Notes

Handwritten Notes:

Kartarya
Abhi
Inder
Sumitha/Vikram
"Can "Grokker" be used in our Search-Engine to display Search-results of shortlisted candidates?
[Illegible word] 20/9/03

Printed Text (Newspaper Article - Technology & You):

Charting new pictures

A new software 'visualises' data in ways that give a much richer image than typical tools

If you want to know how the bean kept led today, you could try to make sense of the rows and tables, or look at the charts and tables, or any number of Web sites. Or you could look at the data of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region where there will see blocks of coloured rectangular greens and purples. The coloured blocks a data set, the size indicates the cost of a key market capitalisation and the colour indicates price change. Clicking on a rectangular block offers more detailed information about the company and its influence.

The ease with which a users look at a glance is an example for technique known as information visualisation, that is making its way into the mainstream affective in the business and finance world of late. The idea is to replace the rows and columns of numbers of the graphs and charts that have long been used to present data with a much richer image. Visual uses doesn't mean substituting for numbers and graphs, but an adjunct to them. "Information visualisation answers questions you didn't know you had," says Ben Shneiderman, who developed a data-discovery technique that turns money into trees. If you check out the 200 software tools described at all the products I describe here, the visualising the row a picture is worth at least 1,000 words.

For the most part, visualisation tools are cropping up as part of the analytical software packages that are used in consumer-demand companies. However, there are stand-alone products that use the technique to help you create visualisations of what otherwise might be an overwhelming set of data. One app that is calling worldwide is available from 1899 [Illegible word].

Grokker is a web search tool that interprets searches into a query with images and pages of links, shows the result as series of concentric circles on a web page. Grokker within it represent subtopics, the size of the circle represents the amount of data it contains and the colour represents the degree of similarity. Each inner circle expands as you click on it.

Visualising [Illegible word] doesn't until you click on the outermost circle, watch then appear "Groker" search engine for resume?

A new project approach works best with vague queries where you don't really know what you are looking for, says Cyril research request. For example, if you ask "India" on a map visualisation product, you may see 10,000 realistic. Grokker produced a merger-acquisitions mapping tool, which shows what is really wanted, that gathered the web displaying with a search tool. The underlying search technology, which came right out of www.northernlights.com, which offers a federated search engine. The project is an Open Directory Project, a free, cooperative effort to assemble an index of all to build a massive catalog of the Web.

Most of the visualisation tools are designed to extract from existing databases and MindManager from Chalets shows how a large jet costs you $50,000, it brings about a subtle and comfortable them into a pair of clear. The result is astonishing, like an outrage with [Illegible word] tools and as many layers as you can want. But instead of an outline's line up to **$50,000** for the basin is a linen, with a 3-day for the user. It allows the user to see a mail on anywhere you want to you build your $50,000. It can be used as a convenient to a big picture. If you want to see how the company's organization more details, items are represented or tagged with icon for significance, it is easy to get to connect data.

For the past 20 years, the best data management power on PCs has been used mainly to emulate the paper form and the work of the file clerk. Visualisation radically changes how we look at information. If will see something good in it," says Shneiderman who is a visionary. Visuals allow complicated data to be more humanistic approaching to computing. From simple charts and all visual reports much of their understanding of the world. However, if your data set is too big, one problem is frequently too much information. Visualisations can be a big help.

Top Right: 4/4 URGENT. Top Left: Vimal/Abhi/Sanjeev Subject: Freeze requirement of Module 1 Date: 17/06/02 Left Margin:

We have met on Monday (11-3), three of you
Could discuss the implications of this note with all 3 3P consultants
Seek their opinion.
[Illegible signature]
20/03/02

Cyril

RESUME VERSIONS

We may fervently pray,

Everybody should submit his/her resume only on our website... and that too, directly online, in appropriate webform.

Lord has good reasons not to grant our prayer!

Hence, most likely scenario could be as shown in Annex A.

During the course of his life, a person will submit his resume at/from hundreds of... places, using different methods/devices. He will do this again & again.

And in our own interest, we will try to "capture" these resumes (of the same person) - from

Wherever we can (source)
however [illegible] (method)

This will give rise to issuance of duplicate/multiple

PEN
User ID
Password

to same person (again & again).

We have (I believe) tried to block (issue of multiple PEN) to same person thru some server-based software.

This has resulted into a peculiar situation.

e.g.: A person tries to submit his resume on our website directly. He sees some message like,

Sorry, we cannot accept your resume once again because it is already in our database. If you wish, you may "EDIT" it using your User ID/Password.

Now, it is that person's turn to be surprised. He just does not remember ever having submitted his resume on www.3pjobs.com and obtained a User-ID/Password/PEN !!

He has no way of knowing that, we got his resume thru

another partner with whom he may not remember [illegible]
our Placement Agency/Partner (he gave it to)
downloading from https://www.google.com/search?q=jobsahead.com
his college (10 years back?)

In a reverse case, we may receive his resume from our partner Placement [Continues on Scan_0004.jpg]

[Continuation from Scan_0003.jpg] agency and when we try to upload it on our website, we find it is already there!

