [Checkbox]
Vocation-Designated Staff [Checkbox]
Retired Professionals [Checkbox]

He could select any number/all.
He can change this "configuration" anytime.

These 6 categories are too broad a classification. We may begin with this. However, if this SERVICE has to become really popular amongst Company-Executives, we will definitely need to provide means to really "Fine Tune" the requirements of a particular subscriber.

Today our "Resume Search (online)" permits "fine-tuning".

Our "Post Job Advt (online)" also permits such "fine-tuning". (

In both cases, however, a potential recruiter wants to fill a "shapely defined, (one) existing vacancy". He knows what kind of person he is looking for.

This (resume search/job advt posting) is very different from a HR manager, who has just finalized his ANNUAL MANPOWER PLAN/BUDGET, telling us, at the beginning of the year,

"In the course of the year, I would need to fill following positions:"

[Table with 4 columns: S.No., My Industry Preference , Functional Pref. , Design. Level Pref.]

I will also need

[Table with 4 columns: S.No., Trainees, No., Voc. Designated staff, No., When]

In a nutshell, he enters, into the ADMIN TOOL his ANNUAL MANPOWER REQUIREMENT, and then sits back to receive MATCHING RESUMES, all throughout the year!

This is like an "OMNIBUS" CANDIDATE-ALERT

He does not have to come back and post his job-advts (for each position)

again and again!

This is (for him) like posting a JUMBO JOB-ADVT covering, all his vacancies, at the beginning of the year!

We could help him (make his job simple) by compiling all of the job-advts released by his Company on 3p / in newspapers / on websites, during last 2/3 years, and tabulate as follows:

Company Names	PAST JOB-ADVT HISTORY
Check Box	Advt. No.	Vacancy Position	Function

If such a tabulation is made a part of the ADMIN TOOL, he (HR Mgr) has to simply click on the check box and enter the "Date when required".

For the moment, we should not introduce the "fine tuning" mentioned on p. 3/4, but simply launch the service for 6 broad categories mentioned on p. 2.

Although the "Resume Forwarding Service", by itself, is FREE, we have to make our MONEY from Corporates only!
So the resumes being forwarded (Under this Service) will NOT reveal Candidate's Identity or Contact-info.
These will be in the form of "long displays".
We will make this clear in the "Subscription-Form" itself so that there is no mis-understanding.
Under "Resume Forwarding Service", I feel, we should have just ONE revenue model, viz: SALE OF RESUMES.
This is because we expect a large volume of transactions and we cannot afford to "interview/shortlist/recommend" candidates.
We will have no time/energy/resources to find out / keep track of

Who
selected whom
from amongst How Many
at what Salary
When appointed
when joined
etc. etc.

We may fix "Resume Sale Tariff" such as:

College Students / Fresh Graduates --- Rs. 100/resume
Vocation-Designated Staff --- Rs. 200/resume
Retired Professionals --- Rs. 500/resume
IT Professionals --- Rs. 500/resume
Non-IT Professionals --- Rs. 500/resume

Here, we must remember following:

Jobseekers asking us/instructing us, to forward their resumes to XYZ Company obviously, are "desperate".

Such jobseekers, possibly, CANNOT be SENIOR executives. Mostly they will be,

Subordinate Staff (Voc. designated Staff)
Freshers (5 million added every year)
Some JUNIOR executives who are out-of-job.
Some, forcibly "retired" (VRS) Senior Executives.
42 million unemployed graduates registered with 914 employment exchanges.
Temporaries
Part-time employed.
etc. etc.

We should make it clear to such jobseekers, that

we will, initially, not reveal their Identity/Contact Info. to those companies.
we will reveal their identity/Contact Info. only, if and when, the concerned Company "accepts" our TERMS.
(Jobseekers need not know what are our TERMS).
Any response, against their ONLINE JOB APPLICATION (other name for our Resume forwarding service), will come directly from the Concerned Corporate.
Thru our Resume Forwarding Service, we are offering them a FREE service, which costs us heavily. We have to recover this cost from the potential employers.
Thru our FREE Resume Forwarding Service, they can reach out to hundreds of Corporates who are "subscribing" to this service.
Their resume will get "forwarded" only if it matches the "search-criteria" prescribed by a particular company.

