Notes: JOB SEARCH CONCEPTS JOBSEEKER'S CORNER

Dear Jobseeker,

There are lakhs of job-adverts listed on our webservice.

In a normal course, it would take you many hours to search through this ocean of jobs to find those few jobs which are tailor-made for you.

You will need to fill-in a lot of search criteria and conduct dozens of searches on many other jobsites to find those coveted jobs.

Not on Resumeguru!

Just enter — and let the Guru find you these jobs.

Your User ID: [__________]

Password: [__________]

[Submit]

Welcome, Mr. [_____]

From your résumé in our database, Guru has determined your Functional Exposure Profiles as follows.
Just click on any of these profiles to view those jobs which are an ideal match to the profile selected.

Functional Exposure Graphs

Profile	Visualization	Action
Sales	(Bell curve with your mark plotted)	[Click]
Marketing (Mktg.)	(Bell curve with your mark plotted)	[Click]
Customer Service	(Bell curve with your mark plotted)	[Click]

You can click to see jobs that belong to Sales, or any other profile.

No	Position	Company	Source	Date	City	Email ID	Adjust Score	Apply Here
1	[ ]	[ ]	[ ]	[ ]	[ ]	[ ]	98	[✔]
2	[ ]	[ ]	[ ]	[ ]	[ ]	[ ]	95	[✔]
3	[ ]	[ ]	[ ]	[ ]	[ ]	[ ]	91	[✔]
4	[ ]	[ ]	[ ]	[ ]	[ ]	[ ]	87	[✔]

Functional Specs for “Job-Search” on Resumeguru

Date: 26-07-03
Pages: 1/10 & 2/10

Page 1

Functional Space for “Job-Search” on Resumeguru

Jobsearch will be part of “Jobseekers’ Corner”,
but the “JobSearch” link should also be prominently and independently displayed on the homepage itself.

In order to attract jobseekers to visit Resumeguru to conduct a jobsearch,
we should also put up a counter on the homepage which reads:

“Jobseekers search 38,467 jobs”

If a person only wants to conduct a jobsearch, he need not register.

But obviously, if a jobseeker wants us to forward his résumé to any of the job-advertisers,
then he would need to register by posting his résumé on our website and obtaining his PEN / User ID / Password.

Job-Search Criteria

The search can be filtered by:

Industry
Function
Design-Level
Actual Designation (Vacancy Name)
Company (Advertiser) Name

The search can further be refined by City Name.

Vacancy Name (Actual Designation)	Company (Advertiser) Name	Function	Source of Job Advt.	Date of Job Advt.	Advertiser’s Email ID	Select Box
G.M. (Mktg.)						☐
V.P. (Sales)						☐
Mgr. – R&D						☐

Clicking on these links will display the entire original job-advert (i.e., Long Display).

A jobseeker can select job-adverts either:

by clicking on a check-box on the Short Display, or
by clicking on the link on the Long Display (original full job-advert).

All of these will get automatically transferred / added to the shopping cart.

Shopping Cart & Resume Forwarding Logic – Resumeguru

Pages: 8/10 and 1/10 (of a larger set)
Approx. Date: July–August 2003

Page 8/10 — Shopping Cart

SHOPPING-CART

Dear Resumeguru,

My Password :

My User ID :

My PEN :

I would request you to forward my résumé (with appropriate covering letter) to the companies who have advertised the following jobs:

Sr. No.	Vacancy Name	Company (Advertiser Name)	Source of Job Advt.	Date of Job Advt.	Click to “UN-SELECT” (in case you change your mind)
					☐
					☐
					☐

I understand that the advertiser may contact me directly, in case he so chooses.
I absolve Resumeguru of all responsibility/liability in connection with compliance of my request and accept that Resumeguru is not answerable/liabile for any questions/issues in this regard.

[ SUBMIT ]

Resumes

Resumes to be forwarded to companies listed in the Shopping Cart will be plain/unstructured email résumés (and not ImageBuilders).

