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

Wednesday, 9 July 2003

IMAGE BUILDER

Kartavya
Abhi
Vicky
Inder

ImageBuilder – “Career History” Section

I presume (pl. correct me if I am wrong) that once we launch our Webservice, each & every email resume received (online or offline) would be “extracted,” then converted to ImageBuilder version

And then uploaded on our website. Every single resume.

Then only, jobseekers can log in (using their password/User ID) and “Edit” it online.

This (ability-to-edit-online) feature is very important, because nearly 100% of the ImageBuilders uploaded would contain a BLANK “Career-History” section!

And I suppose, we would want the jobseekers to log-in and enter this data online (and, of course, be able to download too).

Now, it is quite possible that a jobseeker may log-in & edit once-a-year.

In fact, we will build an automatic reminder system, which would remind him to do so.

It is also quite likely that the candidate has changed his job, when he logs-in to edit/update.

But in ImageBuilder, there is provision for only 4 jobs history (including the current).

So, now what can concerned candidate do? How can he edit? – Career History section.

Does he re-enter everything all over again?

Or, he can go on adding any no. of jobs (career-history), since he is ONLINE and software does not restrict him? Then again, if ONLINE he can enter even 15 job-history, what would happen when he has to print out his updated ImageBuilder?

Whereas I appreciate that ImageBuilder may have restrictions “OFFLINE,” we must ensure that ONLINE there are no restrictions (on no. of job-history), because, for each candidate, we want to capture entire LIFE-HISTORY from birth onwards! Pl. confirm.

(Signed, 09-07-03)

 

PRIVACY POLICY VICKY INDER

Kartavya

Abhi

Vicky

Inder

06-07-03

PRIVACY POLICY

Please examine the enclosed draft and modify the same if necessary.

After modifications, please upload on our website (Recruit-Guru) under link.

Privacy Policy

Allotment of "User ID / Passwords" to "authorized users" by the concerned subscriber only (and not by us), would have software code implications. Please examine these.

 

06/07/03

Our privacy policy covers two types of users, viz.:

  • Jobseekers
  • Webservice Subscribers

Jobseekers

  • Jobseekers either submit their resumes online or send to us by email and subsequently, we upload these in our webservice, after converting to ImageBuilder version.

These are resumes, submitted to us directly and form part of our resume database. All of these are treated as "public resumes" and made available to our subscribers who may get in touch with the concerned jobseekers directly on their own.


Webservice Subscribers

  • Our webservice subscribers bring in their own resumes and upload on our webserver for converting to ImageBuilder version. These are Resumes, received directly by the subscribers against job-ads released by them on websites or in print media. Then there could be resumes received by our subscribers, in an unsolicited manner.

But in all such cases, these resumes belong to the concerned subscriber and are his "private" database, although residing on our webserver.

These resumes (this private database) can be accessed only by the concerned subscriber and by no one else — not even us! Through appropriate software, we render these resumes "inaccessible" to everyone else (any visitor to our website), other than the "users" authorized by our subscriber.

The "User List" can be created by the subscriber only. Any addition/deletion to the list can also be carried out by the subscriber only (through an online ADMIN TOOL). Only the subscriber can allot "User ID/Password" to each of his "authorized users".

No user can access the private resume database of a given subscriber without using these subscriber-allotted "User ID/Password".

WWW.Recruit-Guru.com has no control over data/info downloaded and/or emailed to anyone, by the "authorized users" of a subscriber, and we take no responsibility/liability for such data transfers, whether legitimate or otherwise.

 

Names at top:

Kanuja
Arthi
Vicky
Inder

Heading:
Terms & Conditions – RecruitForm Web-service

I suggest that both, on the FREE TRIAL Registration Form and on the REGULAR SUBSCRIBERS Registration Form, we have a statement that reads:

“I have read the Terms & Conditions and the same are accepted by me” (check-box)

Unless the person registering checks the check-box, software must not accept him as subscriber. A pop-up window should remind him to first read the “conditions” before clicking on Submit.

