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, 26 May 2021

IN THE PLEX - STEVEN LEVY


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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 :

IN THE PLEX - STEVEN LEVY          

                                                                                                          
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Page No= 15

·         If “jobs for ALL” to ever become a reality, then there will need to be a “conned” between all the jobseekers, and all, the Employers of the world.

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·         In our jobs arch, results, last column so “Applied count “i.e. so for how many candidates have applied for that job. But job-advts disappear from search- results, upon “Expiry” (normally 30 days after posting we could do something internet once we start compiling for each jobseeker, a “jobs Applied History” once this is in place, we can create, a “job, POPUARITY INDEX” –a simple tabulation of job-advert arranged in descending order of the times a job got applied by all jobseeker put together, But each job advts belongs to a company. So, no of people applying to ALL the advts of GIVEN company, indicates its popularity a “Popularity Rank”?   Or a “Preshrank”?

Page No = 18

·         If a lot of jobseekers are applying against different jobs of same company, then obnously, that company is very popular amongst, what does the “world of jobseekers” think of a company?

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·         For each adverting company, I can total up “cumulative Apply count” (for all the job advts of that company”) I can treat this “Number” as a RAW Score and calculated PERCENTILE score, than plot.

·         Popularity Distil toing.

Page no = 22  

·         My “comments “ ( which I post on hundreds of websites) contain link www. Customize Resume.com.

·         I have been posing these comments few ¾ years how.

·         These comment pages “link” website / latest Alexa count shows some 226 links to my website but he-men Parikh”  in Google, throw up A5/ 50000. Results!!

Page no = 24

·         Read my today‘s email to shuklendu re “job Alert Recommend tion system “t my earlier emails at June 8/9 my handwritten notes on “Match index” if we succeed in capture ring and analyzing the keywords contained in all the job advts applied by each codirects we would be able to amaze, both, the jobseekers and the Employers .Currently “Head of search” at Google.  

Page no = 30

·         In all of my communications – offline & online –I keep telling jobseekers that once they install “My jobs “ on their mobiles they don’t need to visit ANY jobsite including ours to conduct jobs arch. On “my jobs “page at Android Market, I have written, Death to job search”!

 Page no = 34

·         “Answers” to a person‘s problem, not “Search Result’s” to a person’s “search Query”

Page no = 37

·         In our case too, download speed of “submit Resume” page, will be crucial, since (at lesest in beginning) “my jobs “will be installed on Aakash/ jubilate tablets, which will access internet thru very slow, 2 G sim cards, No 3G No Wi-Fi , only plain 2G if this page does not load “FAST,USRE will run away.

Page no = 38  

·         This is precisely my idea behind “job ALERT R recommendation system” based on “jobs Applied History” of each candidate- and the frequency of Keywords contained in those past job-advts. IF they (jobseekers) had liked these Advts (enough to apply.) then they will like future ads that contained some of the same keywords My 3 orighal handwritten  notes, describing this logic are dated 2003. Inventor of “Google News”

Page no = 36

·         “Jobs for All = peace on Earth “too, will make world, a better please.

Page no = 40

·         I may live another 5 years, but, I know, even 50 years from now, there may not be “jobs for all”

·         Bridging the Digital Divide, at least in matter of job- related info, is my goal. And I hope, preloading of MY jobs on Aakash Tablet could be a beginning.

Page no = 42

·         As of now, we have RSS feeds of job-advts from only 3 jobpoortals which runs every night for a couple of hours then  “ then the “match –making” too ! Matches newly arrived jobs (1700/ day) with the resumes and updates job alert summary & detail pages.

Page no = 45

·         With no marketing effort on my part , how many people, would discover and download “my jobs” on their own either from our site or from Android Market ? None in last 3 month Hence, I must depend upon Data wind preloading “my jobs” on all tablets made by them.

·         It is a mystery, why around 2 pm this afternoon (Saturday), some 25 visitors were “on line “on customize Resume, all from Germany / France!! So far, are. Is ½ at any given time! By 3pm, it dropped to 1 visitor.

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·         Job Apply History frequency of a given search term in our case too, “my jobs users will be fresher or Exp Graduates! Under grads metro based / small town based married/ single Boys / girls /old / young etc. act.  

Page no = 49

·         Keywords from “History of past past jobs applied” we have decided to highlight these in (next) job-and in that candidate’s resume and hy per link to Wikipedia.

