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When I read any book, I scribble my comments / notes in the margins
Pg.
No. 1
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(28-07-2006)
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(21-08-2010)
Pg.
No. 2
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I suppose
most Indian jobseekers visit the (SAME) jobsites vis: Monster India / Naukri / Times
jobs / Job street / Coil etc. Ditto for HR Mgrs. & Head hunters.
Pg.
No. 3
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In last 4
yrs. (since 2006), may be 50% of young Indian have got a mobile phone.
(21-08-10)
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Still luxuries in India – may be 0.05% of the
youth have
access to these!
Pg.
No. 4
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This
Chatting (IM) is now available on most high – end phones (-and Andree told me,
it is FREE!). In another 2 yrs., I Suppose IM will be supported even on low end
mobiles.
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I remember
BUNIYAD HUMLOG RAMAYAN MAHA BHARAT
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On Sunday
mornings, when roads got deserted (no traffic) and it was considered impolite
to visit friends / relatives on Sunday mornings!
Pg.
No. 5
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Within 4
yrs., the “Viewing experience” is shifting from the PC screen to the Mobile
Screen! If, today, only 5% of the mobiles can “access” internet, in 5 yrs., it
will be 50% Mobile is getting to be the “device of choice” (21/08) If JAM
revival (courtesy HP Lab) works, we may be able to deliver specific job alerts
to each TV which is internet – connected and has a unique IP address.
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10 million
candidates searching job on Naukri (daily) = 100 million candidates using JAM
only (once) in 10 days!!
Pg.
No. 6
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In JAM task
let, jobseekers will send “jam – Alert” SMS (also, JAM – Apply “SMS). So, they
will bear the cost of SMS. We are NOT pushing any SMS & .. no cost to us.
(22-08)
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Today it is
only pc screen (for jobs). Tomorrow it will be Mobile – Next a TV screen.
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Job Advt in
Newspapers of Metro Cities which don’t reach small towns. Jobs are there – have
always been there – except small town jobseekers just do not know about them.
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JAM many
change this scenario, because of ability to PULL / SEE / APPLY against such
jobs on non – GPRS, low – end mobiles. The water is receding!
Pg. No. 7
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Depository
Pg.
No. 8
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There could
be a lesson here for our “Archival Job search”. Common sense tells us, “who
would to search & apply against a 6 MONTH old job – Advt?” It would appear
no one. But we could be in for a surprise! Jobseekers bent upon working in a
given company and in a given position, may want to forward their resumes – no
matter how old is that job – Advt!
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Job –
openings at 500,000 small companies may not be “hits” but, if these were at
least equally “available” then many jobseekers may click “Apply Online”.
Pg.
No. 9
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One may
argue that “old music” is not perishable Commodity – Whereas, once a Vacancy
gets filled, the job – Advt “perishes”. Although job – Advt (which is only an
announcement), perishes, Job itself does not! When person occupying that job,
resigns, job – Advt gets “reborn”. In course of time, India - Recruiter will
display, how many times a company advertised same job, again & again – then
“Predict” the next Advt!!
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We plan to
target 5 lakh companies with ave staff of 10 & need to fill ONE vacancy /
year.
Pg.
No. 10
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Our Archival job
– Advt database is now close to 37 lakh. I just sent a note to Rohan / Alex /
Priya, how – and why, we should revive “Job Search Archival” on Customize
Resume. (22-08-10)
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Our “Archival
Job Search” would start with close to 700,000 job – Advt
Pg.
No. 11
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Global
Recruiter (GR) / India Recruiter (IR), will be, basically in MEDIA business,
catering to “job – Advt” postings and “Resume – Posting” (a jobseeker’s Advt).
We will, therefore, also follow Google / Yahoo’s PAY-PER-CLICK model, to align
ourselves fully with online MEDIA business. This will be the way to
differentiate ourselves from typical jobsites.
Pg.
No. 13
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(28-07-06)
Pg.
No. 15
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It is the
same hope now, except this time, it is for JAM (-hopefully, to be launched in 2
weeks) – assisted by site On Mobile.Com’s task let. Apparently, there has been
no “Online word of mouth”, either for India Recruiter (3½ yrs. now), nor for
Customize Resume (9 mouths now) (22-08-10)
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I do hope
some jobseekers will start blogs about “Profiles” & India Recruiter. But my
best hope is for HR mgrs. to insist on Profiles. No more text resumes.
Pg.
No. 16
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We have
planned “Recommendation Systems” (algorithm based on click analysis /
patterns), both for jobseekers and for HR mgrs..
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My today’s
note re: Job search Archival hopes this will happen.
Pg.
No. 17
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Internet
(able – based) has not reached, 90% of Indian population (small towns &
villages). We are a big country – geographically & population wise. But
Mobile airwaves are reaching nearly everywhere. JAM hopes to capitalize on
this. So, hopefully, where Naukri / times jobs / monster do not reach, JAM may!
(22-08-10)
Pg.
No. 18
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But soon
there will be servers which can store a BILLION resumes! – and precisely
deliver the UNIQUE candidate to any HR mgr. anywhere!
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Google is
already storing and delivering (within mille – seconds) TRILLIONS of pages to
anyone, anywhere in the world (-but still restricted by internet connection).
But soon, it will offer searches on Google Phone / Google TV!
Pg.
No. 22
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This will be
similar to “No-of Times this resume got downloaded” – and displaying in
descending order of downloads. Each resume is a unique “track”. I suppose there
will be thousands (or lakhs) that get downloaded 2/5 times, but together these
will still contribute a good percentage of our revenue. (29-07-06)
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Q:
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How fast can
we add resumes to our database?
Pg.
No. 23
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If we, someday,
host “Job Search – Archival” and make 37 lakh job – Advt available for
searching, then collectively, a few hundreds may get “viewed” (-even if not
“applied”) every week. No – of visits & “Time on site” may go up. But
maybe, we should start Archival Job – Search by “CITY” rather than “COMPANY”.
Pg.
No. 24
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If those 5
lakh small companies place even one job – Advt / year (on India Recruiter) each
that could well be 50% of all job – ads posted! Imagine what such a Long Tail
could do to (1) Apply Online Clicks (2) Resume Download Clicks
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Setting in
motion a “VIRTUOUS CIRCLE”.
Pg.
No. 25
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A newspaper
is a “physical distribution channel”. Even at 16 pages of ASCENT, Times of India
cannot carry more than 200 jobs – Advt in one issue! Scarce capacity!
Pg.
