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

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Friday 16 July 2021

THE FORTUNE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PYRAMID - C.K. PRAHALAD

 


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When I read any book, I scribble my comments / notes in the margins


These reflect my views / opinions about what the author is saying – including my disagreement

Often, my comments are in the nature of telling myself :

Hey ! We should try out this idea in our own business ( Head-hunting / Online Recruitment )

Following are my comments re :

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·         As of day, there are 2.92 million internet connections in India but  nearly  56 million mobile  phones, Hence WWJ’s delivery medium ( viz: mobile’s ) seems better suited for delivering job- alerts to far flung  to wins where  BOP Consumers live,

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·         JAM will expose middle class Indian professionals to job- opportunities all over the world 5 years from now; It should get easier for such people to get jobs abroad,

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·         Thru innovation of jam, we hope to reach out to those 44 million “unemployed” who are registered with Q 40 + employment exchanges.  

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·         This argument is perhaps, also valid in cash of internet access to the poor. It is obvious that Indian ISP is not making any effort to rope- in- poor as “subscribers” (again, a question of purchasing power) Bobbly purchasing power also keeps a poor away from a g cybercast which charges RS- 15/25 PER hour something no poor earn afford is this a pointer to poor opting to receive FREE job alert Sms on their cheap mobile services? Many msp are now, offering INWMINIG calls free.

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·         Reliance / BSNL / BHARTI / are trying to take mobile telephony to areas in an aggressive manner, Redding on the back of increasing leledensity in rural areas, JAM will enable poor to “access” job related in fo the same way rich / urban youth do,

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·         Mobile phones included as a kind of status symbol. Some 350 million last  month.

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·         Does JAM fit into this? Will it crease its own demands?

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·         Thru use of mobile’s JAM targets to penetrate small towns.

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·         By making job-alerts FREE, we are removing the first hardily to the use penetration of JAM. if we manage to tie up with all MSP then JAM can reach the farthest  corner of India, since 80% of mobile are “prepaid”, cash does not become an issue if one wants to “apply online”

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·         JAMISA a new “series”(wwj ) GR ( Global ) are must certainly experiments”

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·         Interest services Providers ( ISP)  tended to carter to middle-class & rich whereas mobile service Providers ( msp) are targeting rural poor, where tale-density  is  still barely 1.9 /1000,against urban Indian ‘s  21/100.

·         By aggregating job- advts from many jobsites, will do rule jobseekers (who want to “sell their service)

·         If, thru Jam rural youth can get even a few interview calls, they will get “new sense of personal world”

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·         JAM ia an inn ovation Also unemployed or under employed & in need of jobs. JAM will save them.

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·         To ramp up volumes, I plan to reduce “apply” charge from RS- 3/= to Rs- 1/= in future only then can poor unemployed can afford to use Jam,

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·         5 years down the line JAM will need to be offered in Hindi and “apply online” will need to be voice-active.

·         All present PC cost RS.- 20.000 & internet cost RS- 20 per hours & cell phone cost RS- 1000 soon cell phone pieces will drop further.  Soon MSP will start giving away cell-phone “free “with each subscription. Asp cannot afford to give away PC”free”with each internet connection –though in 2000 some dot.com tried!

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·         In India internet penetration is 2.9 million connections of 1050 million so internet – based job-search is not the correct solution on the other had wireless cell phones will reach 200 million people by 2010.

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·         In jam jobseeker does   need a pc + internet for the first time ( to register & post his resumes on wwj ) there after he is “freed” from PC/ internet of course cell time –to –time , so electivity will be needed, but soon hand gest  that can be re- charged by “cranking : will be available, such small radio ‘s are commend ally available for ¾ years, then dependence upon electricity will 90 !

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·         If we drop “apply “sms to RS- 1/= (From Current Rs- 3/=) Jam Can Become Truly “Affordable” – But Msp Will Need To Agree.   

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·         If, someday call centers move to small towns, the small town fresh graduates would not flock to cities in search of jobs, and still become inserted in national network of “Employment” this will happen when telecom / broadband reach small towns.

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·         Can unemployed apply for jobs without pc internet?

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·         Poor countries need cell phones costing  RS- 500/= or less with only 2 function talk send receive sms then 500 million phones can be sold.

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·         For  4/5 years now , jobsites have been delivering jobs  lefts to candidates via email  in JAM we shifted the delivery  -process to Wireless mobile phone inset of “wired” pc.

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·         Our job- advts downloading process needs to be “customized” for each jobsite but once this problem is solved; process becomes automatic / reliable / efficient, without further human.

·         Intervention. Same with the “processes” of /creating a structured database matchmaking / sms creation / delivery / dely of resumes case mail when someone “applies”  

·         Someday Gobel Recruiter too, will handle marketing & promo for its partner jobsite in a centralized manner. We too wish that partner jobsites retain their individual identities. 

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·         GR collect jobs & resumes from 200 small jobsites in to a central pool.

·         All requests from jobserach resumes search get processed centrally in GR.