·         BUT, now I feel, it may be much better to hyper link these to similar website, in order to display SIMILAR words, visually connected, in a pop-up 24/06/2012. Also, a better site to link will be visuwards.com.

Page no = 50

·         I do this every day! BUT my purpose is to find a “count” of the no. of pages (websites) where my “comments “  are visible Each comment carries a link to my site-i.e. “ backlinks” these are import that form viewpoint of higher page Rank.

Page no = 53

·         If we ever succeed in making, carmine, our resume parsing too! A downloadable from our website from, along with guru search search-engine (both part of Reecruitguru.com) .

·         And insert a s/w which will uploaded onto our webserver, each I every that got “parsed” (on the hard- disks of Recruiters).  Then, we too, could get a lot of resumes. Job search & Resume   Search forms.

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·         How do you figure out that an incoming email is a normal business correspondence OR a resume? Smile. BY going thru a few dozen, resumes, I complied asset of some 36 keywords that would normally be found only in a resume!

Page no = 55

·         As per Alexa, we have 226 links to our site.

Page no = 56

·         On search term, “Executive search” (without commas) 3p web site rank, dropped from 4/5 (on first page) to 82, to! 26/06/2012.

Page no = 67

·         No more “search Results “to be interpreted by user, for user usefulness, BUT ready solutions telling you what to do.

Page no = 68  

·         Read my note / u.i, about proposed well site feature, “Job in my street?

·         Yesterday (on my 79th birthday) , sunset tuli (Data wind) said in an email that , in every likelihood, “my jobs” will get pre-loaded on those 100,000 Aaksh 2 tablets, that Data wind will deliver to  IIT- B , before end Dec. 2012. IT will be a big breakthrough, should that happen, IIT-B is supposed to distriloute these, amongst 500 engineering colleges- to faculty, as well as to students.

Page no = 70  

·         3 day back, Microsoft unveiled its own 10” tablet “SURFACE” based on upcoming WINDOWS 8 o/c MS wake up to the tablets (esp. pad 2/3 & Google’s  Android ) flooding the market !

·         Revenue Model, behind “MY jobs” is also ddvt – based, ads to be delivered by yahoo / in mobile Network sooner or later, Naukri, and Thimesjobs will notice it sexually if it is a huge success.

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·         Today’s paper reports that sequoia invested a further RS. - 305 cross in just Dial.com.

·         Dot com just comes in April 2000.

Page no = 77

·         Google’s driver-less (self-driving) car just completed 20,000 km thru the highways & cities of USA.

·         Will jobseekers who find jobs thru “my jobs” talk about it amongst their friends? I have to depend solely

·         On good word of mouth.  

·         I have NIL budget, Always had NIL budgets for marketing “my jobs” can sell itself if it is truly USEEFUL to jobseekers with limited or no , access to internet,

Page no = 78  

·         When a “my jobs” user logs in to use the widget, we know a lot about him/ her, viz male / female, Bachelor / married, AGE, end quail / city / years of EXP/ employers Name etc.etc.

·         As soon as he wising Yahoo / in mobile should get all of his background and from its inventory of advts. Deliver those advts; deliver those ads which are likely to interest him! Either, I have a detailed handwritten note on this strategy or an email to HP labs & in mobile.

Page no = 79  

·         We have sought to over this (relic trance to click) by providing an “incentive” if you click, you get 5 more job alerts! Google’s only” clue” was this “search query” from a user. In our case, we KNOW a lot about each user. 

 Page no = 83

·         In our own small way, someday, we will launch Ad sharp for which, read my handwritten notes & webpage u/z, as also emails to nimbi’s Siddhartha srinivasan & HP labs.

Page no =84

·         In “my jobs” when jobseekers touch & view a particular ADVT (delivered by Yahoo / in Mobi) it hardly means he has some “interest” in that advt. It is only a “price” that he must pay in order to get 5 more job-alert!! So, even if we had means to track which Yahoo! in Mobi ads, he viewed, it does not tell us much.

Page no = 85

·         “Ad sharp” we will enable employers employers to target their  job-vacancies, to very sharply defined group of candidates  a kind of “vacancy Blast” later we will modify and bring out a different version of Adshaerp to enable marketer’s to blast their Mktg messages to a sharp demographic group.

