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

Wednesday, 5 May 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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Page no ix

·         It should we our Destiny to establish new form of collabo rations between corpora tions & 3p & Candidates (job seekers) as also EDU INSTITU TIONS & someday ( maybe) i.e. Employment Exchanges of India having a registration of 23 million educated unemployed.

·         For us newspapers with their job advs. Are the “alternation e economic forces”      

Page no 11

·         In our case, this might mean, not creating our own databases from the scratch, but upon – and using more & more of the extremely created databases, available on the www or elsewhere e.g.jobs databases resumes corporate database E- mail directories etc. phone directories credit card users lists cell phone nears lists, links to our website ?

Page no 14

·         There are 100 job-related websites in India today and we have bean perhaps the earliest-and shofar, the market leader (nov-97)

Page no 15

·         For us, vipul zaveris databases could be considered “timely information” if we choose to act upon these!

Page no 16

·         Current state of our order execution process.

Page no 24

·         This view will change by 2003 (neat 4/5 yrs.)

Page no 26

·         Module #2 order Execution

·         Video convincing will also make “joint interviewing” possible across the word.

Page no 28

·         Automated e-mail or voice mail responses. E.g. our planned direct mail campaigns

Page no 29

·         This might mean working with hundreds of people over 20/30 years, in a “collaborative” manner without ever personally meeting them!

·         We should like to think that we have such a culture.

·         Just as our website works for us 24 hrs. x 365 day, we could have a sewer sensing out “personalized” e- mails ( direct marketing ) 24 hrs.

Page no 30

·         In our case this means consultants who specialize in a given industry s manpower needs

Page no 31

·         Doing business on web is all about competing globally.

·         To be the first to envoy latest in info. Technology is a business imperative in our business:

·         E.g. Audio mining/ Ardis/   spiclers / on the Net etc.

Page no 33

·         This equally applies to us.

Page no 35

·         Once our order Execution Module is in place anyone in our office should be able to answer any client / candidate phone call query by just clicking on his computer- screen & finding the latest “status”

·         Foe us a “case file” could be

·         A headhunt No

·         A shopping Basket No

·         A purchase order No

·         An offer No

·         A invoice No

·          A Cheques No etc.

Page no 43

·         e.g.

·         Allowing client s candidates to access our order Execution Module on our website.

Page no 44

·         This month COMPAQ announced abolition of 70% of its distributors! I suppose to follow Dells direct model

Page no 45

·         As against our current of 30 “shopping Baskets” per month it would not cast any more to receive 300 or even per month! Executing is another issue!!

Page no 47

·         If we can manage to get 300 shopping baskets per month, we can expect 10% (30) to get converted into orders we could get to this point if we send out 5000 CD to 5000 personsd managers, containing our truncated RESUME DATA base with “search” software. That promotion would cost us RS 5 L but it will push us beyond the CRITICAL MASS.

·         But, in order to become “strong” in the first place, we need to promote our website in a big way.

Page no 48

·         E.g.

·         Every single Jobsearach or headhunt on our site is customized.

Page no 50

·         Crop. Job Advt – Jobsearach- Resumes – Headhunt (shopping packet)

·         Corpo.Database – (Normal jobs) candidate Database – corporate Database

·         Especially true in our case A time will come when we will not need to create & upload ((candidate) Resumes – (corps) jobs .they will do this themselves.

Page no 51

·         Equally true in our case, if we could develop appropriate software which would generate (on the fly), most complex “compensation analysis” ever anywhere in in the world using salary database complied from ANNUAL REPORTS. This would be a KILLER APPLICATION which will put many HR consultants out of business!

·         In our case only those corps & candidates who will give min info about themselves.

  Page no 57

·         Survival of the fittest will be only for those who adopt & adapt.

Page no 58

·         We have to ensure that the Jobsearach (for the candidate) and the headhunt (for the personnel managers) on our website become such highly engaging consumer experiences.

·         This is because PC co. wants TV industry to die and the TV CO wants PC industry to parish! Both know that true integration will lead to this.

Page no 62

·         For us every “shopping Basket” (and hopefully, someday every “headhunt” session on our website) constitutes a RFT- request for Terms “  

Page no 63

·         By “automating” all the processes MDULE, we can cut cut down time to 10% and increase appointments by 1000%!

