CONCEPT NOTE

Kartavya,

www.ResumesExchange.com

Some 2/3 years back, I have already penned some thoughts on this subject even prepared a U/I for a webpage.

But, during these 2/3 years, many things have changed.

eg.

    . Web has expanded many fold

 

    . Google has launched Google Search Appliance (GSA)

    . We launched India Recruiter.net and made available (for free download) "Resume Rater" of which, more than 13000 copies have got downloaded from various websites

    . We launched customize Resume on 14-11-09

    . We are in the process of Cleaning - up ISYS database to ensure that it contains nothing but "Resumes".

    . By subscribing to File factory.com, we enabled visitors (Of India Recruiter), to download over 3 lakh text   resumes (in batches of 1000 at a time)

    . We have already uploaded approx. 2.5 lakh text resumes on Customize Resume. com which are freely downloadable.

    . 3P are using "In Box Reader" developed by Vikram 3 years ago

    . We have downloaded software some 2 weeks back, which converts all kinds of (resume) documents into PDF Format.

    . Alex has developed a S/W which detaches all attachments from incoming emails (which are mostly resumes)

    . We have processed 14 PST files to separate out unsolicited resumes received at "Contact@3pjobs.com", during last 10 years.

Lastly.

    . We have thought of developing a (freely downloadable) S/W TOOL (Resume Retriever ?)

      Which Will,

      . Read all incoming emails

      . Separate "Resume" - Containing emails

      . Clean - up Resumes

      . Convert to PDF

      . "Rate" & give raw score / function - category

      . Arrange in descending order

      . Index all keywords (after removing all junk keywords)

      . Make all these text resumes "Searchable" on chosen keywords,

      . Incorporate "Resume Parser" as & when we develop.

In a manner similar to ISYS.

This is to be done by plugging in Google Search Appliance API.

    . Incorporate GuruSish/ GuruCast.

    . Make U/I, somewhat similar to the LONG TAIL RESUME

Interface as per my yesterday's note we may, at first develop such a tool and use it OFFLINE, using ISYS database TO establish that

    . It works better/ faster than ISYS

  

    . It is more user friendly.

If it does, then the next question is :-

Can we develop it (using Google Search Appliance API & in ASP 3.5) and make it freely downloadable for any one ?

If possible, can we use it to "disrupt" the current online / offline recruitment industry ?

In itself, "disrupting on industry", cannot be a worthy goal !

What good is an innovation, (whether disruptive or otherwise), unless it benefits the entire society?

If such a tool has to benefit the "entire society" (-even at the cost of one industry viz : Online recruitment), then such a tool, must facilitate.

"JOB FOR ALL = PEACE ON EACH "

This has to be the "Super - Ordinate Goal" behind the development of such a TOOL.

A somewhat sub - ordinate goal can be (to copy Google's philosophy)

"Organize Resumes & Jobs related info. of the world"

Which (info) is a tiny fraction of "All the info. of the World".

 

And this is how I propose we will do.

Launch www.ResumesExchanger.Com

Make this Tool (to be called "Exchanger") freely downloadable _ but after due registration and activation link. we want to capture all feature activity of each user)

The tool will lock - in (hard - coded integration) with the MAIL - BOX of each user.

This will ensure that each & every that resume / resume attachment, arriving into that mailbox (- irrespective of email ID), gets CAPTURED & PROCESSED by the TOOL.

The user cannot selectively "process" only some resumes arriving into this mailbox. He will have no control over the  processes of that tool.

The tool will need to be "activated" every morning, by linking - up with

www.ResumeExchanger.com.

This activation will consist of

a UPLOAD button (The DONATION button)Clicking on which will automatically "upload" onto our Server database, all the text resumes processed by the tool   Since the Previous instance.

This action will force the user to "donate" (to the central database), all the incoming resumes into this mailbox.This is the "Price" he pays.

Of course, we must make an "enabling" provision in the tool, whereby the user can, "Add/ process/ Upload"

Thousands of resumes received by him over the years and lying on his hard - disk - that is resumes received before   the installation of the tool. If we take all recruiting agencies & Employers, this fig. would run into MILLIONS! -Thousand time bigger than Monster + Naukri !1

A SYNCHRONIZE buttonThis can be clicked ONLY AFTER clicking on UPLOAD button

When he clicks on this button, he downloads our ENTIRE ONLINE RESUMES database, onto his hard disk, and becomes a part - and - parcel of his OFFLINE "EXCHANGER" tool.

With this click, our ONLINE database on our server (which is growing every minute) his OFFLINE database in the  tool, stand "Synchronized" And this will happen, even if no resume got uploaded when he clicked on UPLOAD button !

In fact, during the very first operation of SYNCHRONIZE button, user will get to download some 3/4 lakh text resumes from our server ! ! (- changed this ideas later)

It is entirely possible that, after 3/4 weeks, he registers once again, under a different name and repeats the  mischief.

We will need to find a way to prevent this from happening. Ex. : Our S/W finding if there was any previous  installation on hard disk ? Our USP (Unique Selling Proposition) is :

"With hundreds / thousands of users, daily uploading Lakhs/ Millions of resumes, our online database is growing phenomenally bigger than Monster/ Naukri within a few days !And you get to daily download this hugely growing database, by downating/ contributing a few dozen / hundred resumes.

