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

Monday, 26 April 2021

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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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Pg. No. 1 (02-12-06)

·         On India Recruiter, we have provided “open Access” (without Log In) to must pages / features to enable would be users to try-out, without revealing their identity.

·         “Profiles” is a extremely customize resume so I hope, jobseekers & HR mgrs. alike, like it when launched in 15 days.

·         We have in our library.

Pg. No. 4

·         Thru Global Recruiter / India Recruiter, we intend to redefine the Recruitment Industry

·         Jobsearach & Resume Search fall in same category (Buyers & sellers)

Pg. No. 5

·         Thousands of irrelevant resumes from jobsites only 20 perfectly relevant resumes

Pg. No. 7

·         This is why we need a few large companies (IT & non-IT) to start using Profiles & give us further in puts.

·         This is why we have enabled users to create their own / private Question Bank.

·         We must get customers to with each other their own private data banks of Questions

Pg. No. 8

·         Can we say Recruitment Agencies are “passionate” about sending only the most relevant resumes to their corporate clients?

Pg. No. 10

·         I suppose most Recruitment Agencies must have found their own methods to store / categorize / Index / Retrieve search / Tabulate, resumes

Pg. No. 14

·         What are the cu went “circumstances” for most HR mgrs. & Recruitment Agencies?

·         1 ) They just can’t find / interview / select / appoint enough no of suitable / competent candidates,

·         2) They have to read thru hundreds of irrelevant resumes to locate on GOOD one (Needle in the Haystack!)

Pg. No. 15

·         I dally a HR mgr. would want a software Agent that goes out (on WWW), finds an ideal candidate negotiates and issues an appointment letter.

·         Endless futile searches on jobsites

Pg. No. 23

·         What will emerge when we enable jobseekers to move keywords up & down in karma scope? Similarly when we rearrange keywords in the descending order of “No of times clicked”?

·         Jobseekers won’t “pay” anything to India Recruiter, but can still be “lead users”. If they can be made to believe that using profiles can get them a job (or atlas, interview call), then they would jettison laiu text resumes!

·         Getting corporates to share their “Private Data bank Question” with other corps. Subscribers on. India Recruiter is not going to be easy.

Pg. No. 24

·         (03-12-06)

·         Perhaps HR mgrs. of smaller companies, may get motivated to share their “Private Question” provided their contributions are “recognized” acknowledged. We have plans to do this. People do this in Wikipedia even without getting any credit!

Pg. No. 25

·         May be we can find some useful programs here.

·         We have yet to find a meaningful / satisfying forum for HR consultants on India Recruiter but we will do.

·         This is quite smirk to getting HR mgrs. to list / name “products / services” under various Industry-Names / Designations under functions etc.

Pg. No. 26

·         Who if any, might want to spread “word-of mouth” about India Recruiter? May be IT professionals-who can / will appreciate the underlying software.

Pg. No. 27

·         In the first place, I have to get Rahul / Sourabh / Swati / Sonal & Yogesh to spend a week each with our owrs consultants

Pg. No. 29

·         We should get HR mgrs. &  Recruitment Agents to expand / categorize / classify

-          Industry Name    - keywords

-          Function –

-          Skills –

-          Designation

Pg. No. 30

·         Just 7 months ago

Pg. No. 31

·         I am at a loss as to what kinds of graphical profiles neither can we possibly construct form text resumes of FRESH GRADUATES – since they belong to no specific FUNCTION – nor use many KEWORDS. May be we ought to create an online competitor am ongc these FRESHERS, to come up with ideas / examples. Before we reveal our source-code we must, first, become a runaway success with profiles in case “EXPERIECED” professional, so that we need not worry about Monster / Naukri etc.

·         For us

1)    HR mgrs.

2)    Line mgrs. (diff. functions)

3)    Recruitment Agencies

4)    HR consultants

5)    Jobseekers (EXP & fresher’s)

6)    Professors (?)

Pg. No. 32

·         How about making available – for FREE- “Guru Quest” to colleges teaching MBA (HR)? Here are future HR managers. If they get hooked to Guru Quest (offline version) – then, when they graduate & take-up full time jobs in industry, they will only use India Recruiter’s IIT! Loyalty-building.

