GURUMINE

Kartavya

Abhi

Inder

21-01-03

RE-TRACT (or “RESUMINE”? – sounds better)

(Resume Extraction Software)

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If we intend to offer a “Best-of-the-Breed” solution, we need to extract a lot of data from each resume, convert it into “information” & then turn it into “Knowledge”, for the benefit of our webservice subscribers.

Enclosed, pl. find a few examples. If 3 of you apply your minds, I am sure you can come up with many more ideas.

We don’t have to introduce all these “features / functionalities / visual-graphs” etc. in one go.

There will be many VERSIONS – some may be “priced” as separate, standalone transactions whereas, some others may be introduced as “upgrades (free)” of original feature.

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cc: Rajiv, Mitchelle, Sri Ram, Nirmit

Pl. do send further suggestions to Kartavya, in enclosed format.

DATAMINING EXTRACTION TOOL (RE-TRACT) for RESUMES

Data → Information → Knowledge

21-01-03

What “Data” should be extracted?	Why? Purpose? How will it help Recruiter? What “Inference” can he draw from data?
▷ Name of University	He has attended a respectable Uni/college
▷ No. of Degrees & Diplomas	Highly qualified person / Holds a “foreign” degree
▷ “Age” at which passed out	Must be brilliant to get an MS at the age of 22!
▷ Names of Employer Companies	Seems to have worked for reputed/unknown companies. Why did he leave a well-known Co. to join a small/unknown company? Started out with “good” companies but seems to have gone “astray” after 10 yrs of experience!
▷ Name of Cities (where posted)	Why did he choose such a “god-forsaken” remote/small town? Why did he move from Mumbai to Shirdi?
▷ Name/s of BOSSES	He has worked under Mr. XYZ, who is an outstanding professional. Must have had good training/exposure.

What “DATA” should be extracted?

Why? Purpose? How will it help Recruiter? What “inference” can he draw from data?

• Duration/Tenure in different jobs

  • Max. Tenure

  • Min. Tenure

  • Ave. Tenure

  • Total Yrs. of Exp.

  • No. of Jobs held during career

  • He looks like a “job-jumper”! We may have to look for a replacement in 1 yr!
  • 8 jobs in 12 years! What is this guy up to? Can’t he get along with anybody? Let me probe further.
  • 2 jobs in 25 years! Does not look “ambitious” enough! Do you think he got 1 year experience, 15 times?

• Promotion/Designation History (see Career-Growth Graph enclosed)
  • Seems he would do “anything” to get a better/higher designation – even accept a “salary-cut” / move to a small town / take up job in a virtually unknown company.
  • Seems to have moved up “Career Ladder” at a reasonable pace, neither too fast, nor too slow.
  • His “responsibilities” do not match with his designation / seems over-designated.
  • *He seems to have reached his “Level of incompetence”! *
  • Watch Out! He seems over-ambitious (for us)!

What “DATA” should be extracted?

Why? Purpose? How will it help Recruiter? What “inference” can he draw from data?

• For each job

  • Starting salary

  • Ending salary

  • Ave. salary growth (% rise/year of service)

  • Seems to have got a “hefty” pay-rise every time he changed job – so that explains why so many job-changes in so few years!
  • Insignificant payrise when he changed last job – I wonder why!

• For entire career

  • Ave. salary growth (% rise/year of total exp.)

  • He accepted a “salary-cut”? Something seems fishy! Must probe the motive.

• (See MOOLAH-MANIA attached)

  • For his Age/Exp/Desig. level – isn’t current salary too low / too high? What is “Median/Average” for his Industry or Function at this Age/Exp/Desig. level?
  • If he is used to such annual “Pay Rises”, how long will he hang around with us? Won’t he be on a lookout (for a better pay packet) all the time?
  • We seriously need to look at our “Compensation structure” & revise it upwards.
  • Hey! Why not we too introduce “Performance-Linked Variable Pay”?

Kartavya, Abhi, Inder

RESUMINE (RESUME EXTRACTOR)

‘Resumine’ would have following aspects:

• Versatility
  Is it versatile enough to carry out data mining from the widest variety of email resumes?
  Eg. not only resumes of Indians (found on Indian job sites) but also of Americans?
  Although initially we may release V1.0 for only Indian resumes, next version must cover American resumes. After all, USA/UK are much bigger markets – and what is more interesting, “better paying” markets!
  This is crucial if we wish to leverage our association with PENHRYNE to penetrate these markets.

• Depth
  As of now, we have some 17 “fields” & 6 “blocks”. In Version 2.0, these would need to be enlarged (see my earlier note).

Accuracy

This is a very important aspect. We may release V1.0 with 80% accuracy but soon follow it up with V2.0 giving 90% accuracy.

By Jan 2004, we must target 95% accuracy (– balance 5% “errors” should be capable of being “edited” manually, online).

Dependability

The software must perform reliably again & again & again! Then only can our reputation spread by word-of-mouth (which is our most powerful SALESMAN!).