No. 26
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Current /
live job – Advt on Naukri, could be no more than 1 lakh. (Same with Times job
& Monster). Imagine offering 37 lakh. Job – Advt, online in one place! IT
is possible that
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Today, Monster India
/ Naukri / Times jobs etc. charge (the cost of connecting supply & demand)
between Rs. 100,000 to Rs. 300,000 per year (to Corporate Subscribers) to (a)
Post jobs (b) Search Resumes. These are UP – FRONT fees (for ¾ licenses).
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Will we succeed
in “Changing the nature of the online recruitment market” by introducing
“Pay-Per-Click” model, which will dramatically lower this “Cost of Connecting”?
@ Re. 1/click! Will this (act) bring 500,000 small companies to start posting
their vacancies on Global Recruiter? These are companies, who have never before
advertised their vacancies ON – LINE or even in newspapers.
Pg.
No. 27
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Millions of
jobseekers from small towns / villages, may just NOT bother that these “job –Advt”
have expired. If they believe that they are Suitable” candidates for those
vacancies – and that the posting location was a nearby town, they may still
wish to “Push” their resume – in the hope that it will get noticed!!
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With 42
million jobseekers registered on 1200+ employment exchanges (of which, only
300,000 get job – offers in a year), there is nothing, but “HOPE” for these
millions. (22-08-10)
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All job
portals enable jobseekers to “search” & “Apply Online”, free of cost. In
JAM, they will need to bear the cost of SMS so, cost goes up – but JAM opens –
up “Connectivity” for millions who have no access to internet. Even for city –
based jobseekers that have easy access to Net, JAM saves time.
Pg.
No. 29
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History repeats
itself. Now in 2004 onwards, it is Apple manufacturing & selling iPod
players to popularise its iTunes music – selling website! (-where, @ 99 cents /
track, Apple makes all the money)
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In 1956/58,
while in USA, I had watched his News – Casts daily.
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I did too
(56/58).
Pg.
No. 30
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I used to
watch this too
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Perry Colon
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Pat Boone
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Nat king Cole
-
Harry Belafonte
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Peggy Lee
-
Frank
Sinatra was the most of my favourite singers.
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Network. GR
must build a network of 5000 jobsites across the world.
Pg.
No. 31
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Can Profiles
prove SEXY enough to sell to (mostly men) HR mgrs.? ---------
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Staring
March 2000.
Pg.
No. 32
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Ravi Shankar’s
daughter?
Pg.
No. 33
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Can we
possibly track all “resume” (files) being emailed to any HR mgr. / placement
agency / Head hunter, across India? If all resumes get converted to profiles –
maybe we can, by embedding a piece of code into each profile – that alerts us,
every time it gets emailed. Technically possible.
Pg.
No. 34
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I believe HR
mgrs. (and Placement Agencies) will ditch plain text resumes & switch to
Profiles – within 6 months of launch of GR / IR.
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Obviously a
wishful thinking! Nothing like this has happened in 4 yrs. – nor likely to
happen for next 4 yrs.!
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CHRIS came
out with a book with this title in 2009. In our library
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Within 2
weeks, we will launch “SUBMIT RESUME (PRIVATE)”. I also plan to give away for
FREE, “Resume Downloader” tool to HR mgrs. & Agencies. With these TWO
(Combination) acting in tandem, HR mgrs. will get PROFILES for “free”! Such a
combination would be irresistible! (30-07-06)
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Stopped
working! Apparently
jobsites got wise!
Pg.
No. 35
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We will have
many more: with permutations / combinations from 49 functions X 40 Industries X
5 designation levels.
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We propose
“Recommended Jobs” (to jobseekers) and “Recommended Candidates” (to HR mgrs.) –
based on patterns developed from their “Search – Clicks”.
Pg.
No. 36
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USA has +1400 FM
radio stations. By 2010, India plans to have 1000+. (Nowhere).
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IPOD, docs not
“surprise me with the next “unanticipated” song – as a FM radio does!
Unfortunately many (99%) of FM radio’s surprises are Third arcade songs.
Solution? An iPod which randomizes my favourite artists & favourite songs.
It will come.
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To an extent
Profiles will do the same for resumes. They will all look pretty much alike
(little differentiation). But profiles will make HR mgr.’s life very simple!
Pg.
No. 37
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Monster /
Naukri / Times jobs “business model” is dependent on 5000, big corporate job –
advertisers (90% of revenue). We will target 5000,00 small companies.
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Someday we
will also give away (free) Guru Search search engine to Corporates &
Agencies to enable them to search their own offline database of profiles.
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Abhi came
down from Pune yesterday. He has explained to Alex, a method to revive Guru
Mine (Resume Parser). If we succeed, we plan to create a downloadable too,
combining & Guru Search I plan to give it away free – if I can incorporate
a feature, whereby, every “parsed” resume anywhere, gets automatically uploaded
on our website. (22-08-10)
Pg.
No. 39
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Monster /
Naukri / Thiesjob, desperately need those few thousand advertisers (big time
employers / Agencies), capable of paying Annual Subscriptions of Rs. 1-3 lakh
(which small businesses just cannot afford). Fortunately for these jobsites, a
big attrition – rate (25% - 40%) at these large employers force them to
continue to come back with more job – advts, every day!
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Thru ARM
(Advertiser Responsiveness Monitor), we will keep “score” and rank / display
the results in descending order. I hope a low score will motivate HR mgrs. to
give feedback to each & every job – applicant (-so as to push – up the
rank).
Pg.
no. 40
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We also plan
to incorporate “No. of time this job – advt. was viewed” counter. We will even
display the results (of a job – search) in the descending order of this counter
– to prompt more clicks on the “hits”.
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Self -
fulfilling prophesy.
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It Facebook
/ LinkedIn / My Space / Orkut etc. are modern – day “water coolers”, you don’t
even need to walk – down to them, they come to you as an icon on your mobile –
screen! You just tap it gently and find yourself talking to a dozen friends –
online. (22-08-10)
Pg.
No. 42
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JAM pull SMS
will cost 0.25/0.50 to a rural user (jobseeker) but he least have a means.
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Our ever
growing database (inventory) of job – advts
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Delivery
over low end mobiles against a simple SMS (JAM – Alert) to 5667771
Pg.
No. 43
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If we
(Global Recruiter) offer a choice of 50 million resumes at Rs. 1/= each, can we
start a “Sears Roebuck” type of revolution in recruitment industry? During my
stay in USA (1965-58), Sears & MACY’S PENNYS were the only big store –
chains.
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Can we reach
500,000 jobs to jobseekers in 5000 small towns? Provide them a “Level –
Playing” field.
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What we will
try thru JAM. (22-08)
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How will
small town jobseekers react to JAM giving them their first experience of
internet?