I enclose my draft of our Terms & Conditions, for your perusal and comments, if any.

Acceptance of our Terms & Conditions by potential subscriber must constitute an AGREEMENT between parties.

Question: Under Project BARTER, my email (drafted to Placement Agencies) says, “We automatically accept you as a Free Trial…” We will send you your (User ID) after we receive your FORM accepting EXCHANGE OFFER.

How to tackle this?

“Terms & Conditions”

  • RecruitGuru (comprising different modules such as GumMine / GumSearch etc.) is a pay-per-use web-service, based on Microsoft’s .NET technology and hosted on www.RecruitGuru.com.
  • These terms & conditions apply to all those who become
  • temporary subscriber (by filling FREE TRIAL registration form) or
  • permanent subscriber (by filling Regular registration form) of RecruitGuru.
  • Subscribers will pay for whatever transactions they carry out on our web-service, as per the tariff chart (Menu Card). RecruitGuru reserves the right to modify the tariff anytime, by giving 15 days’ notice to the subscribers by e-mail.
  • Subscribers will be able to execute only those transactions which they have selected themselves by ticking the appropriate boxes at the time of registration.

 

Subscriber would have the facility to add/delete the transactions at any time, after logging in.

  • RecruitGuru webservice is a prepaid service (much like a mobile phone prepaid service). As a subscriber carries out each transaction, the prepaid amount standing to the credit of the subscriber gets reduced by the value of the concerned transaction. The service will stop automatically when the balance (of prepaid amount) stands reduced to NIL/ZERO. Before this event, an email will get sent to the subscriber, alerting him of the balance amount status and suggesting to make additional payment through the ADMIN tool.
  • There are three types of payments that a subscriber would need to make in advance, as follows:
    a) Activation Fee
  • b) User Fee
  • c) Transaction Fee

Activation Fee is a one-time/non-refundable fee. Activation Fee need not be paid once again for reactivation of the service after temporary discontinuation of less than 6 months.

User Fee is linked to the number of users authorised to access the service. Once the number of authorised users is predetermined and the fee paid, new users can be added and old users can be deleted (from the Authorisation List) as long as the total number of users remains the same as predetermined.

A subscriber may, however, increase the number of users by paying additional User Fee. User Fee is non-refundable. In case of reactivation after discontinuance, User Fee needs to be paid once again.

As far as the Transaction Fee is concerned, a subscriber would need to estimate his expenditure in advance and pay accordingly. This fee is non-refundable, even if the subscriber chooses to discontinue our webservice before the transaction-fee balance amount gets reduced to NIL/ZERO. This amount gets lapsed/forfeited and cannot/will not be carried forward as a “credit” in cases of reactivation after discontinuance.

  • Whereas RecruitGuru will take utmost care and put in best effort to provide a high standard/level of service, we do not assure/promise/guarantee or undertake to deliver a service as expected/desirable by a subscriber.
  • RecruitGuru cannot and does not guarantee correctness or up-to-datedness of any detail/information provided and/or posted by any subscriber or any jobseeker or any third-party data/information posted/uploaded by RecruitGuru on its own.

 

  RecruitGuru does not assume/accept responsibility or liability for any misleading/lying/fictitious/mischievous/incorrect/malicious/incomplete data/information posted/made available by subscribers and/or jobseekers. Users are solely and entirely responsible for the consequences of such information usage and unconditionally absolve RecruitGuru from any grievance/harm/loss/damage arising out of such usage or implications. This equally applies to any misstatement/misrepresentation of data that RecruitGuru may have carried out, especially in respect of:

  • Functional Exposure Profile
  • Career Progression Profile
  • Designation Profile
  • Salary Profile
  • Job Market Profile
  • etc. etc.

