Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Tuesday, 22 December 2009

GENERAL SPECIFICATION - PHASE 3


Shalaka / Alex,

Creating a WAP site (for 2G/ 2.5 G mobile networks) where candidate can log - in and download 140 character(SMS Style) JOB - ALERTS, against which he can "APPLY" by directly sending a PUSH  SMS (giving Job ID) to our server.

 This WAP site (MY JOB ALERT PAGE) will be part of "Customize - Resume" World - Wide - Jobs.com Except, in this case, candidate will have to "Pre - select "(on MY JOB ALERT PAGE)" the particular VERSION of his customized resume that he wants us to forward.

Hemen Parekh

Friday, 11 December 2009

URGENT (BUT NOT IMPORTANT)

Shakaka
27/02/10

PP, discuss amongst yourselves and then distribute the following projects, in order of priorities:

  1. Revised template for Resume (shakaka)

  2. Fetch online job-description (Alex)

  3. Magic Cube Job-Search

  4. Magic Cube Resume Search

  5. Recommendation System for Jobseekers

    • Level 1 → Rearranging Jobsearch dropdown lists for Search parameters

    • Level 2 → Immediate display/listing of matching job-adverts, as soon as each stage of “Jobseeker Registration” gets completed

    • Level 3 → Daily emailing links to newly arrived "matching job-adverts".
      Clicking on link will bring that jobseeker to his “MY PAGE”, where jobs will be listed in tabulation from where he can view/apply online.

  6. Recommendation System for Recruiters

    • Same level 1/2/3 as in case of jobseekers

  7. Long Tail Jobs

  8. Long Tail Resumes

    • Based on incorporating Google Search Appliance on our web server.

    • “Long Tail Jobs” will work upon old database of 34 lakh job-adverts (wherever email IDs of job-advertisers are available).

    • Primarily, this feature is meant to enable Search Engine Spiders to be able to index every keyword of all 34 lakh adverts.

    • Will all these pages have a single URL? That would be desirable.

  9. Incorporating Google Search Appliance

    • In our existing conventional Job-search page to enable “keyword-based” jobsearch



LONG TAIL JOBS


Shalaka,

Enclosed see tentative U/I. May be you can simplify
The main purpose is to have ONE page (one URL) on our website where Search Engine spiders can keep clicking links to index 40/50 million "keywords". Since keyword/ "Jobs/ Job Advts" will get listed a few million times on a single page.(Single URL), I expect that when anyone types "Jobs/ Job Advts" in the search bars of Google / Yahoo/ Bing etc. our SINGLE PAGE would top the list !!That would increase our traffic fantastically.
However, implementing this feature would require installation of Google Search Appliances API on our server IT may also require cleaning up of a lot of JUNK keyword's before uploading.
Therefore, it may be best to first tryout this feature extensively OFFLINE and upload only when satisfied.
To save one column in U/I, we can provide "APPLY ONLINE" button on each job - advt only - when click opened.
When "Current Jobs" get deleted (after 60 days) from "Conventional Job search," we should keep adding these to LONG TAIL.
And since Google Search Appliances API is supposed to work similarly to ISYS (-and perhaps better), next question is :-
Q. In our existing ISYS database, we already have a few lakh resumes which our consultants search using        
"Keywords" typed into ISYS search bar. Search results are a listing of documents (resumes) containing those keywords. These resumes are then clicked & opened, one by one, for reading.
All this happens OFFLINE. We have been using ISYS for nearly 15 years.
How about creating a parralel - and identical database of these resumes and let Google Search Appliance, index keywords and find the relevant resumes?
Kind of "LONG TAIL/ RESUMES (OFFLINES)
Then let our consultant’s comeback and tell us which application (ISYS US. GSA) Works better/ faster.

Hemen Parekh

(Urgent but not important)

Rahul

Enclosed email to

 Besides sending to 1200 registered Corporate Subscribers of IndiaRecruiter, please send this email to all 50,000 other Corporate subscribers whose email ID database we have.

This email call, a

                                “Curtain Raiser”

 

Hemen Parekh

11/12/2009

Email to be sent to existing = 1200 Corporate subscribers of IndiaRecruiter

 

Dear Sir/Madam

 Sub-line: Closing down of IndiaRecruiter.net

Sometime back I wrote to you that we plan to close down WWW.IndiaRecruiter.net

With the launch of www.CustomizeResume.com a few days back, we are now ready for that.

On CustomizeResume.com, We have yet to launch the “Employer Section” which we plan to do in the next few days. As soon as we do, I will inform you.

In the meantime, do visit to get an idea of how a “Customized Resume” would greatly help you to decide =

“Shall I call this candidate for an interview?”

It is quite possible that after seeing a “Customized Resume”, you may never again want to read a plain text resume !

 

With Regards,

Hemen Parekh

hcp@recruitguru.com












Sunday, 22 November 2009

GENERAL SPECIFICATION PHASE-2

Shalaka / Alex,

Offline "Resume Parser" TOOL freely downloadable from "Customize - Resume", with feature to upload into our online database all resumes parsed by all users.