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I must
remember to incorporate some such suggestion, when I send my promo email to 208
Lakh jobseekers re: JAM.
Pg.
No. 44
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We plan to
make Global Recruiter such a “Superstore” of job – advts & resumes,
available for Rs. 1/= each! What would TATA’S Rs. 1 lakh Cardo to Indian Auto
Industry – when available in 2008?
Pg.
No. 45
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Tata was
forced to shift NANO car – plant from Singur (WB) to san and (Gujarat). That
delayed delivery by 1 ½ yrs. But already 50,000 cars have been delivered and
2.5 lakh will be delivered in 2011 / 2012. Plant can produce 5 lakh / year. Now
2/3 other car mnfr’s are planning to come out with cheap cars! (22-08)
Pg.
No. 46
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We too are
getting job – advts RSS feeds from 3 job portals, adding – 1000 jobs / day. If
we can add some 10 / 20 more RSS feeds, we can be a Super Market of jobs! Today
we are dangerously depending out on these 3 sites. This is our weakness – and
we will overcome it.
Pg.
No. 48
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I plan to
make IIT (Interactive Interview Tool), such a “Dimension” to vastly improve the
experience of HR mgrs. on Global Recruiter. IIT can only be done on web!
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With a TCP /
IP account, we could not see any images – only text!
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Jeff Taylor
(of Monster – USA) is probably adding 5 million new resumes on his website,
every year.
Pg.
No. 49
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We plan to
add “Antecedent Checks” of registered jobseekers (“reviews” provided by their
former employers) – which can be accessed / viewed by Members of “Reference
Check Club”.
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Hopefully
someday we will add RSS feeds from job - portals of all major countries.
Pg.
No. 50
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For small
town & rural jobseekers, without “access” to internet, will JAM become a
“smart way to find” job – advts? – on their mobiles?
·
Jobs &
Resumes
Pg.
No. 52
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In our
“Archival Job Search”, we will make available (for searching), over 700,000 job
– advts published / posted on Naukri over the last 2 years. Perhaps, no more
than 10,000 (barely 1.5%) may be “Current / Live” vacancies. But, is it
possible that, jobseekers (at least those that are desperate) may just ignore
this fact (of dead / obsolete advts) and go on merrily “Applying Online”
(clicking) even on these obsolete advts, simply because
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Vast choice
to find something appropriate / interesting
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“Apply
online” is FREE (costs nothing)
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Hope that
this vacancy may have “resurfaced” and / or, that concerned HR manager may get
impressed with “Profiles”. (30-07-06)
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Today, I
have sent a U /me to Rohan / Alex / Priya re: prelaunch of “Job search – Archival”.
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No. of jobs
is now (37 lakhs!!) (22-08-10)
Pg.
No. 53
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One job /
year, available with 500,000 small businesses in 5000 small / medium towns, are
such “niche goods” – which have gone, totally unnoticed so far.
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According to
Google, there are 30 million SMEs in India!
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JAM is one
such way.
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Job – Alerts
are basically recommendations.
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-Resume Download
Tool
·
-Submit Resume
(Private)
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-Resume Courier
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-RAM (Resume
Alert Mobile)
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-JAM (Job Alert
Mobile) – Cell Phones
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-JAS (Job Alert
Summary) – Papers
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-JAT (Job Alert
on TV)
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JAR (Job Alert
on Radio)
·
-Global
Recruiter Network.
Pg.
No. 54
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Even on
“Customize Resume”, this form is too long & complicated / totally
unsuitable for SME. We must modify / simplify it. Can it be made so easy that
it can be posted from mobile – as SMS? (22-08-10)
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I must study
the “minimal” content of print media classifieds. Since print media is so
expensive, advertisers have mastered the art of conveying meaning with MIN. characters.
If “Job Posting” is FREE and 5 lakh SME can post it from their mobiles that
could revolutionise online recruitment.
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Gradually
changing to mobiles.
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By
simplifying “Job Posting” form (-and automating), we hope, we can motivate
500,000 companies to create / post their job – advts on Global Recruiter.
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Converting a
plain text resume into a stylish Profile is also “democratizing” the production
of resumes.
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We plan to
involve Recruiters in creating a data – bank of interview questions. (thru IIT)
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On India
Recruiters posting a job – advts, will go down to just clicking on a Vacancy /
Position / Title!
Pg.
No. 55
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If we
succeed in enabling job – posting from mobiles (and thereby making it very
“easy” for 5 lakh SME to “go online” with their “vacancies”, we will also need
to be able to “distribute” these vacancies, to rural / small town jobseekers,
on their mobiles. Q: how will we “match” those vacancies with those jobseekers?
(23-08-10)
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Partner
Jobsites will be our supply chain supplying both job – advts & resumes.
They will also be our “Delivery chain”.
Pg.
No. 56
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Job search
& Resume search in Archival mode are very simple.
Pg.
No. 61
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In last 4
weeks, amateur Indian astronomers, located & new asteroids! (23-08-10)
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Must of the
30 million SMEs of India, may not have a PC / internet connection. But
certainly all of them have a mobile. We must find a way for them to upload a
160 character job – advts, directly from their mobile – as an SMS. (23-08-10)
Pg.
No. 63
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Will JAM
become such a “tool” (which will democratize the “Online Recruitment” process
which will liberate 30 million SMEs & 300 million rura / small town
jobseekers, from the tyranny of PC / Internet / Naukri / Monster etc.?
(23-08-10)
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I just tried
out 2 pages (Alert & Advt. Details) prepared by Alex / Priya, and I feel we
are on the right path. We will still need a good marketing.
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In last 2
days, in Google, I found – 50,000 blag on – Global Warming – Unemployment,
uploaded in “Last 24 hours”! With total running into millions.
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I come under
this category. But posting 100 blogs / day, during last a months, I have
managed to collect 23,380 “backlinks” to my site! That certainly improves “Page
Rank” & 1st page placing in Google, for many search – terms.
(23-08-10)
Pg.
No. 64
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May be,
someday, we should let jobseekers (or HR Mgrs.?) – to add “New” functions – and
their corresponding” Keywords” (with weightages?) – And create “new” Profile
Graphs! – Which, others can come forward & improve! We have to make Guru
Mine “Open Source” platform (-but, like Linux) controlled by us! If & when
we do this, we (i.e. Global Recruiter) would overtake all the job sites of the
world! We can expect thousands of Mgrs. to come forward to contribute.
Pg.
No. 65
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What may
really / really “motivate” SMEs to advertise their vacancies on our site (using
SMS from their mobiles), would be some feedback such as: “Your vacancy got
broadcast to 35649 jobseekers. Some of them may call you on your mobile in next
few minutes”.