Although we would have converted these into ImageBuilders and also allotted PEN,
we must not mention PEN while emailing these to the advertisers.

Our idea is to motivate / induce the advertiser to become a subscriber and upload these résumés on Resumeguru for conversion.
This way we earn money (hopefully)!

Once an advertiser converts these, the same would become part of his PRIVATE résumé-database, even though the same PEN remains (since the jobseeker originally submitted the résumé into Resumeguru’s database).

So theoretically, the same résumé, carrying the same unique PEN, could be in the private databases of 193 companies!
— besides, of course, our own database!!

Forwarding of Resumes – Resumeguru

Pages: 5/10 and 6/10
Date: circa July–August 2003

Page 5/10 — Forwarding of Resumes

If we start flooding the mailboxes of hundreds of HR managers every day with thousands of
UNSOLICITED RESUMES,
they are sure to get annoyed!

They may get annoyed even if our covering letter reads as follows:

Dear Sir / Madam,

As a social service — and to promote the highly productive method of web-based recruitment —
we had picked up some of your job-adverts from various jobsites and uploaded the same on our website:

www.Resumeguru.com

We had displayed these, clearly and transparently mentioning against each of your job-adverts:

Name of your Company
Email ID of your Company
Source of Job Advert

This was done so that, should the candidates so choose, they can apply to you directly on their own.

But since we have their résumés in our online database, they were also given an option to
“Apply Online.”

Accordingly, we are happy to forward to you the following résumés:

Sr. No.	Your Advertised Position / Vacancy	Source of your Advt.	Date of Advt.	No. of Resumes Forwarded (as requested by candidates)
1	G.M. (Mktg.)	Naukri	Sept 7, 2001	43
2	Manager – Sales	Monster	Aug 4, 2001	55

(Clicking will reveal all résumés.)

Through this free service, we have tried to broadcast your requirement to thousands of jobseekers.
We hope you will find the right candidates from amongst those who have responded.

If you wish, you may later convert these plain/unstructured email résumés into a highly structured database of:

“ImageBuilders”
using our Artificial Intelligence software — GuruMine.

If we do not want to annoy HR managers, we could do the following:

Create an online mailbox on our server for each advertiser.
(~50,000 mailboxes?)

This mailbox should be capable of holding 100 (±) plain/unstructured email résumés,
deposited by us in the mailbox based on “Apply Online” instructions received from jobseekers who conduct jobsearch on our website.

Within these 100, there will be several folders, each corresponding to a particular job advert released by (or uploaded by) us.
Résumés will be deposited into relevant folders as per “Apply Online” requests.

Each advertiser will be given a User ID / Password / PCN (Permanent Customer No.).
Using these, he can log in anytime and either:

View & delete résumés
View & download
Download first & view offline
Download/transfer for converting to ImageBuilder — if he is already our subscriber

As soon as the total number of résumés held in any mailbox exceeds 100, the old ones will get deleted automatically.
When total reaches 90, an automatic email reminder will go out to the concerned advertiser —
warning/advising him to log in, delete, or download unwanted résumés to create space for fresh ones.

In such an arrangement, our alternative letter would read as follows:

Dear Sir / Madam,

{Repeat intro paragraph}

Accordingly, we are happy to upload / deposit
in your personal mailbox (on our server),
the following résumés:

Sr. No.	Your Advertised Position / Vacancy	Source of Advt.	Date of Advt.	No. of Resumes Uploaded

You have following options:

Since we can hold in your mailbox, at any given time, only 100 résumés (max),
it would be advisable to empty your mailbox periodically.
If not done, oldest résumés get deleted automatically when fresh ones get added.

Through this free service
(——— dashed separator in original ——–)

you can later convert these into “ImageBuilders”
using our Artificial Intelligence software – GuruMine.

With kind regards,

(Signature / Closing Placeholder)

One more point as far as “Search Parameters” is concerned.

If a jobseeker enters “Company Name” as his search parameter,
then all other search parameters get Deactivated.
Nothing else will be recognized or acted upon by the search engine.

