JAWS JOBS ACROSS WORLD SURVEY

7/4/01

Mustafa (vXceed)

JAWS

Enclosed find a write-up on JAWS, to evaluate feasibility of this idea. Underlying idea is to become an "Aggregator of Job Advts/ Broadcaster of Job Advts/ Beneficiary of Job Advts".

There is no one doing this today in India—or perhaps the whole world! It could be a "Killer Application" (or a "damp squib!"). On internet, it is impossible to predict the outcome of an "experiment"!!

Questions

• What would be the Cost/Time-frame?
• Will Server take the load?

Let us discuss as soon as possible.

Regards

cc: Nimit

cc: AMB/CMT

cc: Venkat/Mitchelle

 

Supplement to note on "JAWS"

I enclose a news cutting from latest issue of "Express Computer (9-4-01)". I tried to search this "research" on https://www.google.com/search?q=Careermosaincindia.com but simply could not find any! I wanted more details/see graphs/get the list of 29 "dailies & magazines". No dice!

Anyway, I feel if we become a major "AGGREGATOR" of job-advts from all over India, we could generate such analysis—trends—graphs—charts—tabulations—statistics etc. AUTOMATICALLY!

Especially Employer Organisations/Labour Unions/Professional Bodies/HR Consultants/Govt. Depts etc. would desperately want to lay their hands on such "statistical Analysis"—especially if it is available ON DEMAND/ANYTIME/FOR ANY PERIOD/FOR ANY INDUSTRY—FUNCTION—CITY—DESIG. LEVEL etc. etc.

Killer App. becomes a Deadly App!

JAWS (JOBS ACROSS WORLD SURVEY)

Q. What is JAWS?

Ans: JAWS is a compilation of job-advts appearing in

• newspapers
• magazines
• job-related websites
• Corporate websites

These will be entered offline and first uploaded on our website thru Admin. Tool (Version 3.0 provides).

Thru Admin Tool, these job-advts will get tabulated

• Chronologically
• Category wise
• IT
• Non-IT
• Subordinate
• Entry-Level

These tabulations will be made available to a wide variety of organisations thru email broadcasting directly from our webserver.

This Service will be "free" to the Organisations and will be made available to those Organisations which request for the same.

Initially we may "push" these job-advt Summaries, even to those who have not specifically requested for the Same (e.g.: Colleges/Edu. Institutions/Cybercafes etc. etc.)

They can, of course, ask us to "discontinue" the Service.

Thru www.jobtrack.com tie-up, Monster.com offers this Job-advt broadcasting feature to 1200 USA Colleges—by charging $ 25 per college!! We have, so far signed-up 119 colleges—to whom we plan to send the "summary" free—except we do NOT reveal advertiser's identity. (P.S. DO VISIT job-track.com)

Q. How will Organisations benefit from this Service?

Ans: Each set of Organisations, may have some "Unique" use/benefit for such a service! Some of these benefits are explained in Annex: A

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Q. What will the JAWS tabulation look like?

Ans: Like follows

Advt No	Date	Position/Vacancy	Ind	Function/Trade/Vocation	Desig. (Actual Level)	Posting City	Salary p.m./p.yr.

 

Q. If the name of Advertising Company is not revealed in the tabulation, why should Organisations request for such a tabulation?

A. Obviously, only those organisations, which desperately need some "info/content" to deliver to their members/visitors/viewers/students etc. will request for this Service.

We have to convince them that their members/students/surfers etc. will still benefit "enormously" from such a tabulation, even if advertisers' names are hidden.

In any case, this is a "free" Service!

To be more "honest" with them, we may, politely tell them "There is no free lunch in the world!"

Behind providing such a free tabulation of jobs from around the World (which will certainly cost us a small fortune!), our motive is very clear & transparent, viz:

"We want all of their members/students/visitors/surfers etc. to log-into our website, after seeing the tabulation and then

• Submit resumes
• Apply online
• Receive job-alerts
• Receive interview-call letters

There is no hiding of our motive/intention!

And then,

They should be least bothered by what is our motive! They should concern themselves with "how will my readers/members..."

Q. How will Organisations come to know about this free Service?

Ans: We will have to send-out mailers (email + snail mail) explaining the entire scheme/how it works and "what is in it" for the Organisation concerned.

We will also put-up the whole scheme/service on our website.

We will start with our existing partners

• Colleges
• Cybercafes
• Websites
• NACT members

etc. etc.

