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(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.

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(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.
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(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.

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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.

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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.

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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).