CORPORATE PROFILE

CORPORATE PROFILE

On our website, we want to create a

CORPORATE DATABASE OF INDIAN COMPANIES

Some parts of such database will be searchable by Jobseekers & Recruiters

e.g:

Industry Vs. Products Vs. Company Name

(as UNIX server shows)

[ In future, I want to restrict, even such limited viewing to MEMBERS -

whether - Individual Members or - Corporate Members.

But, in order to attract them to become "members", I would like a feature by which, they can get a "glimpse/window display" of what a Search would yield - with only a limited visible "values/records" and a message urging them to become "members", so that they can see/view full display. ]

Rest of this database will be accessible/viewable only by

• Concerned Corporate Member (Manager) - 3P.

Ideally such a "Corporate Profile" should be created (directly on our website), by a Manager of that Company.

( "submit your Corporate Profile" form, much like "submit Resume" form for individuals).

But Personnel Managers are notorious for their

• lack of interest
• lack of Competence
• abundance of lethargy
• lack of initiative
• lack of curiosity to experiment.

The best that we could expect from them is to take some MINIMUM trouble to "update/edit" a profile if WE create/upload on our own!

Hence, my strategy is:

• Create/upload profiles of thousands of (Indian) Companies on our website, even if many fields are blank/missing.
• Send out messages (by email wherever email address is available) to the Personnel Managers of such companies, requesting them to login and "edit/update" their own company's

... profile. This would require sending them (automatically generated) User ID/Password/Unique No.

This communication will point out following advantages:

• Having "edited" their profile, in future, they would not need to fill-in all data about their Company, when posting a "Job-Adut". They can simply enter User ID/Password & get going.
• All "Candidate-Alerts" will be stored on their Personal Page (like "Premium Pages" of www.Dell.com)
• Every Resume-Search ever conducted by them on our website will get stored (chronologically) on their Personal Page - along with search-results & shopping basket details, if any.
• Similarly all "Job Aduts" ever posted by them on our website will also get stored in their Personal Page (Short Display/Long Display) - along with PEN of all candidate-resumes sent to them (for each job-advt.) as CANDIDATE

ALERT )

• Whenever any of his Shopping Basket got converted into a Purchase Orders, details of all such "Orders" will get stored on his Personal Page (short display/long display)
• If his company owns a website, we would exchange links
• If he posts a job-advt. on our website, it could get automatically displayed on his own Company's website (provided same database structure is used on their website)
• As a "member", he would be entitled to see/view, a vastly improved COM.com feature
• In future, he will be able to "track/monitor" his purchase orders on our website, directly, on his own (Once we extend our Order Execution System to our website).

• In future, he will be able to prepare his company's ANNUAL MANPOWER PLAN directly on our website, by filling-up (download/upload) concerned FORMS.
• He will regularly receive "NEW ARRIVALS of INTERESTING RESUMES" based on his MANPOWER PLAN.
• Should his company decide to introduce a VOLUNTARY RETIREMENT SCHEME (VRS), he could enter "details" of employees on his Personal Page, whereby each such employee will, thereafter, get SUITABLE JOB ALERTS.

As a result, if such employees resign & leave on their own, Company will save CRORES of Rupees payable as Compensation.

This list can go on!

In this connection, I enclose, a copy of my earlier note (dt. 17-9-99), based on which you may design "CORPORATE PROFILE" form.

This form should permit AUTOMATIC TRANSFER of database of 14000 public limited companies, earlier prepared by SOMA. There should be no manual data entry required.

Same form, should also be on our LAN, both for searching & for updating by 3P staff & then uploading (once again) on our website.

There should be a MIRROR IMAGING between LAN & WEBSITE databases, irrespective of

• "who" updates
• "when" updates
• "what" (field) updates.

The system should permit a "member" to fully take advantage of all the functionalities mentioned earlier.

CYRIL 17-9-99

Corporate Database

We have several Corporate Databases on our harddisk.

These different databases were created at different times - and maybe from different sources, to meet a specific immediate need.

Enclosed find a tabulation comparing the "fields" contained in these databases. Obviously, there is a lot of "duplication".

