INTERVIEWER

(Top right corner: TOOLS, 08/05/07) Rachul INTERVIEWER hosted Offline IIT Tool (AHA)

• After Resume Rater and Resume-Searcher, this will be our 3rd offline free tool for downloading (priority-wise) except that AHA will require registration.
• Enclosed find FAQS for AHA, I thought this method will clarify our concepts/architecture/model/functional-specs.
• Let us discuss when you - your team - have given this some thought.

(Signature/Initial)

(Top right corner: AHA/1) III. Resume Q: What is AHA? Ans: AHA stands for "Ask Her Another" (or Him). It is an offline, LAN-based software tool that you can download from here - for FREE too - if you are a registered Corporate subscriber of this site.

(Top right corner: AHA/2) Q. Who would need AHA? Who would benefit by using AHA?

Ans: Anyone who is required to interview candidates would benefit by using AHA. Most likely to benefit are

• HR executives
• Recruitment Managers
• Headhunters
• Recruitment / Placement Agencies
• RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing) Companies
• Professors (teaching HR/MBA)

(Top right corner: AHA/3) Q. How will AHA help Recruiters? Interviewers?

Ans: Quite often, while conducting an interview, the interviewer is at a loss as to what questions to ask the candidate. At that moment, the right/appropriate/relevant question does not come to his mind (— which, often does, once the candidate has left!). This is where AHA helps. It carries a database of over 15000 Interview questions. An interviewer has to simply click on any keyword, in the resume of the candidate and the right questions pop-up! As simple as that. And if the interviewer has any doubt about the correctness of the candidate's answer, he can even click Consult Wikipedia/OneLook for consultation! For more on "How", click Why of IIT.

(Top right corner: AHA/4) AHA looks surprisingly similar to: IIT - Occasional User. What is the difference, if any?

Ans: You are right - you can call AHA a LITE Version of IIT - Occasional User, except that

• AHA is an offline / LAN based desktop Version (still requires .NET framework on your PC)
• "Candidate Assessment" feature is missing in AHA (but you can use it online, after completing the interview and moving to IIT - Occasional User)

Where AHA scores over IIT - Occasional User is,

• AHA enables you to create & store (offline) your own unique/private databanks of
• Interview Questions.
• Related Answers.
• Of course, any person who is authorised by you to use AHA (and connected to your LAN), can
• Contribute to the creation of these private databanks
• Access these questions/answers thru AHA.

(Top right corner: AH/5) When you already have online, IIT - Occasional User. Where was the need for AHA?

Ans: Internet Connection speeds are notoriously slow and when you click on a keyword in the candidate's resume, you expect the relevant questions to pop-up immediately. Quite often this does not happen due to notoriously slow speed of internet connection - causing embarrassing situation. Offline/desktop AHA overcomes this problem, where the response is instantaneous. Then there is the issue of network Security/firewalls/proxy servers/access rights etc. in large organisations. Offline AHA overcomes all these problems. Everyone can use it freely without an internet connection. Apart from these, AHA also enables a user-organisation to create its own/private databank of interview questions/answers.

(Top right corner: AH/6) What, if any, are prerequisites for being able to download and use AHA?

Ans: First-and foremost - you need to be a registered Corporate Subscriber of IndiaRecruiter - to be able to download (It is FREE). Next, you also need to have installed Microsoft's .NET framework on your PC/LAN, without which AHA cannot work. But you can download this (for free) from (blanked out area).

(Top right corner: AH/7) what problem does AHA solve?

Ans:

• AHA helps you ask the right interview questions to any candidate.
• AHA enables you to consult Wikipedia/OneLook, for checking the correctness of the answer (of course, for this, you would need to be connected to the Internet)
• AHA brings in "parity" while interviewing (say) 10 candidates for the same position/vacancy, by enabling you to ask the same set of questions to all of them.
• AHA helps you judge the candidate's "depth of knowledge" and in a consistent/Systematic manner.

(Top right corner: AH/8 Efe) Q. What are the limitations of AHA?