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eg:

If an "IT Professional" asks us to forward his resume to VOLTAS, but Voltas has not selected/opted to receive such resumes,

then,

Can we flash a message on the Computer Screen, which says,

"Sorry! The Company you selected is not looking for a person with your background."

or, some such message.

And,

At what stage, should this message appear? The moment a jobseeker clicks on check box against the name of that Company?

Or, Should we display a table such as:

Tick ↓	Name of Company ↓ City	This Company wants to receive resumes of
	Voltas	IT Prof.
	L&T
	Godrej
	Mahindra Penn

$\leftarrow$ Tick, only if you have submitted your resume under a "category" which is desired by the Company.

So, a jobseeker, KNOWS beforehand, so he does not waste his time to tick and then see a REGRET message!

This would be quite irritating, if he gets to see only "regret messages" after "regret messages", as he keep-on ticking boxes after boxes!

This would also drastically reduce the load on our Server's Search-engine. Otherwise, it may find only ONE good "match" for every 100 requests!

What, in essence, we are attempting is

PERMISSION MARKETING

from both, the Corporates and the Jobseekers.

We are trying to "market",

"Jobs/Positions" to Candidates, and
"Resumes" to Recruiters.

And, we expect them to participate in this process, because, we are offering both parties, a

Simple / effortless method to reach out to each other (our USP).

Without having to make a financial Commitment! Only a small "time commitment is all that they need to make - one time!

10/11

ONE-TIME INPUTS REQUIRED.

# From Job Seekers

$\rightarrow$ All that they have to do is to Submit their resumes on our website, using appropriate webform.

These forms already exist, and no further "development-effort" is required.

In fact, quite soon, all 6 types of our Resume-Forms, will become "downloadable" from www.agentfo.com

Then, these can be filled-up OFFLINE and thereafter, can be UPLOADED directly on www.3pjobs.com.

An "offline resume-forms CD" is also developed and under distribution amongst

134 colleges
359 Computer Institutions
20 Placement Agencies.

From these organisations, bulk resumes will arrive at 3p's office via email and will get uploaded on our website thru ADMIN TOOL.

11/11

# From Corporates

Corporate participants will have to submit SUBSCRIPTION-FORM (see Annex: A)

They may fill-in Online or send it to us by fax/email.

If they wish, they should be able to "dictate" the details to our program-manager over the telephone. In fact, I expect this to be the most popular method, since it calls for "LEAST EFFORT" on part of the subscriber. In this method, he need not have

a computer (or an internet connection)

He can receive resumes, as long as he is able to "access" his email box once-in-a-while.

Annex: A

A/1

SUBSCRIPTION FORM FOR PARTICIPATING IN RESUME FORWARDING SERVICE

A. Company Information:

Name of Company:
Address:
City:
State:
ZIP/PIN:
Country:
Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:
Contact Person Name:
Designation (Current):
Functional Responsibility:
Branch/Division/Region (where currently posted):
Contact Data (if relevant)

Direct Phone:
Mobile No:
Personal email:

Industries in which Company is engaged (Multiple choice)	[Input Box with dropdown arrow]
Products/Services:	[Free Text Input Box]

A/2

B. TYPES OF RESUMES DESIRED

IT Professionals
Non-IT Professionals
College Students
Fresh Graduates
Vocation Designated Staff
Retired Professionals

C. TO BE DELIVERED TO

Office email address: (Mandatory) $\rule{10cm}{0.4pt}$
Any other email address: (Optional) $\rule{10cm}{0.4pt}$

D. DELIVERY FREQUENCY FOR RESUMES

Daily
Weekly
Monthly

E. SELECT

Username (User ID)
Password
Re-enter Password
I accept TERMS governing this service

Subscribe	Suspend	Re-start	Edit

	Job Advt.	Shopping Basket
Company Info
Name of Company
Address
City
State/Province
ZIP/PIN
Country
Phone
Fax
Email
Contact Person
Designation
SEARCH PARAMETERS
Industry
Product/Services
Position/Desig. Level
Min. Exp
Key words
Skill

