ULIN

Kartavya

26/02/2003

ULIN

The Ultimate Lock-In

Currently there is a lot of talk in the media re: “portability of telephone no.”

If the “ownership” of the phone no. is with the user/subscriber, that number need not have to change, every time a subscriber:

→ switches from one service-provider to another service-provider

→ switches from landline to cellphone & vice-versa

→ moves (travels) from one city to another city or (even) one country to another.

So, he is free! He is not locked-in by:

• Competitors

• Mode (landline vs. cellular)

• Geography

• Technology (GSM – GPRS – CDMA) etc.

Everyone is forced/obliged to provide him service on the SAME number – number which HE owns!

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And because the NUMBER remains SAME, throughout the WORLD and throughout his LIFETIME, he does not have to end up informing his friends/relatives/customers etc., again & again re: new number!

The subscriber has the ultimate power – by not being “locked-in.” He has no “change-over” cost, in case he decides to change the “service-provider.”

Could we conceivably give similar “FREEDOM” to jobseekers, thru our webservice?

I assume that over a period of time, our webservice will be used by:

→ Corporates

→ Placement Agencies

→ Jobsites

for converting email resumes being received by them – then storing these in databases – and then “searching” these, once-in-a-while, using our RESEARCH search-engine.

Now let us imagine a situation, where our Web Server allots/assigns

PEN (Permanent Executive No.)

to each & every incoming resume being “converted” in RESUMINE, irrespective of the source.

And let us assume that all PEN being allotted are given out serially & that each no. is unique. No duplication.

(I don’t know how our server can manage this feat, if at a given point of time, 1000 subscribers are trying to convert 10,000 resumes!)

So, each jobseeker receives one/unique PEN, irrespective of

→ “how” he sent his email resume

→ “to whom”

—as long as the company/placement agency/jobsite concerned is our subscriber.

In case, he sends his email resume,

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(same/identical) thru multiple “sources”, our software should be capable of “spotting” the duplication & avoid allotting another unique PEN!

Instead, a message should go out, both to our subscriber & to the jobseeker, saying,

“Dear [ ],

Thank you for sending your resume, thru our Webservice Subscriber,

[Name].

We have already received your resume earlier thru other sources, when we have already allotted/assigned to you, following Permanent Executive Number (PEN):

[PEN].

Your User ID / Password also remain unchanged as follows:

• User ID: [ ]

• Password: [ ]

Regards,

3P Webservice.

If enough jobsites become our subscribers, then, no matter which jobsite a recruiter conducts a “Resume-Search”, when he clicks on the “Short Display”, he gets to see/view IDENTICAL resume of a given candidate!

Resume Text                  PEN: ----
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Name       | Competence Profile | Keywords
Add        | ------------------ | --------
DOB        | ------------------ | --------
           | ------------------ | --------

We already know that most of the Indian jobseekers have deposited/posted their (identical) resumes on several jobsites (Jobstreet / JobsDB / JobsAhead / Naukri / Monster etc.).

Due to vastly superior features of our RESUMINE & RESEARCH, even if we get just one (maybe smaller) jobsite to subscribe to our webservice, others will have to follow suit — in order to keep up! When that happens, our DISPLAY & PEN in effect become the industry standard!

With one/same PEN, a jobseeker can upload his edited resume on any website without having to worry on which website he originally posted! Our existing PARTNER WEBSITES program works on this rule.

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