HOW GOOD A MATCH

Abhi

11-12-05

How Good a Match?

How good is a candidate "match" for a given job-advt?

When a HR mgr. reads a resume, this is THE questions going thru the mind – of course subconsciously.

Is the "match" (between resume that he is reading and the job-advt for which the candidate has applied for), good enough to consider the Candidate for

• Initial shortlisting
• final for interview-call?

Most of HR mgr. time gets spent on this process,

PROCESS OF MATCHMAKING (Resume with Job-advt).

If HR mgr. has a tool (software) that can reduce or altogether eliminate this process, he would

• Save enormous time

Which he can, then, gainfully

deploy for doing things which a software cannot do, eg: interviewing.

Instead of daily spending 6 hrs reading resumes and 2 hrs. interviewing Candidates;

imagine, how much his productivity would go up, if he

• spends 6 hrs interviewing $\uparrow \uparrow$
• " 2 hrs. resume-reading

That would be truly,

"Human Use of Human Being"

(Norbert Wiener, Father of Cybernetics, 1960)

We can make a crude attempt to find such a s/w solution (perfection needs many future versions/improvements).

As follows:

Gumumine extracts "keywords" from a resume and creates

KNOWLEDGE PROFILE

(which is nothing more than a

simple "listing" of keywords found in his resume).

It is not difficult to rearrange these keywords, in the descending order of their "weightage"

Knowledge Profile keywords (found in this resume)	Weightage	Knowledge Requirement Keywords (found in Job-Advt)	Weightage
Keyword		Keyword
1. a		a
2. b		b
3. c		c
4. d
Total Weightage	0.63	Total Weightage	0.49

Short Display

SN. NO	PGN	Name	Age	Exp.	Edu.	Match Index	Call
						75%	$\checkmark$
						69%	$\checkmark$
						62%	$\checkmark$
						59%	$\checkmark$

arrange in descending order.

This will dramatically reduce HR Mgr's work.

He will click/open, only few resumes at the top of shortlist for reading.

Or, if he is terribly hardpressed, he may straightaway send interview call by clicking $\checkmark$ top 5/10 candidates, even without reading their resumes!

Of course, Creating Match Index Tabulation will work only in those cases where, after conducting a online job-search, a candidate "applies online" against a

SPECIFIC JOB ADVT and our s/w deposits his resume in Advertiser's mail-box, named

"Material Manager (or Whatever !!)."

I suppose, we can suitably modify Gumumine to extract Keywords from a JOB-ADVT (as it does for a RESUME). you may consider giving this s/w assignment to Rajeev (outsource).

Pl. do.

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The tabulation on $\text{p}=3$ (for computing "Total Weightage") is strictly for backend – not to be shown to HR mgr. He gets to see only the "Short Display"

Of course, to "dramatize" the concept of "Match Index", we may let the HR Mgr. Click on any particular candidate's "Match Index" score.

When he does that, following graphic would be seen

MATCH-UNION (Theory of sets).

• A: Your Job-Advt Requirements (in terms of
• Knowledge
• Skills
• Expertise
• B: This Candidate's Resume-Profile (in terms of
• Knowledge
• Skills
• Expertise

POSITION: Mat. Mgr

Candidate: A-J. Patel