	Job Advt.	Shopping Basket
JOB-RELATED INFO
Posting State
Posting City
Posting Country
Position $\text{ID}$
Working Hours
Approx. Gross Annual Salary { Currency Amt
No. of Vacancies
Last Date of Application
MAN-SPECS
Edu. Level
Branch/Discipline
Age (Max)
SEARCH-PARAMETERS
Ind. Background
Func. "
Position/Desig. Level
Min. Exp.
Key Words
Skill	$-$

Microsoft in IPTV pact with Reliance⁴⁵⁶

Firms to deliver Net-based services⁷⁸⁹

OUR CORPORATE BUREAU101112

Mumbai, 9 October131415

Within the next two years, the landscape of the entertainment industry is set to undergo a revolutionary change, courtesy Microsoft Corporation¹⁶ and Reliance Infocomm. The two giants today announced an exclusive tie-up to jointly create, test and deliver next-generation Internet Protocol (IP)-based television s¹⁷ervices.¹⁸

Whil¹⁹e Microsoft is developing the software and the middleware for an IPTV solution, the nationwide high-speed infrastructure of Reliance Infocomm will be leveraged to deliver a unique host of next-generation television services.

"Microsoft's IPTV solution allows Reliance Infocomm to maximise the value of its network," said Moshe Lichtman, corporate vice-president of Microsoft's TV division in an India statement.

Microsoft's proposed IPTV solution will enable telephone and cable companies to deliver high-quality video content and services to subscribers using two-way broadband networks.

The multi-casting through a set-top box will enable Indian consumers to access health (telemedicine), education (distant learning) and other services at an "affordable price."

A Reliance Infocomm spokesman said, "This understanding highlights the strategic relationship between Reliance Infocomm and Microsoft to provide next-generation broadcast TV and video-on-demand services to Indian consumers."

10/10/03

What IPTV means

Microsoft says through the compression technology of its Windows Media Player 9 it can offer broadcast quality television over an internet connection of 1 Megabit per second.
A set-top box to receive and decode internet TV could cost as little as $500 in four years time, which itself is on par with some of the cheapest digital TV set-top boxes.

The IPTV solution is designed to support the services that pay-TV operators offer today, in addition to enhanced features such as instant channel changing and next-generation services like picture-in-picture functionality using multiple video streams.

Microsoft TV enables the delivery of new services such as video on demand, on-demand storefronts, interactive programme guides, managed content services, digital video recording, enhanced programming, e-mail, instant messaging and more, across a full range of set-top boxes and TV devices.

Reliance Infocom has established a pan-India, high-capacity, integrated (wireless and wired) and convergent (voice, data and video) digital network to offer services that will span the entire information-communication value chain.

Indian American is czar of web TV

Eco. Times. 4-6-01

New York

3 JUNE

KRIS Narayan wants the patented technology of his San Jose-based TeleCruz Technology to be for web-enabled television what Windows and Intel are for personal computers.

The chip and software system allows television manufacturers to throw away the separate set-top box that is currently needed to allow internet access on television because the technology is integrated within the TV.

"We are the one-stop-shop providing the complete chip and complete software," said 40-year-old Narayan, co-founder and chairman of TeleCruz. He said he plans to make future versions of the TeleCruz chipset with broadband speed and VCR-type capabilities.

The system added to a TV, said the New Delhi-born Narayan, increases the cost of a set by only $100. "Affordability is the most important point and matching the product with viewer experience is the point," he said.

He is already selling the platform in India through a strategic partnership with electronics major Videocon. The product is called Voi, for video-online communicator. It is also being exported to Africa, Middle East, and since April, to China, he said.

Earlier this year, Zenith, Panasonic and Daewoo launched the product in Las Vegas. According to reports, Panasonic will launch a TeleCruz-enabled, 27-inch TV later this year, equipped with a wireless phone connection and keyboard for $100 more than a regular set.

Narayan said three other TV manufacturers and cable service providers in India and seven more in China are soon going to deploy his platform, but he refused to give names.