In such an event, the Short Display will look as follows:

Job Search

Company Name Selected: [_______]
No. of Records Found: [__]

All adverts released by the advertiser are arranged chronologically (reverse), with latest ads on top.

Sr. No.	Date of Job Advt.	Source of Job Advt.	Vacancy Name	Posting City	Select Box
					☐
					☐

(By clicking on this, full/original advert can be viewed.)

JOBSEEKER'S CORNER

(14/07/03)

Kartavya
Abhi
Vicky
Inder → (These pages are like “Functional Specs.”)

Jobseeker’s Corner

Reading of enclosed notes will convince you that, on RecruitGum.com, we need to create a Jobseeker’s Corner.

Even though we make our money from Corporate Subscribers, that becomes possible only because of millions of jobseekers. To attract them, to first deposit their resume on our website, and then keep coming again & again & again (for ever), we need to devote a separate entire SECTION in the website, exclusively catering to these jobseekers.

This should highlight these enclosed pages, as & when the featured functionalities described/offered in these pages become available.

P.S.:
No login required to access these pages!!

· ✔ ImageBuilder

· ✔ Interactive Response Page

· ✔ Want an Interview Call – Today?

· ✔ Where do you stand?

· ✔ Where are the Jobs? (GumAlert)

· ✔ Resume Targetting

· ✔ Prepare Yourself (Report Advice)

· ✔ Impress the Interviewer (Project Prepare)

· ✔ Jobsearch

· ✔ Your Personal Page

(09-07-03)

Abhi
cc: Kartavya

“Submit Your Resume” Page

You are supposed to create & upload this page by Friday.

Enclosed find a write-up for the same.

By tomorrow I will finalize & give you further write-ups for following links:

Terms & Conditions
How RecruitGum places your destiny in your own hands

RecruitGum

Submit Your Resume

Dear Jobseeker:

Are you fed up of filling-in long structured forms, (having number of list-boxes) on dozens of job sites – and, Are you tired of noting down & remembering dozens of User IDs/Passwords?

No more. Just forget the nightmare!

Enter the World of Artificial Intelligence – the World of GumMine software.

In the block provided below, simply paste your readily available Unstructured email resume. Using advanced determining techniques, GumMine will convert your resume into a structured database.

It will construct graphs of your Functional Exposure Profiles.

To be precise, GumMine will convert your plain/unstructured resume into an ImageBuilder.

When we launch our Webservice (around Sept. 2003), we will email to you your ImageBuilder and simultaneously upload it on our website.

From that moment onwards, you will control your own destiny!

To discover how, paste your resume below:

[ ] I agree to / accept your Terms & Conditions ✅

[ Submit ]

Link → How RecruitGum places your destiny in your own hands

RecruitGum
Pay for Use

Your Personal Page

Dear Jobseeker:

On our website, your “personal page” gets created when:

You submit your resume online, or
You send it to us as an email & then we upload it.

In either case, we send you (through email) your:

PEN (Permanent Executive Number)
Password
User ID

Note these down carefully since you would need to use these anytime you wish to log into your “personal page.”

What can you find on your personal page?

How will it help you?

As follows:

✔ Edit

You will find your resumes (both the plain email version and the ImageBuilder version) in your personal page. You can edit these online, anytime.

✔ Job Preference / Match Request Form

You will find your Job Preferences / Match Request and edit the same online. These are your instructions to GumMatch to send you job alerts.

✔ Details of Matched Job Alerts

This tabulation/summary shows you what “matching” has taken place. Based on your profile, GumMine will create job alerts. From this table, you can find out:

how detailed (or broad) you feel like,
your “action online” (i.e., instruct us to forward your resume to the concerned recruiter/employer).

You will also be able to see the graphical plot of the matched job alerts for your profile.

(Sketch of “No. of Job Matches Found” graph included in original.)

