Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Thursday, 3 April 2003

CONSTRUCT A JOB DESCRIPTION

CONSTRUCT A JOB DESCRIPTION

Our “Post Your Job Advt” form requires a company to enter JOB DESCRIPTION as applicable to the position being advertised.

It is also mandatory to select:

  • Function

  • Designation Level

  • Industry

In the past, several thousand scanned/OCR’d/uploaded Job Adverts also carried these “fields.”

By now, we must have scanned/uploaded more than 15,000 job-adverts. Maybe 2000+ were directly posted by corporates on our website.

So, by now we have managed to compile a huge database of JOB DESCRIPTIONS.

It is time to leverage this database by offering a FREE service to our Corporate Members (any company which either posted a job advert on our site directly OR whose job-advt we scanned & uploaded OR who …will now become our MEMBER by filling-up its “Corporate Profile” on our website).

Of course, how exactly this feature/software works (and will make their life so easy) must be shown/demonstrated to any manager/personnel manager, whose company is still NOT our Corporate Member.

It is only thru such a “DEMO” that he would be tempted to become our MEMBER.


SOFTWARE

  • Will pick-up “Job Descriptions” from all past job-adverts, sort according to:
    • Function
    • Designation Level
    • Industry (although, we will not need to use this in the beginning)

  • Store in a database & display these job-descriptions as described in following pages.

  • Create a WORD document in TRANSFER BLOCK capable of being “edited.”

  • After editing (by a Personnel Manager), again store these “refined/edited” job-descriptions under appropriate databases.

The “refined” versions should always appear at the top/start, during next similar exercise by another Personnel Manager, for the same FUNCTION.

Repeated “refining/editing” (for same function) will result into a better & better (or most popular) job-descriptions over a period of time.

And this will happen automatically and by experts (the Personnel Managers).

  • A completed/edited “job-description” should be capable of being transferred/transported to the “POST JOB ADVT” form.

So that the concerned Personnel Manager now need to fill up the missing details only, enter his “Corporate Key” & presto, the job-advt is posted!

  • To the extent possible, DISPLAY BLOCKS should break-up each “job-description” para into constituent “Sentences” and display each sentence separately (one above the other), with a bullet mark against each.

CONSTRUCT A JOB DESCRIPTION
(For Posting a Job Advt or Preparing a Company Manual)

Dear Personnel Manager:

You may want to:

  • Prepare a “job description” for a job-position/vacancy that you wish to advertise on our website.

OR

  • Prepare a Company-wide “Job Descriptions Manual” covering all “functions.”

Depending upon the size of your organisation, this may take you a few hours to a few weeks of intense “research” and “drafting” and “refining”!

If you have to prepare a “Job Description Manual,” covering

100 functions X 4 designation-levels,

you may feel like “giving up” even before you have started the exercise!

No need to despair.

On this page, we offer you a powerful software, which will enable you to complete …Your JOB DESCRIPTION MANUAL in ONE DAY!

The process involves following simple steps:

  • Select and click on any “function” (for which you wish to write a job-description) from the “select function” block given below.

  • When you select a “function,” relevant/appropriate job-descriptions will appear in the DISPLAY BLOCKS.

There are 4 blocks, one each for designation levels:
• Vice President
• General Manager
• Manager
• Officer / Executive

  • From each of these blocks, highlight & click on any sentence/paragraph that you believe describes the position/vacancy which you have in mind.

All such sentences/paragraphs will get automatically transferred to the TRANSFER BLOCK.

By picking & choosing from the DISPLAY BLOCKS,… you are literally “compiling” a job-description!

  • Whatever gets transferred to the TRANSFER BLOCK is a WORD document. You can “edit” it whichever way you like:
    • Grammatically (spelling/syntax etc.)
    • Adding/deleting “keywords” to/from any sentence/paragraph
    • Altering the “sequence” of sentences/paragraphs

  • When you have finished “editing,” you must click on one of the options under “Select for Designation Level” block.
    This is mandatory.

  • Now, if you wish to:
    • Take a printout → click on “PRINT”
    • Post a job-advt → click on “POST JOB ADVT”

If you use this feature, we would certainly welcome your FEEDBACK.

ISYS ANALYSIS

  • Every “resume” & every “job-advt” has mandatory fields:
    • Industry
    • Function
    • Design. Level (or actual design)

  • In our Magic Cube Search, we have a “Industry vs. Function” matrix.