Pg. No. 33

·         NIIT are also in the process of setting-up a college / course (2 yrs.) for training future “Recruiters”. There is also one more party planning likewise. We will offer them Guru Quest – FREE. Even as they learn (how to use Guru Quest) they might come up with product-improvement suggestions. They will have no hesitation to write “Interview Questions” & incorporate into Guru Quest on the other hand, why give an offline Guru Quest? Just give them FREE sub script ion to online IIT? That is far far better! they could be IIT into coursework for role playing & preparing students to become interviewers as well as in trainee

·         Karma Scope will evolve as our own Intelligent Brick.

Pg. No. 34

·         I suppose professors &Principals have similar concerns about, their graduating students not finding jobs with better companies & at good salaries

·         We must tell principals that their students stand a better chance of getting selected if he she has mastered IIT.

·         We must excite the professors at MBA colleges

Pg. no. 35

·         If we make India Recruiter subscription FREE (permanently) to Educational / Training Institutions (includes coaching classes), then possibly many would register – but would that defeat the purpose / object, of putting a tool in the hands of HR mgrs.’ which helps “assess” candidates without letting out the question Paper ! to begin with, we may restrict this only to colleges teaching MBA (HR).

·         Online IIT will be same – whether used by MBA (HR) students in management colleges or used by them when they join Industry (as HR mgrs.)

Pg. No. 36

·         We can don’t have the luxury to wait till MBA (HR) professors (and students) try it out. But we will involve them in “Refinement”.

·         Differ with us in case of India Recruiter

·         “Buy files” will it get accepted as a new category?

Pg. No. 37

·         The child in every man?

Pg. No. 38

·         If mgmt. college student’s students start experimenting with IIT, then it is possible that such discussion groups may form between far-flung friends.

·         We will need to come up with something similar.

Pg. No. 39

·         I have readout believe that IIT users, will come up with modifications to extend use of IIT to canny-out “Reference checks” of many kinds, e.g.: reference check for prospective Bride / Groom on Bharat Harmony or shadi - com.

Pg. No. 41

·         This is what we should try w.r.t. mgmt. college professors

Pg. No. 43

·         It is same with generation of profile by filling – up the “submit resume” Form on India Recruiter. The endive process must be “in tuitive”. There can be no scope for making a mistake / then blaming India Recruiter. The very first attempt must produce “Profiles”. World – of – Mouth can work both ways

·         Equally true for India Recruiter.

Pg. No. 46

·         Can we say “what Profiles will do for online recruitment”?

Pg. No. 48

·         By adding a few more fields & capturing those values, in our database, we could generate many more interesting Profiles & uncover TRENDS. For this to happen first the existing Profiles must become very popular & get universally accepted by Recruiters. Once they start “insisting” on Profiles, jobseekers would become amenable to provide whatever data we want them to enter in “submits Resume” form. Only Recruiters can pressurize jobseekers!

Pg. No. 50

·         If a few mgmt. college Professors – and their students-contribute “interview Questions” and, others notice their “contributions” others may also get prompted to do likewise. This would be especially true if if can get users (i.e. interviewers) to click on a question that they choose to ask the candidate – and a counter displays, how many times that particular question. “got asked”. Along with the name of the person who contributed that question. That would be a powerful “rendition”! (03-12-06)

Pg. No. 54

·         Rs. 1 /= Lakh.

·         Loyalty from childhood

Pg. No. 59

·         We have in our library

·         Depending upon its products / services, each company needs executives having specified (sometimes UNIQVE) skills. IIT must be able to provide Questions pertaining to these skills. Then only will such companies use IIT.

Pg. No. 62

·         In Resume search tabulation, against each candidate’s name, we can provide 3 figs:

1)    Minim Interview score

2)    Maxw _ _

3)    Ave. _ _

·         We will do this without revealing identity of the interviecrvers

·         We can also use this : hoe many Interview Questions has this person contributed giving public recognition

·         They will contribute good questions, only when they are “recognised” for their contributions. This (recognition) is the least that we can – and must do, to motivate them.

Pg. No. 64

·         India Recruiter too would have corpo client form many industries

Pg. No. 80

·         Our goal is to make it easy for recruiters to quickly zero – in / find the most relevant resumes & establish contact with those candidates.

Pg. No. 82

·         It is quite possible that HR mgrs. feel this way during resume searches on jobsites.

Pg. No. 84

·         On India Recruiter, we have tried to simplify “navigation” to such an extent that a visitor can never feel “LOST”.