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If we can
manage this, it would have on “Electrifying” effect. (23-08-10)
Pg.
No. 66
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I have
called a page (on India Recruiter) “Life Form” to describe Profiles, which will
(someday soon) start morphing into new shapes, every hour.
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With only a
few hundred registered candidates in last 4 years, this has not happened so far
and may not happen for a long time to come. But, it WILL happen someday.
(23-08)
Pg.
No. 67
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If we ever
think of harnessing the “knowledge” of domain – experts to add new functions
& related keywords, we should use some “selection – criteria” for selecting
such experts.
Pg.
no. 68
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Our profiles
will get better & better (more accurate) as more & more resumes get
processed & both, relevant keywords and their weightages get constantly
“refined”.
Pg.
No. 69
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An hour ago,
I found a few websites, where you can enter any mobile no and (hopefully)
discover a few things about the owner of that mobile no. In JAM, we will
receive many SMS and capture those mobile nos. If we can connect up the 2 sets of info. We can offer better matching job – alerts! Sent an
email to Alex, Priya & Rohan.
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Will be same
with Global Recruiter
Pg.
No. 70
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Global
Recruiter will also “evolve”. Over a period of time, offering ever “newer”
insights into the process of recruitment, as it accumulates ever greater no. of
job advts & resumes.
Pg.
No. 71
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Each new
resume added to Global Recruiter’s database will improve the “accuracy” of Raw
Scores & Percentile Scores and make each Function Graph more
“representative”.
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In India
Recruiter too, I have taken a (fictitious) frequency distribution of 1000
candidates, to start – up the process.
Pg.
No. 74
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At the bottom,
each Profile carries following punch live – “Profiles are the new currency of
recruitment: Issued by www.IndiaRecruiter.net
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Raw scores on
Function Profile Graphs can be looked upon as a measure of a candidate’s
Reputation
·
I expect
“profiles” to get far better noticed by HR Mgrs. – as compared to plain text
resumes
·
And many studies
/ suweys show that to get noticed, Google would have to list you on the FIRST
page!
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All my blogs do.
Pg.
No. 75
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I have given
– up “Resume Ratter”. Read page “copy right? Hell No” on India Recruiter
(23-08)
Pg.
No. 79
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If
“Profiles” strikes a chord / catches the fancy, of a few HR mgrs. in large
companies and should they insist on Profiles only (refusing to accept plain
text resumes) – then it will spread like wild fire.
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Not so far!
Pg.
No. 83
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In a job
portal:
·
Jobseekers
“produce” a resume & “consume” a job advts
·
Recruiters
“produce” a job – posting & “consume” a resume. (24-08)
Pg.
No. 85
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This is equally
true of jobs & candidates.
Pg.
No. 86
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In Function
Graphs, (1) Population Sample and: - (2) Percentile Scores, of a candidate,
keeps changing all the time. Today’s Profile becomes obsolete tomorrow.
Pg.
No. 87
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Equally
applies to over 500 jobsites. Together these may have more resumes than the big
3 (Monster / Naukri / times jobs). But as of today, their combined invent tory
(database) is NOT accessible from a single source. Global Recruiter aims to
rectify this, by persuading all 500 to sign – up. To begin with we will not
force them to part with their database.
Pg.
No. 88
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In Global
Recruiter, all partner websites will be served (from our central server) using
web service. Jobseekers & Job Advertisers, will create their own content
(Resume) & (Job – Advts). Partners will only do the selling to corporates.
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Both, in
India Recruiter & in Customize Resume, we are “Collecting” job – advts
(thru RSS feeds) from 3 job portals – then “normalize” this content into common
database – so that jobseeker can find these at single place.
·
Global
Recruiter is a “Aggregator”
·
We are
getting these job advts for FREE. Thru JAM we will democratize their
distribution.
Pg.
No. 89
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Using Task
let, if we can enable SMEs (30 million in India) to upload their 160 charioteer
job – advts as SMS from their mobiles, then, we too can get into the “Long
Tail” of advertising. (24-08)
Pg.
No. 91
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We will
deliver job – alerts as SMS over mobile – service providers 2G networks (some
will become 3G in a few months). The data is being “pulled” by candidates SMS –
so, it costs us nothing to deliver. (24-08-10)
·
Candidate
will pay for the SMS.
·
Which GR/IR
will be
·
RSS feeds
from jobsites
·
PULL SMS by
candidates.
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Why not our
archive of 3.7 million job advts? – Even though expired?
Pg.
No. 93
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Some of the
“existing” jobsites have their own existing subscribers & their own
“existing” registered jobseekers. If these can be persuaded to join Global
Recruiter, they will bring these relationships to GR.
·
Web service
·
Surely Monster /
Naukri won’t join GR
·
If we enable 30
mill. SMS to post jobs thru SMS, we could enjoy big growth.
·
Our goal too.
·
For a while,
India Recruiter will be our own warehouse. (01-08-06)
Pg.
No. 94
·
In case of
GR, even entire Inventory (of Jobs & Resumes) will be centralised on our
server
·
Cataloguing
is is what GR will do but entire Inventory will be accessible from any partner
website.
·
In case of
GR too, all selling (mostly to corpo. subscribers) will be done by Partner
websites.
·
Someday, we
may stop “aggregating” jobs (thru RSS feeds) on our server. Instead, a spider
way go out in search of suitable jobs, every time a candidate conducts a job
search or sends JAM – Alert SMS (24-08-10)
·
Millions of
jobs posted on thousands of job – portals but none on our own server?
Pg.
No. 95
·
Instead of 1
lakh job – advts, if we store 100 lakh in our online database, it does not cost
us anything extra!
·
Any job – advts
ever posted? No one may want to read a 5 yr. –old job – advts but there could
be other uses.
Pg.
No. 96
·
Jobs &
Resumes come in this category.
Pg.
No. 97
·
Jobsites
were demonstrating this long before iTunes
Pg.
No. 99
·
The reason
behind our uploading the page: “Goole loves us”. And, within 2 months of
uploading, if you now type this phrase in Google, our website lists at (No. 1)
in 18/20 million pages!! Thanks Google! (24-08-10)
Pg.
No. 100
·
E.g.:
·
Candidates
who open / read same advts may possess similar / identical “skill – sets” and
HR mgrs. who open / read same resume may have similar / identical vacancies to
fill. Connection. (01-08-06)
Pg.
No. 101
·
Custom Playlist
= Similar Job advt. list (for jobseekers)
§ = Similar Resume – list (for HR mgrs.)
·
Self –
learning nature.
