FUNC. SPECS FOR GURU AD. A TALE OF TWO CITIES

Kartavya
Aadhi
Vicky
Inder

22/07/03

A TALE OF TWO CITIES

(GunAd Functional Specifications)

In the GunAd FS which I sent to you 2 days ago, I had mentioned that, while constructing a new job-advt online, a subscriber’s first choice would be to look-up his own/similar job-advt released in the past.

I suspect even today this is exactly what recruitment managers must be doing—albeit offline.

The clever-ones amongst them, may even have their own (past job-advt in category catalog) on their PCs. All that they may be required to do is to copy & edit the old advt, to create the next one!

After all, only a few fields need change.

The dumb-ones may be keeping a folder of “hardcopies” & referring.

Real dumb-ones may be starting from SCRATCH every time, they sit down to construct a new advt.

Now this being the case, we should make recruitment managers’ lives easy.

Allow them to upload their own PAST job-advt in GunAd.

Then, by installing AUTO-CONVERTER tool as part of GunAd, all such uploaded advts will get processed (automatically) & create a job-advt database.

Of course, we must perfect this Auto-converter tool, so that all fields get extracted (Job-Mining).

Even then we must provide a facility for the concerned subscriber/recruiter to be able to EDIT each & every job-advt (which he uploads), as soon as Auto-converter completes the conversion process.

This “edit” facility would be especially useful when Auto-converter fails to correctly extract →

• Industry
• Function
• Designation-Level
• Actual Designation

As far as these 4 fields are concerned, …

no one is a better expert / a more knowledgeable person, than the Recruitment Manager of the concerned company!

Irrespective of the “actual designation / position-name,” the concerned recruitment manager knows precisely what is the “Designation Level” or the exact “Function,” as far as his company is concerned.

e.g. a “Controller - Finance,” can be, at

→ V.P. level in Company X

→ CFO level in Company Y

→ GM level in Company Z

Same with “Head Marketing” or with “In-charge R&D” or with “Officer - Planning” etc.

IMPORTANT POINT

See enclosed chart. Point to be noted is that, as far as Job Advt. Database on Recruitment is concerned, there is nothing like a PRIVATE database. Everything gets to view/download everybody else’s job-advt!

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22/07/03