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

Friday, 12 September 2003

DOWNLOADING & CREATING A STRUCTURED DATABASE OF JOB ADVTS.

Abhi/ Deepa/ Vittal
During last 2 months, Samata had been downloading from Naukri. I believe about 120,000 have been downloaded so far. (We also have 30,000 earlier sent by Sajida).
Occasionally Inder/ Myself helped download ads from Monster India, whenever we found time.
 Altogether, in Aug. We Probably managed to download 3000 Job advt/ day - no more. There were problems of :-
 Internet connection bad / not at all
Samata had some other urgent work.
Now that we have settled down comfortably in new office, with a 512 kb line, we must take - up this job on priority & in right earnest.
Our target should be 10,000 Job advts/ day
This will require 2 persons / 2 machines. Vittal should be one of them.
 And if Deepa Cannot be spread full time for this work, I suggest you take any "Temporary/ Contractual" SSC boy for Rs. 1500 / - P.m.
His target must be 5000 / day (same as for Vittal)
I would like this arrangement to be implemented &stabilized by next weekend i.e. 21st Sept. That is enough time to buy a new PC (base configuration).
Of course, clicking on a mouse is NOT "human use of human beings" - and should be used only till such time that
We get HYBRID modified (at a price of course) so that, for 5 minutes every morning, you instruct it which jobsites to visit & download, automatically.
OR
Develop a spider on our own.
Download some spider "free - ware", mentioned in FOSTER's book "Recruiting on the Web" (now available with Kavita).
May be Abhi may wish to set a target for implementing such a spider - and "free", Deepa / Vittal to do some  "human"
work !
 As far as job - advts. are concerned, our first target is Indian Jobsites, starting with Naukri/ Monster/ Job Ahead/ Job street/ Job ad etc.
Today's advts. in Times of India, speaks of 90,000 Jobs - (advts) available on
Timesjobs.com !
In Google, if you type
"India + Job sites"
You will get a list of 200 + Jobsites !
Our spider should be able to download job - advts from all of these.
Earlier, we had tried "Infogist.com" "lexilot. com" (?) for spiders (Commercially available)" but did not succeed because, at that time, our concentration was on downloading of
RESUMES.
 And to access, resume database, all jobsites require SUBSCRIPTION - PASSWORD.
But this is not the case with Job - advts.
Job - Advts fall under "PUBLIC" category & can be accessed/ downloaded by anybody without a password/ subscription.
Gradually, we must extend our efforts to USA based jobsites & download USA - based jobs (IT jobs only).
This is because all Indian IT professionals want to migrate to USA (-except for those working in 3P!).
If we succeed in downloading 2.5 lakh job advt/ month (@1000 / day X 25 days) and 10 lakh in next 4 months, then we have a large enough database for
Conventional Jobsearch feature on Jobsearch.com (Our next website URL)
 "Functional - Profile" Job search
 Match - Theory Job - search
 Job - Alert as SMS on mobiles.  (17 million now, 70 million by 2007)
 "Job - Descriptions" for GuruAd module
 "Skill - wise Keywords" for self learning software
Mailing List of Advertisers to promote Recruit guru.
 "Job - Market Analysis" graphs (Trends) (sample given to Deepa 2/3 months back) for publishing in Newspapers/ Websites etc. to give us LOTS of FREE publishing !
 Delivering JAWS (Jobs Across World Summary)
       . Newspapers
       . Cyber Cafes
       . Other websites
       . TV Channels etc
On jobseeker.com there will be a "Configure Your JAWS" page, which subscribers will fill - in & start getting JAWS at desired frequency.
Creating database of "Company - wide" Vacancies advertised over the years. This will help, both Recruit guru & 3P to market their services. Data mining at its best !
I am sure, you can think - up of many other uses.
But one thing is most important. Whatever no. of job - advts. Get downloaded during the daytime, must get "AUTO  - CONVERTED" & "UP - LOADED" on Jobseeker.com, SAME NIGHT ! This process, too, must be automated. There should be no need for human intervention.
cc : Sanjeev/ Kartavya
h.c.parekh