·
We do –
capture a lot of data re: each jobseeker & each corporate
Pg. No. 106
·
“Audience Poll”
of kaun Banega Crorepati.
Pg.
No. 107
·
“Where Are
The Jobs?” (In World-Wide-Jobs) is tracking Job Advts (demand for candidates) –
City wise / Function – wise. This is done once – a – day, by analysing /
plotting last 30 days postings on Naukri
·
Someday we
may revive this – hopefully in such a manner that Google’s spider is able to
click some link to generate these “IMAGES”, and then store it under “IMAGES”
when someone types (Jobs).
·
(24-08-10)
·
For Global
Recruiter, Partner Websites will do both / pull – in & push – out, resumes
& job – advts.
·
Everyone produces
·
Accessible
to everyone
·
On 12th
Aug. we will give first offline demo of India Recruiter to seven Placement
Agencies (01-08-06)
·
On 28th
Aug 2010, I hope to give first ONLINE demo of Taskelt – based JAM to a few ex –
L & T friends.
Pg.
No. 109
·
46 million? Are
you kidding?
·
Our Function
Profiles do this, quite well.
·
To begin with
“recommendations” of JAM (i.e. matched jobs), will be very crude. Matching can
go on improving as jobseeker keeps supplying move & more info about himself
– including his “history” of searches & Apply online
Pg.
No. 110
·
Will the
“Ease” & “Reach” of JAM, succeed in creating a demand? Will being
“untethered” from internet create demand? Will 24 hr. proximity availability of
a mobile phone create demand? Will people use JAM, just because it is so simple
to use and can be used any times we must wait and see. (24-08-10)
·
We too, will
have as many jobs – alert pages, as there are regi. candidates
·
Will
youngsters use JAM because their friends are using it? Will they use it because
essentially, it is nothing but an SMS – something which, they are thoroughly
“at home”?
Pg.
No. 111
·
We have
approx. jobs 1000 jobs getting added to our database every day. Amongst
“matching jobs found jobs found”. We are displaying the latest posted, on the
TOP. So these could be different from those shown yesterday.
Pg.
No. 112
·
No. of times
viewed.
·
Someday
Candidates will get shortlisted for interviews by their Global Recruiter
Ratings (GRR?) appearing on their Profiles. (02-08-06)
Pg.
No. 114
·
At launch, on India
Recruiter “Salary Profile” has only one filter viz: “Designation Level”. Within
a few weeks, we will redraw “Salary Graph” for executives at same Desig. Level
belonging to same “Function”.
·
A few months
down the line, “Salary Profile” Grapsh will get redrawn for Executives
belonging to,
·
Same Desig.
Level, and
·
Same
Function, and
·
Same
Industry.
·
That will be
“Apple – For – Apple” Comparison, which makes sense. I am putting a note to
this effect on India Recruiter
·
We need some
100,000 jobseekers to register AND provide enough data about themselves, to
make such “Apple – for – Apple” Comparison possible. Cannot do with just
“Registration – Basic” (25-08-10)
Pg.
No. 116
·
It has only
multiplied.
·
Worth
quoting in “Sample Profiles – How? Why?” But, quoting this law (?) would defeat
“Mean” - + 16 etc.! Risky!!
Pg.
No. 117
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Pg.
No. 118
·
What
everyone is willing to put – up with / even unwillingly!
Pg.
No. 120
·
We have
“Black Swan” in our library. We also have his earlier book, “Fooled by
Randomness”.
·
This was
better of the two books.
·
Despite all
my wishful thinking, “Profiles” did not turn out to be a BLACK SWAN!
·
Now, I hope,
JAM does!!
·
JAM will
certainly “Surprise” the BIG 3! We would know in 2/3 months’ time. (25-08-10)
Pg.
No. 122
·
It is the
same with JAM, which I hope to launch on 28th of course, we will
need to promote it thru emails / blogs etc. whether that will start a “buzz” or
not, will remain to be seen. (25-08-10)
·
Our “Raw
Scores” for resumes are like “Post – Filters”.
Pg.
No. 123
·
Per launch,
we have no way to know “for sure”, that Profiles will become a huge hit or not.
The only way to find out is to launch & then try to create a “buzz” thru
blogs / seminars / new articles / word – of – mouth etc. etc. (Post Filters)
·
Some 6/8
weeks ago, no. of downloads of “Resume Rater” (at Download.com) went up to
36/38 in 2 wks. period, after I posted 200/300 blogs about Resume Rater on many
websites. That created a “Demand”.
Pg.
No. 124
·
As of today,
Customize Resume has over 90,000 jobs – advts online. Every day, all of these
(including 1000 new arrivals / day), are matched with the profiles of 11325
registered jobseekers, to generate individual Job Alert pages. I hope, someday
there will be 900,000 jobs to be matched with 13 million jobseekers! (25-08-10)
Pg.
No. 126
·
Might also
apply equally well to resume.
-
These are
different
-
Some are
better than others
-
“No. of
times viewed” counter can serve as a measure of “Reputation” (02-08-06)
Pg.
No. 130
·
You Tube was
just getting “born” when this was written. Now, every (SECND) nearly (8 HOUR)
Viewing time of videos are getting uploaded on You Tube!
·
JAM is
conceived on the premise that most jobseekers are NOT interested in UNLIMITED
choices (of jobs). But, if they can “find” even 5 jobs, from their mobiles (the
“EASE”) and even “Apply” directly from their mobiles, they would “love” this
convenience – especially those who have no easy access to a PC / Internet. With
poor internet connectivity (incl. low band with) and Rs. 15/ hour of cybercafé
rental, there is reason to believe that jobseekers would jobseekers would
happily spend 1 rap per SMS!! (25-08-10)
Pg.
No. 132
·
Or nearly ZERO.
Pg.
No. 134
·
This may
also come true for India Recruiter, where each resume download will earn only
Re. 1 (of which Partner will retain 80% and pass on only 20% to us). But once
HR Mgrs. / Head hunters get hooked to Profiles, I hope to make money in the
IIT, where each online interview may generate a revenue of Rs. 50/= (03-08-06)
·
We will set
prices (Re. 1/ click) which Monster / Naukri cannot match.
·
We will also
give away Resume Downloader Tool few free – in order to generate many more
resume downloads something not possible with manual downloading.
·
BIG 3 have
figured out how to prevent BULK DOWNLOAD of resumes – even by registered
employers with subscription. Job portals now allow download of only 5 resumes
at a time, before asking downloader to type a CAPTCHA. This is to prevent auto
– spidering. (25-08-10)
Pg.