So, we need a method to "bounce it" back to that Agency, saying

The resume of Mr/Ms [Illegible] which you sent us, is already in our online database and... hence... it is... returned to you.

Whereas, it may not be difficult to "automate" such message, the question is,

Do we / should we keep track of, from which source/method, a particular resume came into our database for the FIRST time?

and again, how did we get it/managed to get it/capture it SECOND time? THIRD/FOURTH/FIFTH time?

and depending upon the many combinations possible, what type/kind of "messages" should we send out or display on our website?

If we tried to keep track, I feel, our life - and our server-based software - may get too complicated!

Somehow, I get a feeling that we should give-up all attempts to prevent issuance of duplicate/multiple Username/Password/Pen to the same person. Let him get many.

What is likely to happen, if our server were to issue,

6 different Username/Password/PEN to the same person?

No one would, in the first place, do this (submit his resume 6 times) on his own, knowing that, he cannot possibly remember (keep track of 6 different Username/Password/PEN (issued each time he submitted)

This is most likely to happen when his resume gets uploaded on our website 6 times (from 6 different sources) WITHOUT his knowledge/volition.

Of course, each time, he would receive an email, giving him, different

Usernames/Passwords/PEN !!

This (repeat occurrence) may confuse him but we could remove the confusion by each message, saying, [Continues on Scan_0008.jpg]

Dear Jobseeker:

We have managed to collect/pick-up/acquire your resume from more than one source, where you may have posted/emailed/handed-over your resume. This (last) time, when we tried uploaded your resume on our website www.3pjobs.com, you have been allotted following,

Username : Password : PEN :

If you have already received from our webserver, another Username/Password/PEN earlier, you have following choices:

Delete the latest/current version of your resume (And the Username/Password/PEN mentioned above), by clicking here Delete

Preview your latest/current version and then decide whether you wish to retain/edit it

Edit previous versions of your resumes by entering previously allotted Username/Password/PEN or, if you wish, delete those. !! 3P consultant.

As far as CLIENT-SIDE implications... concerned, it is possible that, after conducting a resume-search, when he fills-up the Shopping Basket / he may include in the "shortlist",

3 different "versions" of same person's resume!

each having a different PEN (giving the client an impression that he has hit a jack-pot and found 3 excellent candidates!)

This will happen only if the client, even after viewing the "long displays" (of the 3 different PEN), fails to recognize that all 3 belong to the one-and-the-same person!!

In most cases, he would recognize the "duplicate" resumes and pick only ONE ( carrying latest date of submission/editing).

Even if Client fails, we would know when we look up other details such as "contact Info"/Names of current-previous employers etc.

So, WE eliminate these "duplicates" and inform the Client accordingly.

AS SIMPLE AS THAT!

[Continuation from Scan_0005.jpg] time) and ensure that only ONE/CURRENT/UP-TO-DATE version of your resume is retained in our online database. 3P consultant.

# On "Submit Resume" Page

Dear Jobseeker:

It is possible that we may have received your resumes, at different points of time, from different sources and all of these are part of our online resume database.

Of course, each time, your resume got uploaded on our website, you would have received, a unique set of Username/Password/PEN.

Since it is not possible for us to track/monitor who uploaded which version of your resume on our website when and how; it is up to you to delete all obsolete versions (using the Username/Passwords allotted to you each [Continues on Scan_0009.jpg]

[Continuation from Scan_0008.jpg] time) and ensure that only ONE/CURRENT/UP-TO-DATE version of your resume is retained in our online database. 3P consultant.

# On "ENQUIRY FORM" page & "RESUME-Search" pages

Dear Recruiter:

Our online resume database consists of resumes submitted by

a number of "Agencies/Sources"
at different "times"
using different "methods" of uploading.

As a result, it is quite possible that our database may contain 3/4 different "versions" of SAME PERSON each differing from others in minor respects.

Whereas, we constantly urge the jobseekers to eliminate such duplications (thru editing), it is impossible for us to track/monitor all such instances.

It is therefore possible that, when you conduct a resume-search and prepare a shortlist (for entry into ENQUIRY FORM / SHOPPING BASKET), some of the resumes [Continues on Scan_0007.jpg]

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... shortlisted by you, while appearing to be different, may belong to the SAME person. This is understandable, since you have no access to detailed information about each resume.

Of course, on our part, we would eliminate such duplication, while sending our PROPOSAL in response to your ENQUIRY FORM.

3P consultants

Cyril,

by marking a copy of this note to my colleagues, I am asking them to debate this issue amongst themselves and Nomit will get back to you with our Consensus-Views for final action.

Regards

[Signature]

cc: Nomit

cc: AMB

cc: Venkat $\checkmark$

cc: Michelle

cc: Abhi/Sakshi

cc: Robin/Sanjeev.

Annex: A.

A PERSON MAY SUBMIT HIS RESUME FROM MANY SOURCES

[The central hub is labeled: Central Database at 3P]

Sources feeding the Central Database (clockwise from top):