Q. How will Organisations "apply" for this service?

Ans: They can apply online or Send us an email (offline) giving following info:

• Name of Organisation
• Address
• Phone/fax/email
• Contact Person's Name
• Nature of Organisation (Business Activity)
• Whether already a partner of 3P under various ALLIANCE PROGRAMS

Q. How will an Organisation choose/select what job-advt Summary it would like to receive?

Ans: Ideally (in long term?), we should give an organisation to choose only those job-advts which cover

• a particular "Industry"
• a particular "Function" (or "Trade/Vocation")
• a particular "Designation-level"
• a particular "City of Posting"

(Thru online ADMIN-TOOL) etc. etc.

Initially to simplify matters & get started quickly, we may restrict the choice to only ONE of the following options

• IT-related Job Advt $\circ$
• Non-IT " $\circ$
• Subordinate staff Job-Advt $\circ$
• Entry Level " $\circ$

He should be able to select "online" & to download active database!

Once "chosen/selected", he cannot change for next 24 hours.

He can always select a different category after 24 hours.

Ideally we should also give him a choice to select

• Last 25 job advts (chronologically)
• " 50 " "
• " 100 " "

If there are no "additions", same advts. will repeat

Or, the option could be

• Advts. received during last 1 day
• " " " 3 "
• " " " 7 "

A Very Important Consideration

• Especially newspapers should be allowed to edit & "delete" any/some advts. from the summary tabulation before printing.
• They may not have enough space to print all jobs.
• All tabulations (after every $5^{th}/10^{th}$ job-listing) will carry following message

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2
3
4
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To apply online, log into www.3pjobs.com $\to$
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7
8
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10

 

Do visit "Salarycenter" and check out "THE SALARY CALCULATOR". This is good/can be added to our Comp.

Top 5 industries provide 60% employment: Survey

IT News Network

Mumbai

https://www.google.com/search?q=Careermosaincindia.com recently compiled a research in India on the latest employment trends in the job market, based on industry, location, function and level. This information has been culled over a period of 6 months (August 2000 - January 2001) covering 29 dailies and magazines from the Indian print media.

The research proved that top five industries have created maximum employment opportunities in the last six months. Out of the 60% employment created, the top five employ 60 percent of the total. They are:

• IT/Communication - 30%
• Software development - 13.8%
• Engineering - 7%
• Academics - 5%
• ERP/Business solution - 3.5%

[Graph: Employment over 6 months]

Furthermore, the employment opportunities created in these industries have been analyzed according to the level of management, namely junior, middle, senior and top. Junior level management includes employees with up to 3 years of w¹ork experience; the middle level requires an experience of three to ten years (e.g. project manager). Senior level management calls for about 10-15 years of work experience and includes general managers to vice-presid²ents. The top level refers to CEO's and directors with work experience of 15 years and above.

Levels within the Industries	Employment, opportunity
Junior Level	56%
Middle level	30%
Senior level	12%
Top level	2%

The huge demand for junior level employees is extremely encouraging. The two main reasons being:

• A flat hierarchy
• The project worth is calculated on the man-hours put in, therefore the greater the man-power, the higher the project worth. This is especially true in the IT industry.

FUNCTIONWISE

Each of these industries has functional areas, some of which have high employment opportunities and others that only allow vertical mobility. A few of the industries and functions over-lap, such as software development, which is both an industry as well as a function.

Over the last six months IT and IT/communications have dominated the job trends in the functional area. The areas with maximum employment opportunities are as follows:

• Software development, which leads the way with 30 percent, followed by engineering with 25 percent. Marketing close third at 9 percent, sales that accounted for 6.04 percent and academics 5 percent. The months of December and January witnessed a slump in the software sector.

LEVEL WISE - ACROSS ALL INDUSTRIES

Level wise, the highest number of jobs was observed in the junior level (43%), followed by middle level (35%), senior level (19%) and the top level registered a sharp rise and would continue to climb for the next few years. For freshers, its good news. Employment opportunities at the entry level are promising.³

TOP EIGHT JOB LOCATIONS

The cities that offer the highest employment opportunities in the country are:

The research proved that:

• Total no of jobs in the last six months showed cyclical fluctuation.
• Jobs in top industries both function wise and level wise, also showed cyclical fluctuation.
• More number of jobs has been created in junior level, than for any other level.
• IT continues to be the major area.

CITIES	PERCENTAGES
Mumbai	17.44%
Hyderabad	13.61%
Delhi	13.12%
Bangalore	12.61%
Chennai	9.73%
Pune	4.41%
Calcutta	4.31%
Ahmedabad	4.13%

where almost 40 percent of all the jobs are advertised.