Page no = 91  

·         In India Recruiter.net, our s/w captured the “details” when a registered / logged-in- candidate clicked/ opened a job “advt.we captured further “status” if he “applied” after viewing the advts. Sowed know. Who / how many “viewed but did NOT apply! And we enabled the advertise to see this log. He can even email to WHY he did not apply!!

Page no = 95

·         We expect to install Google “AD sense” on our site by 15 July but, I don’t that to bring in revenue. Hopefully, my jobs” will ,because jobseeker gets “rewarded” by 5 more job alerts every time he views a Yahoo / in Mobi delivered ad AND we get rewarded by Yahoo / in Mobi , as a publisher”

Page no = 96  

·         We must remember this when we come up with an APP (mobile based ) called, “post job” AS Soon as a registered “ Employer “post on Ad ( job vacancy ) from his APP , how can we “show it to him “go live on our website ? Larry is right. This feedback has to be instant tenuous. As soon as he enters AD DETAILS (AFTER LOGINE & UPLODED) but ton, the next screen would say, “To view your job Ad on customize-Resume, touch / open / view Advts. Below “that will deliver yahoo ad- closing which will display his full ad on a page on our site.        

Page no = 97  

·         Today, I prepared a “concept Note “ post jobs “widgets As soon as a Employer, posts a jobs” from his mobile he will be shown, 5 matching “candidate Details,  which will also include mobile No  Torching mobile no ( a link ) will ring up that candidate, Death to Resume Search thry “post jobs” or shall we call it “Resume finder” as opposed to “ Resume Search? Seeing matching Resumes with in second.       

Page no = 99  

·         Revenue Models of most Indian job portals are: - subscriptions from Employers enabling them to 1) post jobs 2) search Resumes.  They are “locked” into this model.

·         We will make this FREE for the employers our revenue will be “Advts” driven ads on our mobile Apps.

·         With “Resume Finder” (or “post jobs”) I hope we can get millions of SME 2) to register as Employers on our website, SME’S may not have pc/ Broad band BUT do have smartphones, to use the APP. 

Page no = 103

·         We hope to install this on our site by 15 July.

Page no = 104

·         I have requested shuklendu to assign “bottom of each page “for AdSense. This is not the best place, but we can do this without changing our page template.

Page no = 111

·         To use “my jobs” a jobseeker has to login. Only then, we deliver job alerts (I suppose from “job alert summary” page), so, if we wish, we too can find out which job alerts. Get delivered but not clicked.

Page no = 112  

·         Discrete / unemployed, jobseekers can be expected to keep touching Yahoo/ in Mobi ads in order to see-and apply- against ALL the job alerts that we can serve.

Page no = 117

·         Matching candidate to jobs?

Page no = 124

·         12 years later, Google seems to have taken a small step in that direction Read News –cutting at 28/06/12012 enclosed./     By  BHARET Krishna .

Page no = 141

·         After being thrown out from uni of ILLINO IS, I worked hard and managed to get of 4.5 out of 5.0 (!!) at uni of Kansas Lawrence.

Page no = 152

·         I have vague meaning of haring read this while in UAS in 1956.

Page no = 163  

·         At L&T, we introduced (may be in early 1970) a PERFORMANCE Appraisal system which required supervisory emplaces, to set “objectives & Targets,” jointly, before the start of the years. Then at year end, BOSS filled in his own assessment of acted performance against the SET target (after employee concerned did a SELF- Appraisal. Then BOSS revised with conceded employee & sent to Dept. with salary – increase recommend nation?

·         In L& T I had compiled & circulated a SAMPLE list of such “”measurable” objectives, exactly worded like this! 40 years this! 40 years ahead of Google! 

Page no = 164

·         At L & t , although we  tried hard to set “measurable “ objectives, there was no “independent / third party “mechanism to “measure” the actual performance for everyone to see / accept ! At was quite often, the employee’s word against the supervisor‘s word! And no agreement!

Page no = 172  

·         I faced the same (privacy) problem when I launched Recruiters & HR Managers simply hated the idea that their “paved” text resume database would be stored on “our” servers! I renumber the furor.

