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

Saturday, 30 June 2012

JOB POST WIDGET

Job Post” Widget – Concept Note

Date: 30/06/12

Background / Assumptions:

▶ For jobs database today, we are dangerously dependent upon RSS feeds from Naukri / TimesJobs / ClickJobs.

▶ We will reduce (but not eliminate) this dependence by getting RSS feeds from MonsterIndia / JobsAhead / Jobstreet and other job portals.

▶ When more Employers register on our website, hopefully, they will post jobs online.

▶ But, in India, perhaps no more than 80,000 employers are using job portals for online recruitment (See the list in our RESUMEBLAST database).

These are employers who have “access” to internet in their offices AND who have/are already using Naukri / Monster / TimesJobs etc.


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▶ But, there are millions of other SMALL / MEDIUM size employers who have NO access to internet and therefore, have never used a jobsite for their recruitment needs.

These are small/medium businesses, retailers, shops, service-repair companies, etc. etc.

▶ These small/medium roadside establishments you see as you walk along any street in any city/town, "companies", employ maybe 3/5 persons,
and,
need to hire (maybe) 1 or 2 people (including replacements) per year.

▶ Apart from the fact that they have NO PC/Broadband in their offices (to access jobsites), they cannot afford to pay Rs. 25,000/- for a Quarterly Subscription to Naukri etc. just to advertise 1 vacancy/year!


But that does not mean they would not use internet-based recruitment if

  • they can post their job-vacancy (on CustomizeResume, of course), using a Smartphone-based "App"

  • they don't need to pay anything for such posting (FREE)

  • they can receive "Brief Resume" as email on their smartphone

  • If they can click/touch the mobile no. (of applying candidate) directly in that email

In fact, a much better / instant "service" could be:

  • SME employer posts his vacancy (on CustomizeResume) using his smartphone
    (He would need PC/Internet ONCE in the beginning, to register as Employer and get his User ID / Password, in order to use "Post Job" widget).


Srl No Candidate Name City (Where living) Edu. Quali Exp. DOB Mobile No
1 Jayant Shinde Sangli BSc 4 20/1/84 98213 46897

Srl No / PEN ------
Jayant Shinde
Sangli
B.Sc.
4 years
28 Jan 1984
0-98213 46897     ← touching this would ring the candidate concerned.


But then, we too must make some money even as we offer this as a FREE service to employers!


  • One way to do this (make money) is by revealing only 5 resume highlights to the employer, at-a-time.

  • If he wants to see more, then, he will need to touch/view a product advt. delivered by Yahoo/InMobi advt. network.

  • What would various screens to "POST JOB" look like?

As usual:


+--------------------------+

|        RecruitGuru       |

+--------------------------+

|         Post Job         |

|          (Button)        |

+--------------------------+

| To use this free "PostJob" 

| app – and to receive matching 

| resume highlights on your 

| mobile, please register 

| first (as an Employer) on 

| www.Cust... 

| and get your UserID / Passwd. 

| If registered, click to proceed

+--------------------------+


Second screen:
Log In

Third screen:
Data Entry (City Location)


Fourth screen:
Education Qualification


+-------------------------------+
| Select any one |
| [x] 10th Standard |
| [ ] 12th Standard |
| [ ] Diploma |
| [ ] BA |
| [ ] B.Com |
| [ ] B.Sc. |
+-------------------------------+

These are my preliminary thoughts
on the subject of
"Post Job" Widget.

Just as we are trying to make job search OBSOLETE, thru MyJobs, idea is to make resume search obsolete thru POST JOBS.

People don't want to spend time "searching".
They have just enough time to "find" things which are relevant to their needs.

Which employer has time/luxury to post his job advt
and then,
wait and wait and wait for the right candidates to "discover" that advt (from lakhs & lakhs) and then "apply"?

Only to discover after 30 days, that
▶ only the WRONG candidates had time to discover your ad and apply!


Big Companies have full-fledged recruitment departments full of recruiters.
They have set-up processes to
▶ Post Jobs
▶ Search Resumes
▶ Short list
▶ Send out interview-call emails etc. etc.

They can afford all these “processes”
and all these full time “staff”
because
▶ they have many vacancies (New as well as replacements)
▶ vacancies arise around the year with regularity

But SME (Small Medium Enterprises)
▶ have ONE vacancy in a year
▶ no staff or processes
▶ no luxury of “time” to fill vacancy
▶ no budget for jobsite subscriptions
▶ usually want a LOCAL person only
(so, why not eliminate screen for CITY selection?)
By default, Employer’s CITY address to be taken for match-making.