In South America, TeleCruz has partners in Brazil and Argentina going into production now, and in South Korea, he is working with three manufacturers.

Narayan founded TeleCruz in '96, after stints with Fairchild Semicon-ductors, Digital Equipment, LSI Logic, VLSI, and finally Cirrus Logic.

In each of these companies, he shifted gears from being a design engineer, to program manager, and then to marketing, covering the whole gamut of skills needed to run a business.¹

"I concluded I was more of a business-type than engineering-type, and also that I was fairly independent and wanted to start my own company," Narayan, said. "When you are young and restless - you want to climb up ²to top fast."

All his business acumen is serving him well at TeleCruz, the idea for which germinated while Narayan was at Cirrus.

"My premise was that the World Wide Web was emerging, and various applications were coming on the horizon that would make TV more than a broadcast entertainment medium. And when you ask yourself what more it can do, I concluded it will be displaying text and graphics, in addition to moving video." - IANS

1/20

Some thoughts on

3P / VIDEOCON Interactive TV Project.

5/6/01

We should try to capture the personal-data of the buyer in hellowol.com.
This should be done by the dealer who sell the machine (TV). He has to prepare an INVOICE - cum - DELY. CHALLAN, in any case. Homepage of hellowol should provide a section/link, where the dealer "creates/prepares" such a document and "prints" copies for buyer & himself.
Machine Chassis No. (like a car - chassis no.) i.e. TV no. should be also entered.

This way, Videocon will be able to keep track of who bought, which machine from where & at what price. In short complete PROFILE of each & every Customer - including repeat purchase profile i.e. Customer loyalty. This (database) will be an invaluable tool for CRM.

2/20

One niche market that ITV must target is PCO's.

There are over a million PCO's in India, each with a telephone connection. Someday, they will get broadband too. PCO's have revolutionised telecommunication in India over the last decade.

With our proposal, they could possibly bring internet (i.e. information) to the doorsteps of millions of Indians, who cannot afford

a Computer
a telephone connection.

If a PCO installs an ITV, he will spend Rs. 24000 (maybe we should have a special discounted price for PCO's), instead of spending Rs. 40,000 on a computer.

So, that is advantage No. ONE.

3/20

Next, we have to convince PCO owner that it makes business sense to invest in an iTV.

If we can show him that he can recover his investment within ONE year, he should be convinced.

He should recover

$$\frac{\text{Rs. } 24000}{300 \text{ working days}} = \text{Rs. } 80/\text{day}$$

(He is quite likely to be working for 350 days in a year).

His variable cost would be:

Rs. 6/hour of ISP charges
Rs. 24/hour of MTNL "

Total $\rightarrow$ Rs. 30/hour

i.e.

Rs. 6 / 10 minute slot.

4/20

And

it will take no more than 10 minutes to submit/enter a resume on 3pjobs.com.

So, he could fix following "Tariff":

1 Submit Resume --- Rs. 10/resume

2 Conduct online "Job-Search" (on Jobs database) & Use "Resume Forwarding service" of 3pjobs.com. $\bigg\}$ Rs. 2/job-advt or per "Company"

3 Open personal email box & retrieve email (print-out)

Could be a Job Alert / shortlist-alert / interview call letter (email) $\bigg\}$ Rs. 2/access.

4 Submit resume with a colour (passport size) photo attachment (scanner or webcamera) $\bigg\}$ Rs. 15/resume

5/20

5 General surfing $\rightarrow$ Rs. 30/hour

6 Sending email $\rightarrow$ Rs. 5/email.

The PCO owner will be expected to create an e-mail ID for each such surfer on WWW. hellowol.com

Per-day "Achievable" Revenues

Item No	Item	Activity-level per day	Tariff	Daily Income (Rs)
1 or 4	Submit Resume	10	10	100
2	Resume forwarding Service	10 Surfers $\times$ 10 job-advt. each (or 10 Companies) = 100	2	200
3	Retrieve email	25 persons $\times$ 2	2	50
4	Send email	50	5	250
TOTAL				Rs. 600/day

6/20

With appropriate training / backing and "advt-support", a PCO owner should be able to recover his investment within 2 months!