Page no = 173

·         In our case a candidate‘s “jobs APPLIED History” would tell us what “kind” of job he likes / company /city /ind / function etc. etc. we will use this knowledge to deliver, more relevant, job alerts thru “my jobs.” Fortunately, in India, concept of privacy is very week!  Of course jobs Applied History” of an individual would tell us a lot about “his” likes but ,an aggregation of jobs applied by ALL candidates will tell us much more.

Page no = 178

·         Scott McNally of SUN is supposal to have said, Privacy is dead. Period” 

Page no = 179

·         We are planning to compile “jobs  applied History”  of each & every can did ate .we intend .we intend to “use” only the latest 1000 jobs applied to find / tabulate “keywords” for our “job Recommend” cafion system”  But we will keep / store ALL the jobs he ever applies for ever ! AND then “analyze” these, by industries / functions” / cities / commas / etc. storage is FREE!

Page no = 180

·         In 2003, that was the basic of RecruitGuru.com. HR managers would login and upload, on RG.com, thousands of PLAIN TEXT  RESUMES’ LYING ON THEIR HARD DISKS, our s/w will, “parse” these and create a structured database of 23 fields, which can be  searched online, I dea was to concert un searchable text  resumes in to a searchable database , so, we went up to  cloud and came back !

Page no = 182

·         May be we had the same no in 3p!

Page no =211

·         This is exactly what killed Recruit Guru.com Recruiting HR managers, just would not “trust our website to store “their” resumes, in a square way; this was 7 years ago But I doublet if there is any different today!   

Page no = 218

·         Last week Google released its 7” tablet, Nexus-7, made by ASUS.

Page no = 217

·         “My jobs” is a mobile “find” not “search”

·         Samsung made a profit of $ 5.9 billion last quarter because of its Android Galaxy SII & SIII.

Page no = 228

·         May be, this the reason why Revathi (HP- labs, Bangalore) decided to develop “My jobs “bases on Android. A wise delusion indeed. In last 6 months, all tables getting launched are Android.

·         Now available in India (come models) for as low as Rs. – 2500 ($ 50) smart phone Market in India is growing at 60% 80% I most are Android. Bottom of the pyramid too wants’ smartphone.

Page no = 229  

·         My first smartphone was a “Motorola – flip” which, for some reason (2.8” screen?) failed to display “my jobs” results. So, after 6 months or so, Manish gave me Samsung Galaxy ‘SII with 4.8 “screen beautiful! 8/10 months back GOOGLE purchased Motorola Division for $ 12 billion on for its. 1700 patents,

Page no = 230

·         I need to go “beyond” this by forgetting to “users once Aakash Tablet users start using “my jobs “in thousands day,  I think I should “after other tablet mfr to integrate My jobs with any Advts networks of their choice AND keep 100% of the revenue earned thru earned thru Ada, No NEED to share any % age with me, ! Only that can motivate them to pre-land my jobs & even “promote “it age aggressively.

Page no = 231

·         In out 2010, I asked on GOOGLE help forum, it anyone knew, why my application for AdSense got reject twice –one guy replied, saying, maybe it was due our webpage “GOOGLE loves us” we again applied last week and again got rejected reply by s/w today, we have removed that page hope to re-apply tomonoew, varun Mahajan (sun of Vijay) is working for Google in Mumbai. He has promised to cheek worth a Hyderabad colleague re: our rejection problem,

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·         Now coming soon- in Google Glasses’ $ 1500//= for APP developers.

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·         In Customize Resume, we are “aggregating” job-advts from several websites (in “one place”) then “clustering” these in our jobs database, according to “industry / functioned.  (One “issue” then matching with jobseeker’s resume & delivering on his mobile

Page no = 241

·         Today all jobpoortals make money by charging subscription to eanpoles for posting jobs & searching resumes. What would happen to Naukri etc. if recruiter’s don’ts   need to neither post jobs nor search resumes?

Page no = 244

·         How can we “employ “this idea? We want 1) job-advts 2) Resume’s to get uploaded on customize Resume, by any there are millions of text resumes, lying on hard dishes of Resumeters resumes which they have down they have down loaded from Naukri etc. can we get “upload these get in to database & become searchable passively by allowing “Resume Parser” tool for free download by REcruiyrers & (secretly) uploading whatever they –parse”, onto our site!