…and a host of similar profiles, involving jobseekers/subscribers etc. It is strictly up to the users to draw whatever conclusions/deductions/inferences they wish to arrive at, by use of such information/reports/representations/comparative profiles. Whether graphical or tabulated, or under no circumstances whatsoever, shall RecruitGuru be held responsible for any consequences, real or imaginary, arising out of such usage.

  Whereas RecruitGuru will not grant/permit access/usage of one subscriber’s private resume database to any other subscriber, through deployment of appropriate software-based firewalls/barriers, RecruitGuru cannot take any responsibility in this regard.

On its own, RecruitGuru will neither access nor use the private resume database of any subscriber except for the purpose of compiling various profiles such as functional exposure profiles, salary progression profiles, career progression profiles, population/key word profiles etc. Our software will use the relevant values from the resume database(s) of subscribers. At no time, however, will RecruitGuru link these extracted values to a given resume or a given name or a given job-description or any such/similar document.

  • RecruitGuru reserves the right to add/delete/modify/alter any of these conditions, without having to notify the users/subscribers.
  • RecruitGuru reserves the right to admit or not to admit any individual and/or corporate body as a subscriber of its webservice, if RecruitGuru feels, at its sole discretion, that this would go against its interest or against the larger interest of its other subscribers. If necessary, RecruitGuru is not required to provide an explanation of its decision not to admit a person/corporate body as its subscriber.

 

WEB-SERVICE PROVISIONING

30 June 2003

WEB SERVICE PROVISIONING

When we adopt a “pre-paid, pay-per-use” model for our webservice, we are accepting a legal liability to our clients, to deliver “X” amount/value of “Services” (measured in, no. of transactions x tariff rate).

It is nice to have a “negative customer outstanding /a negative working capital, but this model carries responsibilities / liabilities.

 On our balance sheet, “Cash Inflow” & “Income” are two different things. “Income” is only the services actually delivered, at any point of time.

Cash Inflow-Services delivered =Balance Liabilities.

Please read enclosed notes for implementation.

All of these must be done in V.I.O> itself.

Never mess around with your financial matters.

Be crystal clear / transparent from day one!

 

SUMMARY TABULATIONS

Temporary Registration for FREE TRAIL

1

2

3

4

5

6

Sr. No.

Company Name

City

Executive Name

Executive Designation

Date Register

Chronologically

 

For placement Agencies, this date will be the date on which, they send us their (EMAIL) ACCEPTANCE FORM for our BARTER SCHEME.

Please ensure that whatever data/fields are required to be filled-in for

“FREE TRAIL” FORM

Are also incorporated in the

“BARTER ACCEPTANCE” FORM

We have decided to treat every BARTER ACCEPTOR as an “Early Adopter” and automatically show his name on “List of Early Adopters” page.

Column’s 1, 2 & 3 can be made visible to all VISITORS to our website.

 

Column’s 4,5 & 6 only we can see

Statistics (FREE TRIAL)

We would need to know following fig’s.

-    How many joined

-    How many completed “Free Trail”

-    Out of those, who completed “Free Trial”,

·     How many converted to “Regular subscriber’

·     How many “backed –out” altogether after trial.

(We need to know the “yield %”). We need to create an ongoing separate database of companies which backed out after free trial, so that we can launch an email campaign to “convince” them & get feedback from them re: “Why”?

And we need to get this info for

·     Any day (of any month)

·     Any month (of any year)

·     Cumulative (within a month)

·     Cumulative (within a year)

After first month (viz: Sept.), both, “Free Trial” registrations and “Regular” registrations, would be taking place simultaneously, every day.

So, we must have similar 2 graphs for “Regular Registrations” also.

 

FINANCIAL SCREENS

Data picked-up from free Trial Form

 

Data picked up from Regular regi. form

Asutosh to enter this column upon receipt of cheque/DD

Sr, No.

Company Name

Free Trial Registration

If became Regular Subscriber

Start Date

End Date

Cheque/DD No. & date

Amount Rs.