Resume Forwarding History

When you “Apply Online,” our software forwards your latest ImageBuilder resume to the concerned advertiser and creates/adds to a tabulation as follows:

Resume Forwarding History

Candidate Name: ___________
PEN: ___________

Profile Generator

Here, you will be able to generate – on the fly – thousands of “Profiles” and come to know where exactly you stand amongst comparable co-professionals:

Age wise
Experience wise
Designation wise
Functional Exposure wise
Salary wise
Educational Qualification wise
etc. etc.

Of course, graphical plots are not possible to generate unless, in each unique combination selected by you, there are at least a few hundred comparable “values.”

RecruitGum

Pay for Use

Impress The Interviewer (GumMentor)

Dear Jobseeker:

No interviewer can fail to be impressed if he discovers during the interview that you, as a candidate, know more about his company/organisation than what he does!

So, before you appear for an interview, what all should you find out about the Company?

Following is only a partial list:

Names of Interviewing executives (panel members)
Names of Directors & other Senior Executives
Joint Venture partners / Technical Collaborators
Products & Services
Sales Turnover & Employee strength
No. of factories / sales offices / branches
Profitability & financial ratios (from Annual Reports)
Organisation Structure / Compensation Structure
Mergers & Acquisitions
etc. etc.

Chances are pretty good that the interviewers themselves possess only a sketchy knowledge of the above-mentioned topics!

But if you have memorised such information before appearing for the interview, the interviewers will be impressed with your homework, your interest in the job, your seriousness, your analytical abilities.

Enough to get you shortlisted for the next round! Maybe enough to get you an Appointment Letter!

But, where can you get all the dope on all the companies?

From us and without obligation.

What is more, we will provide this info.

…pro-actively, without waiting for your request!

But that would happen only when:

You use the Interactive Response Page while sending your ImageBuilder resume to the job advertiser, and
The recruiter also uses the Interactive Response Page to give you the feedback.

When this happens, we get a copy, telling us who (which company) is going to interview you and when.

Immediately, our GumMentor software will send you a link (by email). When you click on that link, you can view/download all the data about that company.
(Sorry, we do not have data about all the companies).

Rest is up to you.

We can only arm you with info, but only you can fire the shots (or face the shots)!

If you are lucky, other candidates appearing in the interview may not have used Interactive Response Page.
If you are lucky to have used it…

RecruitGum
Pay for Use

Resume Targeting

Dear Jobseeker:

Indiscriminately sending your resume to thousands of Corporates in an unsolicited manner can be counter-productive.

So, RecruitGum cautions you against mindless resume-blasting.

It lowers your image, besides leading the recruiters to believe that you are desperate for a job.

But if you conduct some research on the types of jobs/positions advertised by Corporates in the past, you may discover that some of them have a recurring requirement (i.e. vacancies/positions frequently advertised), for which you could prove to be an IDEAL CANDIDATE.

It could be that you somehow missed to notice those job-adverts.

But, if these Corporates needed an executive like you in the past, it is quite likely that they would need you in future – may be near future!

And, if they were to receive your resume right now, it is equally likely that, instead of advertising once again, they may simply call you for an interview! That would save them a lot of bother.

To make your task of “researching” real easy, we have created:

CORPORATE JOB-ADVT. HISTORY

There is one page for each corporate, listing job-adverts released by it in the past (as many as we could get hold of), in a chronological order, as follows:

CORPORATE JOB ADVT. HISTORY

S/N	Vacancy/Position Advertised	Advertiser	Source	Add to Shopping-List for Viewing
				☑

[ NEXT COMPANY ] [ Display Shortlisted ]

Go through all Corporate History Pages, alphabetically, by clicking on NEXT COMPANY button at the bottom of each page.

In the last column, check ✔ on check-boxes for those adverts which interest you.

At any point of time, clicking on:

[ DISPLAY SHOPPING LIST ]

…will show all the job-adverts added by you to the shopping list up to that point of time.

The “Shopping List” will look as follows:

Shopping List for Resume Targeting

Shopper’s Name: ________
PEN: ________

Sl. No.	Corporate Name	Vacancy/Position Advertised	Date	Source	View	Send Resume
					☑	☑

[ Submit ]

To view the details of the job-advert, click on checkbox in “View” column.

