“Jobseeker.com
– Sister Site to Recruitguru”
Dated:
23/09/03
To:
Sanjeev, Kartavya, Atthi
Jobseeker.com
We
had thought of this URL for our sister-site (to Recruitguru). It is not
available.
This
morning I looked up the availability of interesting/significant URLs — and am
enclosing the list. The better-sounding ones are all taken.
But
amongst those available, I like best:
- world-wide-jobs.com
- world-jobs.com
(next best)
This
is because:
- For
jobseekers to feel curious/interested in a website, the word “jobs”
has to be present in the URL.
In
India, we have:
JobsAhead
JobStreet
Jobsaud (hidden for “job”)
Naukri
(“Hindi for job”)
Bujobs
HotJobs (USA)
JobNet
(” “)
JobWorld
(” “)
“Concept
for Sister Site (Job Aggregator)”
- For
a great majority of Indian jobseekers, the word career has little
significance.
“Job” is what is understandable and sought after across the length and breadth of the country. - “Job”
is synonymous with Roti–Kapda–Makan–Marriage!
“Naukri” is even better understood, but a little derogatory/demeaning — implying low-level clerical / blue-collar jobs.
Concept
Our
sister site will be an Aggregator / Consolidator / Compiler of jobs from
all over — starting with India-based jobs, and gradually expanding to cover
jobs from those countries where Indians like to go, viz.:
Gulf
South-East Asia
USA
Europe
In
short, we want our new site to become a
ONE-STOP
SHOPPING
when
it comes to searching/hunting for jobs!
We
have already compiled (downloaded) over 160,000 job ads (from
Naukri/Monster) and are continuing to download 500/day.
As
soon as Atthi creates/develops a web spider, we could download and store
job ads locally.
Vittal
can be free for other interesting work.
Jobseeker.com
Concept (continued)”
- For
a great majority of Indian jobseekers, the word career has
none/little significance.
“Job” is what is understandable/sought after across the length and breadth of the country. - “Job”
is synonymous with Roti–Kapda–Makan–Marriage!
“Naukri” is even better understood, but a little derogatory/demeaning — implying low-level clerical/blue-collar jobs.
Our
Sister-Site Concept
Our
sister site will be an Aggregator / Consolidator / Compiler of jobs from
all over —
starting with India-based jobs, and gradually expanding to cover jobs from
those countries where Indians like to go, viz.:
Gulf
South-East Asia
USA
Europe
In
short, we want our new site to become a
ONE-STOP
SHOPPING PORTAL
when
it comes to searching/hunting for jobs!
We
have already compiled (downloaded) over 160,000 job ads (from
Naukri/Monster) and continue to download 500/day.
As
soon as Atthi creates/develops a web spider, we could download and
process job ads locally.
Vittal can be freed for other interesting work.
“Need
for Aggregator Job Database”
Q:
Why do we need to build up a job-ad database of 5 lakh ads?
Ans:
- No
Indian jobsite has such a large job-ad database individually.
- Monster
/ Naukri / JobsAhead will never think of downloading job ads from each
other’s websites! That would be worse than suicide!!
So
in the absence of an Aggregator Website (like www.DirectEmployers.com
in America), Indian jobseekers are forced to visit all the major websites — and
that too daily. There is no “one-stop shop” available to Indian jobseekers.
If
some Indian jobsite were to become such a “One Stop Shop,” I think
jobseekers in future will only visit that website, and no other!
If
they can find all jobs advertised on Monster / Naukri / JobsAhead /
JobStreet, etc., on
www.world-wide-jobs.com,
then
why on earth should they want to visit each of those sites?
“Aggregator
Model Justification”
Since
www.world-wide-jobs.com
would be, by nature, an aggregator only, it would not have any ego
or prestige issue about downloading adverts from any number of jobsites
and displaying them.
We
would be doing a great social service to jobseekers — FREE!
We
would be doing a great commercial service to employers — for FREE!
Both
should love such a free service.
Monster
/ Naukri / JobsAhead, etc., cannot object to our downloading,
aggregating, and permitting search by jobseekers (and permitting online
apply by jobseekers) either.
We
are doing a great service to them as well!
All
job info / job ads which we are downloading is public domain,
and
we are republishing without any change or modification.
And
we are giving credit (displaying employer name / email ID / source too).
So
we are on safe legal ground!
“Revenue
& Growth Model”
But
why go through all this trouble?
Ans:
- To
get those 21 lakh jobseekers (whose email IDs we have) to submit
their resumes on
www.world-wide-jobs.com
Combos
- Download
ImageBuilder
- Get
mailing list of 31,171 companies (only if Career History
section filled up online).
Revenue
Model
Having
got 21 lakh resumes —
Sell
each for ₹10 (per download) to employers.
By
selling each resume (on an average 10 times per year), earn:
₹2.0
crore / year (year after year)
Analytics
Add-on
Get
salary and designation details of 21 lakh jobseekers and create:
- Salary
Profile Graphs
- Designation
Profile Graphs
And
annually, sell 10 lakh graphs @ ₹20 each to corporates =
₹200
lakhs (year after year)
Do
you agree that we should look at www.world-wide-jobs.com?