No. 135
·
We have
planned for “Sampling” – by enabling jobseekers to conduct job search & see
a “Short list – but not being able to click open / view the full job – advts,
unless he is “registered”. Ditto with “Resume Search” by HR mgrs.
·
To enable
“Unregistered users” to “Sample” JAM, we will show them some matching job –
advts when they send SMS “JAM_Sales_Alert” on ( ). (26-08-10)
Pg.
No. 137
·
Today, I
sent an email to Rohan re: possibility of 30 million SME being (made) enable to
upload their vacancies as an SMS from their mobiles. To my knowledge, no job
portal has this feature. A print – media (OFFLINE) classified vacancy – advts
in times of India costs – Rs. 5000/= for 2sq. cm. Uploading as SMS would cost
nothing!!
·
In Times of
India, classifieds are carried twice / week and each such issue carry – 500
classifieds earning TOI, Rs. 25 cores per year!! (26-08-10)
·
And each
classified, probably gets 50 replies!
Pg.
No. 138
·
Starting today,
I reduced the no. of newspapers that I read daily from 6 to 1 (from 250 pages
to 20 pages). The time I save (about 1 ½ - 2 hours / day) will be spent on
reading book – where I have huge backlog. (03-08-06)
·
Will HR mgrs.
download far fewer resumes from India Recruiter because it is “Pay-Par-Click”?
On other hand Re. 1/= per download may seem “so cheap” (as compared to Rs.
100,000/= paid to Naukri) that they may continue to merrily download!
·
Monster has been
blocking access once we cross 3500 resumes in a day. We won’t have to worry
this. The more download means more money.
·
This was a good
decision (26-08-10)
·
Will dirt –
cheap bulk SMS rates (1p to 5p), prompt jobseekers to “consume” more JAM?
Pg.
No. 139
·
This is akin
to separately computing resume downloads and job – advts clicking, for each
Industry, each Function, each Designation, each city etc. etc. We will develop
such unique “Demand Carves. We are already capturing the data.
·
As of this
week Apple enables “renting” of Video’s (for 48 hours) @ $ 0.99) from iTunes.
(27-08-10)
Pg.
No. 140
·
In course of
time, even our Function Graphs will be broken – up into a set of graphs,
Industry – wise & Desig. Level wise – for a true “Apple – For – Apple”
comparison.
Pg. No. 141
·
Q:
·
How do you
start this loop?
·
My blogs may
raise our “reputation” over a long period, BUT we need the Tipping Point right
now!
Pg.
No. 142
·
I hope this
law applies to Profiles. We are already calling it “The new currency of
recruitment”.
·
Getting
several hundred (or thousands) partner websites to link / point to Global
Recruiter is very important.
·
My blogs
have managed to get 23380 incoming links for CustomizeResume.Com
Pg.
No. 143
·
On 25th
evening, we uploaded a page “Job Alert on Mobile”. 26th morning,
Google had already indexed it and placed it at 35th place, out of
34.8 million pages, when you type “Job Alert on Mobile” I am thrilled!
·
What,
however, was scary is that, Google ignored the 1st / 2nd
line and picked – up the 3rd & 4th line on the page,
which, I consider “Most Relevant” to the title / search term! For strategic
reason, we pulled – down this page on 26th afternoon.
·
I checked
just now. We are still at rank 36 out of 37.9 million! (27-08-10)
Pg.
No. 145
·
I have read his
“Telecoms” – but mostly not understood the details.
Pg.
No. 146
·
By
developing Graphical Profiles on powerful servers and then delivering these
across the world on abundant (internet) bandwidth, we may be “wasting” these
powers. Lotus hope it
·
Helps.
·
Graphs in
Profile will require less human attention (because these are easier to grasp)
and Resume Downloader will save “hours”.
·
Unless,
someday soon, humans out live 200 years, “time” will continue to remain the
“scarcest resource”. More so, with thousands of times “things” to see / study /
do. However, since human life – span is unlikely to increase dramatically in
near future, but information about how to leada better life multiplying a
million / billion times, “ time” to do anything at all, will get more &
more scarce. It jobseekers have no / little time to visit jobsites and conduct
“job searches”, will they turn to JAM? (27-08-10)
Pg.
No. 147
·
When we display
·
No. of times
this resume was viewed
·
No. of times
this job ad was viewed,
·
We are trying to
bring into picture, this element of “shared experience”,
·
Even if you do
not know, with whom we have “shared” that viewing experience.
·
This is why, in
my today’s U/I of “Long Tail” page, short – display of resumes will arrange
resumes in the descending order of “No. of times this resume was viewed” – a
kind of subtle “Recommendation System”. It will tie-together all those resumes
which share the same “keywords” (-and, therefore “alike”?). (04-08-2006)
·
May be this is
the cause of tremendous popularity of Social Networking Websites, where
Facebook attracts 500 million users (registered users) and yesterday got a
market cap of $ 33 billion! (27-08-10)
Pg.
No. 148
·
India
Recruiter will be a “Aggregator” of both resumes & job – advts, and it will
store jobs & resumes which are “hits” (opened / viewed many times) and
“niches” (those opened / viewed only once).
·
“Long Tail”
page designed this morning will do this.
·
Rohan’s
email says, we will work for a taskelt that uploads job – advts as SMS from
mobiles.
Pg.
No. 149
·
For us too,
it is important to get a few large / reputed Corporates & Placement
Agencies to come forward and “endorse” Profiles
Pg.
No. 151
·
Cities
Pg.
No. 153
·
Should be
other way around!
Pg.
No. 157
·
For example,
same Resume could be searched under (1) Industry (2) Function (3) Desig. Level
(4) Actual Designation (5) Age (6) Exp. (7) Edu. Quail. (8) City (9) Keywords
(10) Score.
·
Start
anyplace, and then keep adding filters to drill down.
·
Today’s
“Long Tail” page is all about this.
Pg.
No. 159
·
This is why we
will have many “approaches” to resume search, viz: (1) Conventional (2)
Archival (3) Benchmark (4) Magic Cube (5) Long Tail etc.
·
We have this in
India Recruiters
·
Currently we
have these in Customize Resume.
Pg.
No. 161
·
Read my 6/8
year old note: “The Elephant and Seven Blind Men”.
Pg.
No. 162
·
-A book is a
document (about a topic / subject)
·
-A resume is a
document (about a person).
·
-If permitted /
enabled, what kind of “tags” HR mgrs. might give to a resume?
·
“Low
Probability” could we find such “unique fingerprints” of each & every
resume? How? (04-08-06)
·
“Phrases / word
combinations – which are unique? (unique = low frequency)
·
In
RecruitGuru.Com we had listed rare keywords found in a resume as “Profile
Modifier”.