 

 

 

Pg. No. 92

·         In “post a Job” page, we plan to display (in reverse chronological order) – all the job-Advt released by our corpo – clients, over the last 2 years. They can, simply copy paste any and edit before clicking submit button – As simple as that.

Pg. No. 93

·         I have a feeling that those executives who affix attach their colour photo to their resumes; stand a letter as compared to those who do not.

·         We have applied this principle in “Resume Search – Archival”.

·         During our demo of Resume search on India Recruiter, we will simile timeously conduct resume searches on Monster / Naukri / times jobs for comparison purpose! Great idea!

Pg. No. 94

·         In almost all companies, nearly all positions / Vacancies get re advertised again & again, with very little change & with definite time pattern (frequency).

Pg. No. 102

·         Me be we could organise on our website a community of experts who can contribute “Interview Questions”. Let us first wait / see, the response when we implement my today’s note” GEEK CHALLENGE” (05-12-06)

·         Shall we publish the names of those who contribute to “Geek Challenge”? Of come, if they wish.

Pg. No. 108

·         This is THE KEY element. Pride of creation. A kind of “Self – Actualization”. Q: How can we get “Geek Challenge” contributors to SEE, what they have helped create?

·         Top 50: You “vote” coincided with how many to Top so? 10   30

·         This is relatively easy to show – but it still does not showing the extent to which his “vote” altered / changed the Profile.

Pg. No. 109

·         Graphical representation no. of votes polled

·         ____ _____

·         What about a list of contributors with their photo? (op tonal  of course)

Pg. No. 111

·         In online IIT, every time a Recruitment Manager adds a new “attribute” in candidate Assessment, we can add it to the “MASTER – LIST OF ATTRIBUTES” for every user’s Benefit. Spoke to Sourabh to add this feature. Says, can be done (05-12-06)

·         On India Recruiter, on both the vertical panels, we will add a link “Suggest something” ______ ____

Pg. No. 113

·         If & when we launch our own online “Jobseekers Community” then the theme would need to be : “Profiles helps candidates get jobs”

Pg. No. 115

·         In India today, we have close to 25 % of total population below the age of 18 and close to 40 % below the age of 25! I.e. 400 million youngsters!! They will all need jobs. But first they need job related info.

Pg. No. 118

·         May be HR mgrs. too are afraid of asking questions (during interview) for fear of “Feeling stupid” or exposing their ignorance of the subject – matter. If so, they would appreciate IIT & its databank of questions. They will also know the thru Wikipedia answer.

Pg. No. 119

·         We are planning to target around 700 / 1000 recruitment agencies first – but with online IIT, anything may happen! If corpo. HR mgrs. like what they see; we could see a rush of corps. Registrar – tons first! (06-12-06)

·         In about 2/3 weeks, we should know the trend. Launch target is 12/12/06 Nirmit birthday

·         Same with us.

·         We plan to depend upon Emails & word – of – mouth.

Pg. No. 120

·         If IIT becomes a hit with corps – HR mgrs., it will keep them locked into India Recruiter. The more they use it, the more of their past interview – records will reside on our servers.

Pg. No. 121

·         On India Recruiter, we have tried to the same (similar by com binning long a single platform),

·         Job Advt Posting

·         Resume Search and

·         Online Interviewing

·         Recruitment

Pg. No. 122

·         Thru Karma scope, a jobseeker gets “feedback” in the form of keywords

1)    Present

·         Absent

·         In his resume. He can also move the keywords UP or DOWIN. If after a lapse of 6 months, he acquires some additional skills, he can come back, look at his karma Scope & “re – adjust” the keywords, as often as he wants!

Pg. No. 123

·         Critical issue also for us in India – Recruiter

Pg. No. 124

·         This is what we need in IIT we will someday introduce multiple – choice / objective questions so that RIGHT WRONG (Green Red) can be flashily on screen

·         Feedback

Pg. No. 125

·         Our Percentile score in Profiles is a “relative standing” vis – a – vis other v” Professionals”

·         Raw score

·         We in tend to provide “Apple to Apple” comparison

·         I hope jobseekers – and recruiters – love Profiles.

·         I am keeping my fingers crossed for India Recruiter!

Pg. No. 127

·         Just 6 / 7 months back

Pg. No. 128

·         May be IIT will fill an unmet need

Pg. No. 135

·         Read “Lang Tail”

·         At present only Recruiter will be ONLINE in IIT. Candidate could be sitting across the table or on a phone. Once we introduce IIM (Interview thru Instant Messaging), both will be ONLINE.