Asutosh created on date

 

Money comes in only when companies who have registered for FREE TRIAL, become regular subscribers, at the end of the trial (or even before 30 days are over), by sending chaque/DD & entering these details (check No/DD No. / Date Amount/bank drawn on etc.) in the

Regular Registration Form

From these details, a tabulation, as shown on P=3, must get automatically generated, as soon as a corporate fills-up the regular Registration form only the last column will remain blank, until Asutosh received the cheque/DD thru courier.

When he does using his password, he will access. This tabulation & enter the “date” in last column.

But the tabulation will also be accessible to kartayvya / Abhi / HCP / NHP who can, look-up & find out at a glance what “amount” of payments are dispatched / in pipe-line but still not received.

If it is more than 7 days, since dispatch of cheque / DD / by corporate (we insist thru courier),then Abhi can/must pick-up phone & talk to the client, saying we have not received the cheque so far! He should decide, based on clients feedback, whether to allow client to continue to use our webservice or to suspend it temporarily & send an email to client accordingly.

“Overall” subscription amount to be broken –up as

-    Activation Charges – Rs. 5000/- per Member corporate

-    No. of Licenses charges – Rs. 1000/- per person authorized

-    Transition Charges – Whatever amt Member chooses to pay

From total of “actual transactions” carried-out by all members, in a given month, we can arrive at,

“Balance value of Transaction services charge”

Remaining to the credit of :

·     A particular Subscriber:

This is what a particular subscriber would like to see-as a monthly tabulation:

·     All subscribers put together:

This is what we would like to see at any point of time, in a graphical manner.

For us this “Balance Amt” represents the “value of Services” yet to be delivered by us.

It (this amount) is, kind of a “Liability of the company.

(Cash Inflow – value of services delivered)

= Balance liability of company 

We should be able to see/view this for any particular customer or for all customers put together

AND

As on any date.

Webservice Pricing” (Oct. 3, 2003)

cc: Kartanya / Abhi

Period

5% increase every 6 months

10% increase every 12 months

6 mo

105

100

12 mo

110.25

110

18 mo

115.8

110

24 mo

121.5

121

30 mo

127.6

121

36 mo

134.0

133


Sanjeev
Webservice Pricing

  • See enclosed report on how cell-tariffs are, once again, inching up, after dropping for last 3 years.
  • In context of our webservice, remember following guidelines:
    • Smaller increases at more frequent intervals are more digestible than a big increase every few years (or every year).
    • You should not increase prices of all transactions at the same time. You should do this “rotation” — so, if you have 12 “chargeable” buttons, you raise the price of only ONE button each month! So you end up increasing…prices of all buttons only once a year!
  • All price-increases (whenever made/announced) must not be same fixed percentage. One button, you may increase by 3% in January, second button by 5% in February, third button by 7% in March, and so on.
  • In between, in a particular month or quarter, you may not announce any price-increase for any button but you may transfer some one button from FREE to PAID category.
  • Then in some month, you may be adding an altogether NEW button (new functionality) which is PAID. In such a month, you must not increase price of any other button.
  • Many, many organisations have failed to develop a mechanism whereby they can quickly and easily differentiate between:
  • • the increase/growth in the company’s annual revenue due to VOLUME/QUANTITY; and
    • the increase/growth in the company’s revenue due to SELLING-PRICE increase.

This is a dangerous/misleading situation!

Let us say RecruitGuru’s Net Collection goes up from Rs. 1 crore (in present year) to Rs. 1.5 crore (in next year).

That is a growth of 50%!

But is that a reason to be overjoyed?

This increase could have been:

  • A → entirely due to increase in Selling-Price only (i.e., no increase in VOLUME/QUANTITY)
  • B → entirely due to increase in VOLUME/QUANTITY only (i.e., no increase in Selling-Price)
  • → due to some increase in Selling-Price & some increase in VOLUME (No. of transactions)

In real business life, you rarely come across situations A or B. Mostly it is C.

