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

Tuesday, 4 May 2021

THE STARFISH AND THE SPIDER – ORI BRAFMAN




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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 :

  THE STARFISH AND THE SPIDER – ORI BRAFMAN      

                                                                                                          
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Page No 06

·         Sounds almost like “ahi-ravana & ahi-ravana” of Ramayana fame.

Page no 07

·         Some of the features of India recruiter that could altev the online recruitment industry.

·         Share your knowledge

·         [Contribute interview questions]

·         Interview   Answer.

·         [Contribute ans.to questions]

·         600.000 IQ

·         [Contribute interview questions]

·         Poll-e [poly –ticks]

·         [Vote for keywords to change their weigktagee.ADDnwe keyword add new function / skills]

·         Profile ideas

·         [Suggest new profile]

·         Resume Rater [free CD]

·         RESUME XPLORER [rc]

·         [Free download.]

Page no 12

·         2 days back, Viacom filed *1 billion suit against You Tube [Google] for copyright in fringe ment on video clips uploaded by users of YouTube.  

Page no 13

·         There could be BIG trouble for Honster/Naukri /times job if their corporate subscribers were to start “swapping ‘there would [than] want to subscribe to these job portals? 

Page no 15

·         Ahi-Ravana/ mahi Ravana.

Page no 20

·         Gandhi ji was such a leader.

Page no 21

·         Like colonies of Ant?

·         From every drop of Ahiravana;s blood another Rakshsha emerged!   

Page no 23

 

·         We should make both Rx & R2 easily copy –able. I am trying to make Rx [Resume Explorer] freely downloadable from day one. We will start Resume Rater [R2] with a CD but to make it downloadable

Page no 24

·         Didn’t he invent –than sell Skype to eBay for $ 1.65 billion, in 2006? 

Page no 26

·         To remember this is why I am trying to turn India recruiter in to a 01] social consensus website, to begin with /2] open source website, at a later date.  

Page no 32

·         I had not seemed a website by 1995.

·         Job search [by jobseekers] and resume search [by corporates] are THE minimum features that all job portals must have in order to be considered a job portal. But I in tend to make both obsolete, thru JAM/ RAM.

Page No 35

·         Exactly like a drop of blood of Ahi-Ravana!

Page no 39

·         “Audience poll “is not always right but it is quite fast.

Page no 40

·         With our poll-e- [poly –ticks], the weightages of keywords will constantly change –in turn changing raw scores/ percentiles/frequency distributions. We will not even know!

Page no 41

·         This is only way, India recruiter can “sneak-up on monster/Naukri/times jibs

·         Letus hope!

Page No 43

·         Naukri [the oldest India job portal] is 10 years old [3p jobs.com a few months after] us see what happens by march 2008.

·         Currently Naukri is share is quoted around RS -700/=   

Page No 45

 

 

·         IF India-Recruiter manages to take off, it is ground to upset the -[subscription –based] revenue models of monster/ Naukri / eimesjobs of course, I don’t expect big companies to “abandon” these major portals in any great hurry. 

Page no 61

·         10 yrs. ago, it was only Naukri [1997]-then in 2001 came monster India, followed by times jobs in 2003 all offer identical services.  

Page no 62

·         As soon as we get a few website to sigh-up as “partner websites” [of global recruiter] then, we must plan on “decentralizing GR; S

·         Central database of jobs resumes avnongest partners.

·         When we start distributing for FREE [ download from our website]

·         Resume rater [ in 2 weeks]

·         Resume explorer[ in 4 week]

·         We may, forever, change the character of online Recruitment industry!

Page no 63

·         It is [as of now] thriving & sold to eBay for * 1.6 billion, a few months back.

·         In respect of functions/skills, I hope achieve this democracy [by the people/ for the people] thru poll-e.

·         Someday, we will introduce something similar for 1] Industries 2] Designations etc.

·         We need to add this feature in course of time.

Page no 66

·         Not knowing now poll-e- may play out, we have kept a provision [admin tool], to eliminate any really” OFFENSIVE” keyword that some mischief-monger [or competitor?] mat add-.

Page no 69

·         If India reciter proves hugely popular, it is quite likely that Naukri/ monster might launch their own version pay-per-click “job portal. 

Page no 71

·         In poll-e too, the keyword that get voted most [no of Timex relevance score], will get “used “to compute weightages for fernery distribution graphs. 