·         National marketing 100.000 jobs to jobseekers / 1 million resumes to 10000 Employers (someday 100.000 employers. Due to scalene architecture)

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·         Our fun notion Profile Graphs (in image Builder) are somewhat dissimilar the “percentile – score” of a given candidates, shows his “relative” rank amongst “peers” belonging to same functions, may be it will take 2/3 years to convene HR managers of this powerful “did” these graphs are “diagnosis “at its simplest level, in JAS, we have targeted 480/= papers to reach out to jobseekers in small towns.

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·         May be I should try spreading JAM message thru colleges (final year students who soon start looking out for jobs.

·         I plan to roe-in 70.000 / cybercafés to tell their visitors to tog in FREE CONTENT “page no daily so that thry become familiar with the idea of “latest / delivered DAILY on their mobile. Only thru such “”truncating” can we convince jobseekers of the benefits of JAM.

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·         Times jobs. Com is organizing “job fairs” in Mumbai, every ultimate month.

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·         In design of Global  Recruiter, this is our problem as well Each partner  website , would unique U/I  and databases  ( jobs & resumes ) without requiring them to change  these , we must succeed in creating a common / central database , which will “receive” &” deliver” seam Lesley.

·         I have yet to meet this one! Even my 18 year old grand –daughter does not send this many!!

·         Beyond JAM. (Thru mobile), days back we sent JAS Proposal to 480 news après. Next JAT (job Alert on TV)

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·         We are trying same thru Global Recruiter we will from such partnership with jobless & portals (including ICICI portal ) see my note “Get self-Employed “However , without financial resources,  we cannot launch many initiatives. At one  time.

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·         I look forward to a day when JAM (job Alert on mobile) bemuse a “basic services” probably taka 2 years.

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·         If JAM succeeds in India, many “Umitators” will crop up all over the world.

·         I remember one such blue- cooled soap from NIRMALA,  

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·         Talking of alternatives “Apply online from a jobsite is FREE  but in JAM “apply online” from a mobile will a PC requires an internet  connection – which casts RS- 20/HR  at a cybercafé, Hence JAM still work-out cheaper in long run.

·         Quality case measured in freshness / relevance / aggregation / convenience etc. of jam far superior than an email alert on a PC.

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·         In 943 employment exchanges of India, some 44 million unemployed are registered 17% of these are graduates. Then   there are million more who not heard of an “employment” exchange”! This is so bad considering all these exchanges put together can “place” only during 2003. !

·         It is a target market and with addition of 18 million to our popup action last month, this crossed 350 million & in India 62 million. I am waiting for this to happen for JAM.

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·         Problem of joblessness (un employ ments ) remains same all more so in developing countries hence, if JAM clicks in India it will find many takers else.

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·         A phone keypad is not only much simpler than a PC keyword; it is now well accepted even in rural areas.

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·         In Global Recruiter , we plan to offer such “innovations” as JAM / jab/ram/ rab/ all of which provide great value to jobseekers & employers,

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·         This is what we are trying thru global Recruiter to leverage existing resources of many jobsites.

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·         We will need to cope with this when we go out to market global Recruiter to jobsites.

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·         For us, this will comprise msp / newspapers / TV channels / cybercafés / ISP / Radio / Broadband / DTH / interactive TV (iptv)        

·         Today an email offer will go to some. 250 websites to PULL daily from WWJ, fresh database pf job-advts (posted during last 24 hrs.,)                                                       

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·         Gobel Recruiter will, pretty much, do the same Hopefully GRS U/I will someday become industry standard.

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·         In WWJ, we are leveraging the destruction network of mobile service provider, which has reached 56 million now & will reach 200 million in 2008.

·         In Global Recruiter, we will try to leverage the distribution leverage each other to help MSP & job sites make more money if successful these binary   stars revolving around each other will create an online of recruitment. Hopefully WWJ /gr combing.

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·         Thru JAM/ JAB/ RAM/RAB, Global Recruiter will change many existing “practices” in online recruitment.

·         I expect all jobsites joining Global Recruiter to “win” thru sharing of databases.

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·         Since we send job-lefts against only those jobs which get posted (on jobsites) during last 24 Hours. JAMMERS. Must look-up their alerts everyday on each handset, there is an upper limit as to the no of sms that can be stored.

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·         Scaling up of distribution in virtual world is easier,

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·         Vis –a-viz other jobsite, our “cost advantage” arises from our “Distribution Network” of mobile services providers, besides of 1)  downloading job- advts  2) matchmaking  3) Delivering as sms 4) billing 5) collection of our share –of- revenue from service providers 6) complitistics. In Global Recruiter we will follow same model with partner jobsites.

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·         Delivering job-Advts-summary (JAS) to newspapers, everyday (free), is part of our “social Responsiveness. JAS, will Provide a “level –playing- field” are, today deprived of job-related. To small-town jobseekers, who info 90/% jobs are in 6 metros.

·         If news peppers quote WWJ as “source” (for JAS) ,It Could G enervate business  for wwj, thru free publicity for wwj across entire country.

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·         WWJ / JAM will need to convince jobseekers that they 1) need not visit many jobsite  2) will get “relevant” job alerts on thermopiles 3) will be able to “apply online” from their mobile.

