JOB MINING

04-06-03

Kartavya
Abhi
Nagwekar
Inder / Deepa

Job Mining

I have sent you several notes on job-advt mining – including enclosed chart, nearly 6 months back.

So far, we had only a glimpse of the “potential” hidden in job-advs. We knew, there was a lot of valuable “knowledge” that we could mine/unearth from a database of, say, 100,000 job-advs.

But

we did not have a quick / simple / cheap software tool to do this mining.

But, now, we have “Myriad” for downloading job-advs from any no. of job sites – FAST.

In last 2 days, Deepa has downloaded 1400 job-advs from Naukri. (700 which were posted on 26th May & another 700 which got posted on 27th May). This, date-wise, mining also ensures that there is no duplication.

Of course, some advertiser has posted same advt. on 3 different jobsites, duplication becomes…

… unavoidable. But I am sure, once 100,000 job-advs get downloaded (from a no. of sites), then Abhi / Deepa will develop some software to eliminate duplication.

Even if Deepa succeeds in stepping-up daily download to 1000 ads/day, it will take us till mid-Sept. to reach 1 lakh – but that is ok.

But, while we have just taken the FIRST step (of daily downloading), JobsAhead had apparently the same idea (no one has any monopoly in ideas!) and they have gone ahead & already “mined” 50,000 job-advs (all from their own website) to create 600 “Roles” (= Job Descriptions in nutshell) (see enclosed news report).

And we must also accept that JobsAhead team is clever enough to think of all the 11 types of different “databases” they can mine/extract – the databases which I have shown in enclosed chart dt. 14/12/02.

And, if their ego does not prevent them, they too can download job-advs from competing websites. May be, they too have discovered MYRIAD!

I am more than ever convinced that, as far as internet-economy is concerned, “strategies are dime-a-dozen!” Everybody has great ideas / killer aspirations thought-up.

But, only those who EXECUTE FAST succeed!