I feel this duplication can be avoided if we have ONE SINGLE COMMON (and very COMPREHENSIVE) SCREEN in which everyone enters the data about a company. Then it does not matter,

• who enters
• what data
• When (incrementally)

If this can be done, each user can select whatever "fields" he/she wants to tabulate in a statement or what label needs printing. Database integrity will also be guaranteed. We can even permit the HR Manager (of concerned Company) to update/edit the data, on his own, on our website. Let us discuss $\text{pl}$.

cc: PJP/RKA/CMT

 

Field	Soma's 14000	Kompass 18000	Ownership Master	BT-500	Corp. Job Advt. Posting Form	Shopping Basket Form
Company Name	$\checkmark$	$\checkmark$	$\checkmark$	$\checkmark$	$\checkmark$	$\checkmark$
CONTACT DATA
- Address (Postal)	$\checkmark$	$\checkmark$	$\checkmark$	$\checkmark$	$\checkmark$	$\checkmark$
- Phone No.	$\checkmark$	$\checkmark$	$\checkmark$	$\checkmark$	$\checkmark$	$\checkmark$
- Fax No.	$\checkmark$	$\checkmark$	$\checkmark$	$\checkmark$	$\checkmark$	$\checkmark$
- email add.		$\checkmark$	$\checkmark$	$\checkmark$	$\checkmark$	$\checkmark$?
- Website (URL)		$\checkmark$	$\checkmark$	$\checkmark$	$\checkmark$
PRODUCTS/SERVICES					$\checkmark$	$\bigcirc$?
INDUSTRY (engaged in)	$\checkmark$	$\checkmark$	$\checkmark$		$\checkmark$	$\bigcirc$?
SALES TURNOVER					$\checkmark$	$\bigcirc$?
TECH. COLLABORATION		$\checkmark$
JOINT VENTURES		$\checkmark$
BRANCHES/FACTORIES
- addresses	$\checkmark$		$\checkmark$
- contact data			$\checkmark$
MANAGEMENT - NAMES
- CMD/MD	$\checkmark$
- Co. Secretary	$\checkmark$
- Directors				$\checkmark$
- President/CEO			$\checkmark$
- Chief of Personnel	$\checkmark$		$\checkmark$		$\checkmark$	$\checkmark$?
- Other Sr. Executives	$\checkmark$
NATURE OF COMPANY
- LTD/PVT. LTD/GOVT.	$\checkmark$			$\checkmark$
GROUP TO WHICH IT BELONGS	$\checkmark$
NEW PROJECT INFO.
FINANCIAL RESULTS

 

CYRIL 27-4-99

7 BLIND MEN & THE ELEPHANT

No doubt you have read this story as a child and even told to Natasha.

Each blindman's perception (of what elephant looked like) depended upon "which" part of elephant he was "touching". So each blindman described the elephant differently as

• rope
• trunk of a tree
• boulder
• a big leaf

etc etc.

When, we try to give an "INDUSTRY-NAME" to any Company, we are no different than those blind men! Even, I myself (same person) am likely to give different "Industry-Name" to Same Company at different points of time!

What makes things WORSE, is that different "databases" are received (by us) from different sources.

• Some are bought "ready-made" from outside.
• Some, we give out for creation on "sub-contract" basis to Vendors.
• Some, we create ourselves.
• Some, Candidates Create.
• Some, Voltas Creates for us.

The enclosed diagram illustrates, what I have in mind.

With some such "apprehension" in mind, we created a MASTER-LIST OF INDUSTRY-NAMES and linked ALL COMPANIES (32000 from KOMPASS) to this MASTER LIST.

Then we made this a part of Module.

So, as far as Resume Database is concerned, the "discretion" is taken away from the Data Entry Operator. The software will decide what INDUSTRY NAME to give to VOLTAS.

Looking at the enclosed diagram, I feel we need to do Same with respect to all other databases as well.

$$Illegible handwritten word - possibly "Driven"$$

Even if a database arrives, with a different INDUSTRY NAME for Voltas, it

$$Illegible handwritten word - possibly "will"$$

immediately get "CORRECTED" when we load it on Server.

Let us discuss this upon your return

Regards

cc: Saida

$$Diagram centered around the company **VOLTAS**, showing different data sources and the resulting industry classification, illustrating the "7 Blind Men" problem.$$

• Source: Voltas-employee sends Resume $\rightarrow$ Industry: DIVERSIFIED
• Source: Kompass/IPBS CMI Database $\rightarrow$ Industry: Refrigerator
• Source: Voltas Loads Own Corpro-Job Adut. on our site $\rightarrow$ Industry: Air Conditioning
• Source: We Create Salary database from Voltas Annual Report $\rightarrow$ Industry: Consumer Durable
• Source: Bombay Stock Exchange Classification $\rightarrow$ Industry: Mfg. Ind.
• Source: Normal Job Advt. uploaded on website $\rightarrow$ Industry: Switchgear
• Source: Voltas sends us an Executive Search Requirement $\rightarrow$ In ESR we/they enter $\rightarrow$ Industry: Construction