Ans:

• AHA does not incorporate "Candidate Assessment" page (although, after interviewing a candidate, you can log into IndiaRecruiter > IIT / Occasional User, where, after entering concerned candidate's PEN, you can fill-in "candidate Assessment").
• You need to first download the database of the concerned candidate (who you wish to interview) by connecting to IndiaRecruiter > PEN - DATABASE, by entering his PEN. (For the time-being this is free).
• Being an offline tool, AHA generates profiles from your offline database, which could be somewhat old/obsolete, if downloaded long time back.
• (Empty bullet point)

(Top right corner: AH/9) Q. Is there any "Expiry Date" for the downloaded AHA software?

Ans: NO, there is no expiry date. You will be able to use it indefinitely. If and when we come out with the next Version of AHA, we will inform you by email with instructions on how to download the latest version.

Q. If a Candidate emails to me his Complete Profiles (including graphs/Karmascope/text resume etc), will that enable me to use AHA for interviewing him?

Ans: Sorry! That won't help.

An emailed Profiles is like an Image file.

It is not a structured database.

AHA can work only on a structured database which of course, you can download from this website at PEN-Database page.

Just go to this page, login, enter PEN of the Candidate (who you wish to interview) and click $\boxed{\text{Download}}$. As simple as that.

You can download a Candidate's PEN-Database again, if you think the one you downloaded sometime back could be obsolete.

If a Candidate has emailed his Profiles, you can even compare the same with the Profiles that get generated thru AHA, which is based on downloaded database.

(AH/11)

Q. How can I interview a Candidate a candidate who has not registered (submitted resume) on IndiaRecruiter.net?

Ans: As you have always done, so far!

But if you want to use AHA for the purpose of interviewing then it is possible only when that candidate

• Submits resume on IndiaRecruiter
• obtains his Profiles/PEN
• phones you his PEN (or emails his Profiles to you).

For you to download his database from IndiaRecruiter, you need his PEN and

To phone you his PEN, he must register at IndiaRecruiter (by submitting resume).

AHA just cannot work without having PEN database on your local server.

(AH/12)

Q. When a candidate phones me his PEN, I may not remember whether I have already downloaded his PEN-database earlier and the same may be available on my harddisk.

Is it possible to search the PEN database on my local server/harddisk?

Ans: Sure.

AHA contains a Search feature, where you simply type the PEN and click $\boxed{\text{SHOW}}$.

If the database already exists, you will see the Profiles/text resume/Karmascope etc.

If the database is missing, a message will flash, telling you to log into PEN-Database page and download from there.

(AH/13)

Q. Having downloaded from IndiaRecruiter, can I email/transfer a Candidate's PEN-database to our another branch office/factory located in another city, for use by our remote HR manager there?

Ans: Sorry. This is not possible. But if that branch/factory is connected to your local server thru WAN (at the time of using AHA) , your remote HR manager would be able to access PEN database (if authorised to access the database).

 

RESUME SEARCHER

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

UB

$\text{07-05-07}$

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."}

 

OPINION MAKERS

email: pvrmurthy@clickitjobs.com

Dr. P.V.R. Murthy CEO Exclusive Search Recruitment Consultants Chennai

Dear Dr. Murthy

Please allow me to introduce to you Resume Rater Then, if you like it, do provide your comments at Celebrity Opinions

If there are any questions, please feel free to phone me (M)

Regards

Rahul

 

OVERALL CAMPAIGN

Date: 5/5/2007

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

Possibilities

1. 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
2. Persuade Indian portals to host RR (for free downloads) e.g.: Rediff/Khoj/Guruji/Yahoo India etc.
3. Persuade Indian Job portals to host $\rightarrow$ American " "
4. Persuade DIGIT magazine to host it on their monthly CD.
5. Persuade ERA/NHRD etc. to host on their Websites.

6. Send it by Courier (CD) to those who request / send their full details (outstation 3)
7. Handout CDs to those who are willing to pick-up from our office (Mumbai based companies?)
8. 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 $\rightarrow$ )
9. Persuade PC Manufacturers to pre-install on each PC sold (Including those "assembled PC" in grey market)
10. Persuade HR Software Vendors (NASSCOM directory) to Integrate with their offerings
11. (Empty line)