KARMA SCOPE

KARMA SCOPE

KarmaScope (Part 1)

Rahul
cc: Saurabh → Pranav → Vikram → Rajeev

01/05/06

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KarmaScope

This has reference to my telecon yesterday with Rahul / Saurabh re:

“How to make Knowledge Profile compelling?”

Whereas DNA spiral-type animation may look real / intriguing, it has the following limitations:

1️⃣ It will take a long time to develop

(whereas we are running against time).

2️⃣ It may pose display problems when a jobseeker wants to either download or email his ImageBuilder — which, I expect, will be very common.

Even, there could be problems with Resume Blast / Resume Courier.

So what we need (in the ImageBuilder) is a STATIC frame, which we can develop quickly and which does not pose problems described above.

KarmaScope (Part 2)

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I enclose my proposal:

KarmaScope — cast in the fashion of a horoscope.

(You may find a better illustration in Google “horoscope (Images)” — 226,000 results.)

Maybe one at www.livedindia.com could be useful (the octagonal kundli with its mystical symbols).

To begin with, space/area inside the diamond will be blank, but the 4 corners will get filled with the keywords extracted by Cumulative Keywords added by jobseeker in the “keyword box” in his “submit resume” form.

Each keyword will be a hyperlink — clicking on any will:

• insert that keyword in the Google search
• click “submit”
• return resulting words and display the same inside the diamond

Question:
All the words found in... (continues on next page)

Google set are themselves “hyperlinks.”

When our s/w fetches these words and displays inside our diamond, will they continue to remain hyperlinks?

If they do, then a HR manager or even the concerned jobseeker may be tempted to click on some and immediately discover that all our razzle-dazzle magic is due to Google!

So, it is very important to remove these hyperlinks while displaying these words inside the diamond.

But each and every keyword outside the diamond will be a hyperlink.

All this clicking / fetching / displaying will be possible only when the concerned jobseeker or the HR manager is

• Online
• On our website (or any partner website)

This feature won’t work offline.

And for each & every click on any keyword, we will charge HR mgr one credit point (currently ₹1).

By keeping the tariff so low, I want to encourage HR mgrs to keep clicking!
Many HR mgrs like to impress the candidate (and even more to impress their other interview-panel colleagues!) with their display of subject-knowledge by asking all sorts of questions — relevant or irrelevant — even when they don’t know the right answer themselves!

KarmaScope will satisfy this self / ego-boosting need of HR managers!

And then there are thousands of HR managers who sit in on interviews without any real subject-knowledge.
They are mere generalists without domain knowledge.

They can judge a candidate’s

• Personality
• Expression
• Attitude

but they cannot ask him any technical questions related to a candidate’s expertise.

Sometimes interviewers are owners or managers from other disciplines. They will find this feature very useful. They are in no position to hire “subject-experts.”

Now, for the first time, ImageBuilder, thru its KarmaScope feature, gives them a cheap but very powerful tool.

They would simply love it!

I have repeatedly said —

“We need to activate 40,000 HR mgrs / owners / placement agencies to bring pressure on jobseekers to change over to ImageBuilder. If they get sold on the ImageBuilder, then, in turn, they will start refusing to entertain plain-text resumes. They will do the selling for us.”

KarmaScope is such an Interview Tool that no jobsite offers — our USP!

 

Clicking on a keyword & fetching Google-set words would, I suppose, work like “Harvester.”
Vikram said this was possible.

You may even get away by modifying the source-code of “HARVESTER.”

But, if this is going to take some (long) time, I suggest we introduce/implement KarmaScope in 2 stages, viz.:

STAGE 1:

Simply display keywords outside the diamond, without hyperlinks.

This should be done along with the launch.

STAGE 2:

Develop a “WORDFETCHER” software and activate hyperlinks.

From Rajeev’s ImageBuilder, I tested all 57 keywords in Google sets and got reasonably relevant results (words) in all but 8 cases.

Please give me a timeframe.

(Signed)
01/05/06

 

Rajeev’s Keywords

Keywords List

• ✅ Billing
• ✅ Coding
• ✅ Creating
• ✅ Data Warehousing
• ✅ Tracking

Additional Keywords

• ✅ Automated Backup
• ✅ Quotation
• ✅ Modules
• ✅ Resume
• ✅ Payment
• ✅ Payroll
• ✅ Programmer
• ❌ $
• ✅ Recruitment
• ✅ Reports
• ✅ Registration
• ✅ Savings
• ❌ Software Package
• ✅ Specific Task
• ✅ SQL Server
• ✅ Diploma in Computer
• ✅ Supply Chain
• ✅ Triggers
• ✅ VB.Net
• ✅ XML
• ✅ Visual Basic
• ✅ .Net Architecture
• ✅ ASP
• ✅ ASP.Net
• ✅ C++
• ✅ Employment
• ✅ Core
• ✅ CRM
• ✅ Data Entry
• ✅ Database
• ✅ Delivery
• ✅ Deployment
• ✅ Feedback
• ✅ Follow-up
• ✅ Forms
• ✅ Fox-Pro
• ✅ FTP
• ✅ IIS
• ✅ Information System
• ✅ Integration
• ✅ Internet
• ✅ ISO 14000
• ✅ ISO 9000
• ✅ SMTP
• ✅ SQL
• ❓ Transactions
• ❓ Travel

 

My KarmaScope

Title: My KarmaScope

Header:

Any Questions? ASK (Attributes – Skills – Knowledge) = clicking Keyword

Diagram Description:

A diamond-shaped layout divided into two zones:

• Upper part labeled Knowledge Horizon
• Lower part labeled Knowledge Horizon (mirrored at the bottom)
• Center labeled Knowledge Diamond

Inside the diamond:

Inside this diamond, we will display words picked up from Google Sets.
When any keyword (outside the diamond) is clicked, the words inside (Knowledge Diamond) will be refreshed / extended by synonyms (as fetched by Google Sets), with a hyperlink to Google Sets.

Notes on sides:

In these 4 corners, we will display keywords (from Rajeev’s Keywords List).
Extended by synonyms fetched dynamically by Google Sets.