After all, community of HR managers is quite small and word spreads like wildfire – whether “good word” or “bad word”!

No matter how good may be our Resumine in its “functionalities”, if our Visual DISPLAY is poor, nobody will want to touch it!

Our User Interface must be totally intuitive and extremely user-friendly. And then it must “dazzle” the viewer. It must have “Magic-like” quality! It must “spell-bind” the viewer and hold him in “awe”! It must amaze him!

The display (UI) must prompt user to play around / interact / explore. It must keep him “glued”.

With this in mind, I ask you to examine enclosed proposal re: its feasibility.

The screen is divided in 2 parts, vertically.

Left side will display actual resume which is being “extracted”. On one side of the resume are the “Fields” (being extracted).

…and on the other side are the “Keywords” which “match-maker” tool finds in the resume.

The idea is:

• When viewer/user moves the cursor on any given “field”, the actual value (word/words/para) in the resume will change colour (say “Red”). Of course, if that word/value is hidden at the bottom, the entire resume will automatically slide upward and “expose” the concerned value/word.

• The highlighting – and turning red – of the relevant word is the proof that the software has accurately/correctly captured the value!

If desired, we can also provide another screen (like the ones developed by Sunitha/Vikram) – and a button – so that a “doubting” user can actually see the captured value inside a field box – and be able to edit the same.

But the idea of “highlighting”

…and turning red a Value when the cursor is moved across it, is to DRAMATIZE / MESMERIZE the viewer with the:

• Elegance

• Speed

• Accuracy of data capture

(In Version 5.0, moving the cursor will make the computer “speak aloud” the word! – Text-to-Speech Conversion)

As far as the right-hand vertical bar of “Keywords Extracted” is concerned, initially it will be blank/white space. As soon as matchmaker has found/located/matched the keywords, this bar will suddenly get filled up, in max ONE SECOND!

Here we can even design the software in such a manner that the order in which the keywords get arranged in the “bar” is exactly the same as the order (sequence) in which these keywords appear in the resume, so that the resume does not have to keep dancing up & down all the time.

Once again, moving the cursor on any keyword will turn it red (in the resume) and highlight it.

By arranging the keywords in a simple “sequence”, we are avoiding the 9 “category-boxes”, as also the confusion (difference of opinion) whether a given keyword is:

• Skill

• Knowledge

• Attitude

• Attribute
  etc.

When we come out with Version 2.0, two things will happen when cursor is moved across a keyword in the vertical bar, viz:

1. Keyword gets highlighted in the resume (covered under Version 1.0).

2. PLUS – Next to that keyword a box appears containing “synonyms” picked up from MS Thesaurus.

Example:

Related Concepts
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• Examine
• Study
• Observe
• Check-out
• Dissect
• Measure

(Shown as connected to keyword analyse).

I presume, integrating MS Thesaurus with highlighted keywords (in the resume), may not be very complicated, but you can imagine the impact on the viewer! How Visualthesaurus.com “GRIPS” us!

The entire right-hand half of the screen, I have set aside for displaying the COMPETENCY PROFILE.

We may restrict the display to 5/6 bars (with scrolling arrangement, all the bars can be accommodated).

However, from the viewpoint of the recruiter/HR manager, what would be of great interest is the “PROFILE ENHANCER” box at the bottom. This would contain the rare keywords found in this resume, which (may) set this candidate apart from hundreds of others. These rare keywords may contain “clues” to some unique skill/knowledge that candidate possesses.

Now imagine the (pleasant) surprise of the recruiter, if he is looking for exactly such a unique skill!

Please discuss with me soon to finalize the “Integrated” display.

Kartavya

RESUMINE DEMO (Beta Version)

• We shall give this demo to KT Group on March 3rd – possibly afternoon 3 p.m.

• I will get concerned KT officers to confirm date/time/venue. Most likely venue will be their “C” bldg Conference Room which has an LED projector hanging from the ceiling & a big screen. The room can conveniently sit 20 people.

  I will arrange for you/Abhi to visit Powai on 2nd March to carry out “dress rehearsal” of the demo. An engineer from their electrical maintenance dept. will remain present on both the days to help you carry out necessary connections.

• We shall carry Nimit’s laptop duly loaded with Resumine software. I will get Mr. Siroor to bring along a CD containing some 50 email resumes. Nimit’s laptop should read this CD, import one resume at a time & convert.
  Do you need to give any special instructions to Mr. Siroor?

• Do you want me to arrange for a colour printer (for attaching to Nimit’s… text continues)

Now, when we give Resumine demo, at the most 8/10 resumes may be converted. This is too small a database for conducting a search!

Therefore, let us (on a separate CD) carry our own 5000 converted email resumes (database) with us, so that we can load this 3P database to give demo of RESEARCH.

It is important that these 5000 are duly converted/extracted using Resumine. This is critical.

Because, when we click on any of the PENT in the DISPLAY (shortlist of result), then we should be able to see on the screen the CONVERTED RESUME with Competency Profile / keywords & everything!

Pl. feel free to ask.

cc: Abhi