Page no = 248

·         With Data wind I will share ad- revenue 50:50, from MY jobs users, on Aakash tablet. Now to other tablet. Now to other tablet Smartphone mfr if I offer that they can tie-up with any other network and keep 100% of the revenue, I May have huge load on our server –without any revenue! Maybe I need to keep 25:75. 

Page no = 251

·         What is parallel to our own situation here? If ,same day, millions of jobseekers stop searching jobs on jobsites, and start using “My jobs” instead , would many more jobsite’s allow us RSS feeds of their jobs database what would they gain? Nothing would Recruiters start posting their directly a site instead of posting on Naukri? that is more likely                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  when India s’ state goats and central govt end up district bestir millions of Aakash tablets to students the first texture they will use will be you tube,  

Page no = 263

·         In “my jobs “at a point of time I SUGGESTED the at in Mobi push (onto the user‘s mobile screen) a product / service Ad of the very company. Whose “job Ad / vacancy AD? The user was. Presented with ,by the widget Apparently in Mobi did not appreciate this idea but, I will follow up at the right time.      

Page no = 269

·         Yesterday‘s news “a hacker group leaked 453.492 Yahoo plain text passwords. 14/07/2012.

·         Aerie’s the 20th birthday.

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·         I believe he left Google, 2/3 yrs. later.

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·         I think it shut this down sometime later I saw a photo of this with Google sing board on terrace being removed.

Page no = 291

·         Employees of UTMAL (utkal Machinery) a L&T subsidiary in kanhahal (Orissa) called their company “Guest House “ as  “pest House” where the “smart  guy’s from powai would stay and “advise them how to run UTMAL better !

Page no = 295

·         Neither does 89% of Indians but Google enables searches in many Indian languages,

Page no = 296

·         Must be same in India except we have many more English speaking people.

Page no = 299

·         This should be a central idea in our own “jobs Recommend tram system” based on “jobs Applied History” of each candidate, Based on “keywords weightages we will recommend certain jobs but what % of these does that candidate actually apply? This was on TV,

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·         Exactly 10 yrs. earlier, on Nov 14, 1997, we launched 3p jobs.com Google’s own website, was officially launched 6 months later I think in APRIL 1998.

Page no = 327

·         Today‘s paper says, Aneesh copra too has resigned as Obama’s chief Technology officer campaign for a nomination for lt Governor of Virginia. 

Page no = 330

·         A few days back, I spent some time on Google, searching for hotels in shard (Saibaba) .now, when I visit some other websites; I am presented with banner ads for shirdi hotels creepy.

Page no = 331

·         Way back (may) be around 1998/99) I had received an email from Dongle click, offering to place ads on 3pjobs.com I de clined!

Page no = 336

·         Shuklendu: - This (market differentia for) could be true of us as well, thru “jobs Applied History” we plan to cease  a “job Recommendation system” That will help us deliver ever more relevant job-ads to a candidness whether he logs in ONLINE  (thru My jobs widget)

·         In world wide-jobs or India Recruiter, we had a page where a candidate could enter his” job Preferences” this was 7 years ago!!

Page no = 346

·         Sacked a few months backs & replaced by thousand, who too, got replaced, 4 days back by GOOGLE’S margin Mayer’s

Page no = 356

·         It seems, I did not know (enough?)   About GOOGLE in 1999. Today I found an old (1999) handwritten paper, where I have tabulated “ranking” of various jobpoortals on search terms. “Job hunt” & Resume hunt” by various search Engines but Google is missing from that list!!

Page no = 376

·         I think dropped I just received my 4th rejection for AdSense! Last 2 rejections for “insufficient content” fortunately there is a feedback, box thru which, I asked for a review.

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·         Was estimated $ 100 billion, at IPO time, 2 months back.

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·         It is close to a million per day now with Samsung alone, selling ½ million Galaxy per day.

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·         Was in news, even yesterday 29/07/2012.

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·         It has done 20.000 km by now.

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·         For 1 month, doctors have advised him not to “talk” due to problems with his vocal chords,

Page no = 387

·         2 days back Google announced availability of their very own “internet thru filer optics” project as follows (Kansas city) 5 mbps--- only web surfing onetime payment of $$ 300 / 1000 mbps--  $$ 170 pm.

·         1000 mbps—web + TV $$ 300 pm.

·         Impossible? No. Unconventional? Yes.

·         From search—Android based Mobiles / tablets-- ISP 29/07/2012.  



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