JOB ADVT DATABASE

Kartavya
Aadhi
Vicky
Inder
Deepa

• M: modify “statistics” page on my PC to show (daily + cumulative)
• No. downloaded
• No. processed thru AUTO-CONVERTER (18-07-03)
• No. corrected by INDER
• No. ISYS-INDEXED
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• Job Advt Database

During past 6 months, Sajida supplied us approx. 30,000 job-advt.

For last 1 week, Samata has started downloading these. She has averaged 2500 per day. By next weekend her average may go up to 3000/day. With some more persons pitching-in to help (Deepa / Pandey ?), we should reach 5000/day (i.e. 1 lakh/month).

This process must continue for ever—without a break.

What is equally important is that whatever job-advt are downloaded daily, MUST get processed daily thru Auto-Converter tool, to create a “structured” database.

From this database, Deepa should daily separate-out those job-advt, where Auto-Converter has failed to extract one or more of following fields—

• Industry
• Function
• Designation-Level.

 

Deepa will forward these “incomplete” extractions to Inder (daily).

After reading full job-advt, Inder will manually insert the missing values, so the database becomes complete in all respects.

[I am assuming that “Actual Designation / Vacancy / Position-Name” gets extracted in 100% of the cases.]

Why is above “completeness” important?

You will remember that in the Func. Spec. of GunAd (Ad Compose tool), Inder has suggested that, all that a recruiter need to fill-in, in GunAd, shall be—

• Actual Vacancy Name / Actual Designation
• Industry
• Function
• Designation Level {clickable from list-boxes}

That is all.

The moment he does this, rest of the fields (of GunAd) must get filled-in automatically—including “Job Description” box.

As far as selecting appropriate job-description is concerned, GunAd Software will search the

STRUCTURED JOB-ADVT. DATABASE,

in following order / priority:

#1 → Past job-advt released by concerned recruiter himself (i.e. Subscriber Company) for same / similar “Actual Designation”.

#2 → Past job-advt released by the “Competitors” of the Subscriber-company for same/similar “actual designations”. These are companies belonging to same industry as the subscriber company.

We already have “Companies → Industry” linkage / database.

Inder can arrange this list in such a manner that the bigger / more reputed company names are on top of each industry list, so that their job-descriptions will get pulled / selected / displayed first. These companies are industry leaders and they set the STANDARDS for rest of the companies in the industry, even in the matter of writing good/appropriate job-descriptions!

#3. Final (priority) will be job-advt released by any company belonging to any industry, but for same “actual designation”!

By the time we launch GunAd, (say by end-Sept), we should have large enough database of job-advt so that GunAd Software does not need to go beyond priority #2.

In 6 months time, job-advt database may grow so large, that it covers →

• job-advt released by all those companies who have become our subscribers by that time (say Mar 2004).
• “Actual Designations” required to be advertised by all of our subscribers.

This means, by March 2004, database may be so large that it does not have to go beyond priority #1.

If a subscriber gets to see his own past advts (for same vacancy when he enters Vacancy-Name, then the Software GunAd) has succeeded in REPLICATING the actual real-life process being followed by recruiter today while composing job-advt!

While designing any tool / any software, please remember the following CARDINAL principle:

“Software should reproduce on a webpage (i.e. in Virtual World), the SAME business-process that the user uses in the physical / hardcopy world, day after day.”

On RecruitGum, recruiters must find/use business processes with which they are extremely familiar — processes which they have used for years and with which they are comfortable. Only then will a subscriber overcome the fear of the unknown, fear of Virtual world, fear of Webservice.

For this reason, on each interactive page, we must provide clear/simple instructions, where exactly the subscriber is, in the “interactive process” — step-by-step fashion.

→ If he tries to ask anything that makes no sense (say clicks on a wrong button, or enters completely wrong browser text), then the pop-up message should politely point out the correct/appropriate sequence to be followed.

While placing step-by-step instructions, alongside every FORM, simply assume that each user is a FIRST-TIME-USER.

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18/07/03