Section Data Field Job Search In Our Website - For Jobseeker Use Employer Use RSS Feed MyJobs Screen
Job Search Job Alert Summary Job Alert Detail Job Post
A Job Details
Job Title
Design. Level
Designation
Job Description
Category (IT/Non-IT)
Function
Keywords
India Background
Country
City
Currency Offered
Salary Offered
B MAN-SPES
Candidate Attribute
Work Exp
Edu. Level
Degree / Diploma
Specialization
C ADVT SETTING
Expiry Date
Job Type
D EMPLOYER DETAILS
Co. Name


Legend:

  • ✓ = Fully available

  • ▽ = Partially available or in summary form

  • ◎ = Category-based selector or dropdown option

Let me know if you'd like this in tabular format for Word or Excel export.















Monday, 18 June 2012

NOTES FROM WORLD WIDE MIND



Notes from “World Wide Mind” (Author: Michael Chorost)

Dated: 18/06/2012
Pg = 42

The implication for brain implants is this: to make someone “see” something, it may be sufficient to trigger a memory of having seen a similar object before.

As strange as this sounds, it happens all the time.
In dreams, none of the dreamer’s sensory input is actually coming from the senses. It is all assembled, willy-nilly, from memories.
Dreams are an extreme case, but even in waking life, a great deal of brain’s sensory experience is actually internally generated by raiding memories.
This doesn’t mean that the external world does not exist, or is irrelevant; when you see a door and open it, much of your experience is coming from sensory information. But quite a lot of detail is filled in, such as information about shapes, colors and textures……

That’s a tip-off that the brain’s stored expectations — that is, its memories — shape experience to a much greater extent than commonly realized.


 “My Comments on Pg: 42”

In my emails (June 08/09, 2012) to Shuklendu, I have laid down the “logic” to be followed in “Job Alerts Recommendation” algorithm, which will be based on “Jobs Applied History” of each candidate.

I have suggested to highlight/hyperlink (to Wikipedia?), “keywords” found in each recommended advt.
Obviously, these are the very same keywords which that candidate has “seen” in previous advts — and may be the keywords that made him “Apply” against those previous advts.

So, when he once again “sees” those same keywords in next job advt, his (pleasant?) memory will make him “Like” this next advt!

My attempt should be to “trigger” in the brain of the jobseeker, “pleasant/happy” memories, upon seeing a job-alert “recommended” by our algorithm.

When he “sees” the SAME keywords, will it make him feel “GOOD”?


Pg = 49

Note that in order for blackboxing to work, you have to know ahead of time, what you are looking for.

You have to be looking for a neural pattern or a P300, with the prior knowledge of what they mean in a given situation.

The algorithms are inherently closed-ended.
The machine knows that a given pattern means Add and another one means Subtract……

A pattern-matching methodology, by its very nature, can tell us nothing at all about the subject’s conscious experience……

……algorithms can model the information-flow within a brain, and from that make predictions about what the brain is attempting to do.

They have become pretty good at detecting and executing simple intentions.

My Comments on Pg: 47 / 49

For my purpose,

▶ Analyzed Portion of data
≡ keywords found in “Jobs Applied History”

▶ Unanalyzed Portion of data
≡ keywords found in jobs NOT APPLIED yet.


I am looking for a “pattern” of keywords, in (say), 100 advts a candidate has “Applied for” earlier.
The higher the “frequency”, the higher the “weightage” for a given keyword.

So, it tells me, what advts (containing keywords with high weightages) will “appeal” to him.
“Weightages” are my “prior knowledge”.

If he has liked these “keywords” in the past, then he is likely to “like” them in future as well.

This is how we will try to “decipher his intention”.









JOB ALERT RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM


Shuklendu
18/06/2012

Job Alert Recommendation System

I have written to you about this in my emails of 08/09 June.

I enclose some of my older notes on the same subject.

Not everything that I wrote in those notes may be valid today, but the fundamentals of
▶ Predictive / Personalized Job-Alerts
based on
▶ Development of a “Match Index” for each newly arriving job-advt
based on
▶ Keywords – and their weightages – contained in past Jobs Applied,
remains.

Regards

Hemen Parekh