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Friday, 7 May 2021

HOW TO GET YOUR COMPETITION FIRED - RANDY SCHWANTZ


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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 :

  HOW TO GET YOUR COMPETITION FIRED - RANDY SCHWANTZ        

                                                                                                          
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Page No 08

·         When we approach corporate subscribers & Recruitment Agencies ( to subscribe to India recruiter ) we just cannot complete with monster / Naukri / tines jobs, as far as Resume Database is concerned, we have NO resumes ( to begin with ), whereas they have millions. So even if our services were absolutely free employers will NOT switchover to idiarecuriter  when we have NO resumes, there is no point in talking about Rs 1 / = per click !

·         We can only compete on the basis of our other “different- acting” feature Vis

·         Profiles

·         IIT

·         In course of time, IIM and, we will need to keep our services FREE for a few months

Page no 09

·         RS- 1 / PAY –PER CLICK ( and no large, upfront, annual  subscription ) be a “motivator” for small / medium / companies to for “ online Recruitment” ( which they may have never done before) “pay –as –you –go “model cannot motivate ate big corporations, for whom monster Naukri’s annual subscription is “peanuts “in relation the “ value” of searching finding millions of resumes.    

Page no 11

·         IN stage # 1 

·         Our immediate prospects = Recruitment Agencies (between 800/ 2000)

·         Our sales pitch = 1) monster / Naukri cannot give them profiles only we can.

·         2) Your competing recruitment agencies are wining business using profiles while you are still stuck on plan text resumes.

Page no 20

·         ALL of immediate propane’s (large companies & 700/ 2000 pacemaker agencies) are already subscribing to monster Naukri / timasjons.   

Page no 21

·         If we succeed in getting a few recruitment agencies to start sending “profiles” ( instead of plaintext resumes ) to their corporate clients, then there is a good chance that corporates will get to appreciate the big difference between profiles &  text resumes.

·         The best way to “sell (to large corporates) is to get the recruitment agencies to “endorse” profile by switching over to profiles we must get them to do our selling!

Page no 24

·         With their resources, monster / Naukri / times jobs can give (their existing corpo.clients)  a vastly superior service given time of 6/12 months, they can even offer a “product” that matches / exceeds our “ profiles” in which case,

·         They don’t’ even need to match our price!

·         My only hope is that they will ignore us wngenough for us to build up a big subrsonberbase (we have no funds for a rapid ramp-up) then again a miracle could happen!

·         Today s’ newspapers say that info edge’s (Naukri) shares (IPO) got listed at nearby RS: 700 /= as against offer price of RS= 320 /! This raised Sanjeev Bhikchandani’s Bhikchandani’s share (44.6 %) to RS: 720 Crores!!

Page no 28

·         I am not sure whether monster / Naukri sales persons have any “deep personal contact / relation with their corps subscribers -except for the relay big “accounts”

·         I fuel most crop- subscnbers, register “ONLINE “& MAKE online payments or thru cheques.   I suppose a sales person ( of online ) would talk to their corps clients only at the time of renewal of annual subscriptions, or when client is facing some  online trouble should  a corps . Subscnbers of Naukri decide to switch-over to monster India or times jobs I don’t think would first,

·         Call-up Naukri’s sales person and ask him to “match” either the price or service or features of monster! 

Page no 30

·         I suppose, all recruiters “ expect” no more than plain text resumes from jobsites- simply because a better  alternative done not exist as of now .but once they see profiles & IIT ,they not want plan text resumes anymore ! Profiles should raise their expectations.

Page no 35

·         Also increasing “pleasure / happiness”

Page no 37

·         I must re-read, those hundreds of emails that I have Recruiter “pain in the neck? “Reading hundreds of plan resumes, day after day.pnducing pain in the neck? Stop reading resumes: start interpreting images.  

·         Switch-over to profiles:

Page no 42

·         What precisely is “being underserved on jobsite? 1) Being served with hundreds of irrelevant resumes during a resume-search

·         2) Having to spend hours reading those resumes, to find out that 90% are irrelevant to your needs / requirement.

Page no 43

·         Arranging the search-result (the resumes shortlisted) in the descending order of relevance (match-index or percentile) so that HR mgr. Need to read only the top 10 out of (maybe) 400!

·         Also highlighting (in red) the keywords in the resume- those very same keywords which HR mgr. has selected in the first place to conduct the search, in short “Guru Archive”

·         “Company profiles “we have these profiles extracted from corps job advs. For about 40.000 / companies. When idiarecuriter gets launched, we will send equals to these companies I head to list these companies, in the descending order of the no of job-advs. That they have hosted on Naukri.  

Page no 44

·         Corporates  want that their vacancy info ( job-Advt) reach the most relevant / suitable candidates within minutes / hours of posting the ad-on-jobsite we will do this by extracting  the keywords from job-Advt matching with resumes – then emailing job-alerts to matching candidates obviously all / mast of these companies ane repeatedly their job-advs. On monster Naukri / times jobs they are their “current providers”

·         In online jobsites there such thing!

Page no 45

·         When a corps-subscriber (or even a recruitment agency) posts its job-Advt on India recruiter, can we devise a “Reporting system” that send out on email to the advertiser:

·         Your jobs advt. was delivered to 5326 candidates via email, within 43 minutes of posting your job-Advt .the demographic details of the 5326 candidates are as follows: city wise / endwise /func.wise/ Age wise / design wise/ Eddo-wise .