One could even offer PCO owners some "hire-purchase" scheme, so that his initial downpayment is no more than Rs. 3000/=.

If properly implemented, this scheme can

make Videocon iTV the absolute market-leader in terms of market share.
give Videocon the highest "brand-recall" amongst all TV brands.
Spread internet-culture / increase internet penetration across the Country & bring about a revolution similar to what SAM PITRODA achieved with PCOs.
generate for Videocon, immensely valuable market-data, to "lock-in" customers.

7/20

hellowol's email database, could even, someday, exceed hotmail's email database, which is currently 100 million people.

8/20

HOW TO POPULARIZE Videocon iTV IN HOMES?

TV's are popular because they are so easy to operate. Even a child can change channels at the press of a button on the "remote".
Computers are not popular because, to operate a computer, one has to learn how to use a "KEYBOARD" (even for surfing the web).

Of course, Computers are also much more expensive than a TV, and do not offer much by way of news / entertainment / streaming video images / films, without extra HW & SW features. All of these add to the complexity of a Computer.

If we want iTV to become as popular as normal TV, we should make it work with a "remote only" - rarely requiring use of KEYBOARD!!

9/20

WHAT SHOULD WE DO TO BE ABLE TO USE/OPERATE AN iTV WITH A "REMOTE" (as far as possible)

Select 30 TOPICS / SUBJECTS

News
Films
Sports
Health
Education
Jobs
Music
Politics
etc etc.

For each of these 30 topics, select 10 TOP/BEST WEBSITES, making a total of $10 \times 30 = \textbf{300 URLs}$.
Hardcode these into memory of iTV's SET-TOP BOX (any other chip embedded into iTV).
Create a "remote" which enables a person to select any of these 300 URLs by pressing Keys/buttons.

10/20

on the remote

[Diagram of a remote control with buttons]

	Power on/off	◯
	Volume
	Scroll Screen
$\bigcirc$ Submit	Reset	$\bigcirc$
Topic	Sites
(1) Portals	$\rightarrow$ (1) Hellowol	$\rightarrow$ (1) 3pjobs.
(2) Jobs	$\rightarrow$ (2) 3p
(3)
...
(30) Search-Engines		(10)

A person, first presses "Topic" button (i.e. TOPIC SELECTION) - out of 30 Topic buttons.

Then, he can click on $\text{(1)}$ To $\text{(10)}$ buttons on right-hand side, to select, the most popular websites (URL's).

KIND ATTN: Mr. Nitish Tipnis

Mr. Naveen Mandhana

11/20

If he wishes to go to any other URL, he should be able to type-in the URL in the infrared keyboard.

May be the remote could have built-in facility to "RECONFIGURE/RESET" the 10 sites (URL's) of a User's choice.

For this (resetting/reconfiguring), the Set-top box should contain URL's of 2000 most popular websites. Surfer should be able to scroll these (up/down) on iTV screen and then press a button $\text{Select }\bigcirc$ by pointing the laser-beam on that URL on the Screen. Presto! It gets added to the memory (temporary) of the remote!!

12/20

USE OF "REMOTE" TO NAVIGATE 3pjobs

Whether 3pjobs.com or any other website, any link should be clickable, using laser-beam from the remote. Perhaps this feature is already incorporated.

It is obvious that, to use an iTV, a surfer should not have to use 3 different devices, viz:

a Keyboard $\}$ for $10\%$ use.
a remote $\}$ These must be combined
a mouse $\}$ for $90\%$ of the use

As far as 3pjobs. is concerned, what would make surfer's life easy/simple? - when he is using an iTV.

Mostly, I would expect a "jobseeker" to be wanting to use 3pjobs

13/20

using an iTV from home. If he is a Personnel Manager, he would most likely log onto 3pjobs from his Office and using a regular computer (-unless he too wants to submit his resume and/or conduct a jobsearch! - Something he would not dare to do from his office).