In fact, the most likely situations are:

  • D → Increase in Selling Price / Decrease in Volume or
  • E → Increase in Volume / Decrease in Selling Price

So a Company’s performance must not be judged simply based on %age growth in revenue over the previous year.

It is very, very important to know how this growth came about! What factors contributed to this growth and how much was the contribution of each factor?

This Volume Variance/Price Variance analysis should be done not only at the overall company level but also at the level of each subscriber as well.

So, whereas ARPU (Average Revenue Per User) and specific individual revenue growth for each client are useful criteria, we must know at each subscriber-level:

  • Is his volume usage growing & contributing to increased billing? — and how much?

Increase in selling-prices are like inflation (consumer price index).

A business can simply increase its product-prices by 15% each year and show a revenue growth of 15% each year without selling even one piece more, year after year.
Shareholders, employees and the bankers may be misled by such figures.

…results and the share-price will keep rising, until someday the company is UNABLE to raise its prices due to increased competition! Then will be the year of reckoning! The bubble will burst!

So for a healthy/sustainable growth, both the Volumes and the Prices must rise, to contribute to overall growth. And we must be able to monitor separately the effect/impact of both the volume-induced revenue growth and the price-increase-induced revenue growth, year after year.

For RecruitGuru, we will use the first FULL YEAR (viz. April 2004–March 2005) as our datum / the base year and compute for each subsequent year as follows:

Base Year 2004/2005

2005/06

2006/07

Gross Net Collection (Rs. L)

Rs. 150L

200

300

Index (Gross)

100

133

200

No. of Trans.

5 Lakh

6 Lakh

8 Lakh

Index

100

120

160

 

Then this can be plotted as follows:

(sketched graph)

  • Y-axis index from 100 upwards
  • X-axis years 2004/05 – 05/06 – 06/07
  • Net Collection rising to 133 then 200
  • Transaction Volume rising to 120 then 160
  • Additional growth due to Selling Price Increase indicated as a vertical segment.

Or, depending upon figures, graph may turn out like:

(second sketch)

  • Y-axis index from 100 upwards
  • X-axis years 2004/05 – 05/06 – 06/07
  • Transaction Volume line steep (to 200)
  • Selling Price line shallower (to 140)
  • Additional growth due to increase in volume of transactions indicated.

(02/03/02)

Abhi
Vinay
Sanjeev (circled)


Redesign of Module 1

(Searching MEMBER + NON-MEMBER database)

I enclose a few pages from my notes sent to Cyndi in Aug/Sept. ’98 (3½ years back).

As we are in the process of redesign of Module 1 (database/search engine/shortlisting/migration to Excel sheet/migration to OES/composing & automatic emailing of jobs/vacancies/covering letters etc.), you may find these old notes useful/relevant.

Pl apply your mind & be ready with your views/suggestions, whenever we meet on 11/3.

 

SEARCH QUERY (1)

If you enter this SEARCH PARAMETER

OUTPUT SCREEN / PRINTOUT WILL DISPLAY THIS

PEN or NAME

“Janam-Kundli” of concerned executive including “search-parameters” chosen for self
• Image file of resume

• Text
• Companies in whom we have sent his resume OR
• Companies who have interviewed him or shortlisted him more than us (who, when, where, at what salary/designation, bosses, location, our superior/higher powered positions)
• When last updated resume on Internet
• Whether this (his) resume has been updated by him (last I sent to his system) Order Ease

Designation

All executives in our database (including NON-MEMBERS) with that designation; arranged in descending order by “ACE” (must carry synonyms / designation rings)

Industry

All executives in our database (who have “ACE” in that “Industry” / “Vertical” / “Ministry” in that self-search parameter)
• Arranged in descending order
• Must also attach name of company

 

If you enter this SEARCH PARAMETER

OUTPUT SCREEN / PRINTOUT WILL DISPLAY THIS

FUNCTION

All executives in our database (incl. NON-MEMBERS) who have specified this “Function” as their “1st/2nd Function” in their self-select parameter; arranged in descending order of age. Must cover synonyms/similar functions.