·         I don’t any jobsite today, gives such a feedback to a job advertise  but this could mean jobseekers may not come / conduct job searches online on idiarecuriter, nor “click-open” jobAdvts  thereby upsetting our revenue-model ! But we can hide contact info of the advert tiser & make jobseekers to visit the full jobAdvts   online & then click.

Page no 47

·         In an online jobsite business, I don’t think there is much scope to develop a “personal relationship” of course if we try to sell “guru Archive /” guru quest” / “guru-grad” etc. as offline enterprise version, we would need to meet our prospects in person.

Page no 48

·         Read on global Recruiter ( GR ) webpage called “ why HR loves GR “ – a point –by – point comparison of our “ offering / features” visa-a- vis  what monster offer , this was prepared a year ago and needs updating . Ryan Air?

Page no 50

·         Not having millions of resumes in our datable is our weakness and strength of monster Naukri etc.

·         But profiles / IIT become our strengths and their weaknesses

Page no 51

·         Guru Archive / profiles will be a case in point

Page no 52

·         No other jobsite offers “profiles”- but it will take some time before corps. HR mgrs. Start seeing its advantages.

·         Convenience time saving quality of hiring decisions pinpoint search (Needle in the haystavle)

Page no 53

·         A resume-search on India Recruiter will return a shortlist of resumes, much the same way monster / Naukri / does- except, we will present these in the descending order of “Match Index”- and clicking will produce profiles.

·         Need to read / view only the top ten.

Page no 54

·         In online jobsite, there isn’t much scope for providing individualized “proactive services “we can only offer same / identical services to all subscribers

Page no 55

·         It is going to be a long educative process for us to sell the idea of profiles to HR mgrs. Get them to see the benefits but, on the other hand , if a few large firms start insisting on profiles others will follow, even if they do not full understand its benefits.

Page no 56

·         For tunately” profiles” is visual / graphical / except that very few people are abele to quickly interpret “Frequency Distribution  “ curve , and selling the concept of “mean “ / standard deviation / going to be easy ,perhaps, IT companies may understand / appreciate what we have managed to achieve .

Page no 59

1)    A uttered homepage

2)    Where to log-in?

3)    What services are being offered?

4)    Can I tryout even without registering?

5)    Samples / examples of what I can expect if I were to register 

6)    Free trial period

7)     Can I avoid looking?

8)    Not  getting  “ last”

9)    Ability to jump- back return to any page anytime from anywhere, with a single click.   

·         Email / fax / phone no an / each a every page & clickable too- to get in touch within minutes,

Page no 62

·         We will need to hold seminars of HR mgrs. & demonstrate the simplicity / beanty of profiles

 

Page no 89

·         In a Resume search, the most relevant resumes at the top- arranged in descending order of match- index.

·         When you conduct a resume search on jobsites are you happy with the quantity / quality / relevance of the resumes?  How   good a match are these to what you are searching?

Page no 111

1)    Matching  keywords in my jobsites ( match with advt. keywords )

2)    Having high “percentile score “(match with master set of keyword “more relevant “to what? Ans; myadvt –my search criteria

   Page no 112

·         HR mgrs. When it wait for more than 10) seconds. ? –with a message “WAIT” on a jobsite, for the search –results to appear- in the descending order of “ match index” ( Keywords mate him their search – criteria ) , GOOGLE ,returns search results in 0.16 second / except too many of one single- words

Page no 113

·         I suppose if India RECRUITER can deliver “relevant search results “even in 10 seconds, HR would sigh-up right- now! But (unfortunately) right now, we don’t ‘have any resumes online in India Recruiter! I hope to be able to get these offline offering of guru quest. If HR mgrs. really like guru quest, these is a strong possibility that may insist that candidates first register on IndiaReruitter then email their profiles

Page no 122

·         NO Recruitment Agency or HR manager , world rush to “unsubscribe” from monster / Naukri , even after deciding to subscriber to idiarecuriter Apart from the fact be may have a few months “ subscription balance, be may not want to put all his eggs in one basket. We ourselves have concurrent subscriptions from monster, Naukri and times jobs.    

Page no 125

·         In an online recruitment business, I don’t’ think any HR mgr., ever goes back to jobsite (incumbent service provider) to check out whether he can match your service!

·         In any case monster / Naukri will not undertake to introduce a new service / feature just in order to satisfy / retain one client! Without any client approaching asking, they will decide to match our profiles / IIT etc., if they find that idiarecuriter has become a success!

Page no 128

·         There are over 500 jobsites here, but only 3 (monster / Naukri / times jobs) have sales people to make sales calls. Like the rest, initially at least, India Recruiter too would “market “itself them emails .we cannot afford sales staff in the beginning.

Page no 129

·         How much of a potential client’s experience can we “control” thru email? I out of 10 will hit the “delete” button even without opening the email. Perhaps powerful “endorsements” from optioning leaders could do the trick.

Page no 143

·         As soon as we get a few big corporates to sing –up on indiaRe,we  will repeatedly adverbs / publicize that fact amongst other potential users we will have a “ client list” on homepage & also email that list to potential clients we will also publish “ client comments” like on back page of this book & every book! 

 Page no 179

·         Yesterday, NIRMIT received “Enterprise scion – 2006 Entrepreneur Award (service sector) instituted by DNAMONEY (newspaper) & item Management College

Page no 180

·         Will profiles & (someday) JAM, accelerate this process?

Page no 196

·         But we cannot will not remain “unique” for long if we are hugely successful. If we are, we will need to ramp-up fast & put distance between us & copycat followers. We will need resources to ramp-up. 


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