·         A great majority (99%) of job- seekers in small towns do not have access to in termed or even a pc!

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·         It is quite possible that small –town jobseekers, would want to bypass PCI internet in far out of mobile phoned to access job related in FO.

·         “Mobile service Providers” instead of / “internet service Providers” as the distribution- method (for distributary job- related info)

·         Even JAM is not targeting manual labors (e.g.: construction project .JAM target small town / middle- class / graduate unemployed, looking for clerical / adminjobs + call centers / BPO JOBS .

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·         Nearly70 % of mobile owners in India is on “prepaid” mode-which relives msp from headache of billing/ collection etc.

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·         This Will Also Hold In Case OF wwj / jam. Once Registered & activated, a jobseeker will expect job-alerts to start from very next day and everyday thereafter,

·         WWJ caters only to jobseekers GR will cater to both, corpo & jobseekers.

·         Recruit guru. Will cater only to corporates. That will be the complete solution.      

·         Com patience search not resume search (JAM / JAB/ RAM /RAB)  

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·         We have to do the same / without moving out of our chairs!

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·         We are targeting millions of JAM subscribers. “Personal interaction” with them is not possible, but every customer email must be replied within 24 hrs. Dinette Marketing like Amway Tupper ware Avon concertizes Eureka Fore’s Peerless Sahara etc.  

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·         These will also apply to par her jobsites of Global Recruiter. Resumes + Job Ads.                                                                                                                                                 

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·         It will be same with WWJ/ JAM. Thru ( or thru any other method ) once a jobseeker find a job-& joins, for several months – or even years –he is unlike ling to need the services –which ,I am sure he will if found the job thru, JAM of course. By making job alerts. “Free, we have made it easy for him to continue with the service.

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·         Very much like Kerala or Madhapar in Kutch.

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·         But first the poor man needs a job, before he can buy either!

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·         For long, I have thought of “partnering” with the central / state Govt’s, where by those 44.6  million unemployed  Exchanges, can asked to register on wwj –in order to receive FREE JOBALERTS.

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·         For JAM, “touching “a jobseeker thru mobile is only a beginning. Starting today, job Advt-suumary (JAS) will get quote manically emailed to 10 newspapers.  Written to some 517 cybercafés re:  “free content” hoping surfers will touch JAM colleges are our next target.  We will use when we have enough data. We have to target final year college students.

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·         Perfectly “matching” job-alerts. Delivered over mobile. Free.

·         We are trying to do same by making job-alerts “FREE” that should remove any resistance reluctance to “try-out” 

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·         What can we do for those job-seekers? Who cannot afford RS- 3/= for “Apply online”sma? 

·         The types of jobs posted on jobsites are not for “rural” people, but certainly for small-town graduates, our “channel” for them will be Jas Printed In local newspapers.

·         “Apply online” as opposed to “Getting interview call” for this reason, I have asked Abhi to highlight keywords in resumes in red & gold begin emailing to job- advertiser.

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·         We have listed, JAM- attributes in “job Nirvana” & in “ownership Issues, question is “How do get these attributes across to the jobseekers? We have no money to advertise we are sending emails (to some 8 lakh jobseekers) but   do read emails? We can deliver JAS to a 1000 newspapers (no problem) & we can sustain it as well. We went JAS, becomes it is low cost.

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·         My target group is final year college students, I can reach them thru their colleges, I am trying to compile email ID of colleges, this is the group that is buying 70% of new mobile connections and also quite comfortable with the word fast amongst friends. Collegians are most sms savvy.

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·         Once we start highlighting keywords in a resume, we could start branding it as the “image Builder”  we can where   bounced back the image Builder version to concerned jobseeker, advising him that this is what we will deliver to employers when they click “APPLY online” for a jobseeker , the keywords in this resume are “active in gradients”

·         “Jam sample” panel on our home page is such a kit thru this panel, we try to prove that sms alert truly represents the full original advt.

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·         We have to get HR managers to praise the JAM process. Their views will be respected once by the jobseekers. Once HR mangers start getting image Builder (resume with Keywords highlighted) and if these simplify their evaluation of resumes. Then they will, gradually DEMAND that jobseekers send only such resumes, we are going to try this out tomorrow.

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·         I, too believe that the trio of wwj / Global / Recruiter / Recruiterguru.com will shape the future of e- recruitment industry in India (to begin with) this may take 5 years.

·         We are working to make JAM.an instrument for “Mass- customization”

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·         For us, not only should our communication campaign have to be “innovative”, they have to be “cheap “as well. Can we say “Jammers get jobs / Rest gets hope”? 

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·         One can consider * city based jobseekers having ready “access” to newspapers / internet ( to reach jobsites ) “top of pyramid consumers. “BOP consumers”

·         small town jobseekers without internet & times Hindu  statement.    

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·         My vision is to take the job-related info to job seekers, in the farthest corner of India, instantly & cheaply.

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·         When we develop JAM for 1) Factory workers 2) Vocational subordinate staff 3) trading / Retailing staff.

·         Temporary staff. Etc.  We would need to “align” job prefaces.

 

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