Page no 64

·         Our own LAN for last 4/5 years or even longer.

Page no 68

·         This is exactly what we are doing with our “Direct Mailers”

Page no 69

·         Our order Execution Module aims at this

·         Like at FedEx / Dell etc. Our clients (and candidates are also our clients in a sense) must be able to “track” their “order status” on our website.

Page no 70

·         This means to begin with our order Execution module will be on intranet (testing period) but use internet standards, till we feel confident to place it on our website.

Page no 72

·         We have yet to provide internet access to our consultants. AT DELL every one of the 60,000 employee has internet access!  

Page no 75

·         When we send him for an interview with a client.

Page no 79

·         True in our case continuously advising our consultants what new databases we have created / acquired & how to benefit from these.

·         We have to head in this direction.

·         Candidate Resumes & corps profiles.

·         We must targets 30 day to fill a position.

Page no 80

·         This is what our ORDER EXECUTION MODULE IS all about. For us, Database creation

Page no 81

·         Sending out “MAILERS”-more & more thru e-mail.

·         All of our 5 modules are geared for this.

·         Not much of a since we are quite small.

·         e.g.

·         Headhunts & shopping baskets’

Page no 82

·         In our case, for quite some time e-mail will remain a tool for external communication

·         For us this time is “now” (may99)

·         “HR update”nens-letter

·         E.g. to see / monitor progress of his search – assignment on our websites, each client will use 2/3 passwords to “access “his own “order “only!

Page no 83

·         We should publish on our website, articles of eminent HR consultants, under “what is new”

Page no 84

·         Today have this on our website with “shopping Basket”

·         Like a super- market

·         Online “orders Execution” module will take us here.

·         Online tracking of parcels by client.

·         Retirement age level?

·         Our database of executives taken from annual reports tells us a lot about each company’s

·         MANPOWER INVENTORY LEVEL.

Page No 85

·         This (annual Report – Employee Details) would from an important part of our PRO-ACTIVE MARKETING MODULE.

 Page no 88

·         It will take Indian personnel managers a longtime to track on our website their executive search assignments, but it we do not introduce this first one of our competitors will.

Page no 89

·         We don’t even central warehouse.

Page no 91

·         Cyril

·         In “orders Execution “module folder, I have listed many  

·         Client Queries

·         Candidate Queries

·         e.g. – premium pages on www.DELL.com (some 6000!)

Page no 96

·         E-mail is doing this once again & so will internet telephony

·         E-mails will need to be replied within hours and acted upon.

Page no 97

·         “TALISMA” Software (coupled with “OMNIGATE”) should help us become more “market-facing “at a relatively low cost.

 

·         Although cost- savings are important our customers will come to us for our ability to search & deliver to us competent executive within days. And they will return to us again and irrespective OF what we charge!

·         That is the VALUE they expect from us TIME SAVING!

Page no 98

·         Total “combinations” possible from FILTERS provided on our headhunt page are also limitless!

·         Especially if our database someday grows to a MILLION executives (as against 50.000 today)

Page no 100

·         If the “no of resumes”& the “no of job-advs.” Being added on our website runs into “hundreds” per day ( instead of current tens” per day, then the “rate of change” would attract 100,000 visitors each day (as compared to 11000 on 5- 6-99)

·         What would / should be our “state-of-the-art” site?

·         -voice activated

-      customer- order- status can be tracked (by customer)

-      Video-conference thru website?

Page no 101

·         Our website will take-on all of the business-processes vis-marketing –sales- production –

·         Distribution- Finance –publicity- mantels management- R&D –everything!

Page no 102

·         We are at stage 2.

·         We are operating in this sector / clients

·         We are trying to get ISDN this month

Page no 103

·         We are also here (in this sector) because of candidates

·         Ceiling in India is far lower! 

·         Like sending out e- males & snail- mails circulars by thousands, side by side!  

·         We are facing right now.

·         We are a late-comer amongst 5000 jobsites worldwide- & many times bigger!

Page no 108

·         This is like having our “databases” client wise & not consultant- wise, what we need. We need all indrormation consultant- wise.

