Notes: JOB DESCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE

Rahul

Job Descriptions Archive

Leveraging Job Advertisement Database

(2.8 lakh job ads downloaded from Naukri for WWJ/JAM, and stored on Reliance Server)

For JAM, our software was parsing each & every job advertisement downloaded, into the following fields:

Job Code
Position / Vacancy Name
Advertiser Company Name
Posting City
Educational Qualification required
Experience required
Age (Max)
Advertiser's Email ID (we were using this for JAS)

When you visit Reliance and copy these 2.8 lakh onto a CD and bring back, hopefully we would have:

A structured database of all 2.8 lakh job ads as per fields shown above.
Full job advertisement texts of all 2.8 lakh.

If we further succeed in setting up RSS feeds (from Naukri/Monster/TimesJobs) for various functions, we could receive (via FeedMyInbox.com?)

≈ 10,000 new job ads every day!

Same software can parse these as well (overnight) and our structured database can keep growing.

I am sure, ultimately, we will find many ways to "leverage" such a job advertisement database to attract more candidates & corporates to register on our website—but enclosed application:

JOB DESCRIPTION ARCHIVE

Would act as a FACILITATOR to thousands of companies who:

do not have an HR executive
have never used Online Recruitment Process
(Non-consumers of e-recruitment)
have NO clue on how to write a job description

“Job Description Archive” application is a supplement to my earlier note/MT on how to construct a job description using O*Net website.

O*Net is very exhaustive, very comprehensive, very daunting—even for experienced HR managers working in large Indian companies.

As far as above-mentioned SMALL / MEDIUM companies are concerned, the OWNERS would feel OVERWHELMED with O*Net!

But,

if he gets to see the Job Description used...

In an ACTUAL job-advt, by an ACTUAL Indian company, he would feel far more comfortable, at home, to copy & use it.

He will feel:

"I cannot go wrong."

He must be helped to first take this tiny step, before graduating to O*Net.

I would not be surprised, if we find even experienced HR managers taking this "short-cut"!

Critical part is being able to "find" (from our vast database) actual Position/Vacancy Name matching with what the user will type in.

STEP #1

About 1½ year back, we had prepared a tool, in which I did create some

SYNONYMS

for designations.

It was not 100% complete but its output can be tried for this application.

Rahul

Job Descriptions

Dated: 10/09/08

Our target is to make “Job Posting”

very easy / very compelling.

With this in mind, we recently added the following features:

Currency Converter
(to enable foreign companies to post jobs / do "Vacancy Blasts")
Auto-fill of "Contact Info"
(to save time)
Auto-fill of "Keywords" box
- to save time
- to establish “relevance” with the post being advertised
- to be able to compute RAW SCORE for that job advt
  and therefore, to be able to compute MATCH INDEX with any resume

But the “Job Description” box continues to be a BIG HURDLE.

I have seen HR managers having 10 years of experience literally FUMBLE

when it comes to writing a clear / concise / appropriate job description for

any “position/vacancy” they wish to fill up!

This (writing of job description) is one of their biggest PAIN-POINTS!

We would score BIG if we can help them out of this pain!

And, it seems we CAN.

By MASHING with our “Post Job” form:

http://online.onetcenter.org/find/quick

By modifying the “Post Job” form as follows:

markdown
• Job Title / Vacancy  [____________________]
  Fetch Job Description:
    ▶ From my own past Job Advt (latest)
    ▶ From Onetcenter
• Job Description  [________________________]

Table: GR_Client_JobDescriptions

Of course, recruiter would need to first enter/type “Job Title / Vacancy Name” before clicking on one of the links shown.

If clicking on

→ From my own past Job Advt (latest)

does not fetch any result, a message will ask him to click “From Onetcenter.”

OPTION #1

If he has ever advertised for a vacancy/position earlier, he would want to repeat the SAME job description once again (Why reinvent the wheel?).

If, in the past, he has spent a lot of time researching & composing a good/relevant job description (for any given vacancy) then it is obvious that he would want to use it again.

Of course, he can EDIT it, after the job-description box fills up.

In which case, our s/w will delete the old one and replace it with the “edited” version (as long as Vacancy Name / Title / Position tallies perfectly).

If “Vacancy Name / Title / Position” entered differs slightly from the earlier one, then we can show him both the "versions" and allow him to choose anyone.

OPTION #2

Recruiter clicks on link From Onetcenter

In this case, our s/w will enter the Position / Vacancy / Title into the searchbar of O-net & click GO.

The page fetched will be shown in a separate window (– without hiding/covering “Job Description” box in our form?)

This will present to the recruiter several links.

He will click one which he considers “most relevant” to his needs.

That will open (in the same window) full job-description.

Some portions of the job-description may be relevant and some may be irrelevant.

But, I suppose, he can “Copy/Paste” into the “Job Description” box — then EDIT it.

It is easier to edit something you are presented with than to construct from scratch!

However, I feel our “Job Description” box —

with its 4-line — is too small for editing.

We need some trick!

This morning I tried some 30/40

“Position / Title / Vacancy Name” in O-net and found very good / relevant links.

It seems O-net’s “Relevance” score mechanism (algorithm) is based on “keywords” having certain “weightages” and is very similar to our own “Raw Score / Percentile Score” concept.

MASHING such a website with our own website enhances the credibility of our website. It is a kind of “Endorsement” of our logic!

Since Poonam had worked on modifying “Job Post” form recently, I suggest that she take up this as her next project as soon as she has completed her current project.

I have given her / Shalaka, a demo of O-net’s capabilities.

(Initials and date)

V.P.
16/09/08