Pg. No. 141

·         In the recruitment scenario, a jobseeker may demand / expect a certain salary but the employer will offer what is “going market rate” + what will not upset the internal applecart (Similar exiting employees).

Pg. No. 144

·         This interest on the part of journalists (to report on India Recruiter) would be very important to us as well.

·         India Recruiter will not cut out Recruitment Agencies. On the other hand we will empower them.

·         How? This is a time consuming offline process.

Pg. No. 147

·         We will need a similar period to settle down even as we are adding new features, every month.

Pg. No. 148

·         We need to capture ten times (jobseekers) in same period. It we manage, there would be no looking back

·         If India Recruiter becomes a hit, we will approach times jobs in 2/3 months for some sort of tie-up. I feel timesjobs.com would want to explore any opportunity to overtake Monster / Naukri.

·         Needs checking out

Pg. No. 149

·         If India Recruiter proves to be a hit with corps. Clients & jobseekers, copy cats will follow. (07-12-06)

Pg. No. 151

·         To be able to email to their corps. Clients, a systematic / scientifically structured, “candidate Assessment”.

·         Could this be one of the “under served” needs of Recruitment Agencies? if yes, then IIT should catch their fancy !

Pg. No. 152

·         We have planned for corps. Interviewers to create their own / private online databank of interview question.

·         We have planned “Geek Challenge”

Pg. No. 153

·         We plan to give “credit / recognition” to those recruiters who contribute “PUBLIC DOMAIN” interview questions. Every time such a question pops-up (in IIT), contributor’s name gets flashed.

·         We intend adding “Ave. Interview score” in Resume Search, without revealing names of interviewers, who interviewed a candidate.

·         Is it likely that candidates may create even better interview questions HR mgrs.’?

Pg. No. 154

·         We have planned counters :

·         No. of times this resume / job – advt. was viewed so for.

·         In profiles each resume gets 3 “tags” Vis = Primary / Secondary / Tertiary Skill / Functions.

Pg. No. 156

·         Also when we launch 3pjobs.com on 14-11-97

·         I need to visit

Pg. No. 158

·         On India Recruiter I am trying to encourage jobseekers to come back of ten & edit their resumes if only to see how their Raw Score & Percentile Score Keeps changing all the time. See “Edit Your Resume” page.

Pg. No. 162

·         On India Recruiter, there will be several indicators of a candidate’s “Reputation” (someday, we will show all, side by side) vis:

·         No. of times resume viewed by recruiters

·         Match Index

·         Raw Score

·         Percentile Score

·         Ave. Interview Score

·         Maybe, someday we could create a “Composite” Index of Employability!!

Pg. No. 163

·         Hopefully, someday soon, our “Employability Index”, will carry a “prestige-value” for jobseekers.

·         Keywords

Pg. No. 164

·         Someday we will plot and try to find correlation –

·         ----------------- ---------------------

·         ------------------ ----------------------

·         Once we have Interview score % data for 10,000 candidates (irrespective of which recruiters interviewed and when), then we can plot such a scatfergram - since we already know the Percentile score of each of these candidates, on the date of the interview).

·         If there is a high co-relation between X axis and Y axis, then we can boast that our “Percentile score is an excellent indicator of a candidate’s performance in interview”

·         That would give a tremendous CREDIBILITY to our Profiles! (08-12-06)

Pg. No. 166

·         We have in our library.

Pg. No. 168

·         On all jobsites, all the content (vis: job Advt & resumes) is always contributed by users.

·         We have somewhat similar plans.

Pg. No. 169

·         This cannot work on a jobsite

Pg. No. 172

·         Someday, we will make job – advertisers pay us to deliver their job-Advt to suitable / relevant candidates (Where candidate’s resume contains same keywords as appearing in job – Advt).

·         I read somewhere that only less than 1 % of the blogs created get read by someone else! On some (or may be most), there are no “comments” by other readers for months or years! If I were to post my poems may be 4/5 persons may come / read in a year! I may still do it in order to “immortalize” myself!

Pg. No. 173

·         May be we can get technical / management college Professors to contribute to creation of online databank of interview questions. They are used to setting “Exam Question Papers”! We must give them credit.

Pg. No. 175

·         What jobseekers do while posting “resume-documents” & advertisers do while posting “Job Advt. document”.