·         CYRIL this is the aim of our module2 (rode Execution system) 

Page no 112

·         We have a similar situation w.r.t. our consultants.

·         If sharply focused instead of aimless surfing.

Page no 113

·         We should implement these by end of 1999.

·         “I – planet” from sun Microsystem  / OMmnigate/ ‘TALISMA”

 Page no 116

·         Module #1 thru Module #5 (ARDIS)

·         Packaged software’s TALISMA / OMNIGATE / I- planet / www.ozeenet.com – spiders/Robots

·         Speech – recognition Audio- mining

·         Network- e- mail + fax (

(Internet+ WEB)+ VIDEO

·         -Phone- in –Resumes

·         -Online Resumes

·         -E- Mail

·         -TYPRD

·         -S canned jab Advt

·         -Crop postings

·         -Job listing

·         -Non Member Database

·         -corpo.Database

·         Ann-Reports

·         Eddo, institutions Database

Page no 118

·         ARDIS / ARGIS

·         Phone-in Resumes.

Page no 119

·         e.g.

·         Database Vendors like vipul Zaveris? Sandip kadam? Chaturvedi?

Page no 120

·         If one consultant specializes in a given “industry” he will tend to “hoard “his knowledge

Page no 121

·         Salary data extracted from Annual Reports TALISMA / OMNIGATE.

Page No 122

·         Don’s even tried to predict!

Page no 126

·         We too are a “bit-based” service provider

·         Over a period of time this may not hold good for us.

Page no 127

·         We are, ourselves an “intermediary” (business) acting as an “information-exchange”

·         Between corporates & candidates. 

·         Only corporates having a very large “hiring” program may put up their own vacancies. For occasional hirer, it is cheaper to upon us    

·         True in our case.

Page no 130

·         PC / BOOKS / Cars nearly” branded” commodities.

Page no 131

·         We are in a “Business to Business” model where the buyers of our services( corporates) are to our website to conduct business for cost savings but mainly WIDE OPTIONS and CONVENIENCE & SPEED with which can select a candidate but even for them eventual TIME SANING can mean a lot of cost saving.

·         We are changing the “buying process” of our clients.

·         What we have done on our website so far, is something that others too can do easily.

Page no 135

·         Once household telephone instruments become web- enabled ( say by 2005) AUTO SEARCH results can be broadcasted to our Members on phone lines using voice mail they will not need a pc to relive an email message

·         Allowing. Corporates to post their job-Advt (free) on our colliding with print media

Page no 137

·         We don’t have this in our business.

Page no 138

·         In our business too, our website us to create our databases at a single location. For us this means web-based software delivering terms Resumes Interview schedules ARDIS & ARGIS. 

   Page no 139

·         Websites already exit offering this service

Page no 152

·         We can do some “data mining” about employee turnover in a given company by (computer) analyzing its “employee- details” annual Reports for several year.

·         e.g.

·         Date of joining years with co. “total Exp “employed for part of the year” etc.

Page no 157

·         www.ezeenet.com both find “job-listings” &

·         www.juuglee.com “Resumes” from the Net.

Page no 169

·         India has “skills” America needs skills

Page no 176

·         India is one and therefore success of Hinduja’s IN-Cable & Raheja’s SITI- Cable as ISP IS of great interest to us.somekind of tie-up with them would benefit us.

Page no 177

·         A cable TV with a set-top box & cable modem can transmit data 100 times faster than a pc connoted to an analog phone line!      

Page no 184

·         But in our business, yes!                                                                                                                                                             

Page no 185

·         Although in our executive- search business, “time-saving” and “convenience “will be the biggest driving forces.

Page no 186

·         There has to be certain amount of intuition & risk taking.

·         Nowhere more evident than in India of 1999! 

Page no 207

·         This would require a lot of programmer. India has an opportunity here export software engineers.

Page no 223

·         For a long time to come this may hold good for our executice.search business as well.

Page no 228

·         This has special significance to our web-centered business. Job Advt we must kick-start this Résumés The “beneficial “circle.  

Page no 229

·         Communication (data) will arrive into homes over –

·         Telephone wires

·         TV cables

·         Power cables

·         Radio waves. 


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