EDUCATION

All executives in our database (incl. NON-MEMBERS) who have this Education; arranged in descending order of age. Must cover similar qualifications (synonyms).

LANGUAGE

All executives who can “speak” this language (descending order of age).

PRODUCT / SERVICE

All executives who claim to have exposure to this product/service. List also those who have mentioned this FIRST (+ synonyms), SECOND (+ synonyms), THIRD (+ synonyms).

 

If you enter this SEARCH PARAMETER

OUTPUT SCREEN / PRINTOUT WILL DISPLAY THIS

 

COMPANY NAME (CURRENT)

All executives working in this company. List A → Those registered with us. List B → Non-Members. Columns arranged in descending order of “designations” (e.g., CMD, MD, CEO, President, EVP, VP, GM…).

 

CITY NAME (STATE/COUNTRY OPTIONS)

All executives posted in this city. List A → Those registered with us. List B → Non-Members.

 

COMPANY NAME (PAST EMPLOYMENT)

Any executive who has ever worked in this company. List A → Those registered with us (also period of working in that co.). List B → Non-Members. (Arrange in descending order of designation).

 

If you enter this SEARCH PARAMETER

OUTPUT SCREEN / PRINTOUT WILL DISPLAY THIS

 

GROSS ANNUAL SALARY

• Year-wise lists
• Arranged in ascending or descending salary-slabs (we pre-define slabs at annual differentials of Rs. 25,000/-)

Example – Salary slabs will be:
0 – 25,000
25,001 – 50,000
50,001 – 75,000
… etc.

• “Frequency Distribution Graph” (year-wise / Age-wise / Designation-wise / Functional-wise / Industry-wise)
• Cross-Salary for SAME EXECUTIVE (same PEN) – Growth Curve (year-wise)

(See my file on “Salary Model Source – Compensation System”)

 

SEARCH QUERY (5)

If you enter this SEARCH PARAMETER

OUTPUT SCREEN / PRINTOUT WILL DISPLAY THIS

KNOWLEDGE / SKILL / ATTITUDE / ATTRIBUTE words
or
ANY OTHER KEYWORD(s) (which could be any word / words)
or
PHRASE OR SENTENCE

• All executives who have entered this “word” in his self-search parameter

OR

• Any executive in whose resume such word (or words) appear anywhere (including in the Remarks / Annotations which a consultant may have attached on the resume or on any slip attached to a resume). These “Gross Scale Remarks / Annotations” could be either auto-entered into the screen by a consultant or by a D/E operator.

Also, here the query will produce a list of resumes which do NOT have that specific word/phrase/sentence itself but which is linked to the starting knowledge-base (e.g., “HOD please TELL ME (more than 5000) – these have been categorised – CROSSING RIGHT MAIN URGENTLY”).

 

SEARCH QUERY (6)

If you enter this SEARCH PARAMETER

OUTPUT SCREEN / PRINTOUT WILL DISPLAY THIS

(continuation from previous page)

• Subsequent “Knowledge-base” which will gradually evolve over a period of time. Then use Context Cartridge option or the ARDIS Fuzzy Logic.

Example:
Say a query asks list of all executives possessing “Financial Management Skills”.

This phrase itself may not be found in any of the resumes!

But, the result must show all executives in whose resume the following words/phrases appear:
– IRR (Internal Rate of Return)
– DCF (Discounted Cash Flow)
– Budget
– Working Capital Management
– Capital Budgeting

(This Knowledge-base must get ready by Dec. 1998.)