In this arrangement, every user if contributing a small no. of resumes but every user is getting, in return, a huge no. of resumes - FREE OF COST

After a while, you will have no need to subscribe to Naukri/ Monster/ Times Jobs and pay a huge monthly/ annual fee  running into lakhs of rupees.

In fact, within a few months, you own OFFLINE resume database will far exceed the online resume database of any job - portal in the entire world !

If you think, what resume database you currently have on your hard disk is UNIQUE and that no one else has got     those resumes, then you are sadly mistaken !

Every single resume on your hard disk is also on the hard disks of 100 other recruiters / corporate and on 5/10 job portals !

You are exchanging these picks for gold !

Resumes Exchange is designed to distribute every resume to the farthest corner of the earth ! "

Hemen Parekh

PROJECTS

Shalaka

Pl. discuss amongst yourselves and then distribute the following projects, in order of properties :

    1. Revised template for Resume (Shalaka)

    2. Fetch online Job - description (Alex)

    3. Magic Cube Job Search

    4. Magic cube Resume Search

    5.  Recommendation System for Jobseekers

              Level 1 - Rearranging  Job search  drop lists for search Parameters.                                              

           Level 2 - Immediate display/ listing of matching job - advts, as soon as each stage "jobseeker    registration" gets completed.

Level 3 - Daily emailing links to newly arrived "matching job - advts". clicking on link will ring that jobseeker to his "MY PAGE", where jobs will be listed in a tabulation from where he can view  apply online.

6. Recommendation System for Recruiters same level 1/2/3 as in case of jobseekers.

7. Long Tail Jobs Based on Incorporating Google Search Appliance on our Web Server. 

8. Long Tail Resumes Based on Incorporating Google Search Appliance on our Web Server. "Long Tail jobs" will work upon old database of 34 lakh Job - advts (-wherever email IDs of Job - advertisers are  available). Primarily, this feature is meant to enable Search Engine spiders to be able to index every. keyword of all 34 lakhs advts. Will all these pages, have a single URL? That would be desirable.
                                                                                                           

9. Incorporating Google Search Appliance in our existing Conventional Job Search page to enable  Keyword - based" Job search.

Hemen Parekh

LONG TAIL JOBS

Shalaka,

Enclosed see tentative U/I. May be you can simplify

The main purpose is to have ONE page (one URL) on our website where Search Engine spiders can keep clicking links to index 40/50 million "keywords". Since keyword/ "Jobs/ Job Advts" will get listed a few million times on a single page.(Single URL), I expect that when anyone types "Jobs/ Job Advts" in the search bars of Google / Yahoo/ Bing etc. our SINGLE PAGE would top the list !!That would increase our traffic fantastically.

However, implementing this feature would require installation of Google Search Appliances API on our server IT may also require cleaning up of a lot of JUNK keyword's before uploading.

Therefore, it may be best to first tryout this feature extensively OFFLINE and upload only when satisfied.

To save one column in U/I, we can provide "APPLY ONLINE" button on each job - advt only - when click opened.

When "Current Jobs" get deleted (after 60 days) from "Conventional Job search," we should keep adding these to LONG TAIL.

And since Google Search Appliances API is supposed to work similarly to ISYS (-and perhaps better), next question is :-

Q. In our existing ISYS database, we already have a few lakh resumes which our consultants search using        

"Keywords" typed into ISYS search bar. Search results are a listing of documents (resumes) containing those keywords. These resumes are then clicked & opened, one by one, for reading.

All this happens OFFLINE. We have been using ISYS for nearly 15 years.

How about creating a parralel - and identical database of these resumes and let Google Search Appliance, index keywords and find the relevant resumes?

Kind of "LONG TAIL/ RESUMES (OFFLINES)

Then let our consultant’s comeback and tell us which application (ISYS US. GSA) Works better/ faster.

Hemen Parekh

JOBSEEKER REGISTRATION- ORGANIZATION PROFILE

Shalaka,

While interviewing anyone with 5+ yrs of experience, recruiters invariably ask:- 

               . Who do you report to ?

  

              . Who (-and, often) / how many report to you?

Answers to these questions, tell them candidates position (level) in corporate Hierarchy. The higher he reports, the more “important" his position. The greater the no. of people who report to him (span to control),the more responsible" his position. In good old days, many companies had a place for showing Your Organization Chart In their printed "Application Forms" (I had introduced this in L & T, when i became DGM + Personnel, in 1979).

I would like to introduce this as the STAGE 6 and named "Organizational Profile".This page, will present/ display to the candidate a "Block diagram" as shown on preceding page, except that,

    . Central Block will get onto - filled

    . There will be no need to say "Myself"

But, by showing upper block as "My Boss" and lower blocks as "My subordinates" (latest fashion - politically correct is to use words "My Reports" !), we are making things abundantly clear.

The moment candidate types in those blocks, inserted instructions disappear. Since a person may have many Subordinates, we could provide a horizontal scroll bar in the "Block Diagram". But, how can we show a huge horizontal Diagram in profile ?

Hemen Parekh