Pg. No. 177

·         We must find out “how”?

Pg. No. 180

·         How can I make “Geek Challenge” a “massive multiplayer game”? I must find out what will motivate the IT pros. To play this “rating” game?

Pg. 181

·         Our team is incredible too! Time will tell. (10-12-06)

·         Day-after-tomorrow, we launch IndiaRecruiter.net.  It will take 3 / 4 weeks to know the response.

·         In course of time, we will offer many modes of resume search = some 6 / 8 different approaches

1)    Conventional

2)    Archival (now renamed “Barter”)

3)    Matrix

4)    Magic cube

5)    clone

6)    pinpoint

7)    Long tail etc.

Pg. No. 182

·         Somewhat like candidate Assessment in IIT.

·         We have plan to add “private Resume”

·         Our “Public” Contributed Interview Question Bank.

Pg. No. 183

·         Key element

Pg. No. 184

·         Sourabh has designed tool which can enable a jobseeker to select a colour-combination for his graphical profiles. May be billions of unique combinations are possible! we will introduce later

·         We have plans wherein users of India Recruiter can create a NEW “function category” & also list keywords associated with this NEW category. Then let other users “VOTE” on these keywords (as in case of “Geek Challenge” once 1000 users have voted, we will accept & incorporate the new category in our database.

Pg. No. 185

·         Our conventional Resume search, in future, will enable clicking on – World Map – Country Map – City

·         IIT is a classic example.

Pg. No. 187

·         We launched World-Wide-Jobs.com on Jan 28, 2005, (day I had my bypass).

·         WWJ depends up downloading job – Advt from Naukri.com / then delivering Job Alerts on Mobiles (JAM) to our subscribers. For delivery of SMS, we tied-up with Airtel / MTNL / BSNL & Reliance.

Pg. No. 188

·         In IIT, We are providing “Definitions” (of key words) form Wikipedia. We have sourced questions from many websites. We have used Google sets & Google Archives.

·         A candidate’s Residential Address in our “Submit Resume” form, is a geo – coded data.

Pg. No. 189

·         In IIT, clicking on “Position / Vacancy” will bring up “Job Descriptions” from over 500,000 job – Advt. Clicking on “Client Name” will bring up company Profile.

·         Once India Recruiter takes roots we should invite Patricia Seybold to visit.

·         P=395

Pg. No. 190

·         India Recruiter is a “data Service”

·         In profiles we have 7 graphs. At present we have frozen their relations within the profiles. Someday we will enable HR mgrs. to re – arrange their sequential order in they like.

Pg. No. 191

·         Like Raw Score / Percentile Score / Match Index

Pg. No. 194

·         It is quite probable that Backstage BBC website “News” contain a lot of “company / corporate” related info which, we can pull – in, if regd. It may not have much data on Indian Companies.

Pg. No. 197

·         We will modify “Geek Challenge”

Pg. No. 198

·         Interview Questions

·         Key words for

·         -Industries

·         -Functions

·         -Skill Areas

·         -Knowledge Areas

·         Company Profiles

·         Company organisation charts

·         Job Descriptions

·         Salary Data

·         (10-12-06)

Pg. No. 200

·         I intend to give away (FREE) Guru-Grab tool (Resume Downloader) to Recruitment Agencies. An email built into the tool will recommend / suggest that the jobseeker register at India Recruiter.

Pg. No. 211

·         I believe Microsoft announced a similar move in repeat of internet Explorer, a few weeks back.

·         May be Netscape realised it cannot keep it “alive” on a commercial visas.

Pg. No. 215

·         Rahul just phoned to say that his team has uploaded all files on Reliance server and as soon as he reaches home, he will try to deploy India Recruiter website. Tomorrow is the Launch – day. (11/12/06: 8 p.m.)

·         “Word-of-Mouth” - what we want for Profiles.

·         How long will it take for us to know whether Profiles will, one day replace all plain text resumes?

·         My idea is to get Recruitment Agencies to market “Profiles” by suggesting that they insist on candidates to send Profiles

·         Could not launch India Recruiter today because internet connection was down! (12-11-06).

Pg. No. 217

·         We cannot afford even a small ad.

Pg. No. 230

·         Voting on keywords belonging / related to specific IT skills (to create Industry – Specific Stack) is quite a “Low end” involvements of IT geeks. Their real contribution could come in developing expert systems for IT recruitment.