Hemen Parekh

Thursday, 22 October 2009

"GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS" FOR WWW.CUSTOMIZE-RESUME.COM


Shalaka, Alex

PHASE 1 - Target

1. Standardized Page Template

We will general follow the pattern of India Recruiter, except;-

     . There will be few main links on left side for both job seekers & Corporate, including their "LOG - IN" boxes

     . We must keep rest of the links in SITE MAP. For this reason the SITE MAP LINK itself will need to be quite Prominent, so as to attract the attention.

     . Bottom line should only carry
       . Email ID
       . Phone no.
       . Fax No.
       . Contact Us

      . Right hand vertical panel should be left blank for Google Advts.

      . No logo, but (preferably) right hand top corner 9above Google Advts) on all page will carry.

        No. of online Users =
        Guests    =
        Registered User =

We need to specify freeze some corner on each page to display STATISTIC COUNTERS relating to the ACTIVITIES being
Carried out on that specific page : e.g.

       Page                                   Statistics

. Submit Resume               . No. of Candidates registered (Daily/ Cumu)

    . Post Jobs                              . No. of Corpo. Registered

    . Resume Blast                        . No. of Resumes Blasted

   . Job search                   . Job searches carried out No. of Apply online

. Customization page             . No. of Customizations Carried out by :-
       (Trial Page)                          . Casual visitors, 
                                                . Regd. Candidates
      . Resume Search                 . Searches carried out Resumes
                                                downloaded.     
     
May be same corner can be used to alternately flash "TAG LINES/ SLOGANS" (I have give 100 + to Punam) 

Colour

We should switch - over to some shade of light blue background. May be TOP BAR can be dark blue (as in case of 3P website) with the site - name in hollow / white letters.

Font Size / style

We should "standardize" a separate size style for:-

      . Site name
      . "LINKS" Names
      . Page Names (on top of each page)
      . Address Format on each page: e.g.
           Dear Visitor
           Dear Recruiter
           Dear Subscriber
           Dear Executive
      . General write - up texts on each page
      . Counters
      . Taglines/ slogans
      . Click - buttons
      . Table - columns Heading (Forms/ Search Results)
      . Field - Names (in various forms)
      . Tab titles.
   
Colours of Form - Tables/ Search - Tables
  
I suppose these will need to be dark blue (instead of current dark brown) with white letters.

Colour of general text / write ups.

If the background of all pages is LIGHT BLUE, then what colour of text characters/ alpha, will contrast and stand - Out? Black or white? Will need to be experimented.

While parsing some fields may fail to extract altogether, leaving field blank.These should be highlighted in some manner so as to draw the attention of Job seekers to these fields in order to EDIT.

Within the text resume, we should highlight (by different colour?) those "Words/ Values" which were picked up by our Parsing software & entered into "Contact Details" block.

This will go a long way to impress the candidates (-and recruiters) with the powerful logic of our parsing software.

We should not have the counter say
"No. of Jobs Posted =  

Because 99% (or more) of the Job advts. Uploaded will be thru RSS feeds (or Spiders to be developed in future) from various job portals. Therefore our counter will read :-

      No. of Jobs  =
      IT Jobs      =
      Non IT Jobs  = 

But in Admin Tool, "No. of Jobs Posted" will refer to only those jobs actually Posted by our corporate subscribers.

Same logic will apply to :-

      No. of Resumes
      IT Resumes
      Non - IT Resumes

But, we must know, how many candidates Click on our promo email visit their "PERSONAL PAGE/ MY PAGE", edit "contact Details" & then Submit.

So, we must have DAILY CUMULATIVE counts of Promo. emails sent out:-

    . No. of Positive responses  

    . Ratio = Comu. Positive Response / Comu. Promo. email sent   =     %

This ratio alone will tell us whether our "Marketing" of website thru parsing & sending - out promo email is working or not !

Unless at least 5% of candidates respond positively, we may have to think of other methods to promote our website.

Recommendation System
  
I have already given 2 earlier notes on the subject which are exhaustive.

which "version" (out of 3 permitted) of "Customized" Resumes, can a job seeker use while
       - Applying online
       - Resume Blasting

I have explained this to Shalaka, as follows.

Once, after creating a "Customized" version, candidate clicks SAVE a box will pop - up, asking candidate to "NAME" this version. It can be saved only after NAMING. 

When a Candidate LOGS - IN on :-
       - Job search page
       - Resume Blast Page

It is too early to talk whether in future phases of "Customize - Resume". we will have Interactive Interview Tool,with an online database of Interview Questions.

Most certainly in PHASE 1, We will not have IIT. But let us incorporate at least following :

When Employer opens a text resume (during Resume Search) keywords pertaining to ALL the 5 "Functions/ Skills" graphs SAVED by the candidate get highlighted.

Then these can be clicked to bring up "Definitions" from wikipedia/ Google Definitions.

Hemen Parekh