Notes: May 2007

Rahul

Resume Searcher

After Resume Rater, this should be our next priority for a FREELY downloadable $\text{s/w}$ tool. It also doubles-up as:

Social Consensus/media
harnessing the knowledge of thousands of $\text{s/w}$ geeks

Why?

$\text{RS}$ $\text{C}$ (Resume Searcher) greatly simplifies the lives of recruiters/headhunters. They don't need to spend many hours everyday, online, conducting resume searches and then online reading of hundreds of resumes, so that they can decide which ones are worth downloading.
It saves them precious time, which, they can profitably use in interviewing candidates.

For a recruitment dept of a company or for a recruitment agency, $\text{RS}$ usage will mean less manpower to do more work. I have a feeling that, both in $\text{BPE}$ & in strategic $\text{HR}$, a no. of "Research Assistants" do nothing whole day, other than conduct online resume search, read/shortlist resumes & then download & email to their seniors! This is hardly "human use of human beings"!!
$\text{RS}$ is an ideal "Companion Tool" to $\text{RR}$.

$\text{RS}$ to enable "automated" downloading of resumes from a no. of jobportals
$\text{RR}$ to enable "automated" rating/grading of those downloaded resumes
$\text{RR}$ to enable emailing of "Interview Calls" to a few candidates, rated Excellent.

Between them, these 2 tools solve a majority of problems of recruiters.

$\triangleright$ $\text{RS}$ "feeds" $\text{RR}$ (a kind of automated "supply-chain")

$\triangleright$ We don't need to "maintain/update" $\text{RS}$. The user community will do it themselves. We will only start/initiate/kick-off this process by being the first to upload the "GuruGrab" which we have developed for Monster (?) - although not working for us currently. We will upload under the "assumed name" $\to$ Beginner, hoping that someone will come forward to set it right.

$\triangleright$ If, ultimately, thousands of recruiters start using $\text{RS}$ daily on several jobsites, they would be downloading & processing, several LAKHS resumes daily thru $\text{RR}$ - giving us email IDs and simultaneously popularising IndusRecruiter!

$\triangleright$ Whereas Monster/Naukri can resist - or even "defer" one user from using $\text{RS}$ for automated downloads, they will find it very difficult to resist, several thousands of their "legitimate" subscribers/customers from doing this! They may revolt against any such attempt on the part of jobportals.

$\triangleright$ Any clever changes/modifications on part of Monster/Naukri (to prevent auto downloads), will be treated by the geeks as some kind of a "challenge" - to be overcome! They may even discover - and post/upload - software that could penetrate Monster/Naukri's resume database even without a User $\text{ID}$/Password! It never pays to challenge the hackers!!

$\triangleright$ Large Corporate subscribers may even resent/protest the arbitrary limits imposed by Monster/Naukri on no. of resumes that can be downloaded in a day.

$\triangleright$ If someone develops $\text{RS}$ version for IndusRecruiter ( $\text{rest assured, it will happen}$), it does not matter, because of our "Pay per circle" model. Will such resumes flow into "Resume Holders"?

$\triangleright$ As far as enclosed $\text{U/I}$ are concerned, $\text{treat them as "**concepts/drafts**" only}$. I am sure you and your team will come up with some superior $\text{U/I}$ ($\text{Simpler/intuitive}$).

$\triangleright$ Here are some points to be considered:

After a few months, there could well be

8 Versions of Naukri
12 " " Monster
15 " " timesjobs etc.

Shall we enable a recruiter to search by "Jobportal Name", so that he can straightaway go to the latest version & download?
We may want that no one can "EDIT" some earlier version, online ($\text{Like Wikipedia}$). He can $\text{EDIT}$, only after downloading &

then upload as a new version. Who knows, some recruiter may want to download and use an older version. Of course, this arrangement will also increase the Counter "No of Downloads".

It is possible that Geeks may not like to first download - then $\text{EDIT}$ - then upload. They may think it "childish"!
Can they click on a Version, which will copy & show the Source-code into another window, where they can $\text{edit/modify}$ and When satisfied, $\text{click}$

[Submitting New Version]

which action will add the latest version to the display.

Can we have

View	Download	No. of Downloads
Search Parameter User Interface	Source Code
$\Box$	$\Box$	$\Box$

$\triangleright$ Disclaimer

$\text{Pl. examine if we ought to insist on downloaders}$ $\text{clicking $\checkmark$ "I accept the conditions/disclaimer}$ $\text{before being allowed to download source-code.}$ $\text{Maybe we should safeguard ourselves by}$ $\text{adding following condition (apart from others):}$

(2) $\begin{cases} \text{The downloader/user of any version of} \\ \text{Resume Searcher for any jobportal, explicity} \\ \text{absolves us from any liability arising out of} \\ \text{the use of Resume Searcher, whether such a} \\ \text{liability arises from the concerned jobportal or} \\ \text{from any third party.} \end{cases}$