(Diagram of matrix with Industry vs. Function, sample values filled in cells: 2, 15, 5, 10, 11, 23, etc. One cell showing 49 as total.)

  • Resumes in each “CELL” could be treated as ONE file – so, theoretically, there can be:
    220 (Industries) × 110 (Functions) = FILES

  • Each file/CELL may contain between 0–200 resumes.

  • We could “index” each file separately for all the “words” contained in all the “resumes” lying in that CELL.

  • Remove all:
    • Common nouns
    • Proper nouns
    • Prepositions
    → Discard the “junk.”

  • Retain only:
    • Verbs
    • Adverbs
    • Adjectives
    → “Keywords” contained in those resumes, belonging to a unique “Industry/Function” combination.

  • Arrange those “keywords” in the descending order of their occurrence (frequency).

Example:
Industry = Automobile
Function = Purchase

KeywordFrequency of Occurrence
Materials86
Stores78
Inventory72
ABC Analysis65
Stock etc.

  • Not only do we “store” these keywords against that particular combination of “Industry” vs. “Function”
    (Auto / Purchase)

BUT

We also store all the sentences which contained these “keywords.”
Of course, it is possible that some sentences will contain more than one keyword.
Such sentences will be given weightage.
These sentences will be found in the “CUT & PASTE” section of each resume.

WHAT IS THE USE/BENEFIT OF THIS ANALYSIS?


#1 – “Long Display” Resumes

Even today, these do not give much “QUALITATIVE” info about a candidate.

A recruiter can see such QUALITATIVE INFO only in the “CUT & PASTE” section.

But we are reluctant to display the entire “Cut & Paste” section to a recruiter because:

  • It might contain name of his current employer/past employers.

  • It might contain his name/address.

However, the software will pick up (from a candidate’s “Cut & Paste” section), only those sentences which contain the “indexed keywords,” and display the same in the “Long Display” format.

This would be a great improvement over the present system.


#2 – JOB ADVTS

A “job-advt” form also calls for specifying (mandatory):

  • Industry

  • Function

Now we can use the “keywords” (stored under this combination), to help …The advertiser to “CONSTRUCT” a proper “job-description” for the position being advertised.

This can be as follows:

Industry: [ ] ▼ Function: [ ] ▼

As soon as recruiter selects the values & clicks (in the job-advt. form), following message/boxes appear:

Dear Advertiser

DISPLAY BOX
Here are a few sentences which recruiters typically use to describe such a job.
When you highlight & click on any sentence, it will get transferred to next box, where you can edit & construct the “job-description” for your (this) advt.

(Sample mockup illustration with sentences in Display Box on left and Transfer/Edit Box on right:)

  • ABC

  • LMJ

  • PQR

  • XYZ

TRANSFER/EDIT BOX

  • LMJ

  • XYZ

(Add your own distinctly different description here)

[SAVE / TRANSFER]

When a sentence (containing, say keyword, “INVENTORY CONTROL”) is picked up from a “Resume,” it will quite likely read:

A: “I am in charge of Inventory Control”

Whereas, in a job-advt job-description, what a recruiter would like to state will be:

B: “He shall be in charge of Inventory Control”
OR
C: “He shall be responsible for Inventory Control”
OR
D: “You will take charge of Inventory Control”

If, instead of (B), (C), or (D), (A) were to appear in job-advt, it would look ludicrous!

Perhaps, one way to overcome this problem would be:

  • Only supply a set of most frequently used “keywords” and let the recruiter …Construct his own “sentences” using these keywords.

    We can go one step further to make his life easy by displaying two boxes, where:

    • First box contains most frequently used “keywords” (for this industry/function combination).

    • Second, a generic box contains a whole lot of standard phrases, found in all job-adverts, e.g.:
      • He shall be
      • You shall
      • You will be
      • You will take charge of
      • The ideal candidate shall possess —
      etc. etc.

    A recruiter merely “drags” the “keyword” and appends it to the most appropriate “phrase.” He can even “edit” a phrase/modify it.

Then, over a period of time, we would have built-up (with the help of those job-advertisers) a voluminous “repertoire” of “relevant” job-description sentences for each INDUSTRY/FUNCTION combination.

We can even pick-up/select & display such sentences/phrases picked-up from several thousand job-adverts, which we have scanned from newspapers & uploaded on our website over the last 3 years OR which corporates have themselves posted directly on our website.

So, we already have the “SEED CAPITAL”!

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