After viewing the details, if you are convinced that you could be a very suitable candidate for this vacancy/position, then tick the checkbox in the last column.

At the end of this exercise (research), when you click on Submit, your resume will be delivered to the mailboxes of all those Corporates!

And, simultaneously, your own/personal Resume Forwarding History page will get updated.

In 21st Century, job-getting will depend upon:

Researching, not merely searching
Being “Pro-Active,” not merely “Reactive”
Pinpoint Targeting, not mindless “Blasting”
Using ImageBuilder, not an email resume
Enabling recruiter to give you feedback thru Interactive Page, not waiting & praying!

RecruitGum

Pay for Use

Where are the Jobs? (GumAlert)

Dear Jobseeker:

From a plain email resume, RecruitGum created & gave you the ImageBuilder. Use it.
From “Where do I Stand?” graphs, you found out your standing (vis-à-vis your competing co-professionals), in respect of:

Functional Exposure Profile
Salary Distribution Profile
Designation–Attainment Profile → Leverage these.

Using Interactive Response Page, you ensured that you got feedback against each job-application that you sent out. Integrate it with your ImageBuilder.

But none of the above-mentioned features are useful unless you know “Where are suitable Jobs?”

Not only you wish to know the jobs, where you have the best chance of succeeding – you want to know about these jobs NOW! RIGHT AWAY!

Our task, at RecruitGum, would be incomplete unless we send you alerts about such suitable jobs, FAST!

And you decide, how fast you want us to alert you.

We can send you an alert as an email, or, we can send it as an SMS over your mobile phone – choice is yours.

Of course, if you want to get an SMS alert, you should make sure to enter your Mobile Phone No. (in the ImageBuilder) while editing.

We will also continue to send you job-alerts as an Email.

In either case, we will send you one alert daily. Then, at your convenience, login our website & access your “Personal Page.”

All the “matching” suitable job-adverts will be stored there in chronological order with details to see if there are some which really interest you and against which you would like to apply.

So you found some? Now, how do you go about applying?

We have thought of that too.

At the bottom of each job-advt, you will find:

RecruitGum:
Please forward my ImageBuilder resume to this advertiser.

☑ Simply tick the checkbox. That is all! Our GumAlert robot will deliver your resume to the mailbox of the job-advertiser.

Simultaneously, the software will add this advt. to your personal RESUME FORWARDING HISTORY page.

This is a chronologically tabulated record of all the job-adverts against which you have ever applied using RecruitGum. And this service is FREE!

Life cannot get simpler!

RecruitGum

Pay for Use

Where Do You Stand?

Dear Jobseeker:

No man is an island.

We live in a world teeming with 6 billion+ people.

We live in a country crowded with 1 billion+ persons.

Maybe you live in a city of 1 million citizens.

All of them are competing with you for limited/often scarce, resources.

At the minimum, all want:

ROTI – KAPADA – MAKAN

(Food – Clothing – Shelter)

None of which is possible without a job.

And jobs are getting scarcer.

43 million unemployed graduates, registered with 900+ employment exchanges, are a proof!

And then there are many more millions, who have not even bothered to register.

So, for every job available, maybe there are 10,000 candidates who are “suitable” (out of millions who are available!).

This includes the job that you may be currently holding, or the job that you have just applied for.

So, these 10,000 are your “competitors”!

Do you know where do you stand, in relation to your competitors?

In relation to:

Age
Years of Experience
Educational Qualifications
Functional Exposure
Salary
Designation
Industry Background

And, unless you know where you stand in relation to your competitors (co-professionals), you don’t know how good is your chance of landing that job – or even retaining your current job.

We at RecruitGum will tell you where exactly you stand.

Already, the ImageBuilder version of your resume graphically plots your Functional Exposure Profile.

It shows you where you stand, amongst other professionals belonging to the same function.