(1) $\begin{cases} \text{We expressly disprove/discourage/condemn} \\ \text{any stripping/spidering/hacking into the} \\ \text{resume database of any jobportal by anyone -} \\ \text{Including by the legitimate Corporate subscribers} \\ \text{of the jobportal, considering that we are ourselves a jobportal.} \end{cases}$

(3) $\begin{cases} \text{In case of any legal action taken by any} \\ \text{jobportal against any user of Resume Searcher,} \\ \text{the concerned user shall not make us a party to} \\ \text{defend such an action, for which the user himself shall be} \\ \text{fully and solely responsible.} \end{cases}$

$\text{07-05-07}$

RESUME SEARCHER

Dear HR Manager/Headhunter/SW geek

$\triangleright$ "Resume Searcher" is an opensource ($\text{LINUX}$-like) Community Project. Please come forward to contribute - even if you wish to remain $\text{Anonymous}$.

$\triangleright$ Your Contributions could be by way of

Writing original source-code for Resume Searcher for a new/different jobportal, not written by anyone so far
Modifying ($\text{re-writing}$) source-code for an existing version, already submitted by someone earlier ($\text{in order to improve productivity}$).

$\text{I suppose this opportunity to display their talents, would challenge the}$ $\text{s/w geeks. Long live their tribe!}$

$\triangleright$ As far as the $\text{HR}$ managers/Headhunters/Recruiters are concerned, downloading (absolutely FREE) and using Resume Searcher would simplify their lives and increase their productivity several fold! Now they don't need to go "ONLINE" to conduct a Resume Search! Before going home in the evening, for each of their resume-needs, they will fill-in the "Search Parameter User Interface" ($\text{offline}$) then connect to the jobportal ($\text{to which they should have subscribed and got User ID/Password to}$ $\text{enter}$) and click $\text{Submit}$. That is all! Next morning when they return to office, all the Searched/Shortlisted/matching resumes would have been delivered into their mailbox - ready to be rated using Resume Rater! Just open/read top 5, then send out $\text{Interview calls}$ before $10 \text{ am}$. If $\text{Resume Searcher}$ does not work, Post Your Problem. Maybe the geeks will offer a solution!

Sonal

(Small handwritten text at the very right edge of the page: $\text{found from that jobsite}$)

RESUME SEARCHER

Total No. of Contributors	Portal List	Total No. of Downloads
Version No.	Job Portal Searched	Search Parameter User Interface
1	Naukri	View
2	Monster India	View
3	TimesJobs	View

Contributor's Details (Optional Fields)


Name:
Designation
Company Name:
Email ID

If you wish, you can remain anonymous. We would like to give you credit as the contributors, even if you give an "Assumed Name" & other details.

Submit

I want to contribute Resume Searcher Source Code (Mandatory Fields)


For Job Portal (Name)
Nature of Source Code	Original $\circ$ Modified $\circ$
If modified	Which Version?
PASTE
User Interface
Source Code

Submit

Post Your Problem

Dear HR Manager/Headhunter/SW Geek

If you faced any problem, using any particular version of $\text{Resume Searcher}$, please enter/type here. Hopefully, one of the reader ($\text{- even the Contributor of the Source code}$) will reply with a solution! If you give your email $\text{ID}$, solutions will get-mailed to you automatically. If you don't, you will need to visit this page.

Sonal

Problems (1, 2, 3, 4, Next) ∇	Solutions (1, 2, 3, 4, Next) ∇
Problem-Poser:	Solution Provider:
Name:	Name:
Email ID:	Email ID:
{Submit}	{Submit}

{This must not become visible to solution providers. We do not want "by passing."}

Date: 5/5/2007

How to popularize "Resume Rater"?
How to overcome problem of slow download? Problem of 5 concurrent downloads - preventing a large no. of users to download simultaneously?

Possibilities

Upload RR on

Widget https://www.google.com/search?q=Gallery.com
filehippo
YouTube
ITools.com
orkut
Myface
Kazza
$\rightarrow$ All Peer-to-Peer websites

Persuade Indian portals to host RR (for free downloads) e.g.: Rediff/Khoj/Guruji/Yahoo India etc.
Persuade Indian Job portals to host $\rightarrow$ American " "
Persuade DIGIT magazine to host it on their monthly CD.
Persuade ERA/NHRD etc. to host on their Websites.

Send it by Courier (CD) to those who request / send their full details (outstation 3)
Handout CDs to those who are willing to pick-up from our office (Mumbai based companies?)
Send promo emails to (60)

$\checkmark$ Our existing subscribers
$\checkmark$ 1000 Recruit. Agencies?
$\checkmark$ 50,000 Corporates $\}$ INDIAN
$\checkmark$ 2,46,000 candidates
$\checkmark$ 900 Companies to whom, earlier we had sent brochures.
(Drafts given $\rightarrow$ )

Persuade PC Manufacturers to pre-install on each PC sold (Including those "assembled PC" in grey market)
Persuade HR Software Vendors (NASSCOM directory) to Integrate with their offerings
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Tuesday, 8 May 2007

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