Pg.
No. 168
·
Also read
book “Paradox of choices” for lots of such statistics
Pg.
No. 169
·
In 1995, we
used to store (maybe) 5000 resumes in 50 box files now we store 500,000 on a
hard disk!
Pg.
No. 170
·
We have in
our library.
Pg.
No. 171
·
No doubt a
resume – search (on India Recruiter) would throw up a short – display of
thousands of “matching” resumes but, we will arrange these in the descending
order of “Match – Index” i.e. relevance.
·
This will
guide the HR mgr. to click / view only a few top ranked.
Pg.
No. 172
·
When you
have dozens / hundreds of choices, then filters may help you out. With millions
of results for any search Term, Google now, offers filers like (1) Latest (2)
Last 24 hours (3) Last 2 days etc.
·
(28-08)
·
Raw Score
(2) Percentile (3) + 1 Sigma / Mean Score (4) Match Index (5) No. of times
viewed (6) ARM Score (7) Salary Profile (8) Tenure Profile (9) Edu. Profile
(10) Career – Track are all devised to “help them search” (05-08-06)
Pg.
No. 173
·
Interactive
Interview Tool (IIT), may turn out to be the best “help” to narrow down, a HR mgr.’s
“choice”, to shortlist 2/3 candidates from 20/30 called for interview.
·
No. of times
viewed.
Pg.
No. 174
·
May be a
large “Variety / Choice” is a requirement of a customer in a supermarket o
someone used to searching on Google. They are already existing regular
“Consumers”. Our JAM service is however targeted to “non – consumers”. I.e.
jobseekers from small towns & villages. They have never visited Naukri /
Monster / Times job. They have never had to choose among hundreds of jobs. For
them 5 jobs offered on their mobiles should more than suffice. (28-08)
Pg.
No. 175
·
Would
“(FREE)” make jobseekers to pull job – alerts every day? Quite possible “pay”
they may be tempted to use JAM daily, out of curiosity to see if some
interesting jobs have come up. Cost of SMS is next to nothing.
·
@ $ 0.99 a
pieces
·
We have been
sending job alert emails for last 2 months but that has not increased traffic
to our website. O1ne would think, recipient jobseekers would click link, to
visit their Job Alert Page, out of curiosity. That has not happened. May be
they have poor “access” to PC / Internet. If this assumption is valid, then mobile – based JAM should dramatically increase the visits. We would
know in 2 weeks. (28-08-10)
Pg.
No. 176
·
Safety in
Numbers.
·
If JAM
succeeds in motivating small town & village jobseekers to use JAM, it would
have the effect of “Expanding the Market” to non – pc consumers.
·
For small
town users, without Internet connection, JAM could simply mean this:
availability & convenience.
Pg.
No. 180
·
This morning,
I drafted write – up for “Mobile Classifieds” based on HP Lab’s taskelt. This
would enable any registered employer to type a 140 character classified Vacancy
Advt as an SMS on his mobile and directly upload it on our site. Advt will
expire after 3 days. FREE too! As per Google, India have 30 million SMEs.
(28-08-10)
·
My goal is
to rope in 500,000 small companies, which, on average, employ 10 persons and
(perhaps) hire I knew person / year.
Pg.
No. 185
·
Job Advts
are a “specific kind” of news. JAM will make these available for (FREE) to
jobseekers at (any time), on demand.
Pg.
No. 186
·
I post my
blogs only on websites / web – pages, carrying follower’s tags = Employment /
Unemployment / Jobless / Jobseekers / Jobs / Resumes / Salary / Interviews /
Lay off / Retrenchment etc.
·
I only post
“comments” on blogs of others.
·
Ave. of
60,000 per day on “Employment” alone!!
Pg.
No. 188
·
On India
Recruiter’s homepages, “We have a line: We do not claim to, be No. 1 – only
Better”. This is a job at Naukri & Thimesjobs, both of which clam to be
“No. 1 Jobsite”.
·
There must
be 150 million now!
Pg.
No. 190
·
Children
gave me a MP3 player on my 73rd birthday – capable of holding 250
songs – but I rarely listen to the songs loaded there in because there is no
element of “surprise”. The songs keep coming in a predictable sequence!
Pg.
No. 192
·
Jobseekers
upload their resumes for free but today all jobsites only enable their
“Corporate – Subscribers” to open / view these resume. Can we think of a
scenario where anyone can open / view such resumes? In which case, where / how
to we make money? Other than Employers & Head hunters, who else might be
interested viewing resumes (possibly, along with a video – clip)? One set of
“Clients” could be bachelors wanting to data / find a bride / bridegroom.
Especially parents in this part of the world.
·
As far as
“setting their own price” is concerned, we already have a field for (1) Current
Salary. All we need to do is is to add a field “Salary Expected”. We will do
so, one, we are popular. (06-08-06)
Pg.
No. 193
·
As more
& more partner websites join up Global Recruiter, the (distribution – and
collection) network will keep growing stronger & stronger. For a jobseeker,
the probability of being “found / discovered” will get better & better. One
can no longer remain obscure.
·
To enable
them to start their own JOB market – places, I have booked msnjobs.in /
Yahoojobs.in / AolJos.in / Google jobs / Amazon jobs / eBay jobs / Kosmixjobs
etc.
·
This vision
still remains.
·
Once Global
Recruiter / Partner websites get firmly entranced, we will stream (RSS) this
content (mainly job – advs.) to TV channels. Once Reliance / BSNL IPTV arrives.
We will enable not yet. (1) Apply Online (click remote) (2) Video –
interviewing with IIT / IIM features.
Pg.
No. 194
·
Not yet. But
may be after 5 yrs. when 3G / 4G / WI Max/ Wireless Broadband etc. becomes
commonplace.
Pg.
No. 195
·
Microsoft
has announced working on ZUNES (MS Version of iPod) – expected to launch by
yearend. It will bypass, first download of music to computer & then
transfer to ZUNES.
·
ZUNES will
download directly from internet using Wi-Fi / Wi Max! End of iPod iTunes?
Mobile Phones are already downloading directly from internet.
·
ZUNE
flopped. Android based mobile phones are picking up, with 2009 market share of
18%
Pg.
No. 196
·
For us
·
Content =
Job advts & Resume
·
Network =
Partner Websites
·
Creators =
Corporates (Job Advts) – Jobseekers (Resumes)
·
We are
neither “Creators” nor “Owners” of these content, but we will continue to use
it in many imaginative ways – to monetize it.