“URLs
Available”
Dated:
23/09/03
URLs
Available
- jobs-hunt.com
- jobs-hunts.com
- jobs-searching.com
- jobs-alert.com
- job-edge.com
- job-first.com
Aggregation:
These URLs convey two things:
1️⃣ This site is about finding
jobs.
2️⃣ It must contain many
jobs from all over.
Hence
the preferred choices 👇
- jobs-survey.com
- jobs-surveys.com
- jobsummary.com
- jobsummaries.com
- world-jobs.com
- world-wide-jobs.com
✅ (1) Top choice
Other
options checked:
- careerhunts.com
- career-hunt.com
To
compete with:
- JobsAhead
- JobStreet
- Jobsaudi
→
Question: What catchy URL do we need?
“Study
of www.DirectEmployers.com”
Dated:
23/09/03
www.DirectEmployers.com
227,009 jobs !
1️⃣ Time-Filter Options
- All
jobs currently posted on employer websites.
- Jobs
posted on employer websites:
- •
in the last day
- •
in the last 2 days
- •
in the last 3 days
- •
in the last week
2️⃣
It
is an “Association of Employers” (non-profit).
3️⃣
Links
jobseekers directly to employer websites.
4️⃣
Has
about 115 companies (employers) as its members.
5️⃣
Once
linked/taken to a member employer’s website, a user cannot “back” to
DirectEmployers.com!
Something terribly wrong !!
Note: Do
look up “Jobseeker FAQ” on this website.
MonsterIndia
Article + Recruitguru Strategic Note
Date:
20/09/03
Recipients:
Sanjeev / Kartavya / Atthi / Nimit / SriRam / Raju
Headline
(Newspaper Clipping)
“MonsterIndia
Sees Big Opportunity in Manufacturing, Banking Segments”
(Economic Times-style article snippet showing Anil Bhalla’s remarks on
market growth and job expansion in India.)
Handwritten
Notes
To
establish that Recruitguru is NOT a jobsite and it is a Recruitment
Self-Service Solution, we decided that we should have no resume database
on Recruitguru where we sell resumes.
This is fine and logical — but Tadanki’s article confirms what I have always
said, viz.:
1️⃣ There is big money
in selling resumes!
American
software companies would love to “update” and “revalidate” IT professionals
from India.
At
₹1 per resume, American companies can buy 20,000 resumes/year (per client) —
and save millions of dollars in the process (by bypassing typical
physical/people-based searches).
If
they had to headhunt each $1000-resume locally, that would cost them
nearly ₹0.5 lakh instead of ₹0.20 lakh!
If
we could offer this sale of resumes at ₹1 each on an independent site (Jobseeker.com),
then we can import thousands of American companies!
Points
to be Noted:
- 95%
of MonsterIndia’s resumes come from Resume Access or Job Ad
Posting.
- Most
of this comes from resume access.
- Let
us assume → 80% from Resume Access (i.e., ₹4.8 crore out of ₹6 crore
profit).
Tadanki
says:
“Of
resume database search, we owe 10% to headhunt market (the local market).”
That means → 70% from the U.S.A., 10% from India.
That
means 70% of the money (customers) searching Resume Database online are U.S.
companies.
If
800 companies are buying resume database search (IT firms),
then
560 are U.S. companies.
If
each U.S. company pays ₹20 lakh/year,
then
total = ₹16 crore/year revenue from U.S. companies!
“Jobseeker.com
Integration Concept”
Date:
12/09/03
To:
Sanjeev / Atthi / Kartavya
Jobseeker.com
During
the last two days we discussed how to deliver same / identical application
service to Jobseeker.com which exists on Recruitguru.com.
With
the help of Sanjeev / Atthi, I suggest you examine our Partner Website
Program on 3pJobs.com.
I believe there are 62 partner websites.
On
their homepages, these websites carry the following links:
A.
For Jobseekers:
- Post
Resume
- Job
Search
B.
For Employers:
- Post
Job Adverts
- Resume
Search
“Architecture
and Technical Mechanism”
...continue
to reside on 3pJobs.com ONLY!
Webservers
of partner websites do not host these applications.
These
servers merely act as communication / transfer agents —
- Delivering
forms / data / requests from candidates / employers, etc., to the
3pJobs.com server.
- And
when 3pJobs.com server has carried out the instructions —
- Delivering
results / messages / displays from 3p server to partner website servers.
Gyril
(Vxceed) wrote this in XML in May 2000.
You
may want to check out its exact working.
Of
course, the real beauty is that 3pJobs.com server allocates centrally PEN /
Auth No. etc. irrespective of source (partner website).
Any
website that wants to become our partner can simply fill in an online form on
3pJobs.com,
pick-up 6 (copy) links / logo, and paste it on any page of its own website.
That’s
all!
All
this happens without our knowledge or without any examination / permission!
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