·         Conceivably we could provide a “voting “mechanism in the.

·         Resume Rater [ since it can be used only when connected online ,to our server]

·         Resume Rater would only need a hyperlink to poll-e- conveyed to sourabh to incorporate.

Page no 73

·         Altogether 6 million +, as of now.

Page no 76

·         In poll-e-,we could/should consider adding a sixth [ relevance] ranking column, called “offensive “

·         If a large no.of users rate any.

·         Particular keyword as “offensive” it gets removed automatically.

Page no 91

·         May be someday, we will start [can India Recruiter],

·         A page “Edit a job description” using WIKI technology from 2/3 lakh job – advtes,we, we, have extracted, equal no. of jobdescrptions –each belonging a particular position/ vacancy.

Page no 92

·         There is no telling what shape, direction poll-e –might take!

Page no 93

·         “Resume Rater “may get sued but we will still make it freely downloadable in the first phase and, at later stage, allow users to modify / edit the software, which everyone can freely use.

Page no 96

·         Can “liberate you from the tyranny of the few”, become a strong enough ideology for users of India recruiter to dedicate themselves?

  Page no 102

·         Top 5000/10000 companies use “online recruitment” some 500.000 smaller companies don’t, mainly because of high subrdcrtion- models of job profiles .with our pay-per –click model, we will bring “ equality of market access “to these 5 lakh companies.  

Page no 111

·         A week or two ago, he was in Bangalore speaking to a “Wikipedia” un-conference”

Page no 114

·         I had such relationship with labor union office bearers at L & T powai, during 1979-87 when I was Gm. [powai] If they were to strike work they would first come & tell me.

·         Neither did I take any anti-labor action without telling them first.

·         Read entire set of “communicating for productivity” 

Page no 138

·         Unless India Recruiter [+ some offline software] brings “success “to the recruitment efforts of mastok]

·         L&T InfoTech etc. We will have no real life “success-stories “to spread around.

Page no 140

·         Hence, the challenge lies in projecting India Recruiter as an “ideology”-rather than as a job-portal!

·         “Are you being taken for ride?”

Page no 142

·         Henie, nothing-to lose!

Page no 143

·         As soon as global Recruiter manages to homes a network of so jobsites [ as  partner websites], I plan to shut down India recruiter, whose main role is to etc.as a “catalyst”[ a demo website] in the beginning .

Page no 145

·         By giving away [free],”resume rater” software, I hope to “unlock “the millions of resume lying “locked “[ un searchable] on the hard disks of corporate HR managers /recruit. Agencies .the resume rater will become the tool which will drastically reduce their dependence on monster / Naukri.etc they will not feel “poor “anymore.

·         Liberate you self from the tyranny of the few! Quite like CEMEX experiment in Hopefully, each [FREE] download of

·         Mexico.

Page no 146

·         Resume Rater

·         Resume Explorer [RX]

·         IIT

·         Will change recruitment manger’s ideology.

Page no 147

‘Pagal” in Urdu?

Page no 150

·         I suppose it is same with software so, we will enable free download of resume rater /Rx /IIT & encourage “copying “/ “distributing”!

Page no 152

·         A “means “of livelihood.

·         In our case, a “rare capability –to be able to rate resumes lying on their hard disks.

·         Tomorrow hopefully we will handover first Resume Rater to strategic HR

Page No 166

·         Although, in the last 5 weeks, we could persuade 31 corporates to “register” on

·         India recruiter, we could get only 4 resumes so far! Without plenty of resumes to search, no crop .subrsiber wants to waste his time to post his job Advt! We are in a bind somehow we need to break this weblog lock

·         So far only 4 persons have rated India recruiter at “rate us now”! 

Page no 167

·         Obviously, it is not going to be easy to convince corporate HR mgrs. To switch-over to India Recruiter we might be able to make a dent only after our FREE downloadable s/w are made avail label.  

·         I wonder it poll-e might do this for us.

·         IN / IIT,”candidate assessment “[ on a scale of 1-5] is a kind of “user generated review “in course of time an “average “of such ratings will be shown ,next to each PEN “average. But that might take years! What can we do, till such time? Can we get mgrs.? To “rate/ assess a resume? Based on what it contains?