• Jobs in IT would grow in spite of present slow down (cumulatively) after the first quarter of 2001.
• Location wise Bombay, Hyderabad and Bangalore would be the attractive places for job opportunities.

EXPRESS COMPUTER : 9-4-01

AGGREGATION

$26-01-01$

Enclosed note is 2 years old but still valid.

When it was written 2 years ago, the objective was to

• Compile in advance (offline), "search-results" for hundreds or thousands of "combinations" of "search-parameters" for a resume-search.

This was expected to result in a FASTER DISPLAY of "search-results" - even if such an advance compilation failed to take into account (i.e. take cognizance of) those resumes which got submitted during last 24 hours (since we are not talking of hosting our site on a SUPER COMPUTER!).

If our resume database was to grow to a MILLION RESUMES, someday, this objective (of fast display of search-results) would become VERY VALID, since a large resume database would tend to SLOW DOWN the "search-process".

Another alternative is to apply "sequential filtering" whereby the whole database is continuously being filtered

• Industry wise
• Function wise
• Skills-wise (especially for IT resumes)

Such continuously filtering (automatic) would create "SUB-SETS" of main database into several smaller "databases", so that, when corresponding/relevant "filter" is applied, the search is conducted ONLY on that SUB-SET.

These SUB-SETS can be pre-organised,

• Industry wise
• Function wise
• Skills wise.

In the Current Context, a compilation/aggregation of

• Resume Search Queries (DEMAND SIDE)

would tell us - and the jobseekers - WHAT kind of executives are currently in demand (- a kind of TREND-ANALYSIS of jobs available)

But if we wish to show to jobseekers a JOB-TREND, we need to aggregate RESUME-SEARCH QUERIES MONTH-WISE.

Industry wise Name	% of resume-search Queries.
	Jan

 

We could repeat such a "display-table for

• Functions
• Skills (for IT guys)."

Such a trend-analysis would also help "students" in their CAREER PLANNING.

To experienced professionals, it would help in re-orientation of their existing CAREERS by acquiring latest/most-in-demand skills.

Such a "demand-trend" would also help us in focussing our efforts on getting resumes of particular niche/group of jobseekers, who are in high demand.

• Job Search Queries (SUPPLY SIDE)

A Similar analysis (as foregoing) of all the job-search queries shot by job-seekers.

This reveals the situation from the SUPPLY SIDE.

Obviously, candidates are searching for jobs in those Industries/Functions/Skills

where they consider themselves EXPERTS/SUITABLE based on their past/current experience.

So such an analysis (of job-queries) reveal the AVAILABILITY OF CANDIDATES.

This (knowledge) would help us to promote such candidates PRO-ACTIVELY amongst industries/companies most likely to require such candidates.

It would (indirectly) help RECRUITERS to know what kind of jobs candidates are searching and therefore, the availability of such candidates.

Both types of Queries can also be aggregated (& displayed month-wise) for

• CITY OF POSTING (to guide candidates where are most jobs coming-up)
• CITY OF PREFERENCE (to guide recruiters, where to put-up their next office/factory!)

Such a data-mining "BY-PRODUCT" has great utility.

 

Cyril

Headhunt/Job Search

Searching results - at "aggregate" level

If we "store" all headhunt & jobsearch queries, then after a couple of years (may be even one year) when we have accumulated a "database" of several thousand queries, we could conduct a STATISTICAL ANALYSIS as follows:

FILTER	% of times that this filter was FIRST CHOICE	% of Time it was SECOND CHOICE
Industry
Function
Designation
Edu-Quali
Age
Exp

Over a period of time (sufficiently long time), we are obtaining better & better "probability" for each of the above-mentioned events! Thereafter (or simultaneously), within a given filter (say Industry), we can build-up further probabilities of:

Probability for occurrence of - "Auto Industry" is $\square$

• FMCG $\dots \dots$
• Chemical " $\dots \dots$
• M/C Tool " $\dots \dots$ etc. etc.

Process (of building-up individual probabilities of occurrence) is CONTINUOUS/ON GOING/EVER REFINING...

Having established the probability of the occurrence of a GIVEN "COMBINATION" OF FILTERS & SUB-FILTERS,

We can arbitrarily "trigger" searches against each "combination" and keep the search-results "READY/WAITING" for someone to shoot that specific query.

Then we can flash the results instantly, processing having been done "offline".

To the surfers, this would appear miraculously FAST!