·         No single IT com would spare its geeks, to develop a “IT recruitment Expert System” – solely for its own internal use.

Pg. No. 131

·         Our model is same – web services

Pg. No. 133

·         We will enable HR mgrs. of each industry to create new categories of “Functions / Skills” & then list related keywords

Pg. No. 134

·         If we can manage to rope – in L & T InfoTech for co – development of Profile (for IT industry recruitment) that would be a great break!

·         Is is possible that IT companies may feel this way before adopting Profiles? They may want to know how exactly we generate Profiles. If some of them do, that would be a good opportunity to rope them in for further development of Profiles! May  be I can persuade L & T InfoTech (G. K. Apte) to cooperate in such joint development. (12-12-06)

Pg. No. 235

·         Read webpage “Pay per Use” on Global Recruiter.

Pg. No. 236

·         If, first we manage to rope – in L & T InfoTech (for co – development of IT profiles) & then we succeed in roping – in other IT biggies, then that could be a way to surge ahead of Monster / Naukri etc.! They will lose their biggest client – base.

Pg. No. 237

·         Obviously MS will not want to help us into turning Profiles into an “open source” project.

Pg. No. 238

·         In “contribute a Question” we are NOT trying to create a separate developer community.

Pg. No. 251

·         Sourabh finished this project today! (15-12-06)

·         May be, someday, we will need a full time person to “monitor” all entries to “Contribute a Question” so that frivolous questions do not show – up.

Pg. No. 252

·         In “Contribute A Question”, any visitor of India Recruiter can simply type – out question (interview question) in the box provided, without revealing his identity! If he wants to get “credit” for his contribution, he would need to type his name not otherwise. Nothing could be simpler!

·         Hopefully we will launch India Recruiter in Jan 2007

Pg. No. 253

·         In our case “contribute a Question”, visitors can only “add” questions. They cannot remove or edit any questions for adding “Supplementary” “Addendums” – leaving original question intact.

·         Many HR mgrs. may not like their company executives to be contributing questions, that competing companies may start using during interviews.

·         We will need to have a log of questions contributed, every month.

Pg. No. 254

·         This is why in India Recruiter’s IIT, clicking on a keywords, will bring – up related “article / definition” from Wikipedia.

·         I look forward to response from India Recruiter visitors, to “contribute a Question” and later on, to “Geek Challenge” In India Recruiter, contribute a questions can be seen by “registered” corporates (users of IIT) only. This may put – off many contributors looking for “recognition / credit”. We must find a way.

·         This is one more reason; contributed questions should be “Spider able” by Google! Requested Sourabh to do so.

Pg. No. 257

·         In our case, if a contributor want to remain anonymous, then neither his question nor his name could turn – up under link “List of contributors”. Because of this, I expect most contributors to give their details!

Pg. No. 258

·         This is a “negative” approach. We are trying to overcome this “anonymity” issue thru much more positive approach Vis: giving recognition / credit to contributors who give their details.

Pg. No. 262

·         Many big companies would have unique “skill – needs” / “knowledge – needs” / “Expertise – Needs”, amongst its employees. We will enlarge / expand “Geek Challenge”, where by our corps. customers can (First) add a skill / Function / domain

·         (Next) List a set of keywords pertaining to that skill / Function / domain, which they will search in a candidate’s resume.

Pg. No. 263

·         We will turn “Geek Knowledge” into such “Co – design Tool”

·         Precisely in our case.

Pg. No. 264

·         This is what we will provide

·         A list / set of keywords is an ingredient kit

Pg. No. 268

·         We plan to let HR mgrs.’, type their own

o    Function – area / skill area / knowledge Area and then add to each, a set of “relevant” keywords that they expect to find in the resume of any candidate, who claims to belong to that

o    Function – area / skill area / knowledge area.

·         This way, we will wnable HR mgrs. to “configure” the Profile – Graphs, which are relevant to their manpower needs and which clearly & quickly, bring out the “relative – standing” of applicants. (18-12-06)

·         I.e. software modules / objects / components, which would quickly generate Profiles.

Pg. No. 269

·         On our “Self Configure Profiles” page, each HR mgr. contributing set of keywords (for a customized skill) will have to “a theorise” us to use it as we like – for any commercial pwpose.