·
Not for us
since content gets stored in a database. We plan to deliver over multimedia
via: - Internet / Newspapers / TV / IP TV / Cable TV / DTH TV Radio etc. Mobile
Phones too
·
Hopefully
JAM will do this in next 2 weeks (28-08-10)
Pg.
No. 198
·
Both are on way
to merging into one device
·
Nearly all
models launched in 2010
Pg.
No. 199
Pg.
No. 200
·
May be more
than 200 million can be easily accommodated in their drawing rooms.
·
We can
deliver job – advts to 20 million PCs (thru internet) BUT, just imagine being
able to deliver to 500 million mobile – phones (Soon with email capabilities of
Blackberry) & 300 million TV sets!
·
By last
month, there were 650 million mobiles. In 2 weeks, we should be ready to launch
JAM using Taskelt. Let us hope that it clicks. Yesterday, I have also prepared
a concept – Whereas, may be, only 2 million people can sit inside movie
theatres at any given time, note on “Mobile Classifieds” – 140 Character
Vacancy advs. which employers can post / upload as SMS from their mobiles
(29-08-10)
Pg.
No. 202
·
It is same
with any jobsites. Corporates create content (Advs.) which jobseekers “consume”
and jobseekers create content (Resumes) which corporates “consume”. This is a
market – place with buyers / sellers.
·
I plan to
replicate this thru our Partner Website Program.
·
I hope to be
able to persuade 2000 small Placement Agencies to become our Partner websites.
Pg.
No. 203
·
We have
information about jobs & resumes, in very minute details, enabling us to
offer a large no. of “filters”. Depending upon who employs which filter (click
– stream analysis), we will also be able to make very relevant recommendations.
·
India has 30
million SMEs (as per Google), each employing may be 2/3 staff we will try to
attract them thru mobile classic.
·
Out of same
2000 placement agencies, over 500 have their own websites. Other 1500, do not,
may feel tempted to join – up with Global Recruiter, so as to “overtake” these
500.
Pg.
No. 204
·
We have tried to
make Profile Graphs colourful. There is absolutely no doubt, these will prove
extremely attractive when compared to plain text resumes. Also easier to grasp.
Hope this brings buyers!
·
The tool that
Saurabh has developed will enable a jobseeker to select different colours for
Profile Graphs – may be 1 billion unique permutations / combinations. This may
provide a unique “fingerprint” to each & every jobseeker – with no two
prints a like!
·
As of now, this
is a very FAR cry!
Pg.
No. 206
·
No doubt
Saurabh’s tool can enable creation of a BILLION colours – combinations online,
but the problem is: Each jobseeker may hog our server capacity for minutes or
even hours, at a time! Server would have no time to do anything else!
Pg.
No. 207
·
We want to
target 500,000 small companies with our web service.
Pg. No. 208
·
What Monster /
Naukri / times jobs, might very well try to do viz: destroy Global Recruiter.
·
In Global
Recruiter we are trying to create a Platform websites can use to deliver
identical web services to small companies in their immediate neighbour – hood.
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No. 210
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If posting
of vacancy from mobile (Mobile Classifieds), clicks amongst India’s 30 million
SME, then we could truly become a “Advertising Business”. And with most
mobiles, getting email enabled,, there could be no restriction of 140
characters SMS. (29-08-10)
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At its
fundamental, we (Global Recruiter) are in “Advertising” business – not
recruitment business! Read “Marketing Myopia” by Theodore Levitt
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“Who” &
“How Many” read the Ad?
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Our goal is
this
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No. 211
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LUCENE.net
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No. 212
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Someday, our
“Job Search Results” page (Short display list) will carry “Sponsored Links”
from corporate Advertisers who are willing to pay Rs. 5/= per click, instead of
Re. 1/ per click in organic listing
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Mobile
Classifieds?
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This will be
our next step.
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Same
situation with 5 lakh companies (in India) who have never advertised their
vacancies either online or even in Newspapers.
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No. 213
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We can exam some
money thru this, but obviously, I don’t want ads of Monster / Naukri / times
job to get displayed on India Recruiter – and our traffic getting diverted to
their websites!
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But, when we
have enough money, I would purchase keywords (Ad word) and will feel nappy our
Ads run on other jobsites
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No. 214
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Ultimately
in our “Post A Job” form, a Corporate Subscriber would only need to type – in
the “Vacancy / Position Name”. All the rest of the fields will get filled – up
automatically. These field – values will get pulled either from MASTERS or from
click – stream Analysis of past jobs posted by the subscriber – thru a
“Recommendation System” we will also introduce a “Job Posting – Archival
Method”, which will prove extremely user – friendly to first time small
advertisers.
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It is quite
possible that a large majority of this 500,000 small companies are located in
small towns with only one / two cybercafé providing internet connection. So in
our model, I plan to persuade those cybercafés to become our Partner Websites.
They can provide email IDs to their neighbouring small companies – thereby
encouraging them to advertise their vacancies on this cyber cafe’s partner
website. That is the only way to reach 500,000.
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No. 218
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In our case,
all jobs & all resumes posted at all partner websites flow into a common /
central database.
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Jobs &
Resumes are.
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No. 219
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GR/IR is totally
“self - service”. No human intervention.
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I want to
ultimately evolve a Rating System where in past / curvet employees can rate any
company on several criteria, objectively & anonymously. For the moment we
will make a beginning with ARM.
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No. 220
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I plan to
offer our Search – Engine (for Resumes) to Subscribers to download & use it
offline
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No. 223
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What we have
done in ARM.
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All services
to Jobseekers will be free. Even to corporates first 3 months will be free.
Resume Forward (under PRIVATE resume) will also be free.
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No. 224
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A few days
back, Newspaper reported that 4.65 lakh jobseekers registered on Monster India
in one month (June 2006). Naukri & times jobs could, possibly boast of
similar figures. During April 2006 – Mar 2007, Naukri has budgeted to spend Rs.
3 cores (from projected revenue of Rs. 110/120 crores) on advertising – in
Newspapers – on TV – on Internet. Monster’s revenue will be nearly the same –
and also its budget for advertising. Times jobs has a big advts every day in
its own publication, Times of India – apart from TV ads.
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We have to
beat these giants – (despite their huge advt. budgets) – with NO spend on advts!
Only time will tell whether our product / service is so good that a million
jobseekers and a thousand Corporate HR mgrs. will themselves go out and “SELL”
it by word – of Mouth”.
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(06-08-06)
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No. 225
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Axis of
Rotation.
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I hope
Profile appear equally “Magical” to HR mgrs. & Jobseekers alike. Maybe,
someday soon, we can add a 3D effect.
Pg.
No. 226
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(06-08-06)
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