 

SEARCH QUERY (7)

If you enter this SEARCH PARAMETER

OUTPUT SCREEN / PRINTOUT WILL DISPLAY THIS

FOR FRESH GRADS / FINAL YEAR STUDENTS
State
University
College Name
Branch
Discipline
Level
Specialisation
GPA / Final Exam Marks
Year Marks
Address
Sex
Language

– (Ref. see my notes dated 13/11/98, 2/12/97)

These are “Core” search parameters & therefore Mandatory if specified, either by our own consultants or by Personal Clients who log into our Internet Extranet.

In addition to these, any of the other search parameters may be optionally added to produce a LIST (a short-list).

Installation on Tell Me on our server.

 Your handwritten notes (right margin)

7-11-98
“April
I would request you to collect additional info about these products from Oracle’s site and evaluate with a view to examine their suitability to our own business.

These products may not transform our applications but the principles upon which these are based / formulated are dear to our hearts, viz.:

  • NO (or very little) human intervention – automatic order entry & confirmation
  • automatic “form” – standardisation (several locations / of candidates)
  • Money transfer (as convenience)
  • Body and cost of jobs (client letters)
  • New variables
  • Product modification (some addition)
  • Web-based relations with candidates / clients
  • Web-based “Status Reporting” & order execution (Module #2)

I have already brought out some of these points in my enclosed notes prepared last week – in connection with our plans to change over to a new ESP (Oracle+NT) based by Nov. 1998, then to complete 1 year on the Canadian server.”

 GURUSEARCH SCREEN

4 Sep 2003

GURUSEARCH SCREEN

Abhi/Inder/Sanjeev/Raju/Sriram,

Present UI is not very intuitive. It is a bit cluttered and looks quite like other jobsites.

We want recruitguru to “differentiate” from all other jobsites-in as many respects as possible so that corporate do not confuse us with other jobsites! We have to be in a class of our own.

Enclosed find & alternatives of search screen.

No. 1 – Only a little more “rational” grouping

No. 2 – Brings focus to “Function” & “Percentile” which is our USP & this is where we would, ideally, want a corporate to start/being his search.

Perfectly, only after he gets to see the “results” based on col#1, he should move right – to col#2 -#3

No. 3 – Here col#1 is same as in option #2 some interchange is made in middle & extreme right column.

No. 4 – This vertical flow alternative –with explanatory notes on the right hand side, is I feel, the best alternative. It provides the “rationale” behind the correct/ideal

It is like leading a child with finger! Step-by step, in the right direction & in correct “Order”/with least confusion/without having to “back-track”-in case you get into wrong lane/dead-end street.

Please consider implications with your team then let us decide.

“For Best Results, Refine/Filter the Power-Search”

Source Type:

  • Database
  • RecruitGuru
  • My Database
  • My Candidates

Function:

  • Software Design
  • Executive Search
  • Systems Design

[Search] [Clear]


Reason why you cannot go into resumes directly:

You may access resumes under one or more names (say V.P. Systems Design). But you want to shortlist only those candidates who are experts in your chosen FUNCTIONS / SKILLS / KNOWLEDGE.

You do not want just resumes. You want to shortlist competence, not resumes!

This allows you to separate / eliminate:

  • Fakes from the Internet
  • Boys from Pretenders
  • Boys from Men
  • Gold-Medalists from “Also-rans”

Refine With:

Education (Graduate Degree / Post Graduate Degree / Diploma / etc.)

Experience From ___ To ___
Age From ___ To ___

[Search] [Clear]

At this stage, your Company-Policy may say “Hey we want a B.E. (Electronics) & 5 years’ exp. Or B.Sc. (Physics) & 8 years’ exp.” By giving this in Knowledge-Base window, you specify that you want “Deep Sea Divers” not “Shore Divers.” This is your place to specify / precise.


Filter With:

[Check boxes for Education / Experience / Age / Function]

We are getting closer/shortlist is reasonably there but if this position is in Mumbai we don’t want Bangalore guys (canvass).

If this position is “Vice President” level we should interview people who are currently “General Manager.”

Why go through this elaborate filtering? — Because it saves time and lets you zero in on the right candidate pool.