·         What we will do

Pg. No. 270

·         May be a HR mgr. cannot decide upon a set of keywords on his own. He may need inputs form other line mgrs. In like “Google Docs” (I mentioned to Sourabh to day)

·         Once a HR mgr. has created list of keywords & Submitted to algorithm, the weightage can be changed only by “Voting” / No’s – Polled by other visitors.

Pg. No. 271

·         What we must do in order to differentiate from other jobsites.

·         Corporates do not want to be “stuck” with 50+ Non – IT functions and 89 IT fun Trans / skills. They may want to add many hundreds!

·         We, most certainly will be the FIRST to do this.

·         Best type of compliment! Should Monster / Naukri choose to “Copy” us, they would be “confirming” our business – model – Which would lend a lot of credibility to our process.

Pg. No. 286

·         Partner websites will be our “retail chain” – owned by others but their operating controlled by us. We driver each & every web service

Pg. No. 287

·         Sourabh has designed a tool which enables a jobseeker to give any combination of colours to his profile graphs. There can be millions of unique combinations. Someday we will offer this on India Recruiter.

Pg. No. 288

·         Analysing past data. to find out trends.

Pg. No. 305

·         We plan “resume – clone”.

Pg. No. 320

·         I want to talk this over with G – K. Apte (L & T InfoTech)

Pg. No. 323

·         India Recruiter will be.

Pg. No. 325

·         Raw score / Percentile Score / Match – Index are Partial (but) automatic pre-screening in profiles

·         Why an “in – house” system? Why not online?

·         We can – not do this yet but we do plan to add “antecedent – check” tool

Pg. No. 326

·         If IIT (and later IIM) manage to bring down 1) Recruitment cycle time 2) No of final interviewees then it is bound to be a hit.

·         I don’t know whether “Kish Kish Lie Detector” can be integrated into IIT – and, if so, how long will it take. I spoke to Sourabh yesterday x: www.kishkish.com (20-12-06)

Pg. No. 327

·         Today I have asked Rahul / Sourabh to examine, merging 1) past Job form, with 2) Resume search form and call it “Post Job cum Resume search”. (20-12-06)

·         Each such last minute change – request, delays the launch – date.

Pg. No. 330

·         One day we must evolve “Geek Challenge” into something similar for Recruiting Managers (22-12-06)

Pg. No. 340

·         In today’s write – up (IIT Tour) I have stressed this point while asking recruiters to “Contribute Interview Question”. I hope this works (22-12-06)

Pg. No. 342

·         Recognition we have in corporates this idea in “Contributed Questions” we are Listing all Contributed Questions, under each contributor’s name.

Pg. No. 343

·         We have decided to cheek – out each “contributed Question” before adding to our database. (29-12-06)

·         Without revealing the identifies of interviewers, we plan to show “Ave. Interview Score” against those resumes where interviews were conducted online using IIT. We may even display resumes in the clescenoling order of “Ave. Score”.

·         If only half as many contribute Questions!

Pg. No. 347

·         Although we have added counters (to count “No. of time this keywords was clicked”) – next to each keyword in the Karma Scope, we have no way to know how many times a particular interview question got asked.

·         A Question contributor would be most happy if he can know that a question contributed by him is very popular (amongst recruiters) – and gets asked, frequently. (29-12-06)

Pg. No. 351

·         If we get that many interview question each mouth, we would publicize that fact in a big way! That would attract still more contributors – making it difficult for Naukri / Monster to catch – up with us.

·         In my promo emails, I have invited suggestions / comments. We must ensure to acknowledge each & every suggestion and advise how we plan to use it.

Pg. No. 352

·         On each & every page of India Recruiter, We have a link “Feedback” – also our email ID / Phone No.

·         We have provided for “Geek Challenge” but we don’t have the culture in India.

Pg. No. 353

·         In “Geek Challenge” anyone can add a “New” skill or a “New” function or a “New” Designation and thereafter add any “New” keyword. He can also add a “New” keyword to on existing / old skill / Function / Designation. He can also “Vote” against any no of keywords. “Votes polled” will be shown against each keyword. Then Top 50 / 75 keywords (most polled) will be used for computing “Raw Scores” & drawing graphical profiles. (30-12-06)

·         But we will need to show such graphs to the contributors as a feedback so that the feel enthused.

Pg. No. 357

·         For a jobsite like ours, final year college students and fresh graduates are such “Urban Young Adults”. They are the ones most likely to switch to “Profiles” (- because it is “cool”) If they can get a Profile, they may never want to send a plain text resume.

