RESUMINE INTERVIEW AID

Kartavya

21-03-03

ResuMine as an Interview-Aid

For converting ResuMine into an interview-aid, we have thought of adding following features:

▶ Comparing the “Functional Exposure Profile” (% score) of a candidate with “functional exposure profiles” of:

• Total Population

• Peer Group (same Age / Edu / Exp / Desig etc.)

▶ When you move mouse over any Company-Name appearing in resume, a window will show:

• Products/Services of that Company

• Other Companies making same Products/Services

This feature will help in testing the “Industry-Knowledge” of a candidate.

This feature can be quickly incorporated now that we have cracked DCA CD.

▶ Moving cursor on “Function Exposure” bar (top one only?) will reveal a list of “Keywords” which are relevant to that function.

Clicking on any such Keyword will open a window containing 5 pertinent “QUESTIONS” which the interviewer can ask the candidate, to test his FUNCTION-EXPOSURE DEPTH (Deep – Adequate – Shallow?).

You also suggested that, against each such question, we place radio-buttons, as follows:

Keyword: Data Modelling

Question	Candidate’s answer was
	Comprehensive / In-Depth
What are the characteristics of an optimal data model? (Contributor)	⭘
What is the difference between static & dynamic information? (Contributor)	⭘

(Clicking will reveal “Contributor” data)

A. The clicks can be aggregated to decide the “most popular (frequently asked) questions” — which can then automatically rearrange in a descending order of “popularity.”

B. The clicks can/must also be stored against relevant PEN, along with:

• Name of the Interviewer

• Position for which candidate is being interviewed

• Date of Interview

As far as A (Aggregation) is concerned, it should be across all subscribers / all interviewers & linked to that particular question only. Aggregation must not link with PEN in any way, whatsoever.

As opposed to this, B is a “private” affair between that candidate & that interviewer (Corporate-subscriber).

B results/findings must not/cannot be seen/viewed at anytime by someone other than that company/interviewer. This is like a Doctor/Patient relationship!

We also talked about:

• Facility for all subscribers/interviewers to add their own new questions to our question databank.

• Giving credit to such “contributors” thru some sort of public recognition of their contribution.

When an interviewer adds a new question, we should ask him to fill the following form:

CONTRIBUTOR DATA | Auto “Date Stamping”

• Question to be added

• Relevant Keyword

Name of Contributor: Last / First

Designation:

Employer / Organization:

Personal Email:

Such a feature will enable us to capture the knowledge of thousands of interviewers — a knowledge-base that we can never hope to build up on our own.

And “Public Recognition” thru contributor hyperlink is a powerful way to motivate such “experts” to add questions!

We can even think of publishing on our homepage:

“CONTRIBUTOR-OF-THE-WEEK” profile

with a small photograph & a brief bio-data of the contributor (all of which he can submit to us online).

Having decided that we should initially focus on IT industry, we need to compile a list of:

• IT (function) Keywords (which you have already done)

• Questions related to these IT Keywords

You have listed 300 keywords.

Suppose we pick 5 questions against each of these keywords, then we are talking of 1500 questions to be compiled.

Where can we get hold of these questions?

It would take many weeks for an expert.

To write down 1500 questions – even if he happens to be a genuine expert on 300 subjects/topics!

I think it would be much simpler/easier to get hold of a few IT-related books (of the kind enclosed) – and look up the questions listed at the end of each chapter!

There are hundreds of IT-related books – several on each subject, such as:

→ Operating Systems

→ Databases

→ Languages

→ Network Protocols

etc. etc.

Probably each such book costs around Rs. 400/500.

So, we are talking of an investment of not more than Rs. 10,000 at most.

Other alternative is to “subscribe” to some online testing services, such as:

• Brainbench

• Oracle

• Microsoft

• Boston Computer Edu. Institute website (of which we were a partner at one time)

• New Horizon (Hyderabad)
  (We could not agree on terms for partnering but they offer online “tests” on 40/45 software subjects)

Once we subscribe, I suppose, we can download these questions.

Apart from above-mentioned sources for questions, we may also explore the possibility of getting these from reputable Computer Training Institutions (– their “Test Papers”?) such as:

→ Aptech

→ NIIT

→ SSI (which has taken over Aptech)

→ NCST (Juhu)

→ CSI (Computer Society of India)

→ VJTI

→ IIT (Powai) – both offer BE (Computers) & MCA courses.

A retired Computer-Course professor could be an ideal “expert” to compile such a databank, since he would be used to setting exam-papers! I will talk to 2/3 education institutes to find out whether we could get such a person for 2/3 weeks.

I spoke to Mr. Nagapu, CEO – L&T Infotech, today re: our proposed demo. He said he will organise it after 21st April, since Mr. Devender Nath – who is in charge of HR – is on leave and since they are all very busy with Annual Budget exercise.

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cc: Abhi

cc: Inder / Anjaria