As far as a "jobseeker" is concerned, he would want to use following features of 3pjobs. from the privacy/comfort of his home:

# 1 Submit Resume

# 2 Conduct Job-Search

# 3 Use "Resume forwarding Service" (i.e. instruct our webserver to send his resume to ABC "job-advertiser").

In future, we propose enlarging the scope of this Service, whereby a jobseeker can instruct our webserver to forward his resume to anyone of 50,000 Companies whose names he can click upon, on our website - even if such a company has advertised or not.

14/20

Of course, for such PUSHING of "unsolicited resumes, we will need advance permission of concerned Companies. Otherwise we will annoy a lot of our existing/prospective client-Corporations.

We will work-out a method to get such a permission, before uploading the name (& of course, email address) of the Company on our website.

# 4 Receive "Job-Alert" emails & check-up "job-advts" stored in his job-alert box.

# 5 Search several other databases available on our website.

Let us examine each one of these.

# 1 SUBMIT RESUME

Currently this requires use of a keyboard.

For a TV user, it is cumbersome to switch between a remote & a keyboard every few minutes! It is inconvenient/annoying!

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Can an iTV user,

click on a "field" & then speak-out (Voice-recognition) the data?

Implications

sound card / microphone / V-R Software / Voice-enabled website?
Use of IVRS (thru ordinary telephone - which most iTV homes may have) after clicking on a "field" in the resume-form, displayed on iTV screen.

Most (or all) of dropdown list selections should be able to be carried-out with laser-beam/Click on the remote.

Perhaps, what a jobseeker "enters" thru IVRS, can appear instantly on iTV screen, so that he knows if entry is correct.

If not, he can "type-in" the corrections.

Even if these "solutions" are technically

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feasible, the most important question to be asked - and answered - continuously is,

"Will this solution simplify matters or make it worse?"

Each, so-called "solution" must be "tested" on users who do not know how to use a Computer / Keyboard.

# 2 CONDUCT JOB-SEARCH

		Job Search Parameters
IT Jobs	Ind-ustry	Func-tion	Desig. (Act/Level)	Posting City $\text{free text}$	Position	Cate-gory	Trade
Non-IT Jobs				$\text{free text}$
Entry-level jobs.				$\text{free text}$
Vocation-Designated Staff Jobs.				$\text{free text}$

From the above chart, it is clear

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that

"Posting City" $\rightarrow$ will need to be typed in (since it is a free text box)

Even, here, it is possible to have a dropdown list of some 200/300 bigger cities-towns for clicking; with a provision to type-in any other name. We are anyway considering this.

Ind/Function/Desig/Position/Category/Trade

All of these are in the form of dropdown lists. It should be possible to point the laser-beam on the desired value & then click the remote.

As far as "Short Display" & "Long Display" are concerned, either there are

Links ($\text{clickable}$)

$\text{OR}$

Check-boxes $\text{clickable.}$

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# 3 RESUME FORWARDING SERVICE

(Whom do you want us to forward your resume to?)

This form contains:

User Name $\rule{5cm}{0.4pt}$

Password $\rule{5cm}{0.4pt}$

Job Advt No. $\rule{5cm}{0.4pt}$

I suppose, these are best typed in using the Keyboard.

We should, however, consider following (Simplified) solution:

First step

Jobseeker, upon entering Job-Search area/section, types in his User Name & Password.

Next step

Whichever job-advts (or Company Names) he sees (in whatever type of search-results), he simply, points the laser-beam & CLICKS. That takes care.

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# 4 RECEIVE JOB-ALERT

If he logs on thru his email (online), he will be taken to his personal page where he sees all the "matching/suitable" job-advts stored.

Each job-advt should carry check-box. If interested, he simply points & clicks to forward his resume (i.e. apply online).

The fact that he has been able to "access" his "PERSONAL PAGE", means, the server knows who he is (i.e. Username/Password/PEN) and can pick-up his "Long Display" resume from the database & forward.

This means, he need not enter Username/Password again, if he is "Returning the Job-Alert Call"!

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# 5 SEARCH OTHER DATABASES

For all of these (i.e. accessing these), we plan to introduce a "REGISTRATION".

This means, to access these databases, a surfer would need to type-in his Username/Password.