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Hemen Parekh
Kartanya
Abhi
Inder
Vicky
ResumesExchange
29-08-03
Project BARTER
I plan to modify my email circular
ZERO SUM GAME
to incorporate the following changes:
▶ Conversion
We have offered to exchange ImageBuilder resumes in exchange for unstructured email resumes. In fact, in order to create an atmosphere of "Trust", we have offered to send ImageBuilder CD first, as soon as we receive email FORM from a placement agency, accepting our “Exchange” offer.
Once the placement agency receives our CD – and is satisfied – we expect it to send its resumes also on a CD.
Now, I propose that we convert these plain resumes (sent by placement agency) into ImageBuilder and return these to the concerned agency on a CD!
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How would this help us? (in the long run!)
▶ In short-run, this (modified) offer will become irresistible! Hopefully, this will tempt many more agencies to accept our offer.
Our additional cost could be another Rs. 30/40 (for CD + conversion + courier charges) per each agency signing up.
First CD would also have cost us Rs. 30/40. So, total cost (at max) could come to: say, Rs. 100/- (for 2 CDs) per agency signing up.
If all 1,000 agencies sign-up, total cost could come to Rs. 1 Lakh.
Even if each agency sends us 500 resumes, we get 5 lakh resumes (for expenditure of Rs. 1 lakh, i.e., 20 paise/resume).
▶ In long-term (we hope), entire resume database of each Agency consists of ImageBuilder only (since we are offering to convert their entire database for free!).
First advantage is that, such a situation where resume databases of all 1,000 placement agencies of India consist...
…entirely of ImageBuilders ONLY, would immediately make ImageBuilder, as the de-facto
INDUSTRY STANDARD.
Whenever any placement agency sends out any resume to any of its corporate clients, it would be an ImageBuilder only! That would be, one hell-of-a-lot of free publicity! It would have cost us a mere Rs. 1 Lakh, to create a NATIONAL BRAND – something that no company in the world has managed to achieve, so far!
Second advantage,
– is that the placement agency has to subscribe to RecruitGuru, sooner or later!
Without GuruSearch, the ImageBuilder resumes are useless/unsearchable!
Again, resumes are notoriously perishable commodity! They become obsolete/outdated within 6/12 months.
So, even as a placement agency, if I possess 10,000 ImageBuilder resumes, what do I always do when I have to send 10 of these to my client?
I have to ensure that they are latest/up-to-date.
So, I check that on top of the "Functional Exposure Profile" graphs and find that it is ONE YEAR old! That is no good!
So, either, I obtain latest unstructured email resumes from concerned candidates and then get these converted on RecruitGuru (which requires being a subscriber)
OR,
I choose to send to the client latest plain email resumes.
But, if I believe that my client is already used to ImageBuilder only, OR if I believe that the competing placement agencies will send ImageBuilders, and therefore, client may not even look at my plain resumes, then I would be highly "concerned"! I cannot afford to take such risk!
In another twist, let us say 5 agencies send ImageBuilders to a client, whereas the sixth agency sends "plain" resumes.
What is client likely to do?
He will either take time/pain to read these, or ignore these, or (if he is already a subscriber to RecruitGuru) get these converted.
So, we get business, one way or other.
Thanks for re-uploading Page 5 of your 6-page “Project BARTER” note, Hemen Bhai.
✅ All six pages are now in, verified, and the full typed Word document draft will be prepared shortly.
Would you like this document to include:
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Your original handwritten page scans (as Appendix or not)?
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A visual illustration showing the barter flow? (e.g., resumes → ImageBuilder → CD exchange → RecruitGum trial)
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A cover page with title and date (29-08-2003)?
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A brief editor's note on how this legacy idea links with SEEM (Save Energy Earn Money) or modern AI resume automation?
Please confirm which of these to include—or just say “Clean Word Draft only” if preferred.
Since 70% of job-adverts appearing on jobsites are placed by placement agencies (Monster survey), it stands to reason that 70% of all resumes are also being received by these agencies.
So, if they are offered 30 day free trial, the placement agencies would naturally want to use RecruitGum for converting all resumes received by them in plain email form.
In fact, this desire (to convert) would be all the more strong, if during July/Aug, these agencies have received from us, say, 10,000 resumes each in ImageBuilder version, under our BARTER offer.
They would want their entire database in ONE / CONSISTENT version only, viz: the ImageBuilder.
Those (placement agencies or corporates), who choose to become our "regular" subscriber after 30 day FREE TRIAL, would insist that whatever ImageBuilders they may have accumulated on their local harddisk during July/Aug/Sept must get uploaded on our Webserver into their private databases.
This, we must agree to do...
ResumesExchange
01/07/03
Abhi
cc: Kartarya
Vicky
Inder
Project BARTER
Further to my note dt. 29/06/03, on this subject, enclosed find:
▶ Final draft of email, “Zero-Sum-Game”, along with Acceptance Form.
This incorporates my revised proposals.
▶ Some “NOTES” re: keeping track of daily arrival of emailed Acceptance Forms & the follow-up action taken by us on each form (e.g.: Date on which we sent our database CD / Date on which we converted & returned their CD / Date on which we received their CD).
We should automate to such an extent that the software reads Column #7 (viz: Exchange Quantity offered) and automatically burns a CD with matching no. of ImageBuilder, and also prints out 2 labels simultaneously – one for sticking on CD and other for sticking on Jewel Case/Cardboard cover, before giving to courier!
“manual operations” under supervision of Deepa, who will be overall responsible to ensure that:
▶ Our CDs are sent-out (couriered) to concerned placement agency within 3 days of receiving their email Acceptance Form. She must make necessary entry in the on-screen “Summary Tabulation” – Despatch Date Column, so that:
- No one is left out
- No one gets duplicate CDs!
▶ Once again, when we receive placement agency’s CD (containing their resumes), Deepa must make relevant “Date Rec’d” entry in the same online summary form.
▶ Then, Deepa has to convert placement agency’s CD to ImageBuilder version. After downloading (creating a separate file/folder for each placement agency in which its resumes are downloaded), perhaps we can use same CD to overwrite with ImageBuilders & return it to concerned agency. This way, we will save the cost of a CD!
Maybe placement agency will do the same – by returning to us our own CD after downloading ImageBuilders sent by us on their harddisk!!
Would you like me to continue with Page 3/5?
[Deepa]
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↓
ImageBuilder (Ours) (1) → [Place. Agency]
↑
Plain email resumes (2)
↑
ImageBuilder (Agency’s) (3)
▶ To start with, we need to buy maybe 50 CDs. Once the process gets going, we will not need to buy anymore! Rotation will set in.
▶ Label printer must be kept next to the CD writer, because 2 labels will get printed automatically, as soon as one CD is burnt.
There must not be any mix-up between CDs & Labels! That would be disaster!
Absolutely no “goof-up”!
▶ If required, computer with CD writer & printer should be dedicated to project BARTER, for 1 month.
▶ Neither blank, nor “written” CDs must lie around in open. Must be kept under lock & key, in a drawer of Deepa – who will be totally accountable for “faultless” operation.
Abhi must make this clear to her & guide her.
▶ I believe one CD will hold 2500 ImageBuilders at most.
Pl. check-out / try-out.
Would you like me to proceed with Page 4/5 next?