Page no 168

·         Average of “candidate ASSESSMENT” [with ant reveling the indenting of the Assessor] is quite like this. For a HR mgr., filling in “candidate Assessment” at the end of interview would be a “necessity”[ if not a must].but how can I motivate them to “rate” resumes?

·         This is my worry too, if I ask HR mgrs. To rate resumes.

Page no 169

·         “Celebrity Endorsement “India Recruiter need a few such endorsement from reputed HR consultants – then list these on a webpage.

Page no 171

·         We have planned a feature called “interview Answers” where any user can pick a [keyword-related] question and supply an answer. He will be given credit for supplying the answer. He can also choose to stay anonymous. 

Page no 172

·         We are showing ‘no of times viewed “counters for jobs as well as for resumes.

Page no 173

·         “resume rater” will unlock text resume’s on hard drinks “resume Xplorer”will enable of enable searching of profiles on hard disks “IIT” will make avaiailer[ to HR mgrs.,]15000   interview questions.RR & RX are “search-Engines”[ both offline].How Will Naukri /Monster /time job react of our initiative ?If we want profile to become “industry-standard “then we must forgo some revenue initially.

·         If profile do become industry standard, we will find many ways to make from a hoot of “Analytics” 

 Page no 174

 Exactly what I plan to do with.

·         1] Free give away of Resume Rater / ResXlorer / IIJ.

·         2]”Social consensus initiatives to harness the knowledge of millions of jobsites.

·         Rx will reduce online “profile- searches”

·         We will have IIT as vote offline free download “online version, which would keep getting ever more powerful, thru “social consensus”initistives.

·         Offline [free give away] version, will more or less, remain static. This will be our hybrid solution.

Page no 175

·         This was later revised when it discovered that unit managers had started defining their “market” so narrowly that, their UNIT would always come out #1 or #2! e.g. ”incandescent bulb” market of “light sour ces” market !!

Page no 190

·         It is same model on all job portals. Any jobseeker can offer his “services” to any employer, by simply posting his resume.

·         Corporates do the opposite by posting their vacancies.

·         But not all corporates are posting their vacancies on all job profiles more all job seekers are posting their resumes on all job portals.

·         Thru global recruiter networks this is what to change.

·         This is the main reas on behind “face –to-face”interwe.

·         IIT is only an intermediate skep between 1] reading a resume

·         Face to face intewiew.

 Page no 193

·         Our “pay-per use “model, against “Annual subscription models of monster Naukri etc.

Page no 194

·         [Resume Rater, Explorer IIT]  Not only shall we make these, freely downloadable form India Recruiter.

·         But we will encourage user to make Mary copies to distribute amongst/ colleagues.

·         In” share your knowledge “& poll –e- we don’t ask a contributor to reveal his identity. Only “Interview Answers we will insist on log-in + contubrutor’s data.

Page no 195

·         If our poll-e, takes off, then raw scores / percentile scores, will entirely rely on “user inputs” [i.e. user votes, deciding weightages and inclusion of keyword .Entire Profile generation process will be USER DRIVEN.

Page No 196

·         WWW.One look.com

·         Is a serious competitor to Wikipedia?

  Page no 200

·         Today I read on art ide on “video resumes” several US jobprotals are rushing in to this who know s what is in store as of today here , India Recruiter is the first to provide a feature for candidate to [ paste] upload his photo, in submit Resume.

Page no 201

·         We have yet to earn our first and it seems a few months away!                                                                   

Page no 202

·         Recruit Guru Can [Salaries + Overhead], at may be, RS-2 lakhs /month

·         Are Hana from Edelweiss [ vc]  

·         Phoned today I asked her to lookup India Recruiter them come back.  

·         Job posting’s & resume posting are both, a kind of “Advt” we are, actually in an online Ad business!

·         True but. How publicize the very existence of India Recruiter without spending any money? Possible-but it will take time to get hundreds of corporates and thousands of jobseekers to register, based, entirely on email campaign.

·         We need to reach a “ critical mass” before word – of- month spreads to create a huge network,

Page no 203

·         Apart from free download of PR/RX/ IIT, plan to great a chaos [ in online recruit ment industry ] by letting users modify our “ source – code to greet new tools / new applications Each & every HR should beagle to “ customize his own recruitment software to suite his need’s  

Page no 204

·         Larry Sanger does not agree. He was it’s to launch “citizenpedia”- with art ide writers having to identify themselves no anonymous posting, this was reported yesterday.



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