And before long, RecruitGum will graphically answer your following questions:

SALARY
How does my salary compare with professionals having:

Same Age
Same Experience
Same Functional Exposure
Same Industry Background
Same Designation Level
Same Educational Qualifications

Can I ask for a raise?

DESIGNATION LEVEL
At what age do professionals become:

Manager
General Manager
Vice President
etc.

How much time do they spend at each Designation Level before moving on to the next higher level?
Am I stuck at my current level for too long?

Am I overdue for a promotion?

(These graphs will be displayed, Industry-wise / Function-wise.)

You will be able to view these “Where Do You Stand?” graphs only if you add or complete all missing data in your ImageBuilder version of resume, either online or send to us as an email.

Now, you are equipped to face your competitors!

RecruitGum

Pay for Use

Interactive Response Page

Dear Jobseeker:

Apply, apply… no reply?

Sounds familiar? You bet!

A recent survey conducted by a leading jobsite amongst jobseekers revealed that some 67% of the respondents had complained that:

Recruiters never acknowledge the receipt of their job applications.
Recruiters never give them any feedback (i.e., what they have done/planned to do with their application). They do not mind receiving a negative/rejection feedback as long as they got some feedback!

A very legitimate expectation. Business courtesy demands that recruiters should respond. They are vastly better placed to respond than jobseekers, who invest so much time in compiling and sending out applications. It makes for good public relations too.

But, with proliferation of email resumes (quite often unsolicited) choking their mailboxes, recruiters find it extremely difficult to respond to each & every job applicant.

Some recruiters receive over 500 email resumes everyday!

If a recruiter needs just ONE minute to send an email reply to each applicant, he would be left with absolutely no time to do anything else!

However—

If you make use of Interactive Response Page while applying for a job, you are bound to get a response!

That is because, with the Interactive Response Page, a recruiter can respond to you within 5 seconds and automatically create a searchable database (job-advert wise) of all his responses.

When you use Interactive Response Page while applying, you are actually enabling the recruiter to respond almost instantaneously – Instant Messaging.

You are ensuring a feedback, everytime you apply on an Interactive Response Page.

(Of course, use ImageBuilder version of your resume…)

RecruitGum

Pay for Use

ImageBuilder

Dear Jobseeker:

Our Artificial Intelligence Software (GumMine) takes in your plain, unstructured email resume and automatically converts it into a structured database.

This is a great help for the Corporates (the job-advertisers) because now your resume has become searchable in matter of seconds – even after 5 years!

But we want to help you too.

So we turn your resume into an ImageBuilder resume.

Want to see what an ImageBuilder looks like? See SAMPLE.

From the keywords (knowledge – skills – expertise etc.) contained in your resume, our AI software deciphers your Functional Exposure.

Then it plots, graphically, your Functional Exposure Profiles.

Not only that. The software computes your “Raw Score” and your “Percentile Score” for each function.

It compares your exposure with thousands of comparable executives and shows you (and the recruiters as well) where exactly you stand vis-à-vis the sample population of other executives.

But with passage of time, your knowledge + skills + expertise keep changing, resulting in a changed “composition” of known/unknown executives. So, every time you submit your revised resume, your Functional Exposure Profile will change!

Not only your “Raw Score” will change, but your “Percentile Score” will also change, because by that time many more thousands of executives would have got added to the sample population.

As soon as we launch our webservice in Sept. 2003, you will be able to see your own ImageBuilder resume online – as soon as you post your plain resume.

(Of course, if we have received your plain resume…)

Earlier, thru emails, we will upload your ImageBuilder on the website on our own and send you your User ID / Password for “Editing.”

Edit, you must!

You must correct wrong data and also enter any missing data.

After that, you may wish to download the ImageBuilder and use it whenever you are applying for a job.

That is the only way – the ImageBuilder way – you can hope to get your resume shortlisted from thousands of plain email resumes, crowding the email box of a recruiter!

Tuesday, 5 August 2003

JOB SEARCH CONCEPTS JOBSEEKER'S CORNER

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