·         We need to make India Recruiter such a “store”.

Pg. No. 358

·         We too want to battle the forces of Naukri / Monster, but in a more subtle manner – without attacking them directly.

·         Our “Function / Skills” graphs will work equally well in any part of long as the resume is in English. Other graphs may need slight modification.

·         What will make job seekers “fanatic” about Profiles?

Pg. No. 359

·         Can we make jobseekers “fanatical” about Profiles, by offering them (online), the S/W tool designed by will enable each jobseeker to give his Profile, his own UNIQUE colour combination? Which, we can show off to his friends & colleagues? No other website can offer THAT!

Pg. No. 360

·         Is there a possibility – even a remote possibility – that Profiles may become a big hit amongst American jobseekers? – Simply because they are far more accustomed to “experimenting” with anything NEW / DIFFERENT / COOL.

·         If Profiles takes off in USA, India Recruiter would become a hit in India too! And the sheer coincidence of naming Karma – Scope might strike a chord!

Pg. No. 361

·         Sourabh S/W tool, “matches & mixes” (maybe) a 100 different colour – shades, to create millions of UNIQUE profiles Americans might even like to shrink their Profile image to 2”X 1” Logo & put it on their letter heads ! Or on their visiting cards!! I informed Sourabh to  develop such a webpage / feature (30-12-06)

Pg. No. 362

·         In Cowes of time, we will enable a jobseeker to cut / paste his own unique “Signature Tune” on his Profiles.

Pg. No. 363

·         No jobseeker would want to wear his resume but if we succeed in getting to print their Profiles at the back of their visiting cards, then we would get such a “Virtual Sales Force”.

Pg. No. 366

·         In India Recruiter a HR mgr. can contribute a question by clicking on a link in IIT. Anyone can click on “Share Your Knowledge” link from homepage.

Pg. No. 368

·         In India Recruiter, not only we have provided all links on the homepage but the homepage never disappears when you click on any link. This means ALL the links stay visible / clickable ALL the time. I hope that will cncourage clicking. (31-12-06)

·         In our website people can jump from any page to any other page.

Pg. No. 369

·         When we add IIM (Interviewing thru Instant Messaging) & also enable Video – Interviewing / Virtual Job Fair, we would truly make India Recruiter a “Game”.

·         Maybe - in addition to ITI (Interview the Interviewer) I should also enable jobseekers to create a database of Questions that jobseekers can ask prospective. They can use these when being interviewed online, using IIM.

Pg. No. 370

·         I do foresee a time when we may introduce on India Recruiter a Massive Multiplayer game, where several HR mgrs. may simultaneously “interview” several “jobseekers” – all aspiring for ONE Vacancy. For that Vacancy, any HR mgr. will post any question & any online job seeking player earn supply “answer” to that question. Also, may be, disconnected whit the real world!

Pg. No. 372

·         15000 + interview question downloaded from Internet is a “Virtual” knowledge, which, hopefully will make money for India Recruiter. Someway interview – question that will be contributed by Indians can be used online by American Recruiters – which too will make money! We have to only create platform where people can show off their knowledge.

Pg. No. 374

·         I suppose, in our game (p = 370), some jobseekers may choose the role of “Recruiters” & Vice – Versa.

Pg. No. 375

·         In our case, user – created “contents” are 1) Resumes / Profiles 2) Job Advt 3) Interview Question 4) Candidate Assessments 5) Voting on keywords 6) clicking on keywords 7) Adding keywords / Functions

Pg. No. 376

·         In “online Recruitment” area, there are thousands of jobsites, each of which is a stand – alone “Virtual Bridges” for job – Advt & Resumes to cross – over. Global Recruiter will become such a bridge

·         IIT will extend into IIM & then onto Virtual Job fair (I have not prepared a note sofar – or maybe I have). Candidate Assessment Form can be used for many other types of assessments online.

·         Our attempt is to make “Profiles”

Pg. No. 388

·         If, using India Recruiter platform, HR mgrs. create many more NEW profiles, everybody will benefit – including us!

·         May be “Profiles” is such a platform. But then why not let “Profiles” mutate? Why not enable customers (HR mgrs.) to customise existing Profiles? Create, altogether NEW Profiles? (31-12-06)

Pg. No. 389

·         We are trying to do this with our (Re. 1/=) “Pay – Per – Click” model.

Pg. No. 395

·         Letus write to them to talk about India Recruiter


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