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27 June 2013

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Monday, 10 May 2021

THE STEVE JOBS WAY - JAY ELLIOT WITH WILLIAM L. SIMON



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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 STEVE JOBS WAY - JAY ELLIOT WITH WILLIAM L. SIMON     

                                                                                                          
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Page no –xii

·         When we launch job widget developed by HP labs, on oct.06, will we the “future of job search”?

·         “Widget –on –mobile” / job search for every one?

Page no - xiv

·         Thy own “in sight “job portal based job search must become obsolete: jobs widget may be the app to do this

Page no - xv

·         If jobs widget ( under designing by HP-LABS) becomes a hit with jobseekers, we will convene HP-LABS to work on RESUHES widget ,which, at the touch of a finger on touchscreen mobiles, will turn-up “matching” resumes for the Recruiter . Then, if he likes, he will touch a button 

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·         On his device, and that resume will get emailed to him. For doing this, a recruiter will either 

1)    Post a job Advt on our website, or   create a “candidate profile” on site.

·         With availability of Skype on most smart phones, it should be possible for a recruiter to touch / tap another button market

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·         And instantly get connected to concede candidate thru Skype and start inters

Page no 04

·         Thru “power” of touchscreen mobile phones, hopefully, we will change the lives of millions of jobseekers, who are currently of job-related in jobs widget too, will be / easy to use / free / for millions In the next couple of years, there will be, literally, an explosion of touchscreen devices, of new way of interactions, of seemingly unlimited memories, of huge bandwidths, of powerful new technologist deliver content everywhere, we must focus on content those job-seekers & Recruiters want. I have had “Making job-searching obsolete” is my goal.

Page no 19

·         Filling “job-search” from on a job-portal, using pc

·         Sending 3 sms from your mobile

·         Touch 2 buttons on your smart phone

·         “Talk” to your phone for interview thru Skype

                                   Success ls in the Details  

                        Get “job-offer” email on phone (success)

Page no 23

·         My first TV (purchased from Singapore in 1982) did not have a “remote”! IT had a set of 8/9 “channel bottom “on its side                        (success in the Details)

·         But then, in 1982 we had only 1 channel broadcasting!

·         I am talking of 2 touches on touch screen to replace dozens of pressing of kais on ordinary phone (non-qwerty) to send 3 long sms.

Page no25
         although I had registered on twitter / you tube, some 2 years ago, I heaver used   these sites till I got an  I  I pad from my son as .78’th birthday gift I now, even wife has started using I pad.

Page no 26

·         In India , I don’t’ think, there is any experience more” exhilarating” to millions of remote jobseekers than to get a –job-offer. It an emotional experience if jobs widget (being designed by HP laves ) can give this experience, it will become a hit,

Page no 48

·         In early 70’L &T s’ electronic division thought of manufacturing j HD at its Mysore plant, in collaboration on with some Japanese manufacturer they gave up when they found out that raw material cost in India exceeded the final product price in japan.

   

Page no 51

·         When l &T management decided to shut down madh factory, HR Director  thought of  “retrenching” all 300+ staff / workers. Sensing  a union , but revolt / strike, stuck a deal with union ,whereby every single person got redeployed  elsewhere – but taking whatever jobs were avail label this was in 1978/1980

·         I believe iPhone & I pad are entirely manufactured by Foxconn of china – who have already started assay of I phone, 5 – not yet announced by APPLE.

Page no 63

·         Is author trying to get a piggy-back ride in a story about Steve? Jobs?

Page no 65

·         What could be the right metaphor for “job Alerts”somedays? Back ,in my hand written note to Revathi ( HP LABS ) , I HAD suggested ,traditional Indian lamp –as a symbol of hope it is not intuitive

·         I may have to go for it has to be legit le and easily understood.

Page no 68

·         Interim period when Steve jobs himself was thrown out of Apple & started next.

·         A failed hand held pc. !

Page no 69

·         SAMUNG S’ galaxy 2 tablet is challenging I PAD 2

·         I hope we can set a “standard” with jobs widget.

·         Can we say “Every job-seeker will want jobs widget? Simplifying life.

Page no 70

·         After 14 years of launch of 3p job search “obsolete” jobs widget is one more effort!

Page no 71

·         We will remove SMS –BASED jobalret as soon as widget-gassed APP picks-up, no one has used it in last 14 months!

Page no 72

·         Like those 3 sketches on “ job Alerts on mobile “page, we must have a visud graphic on “ free  APP for smart phone “ page, to illustrate how widget works.

Page no 76

·         Almost 10 years back, I wrote a (handwritten) note- “prepare you for interview “for candidates.

·         Candidate just types the name of the company iifewrieing him on our website, and we provide all info about that company.

Page no 104

·         We have no money foe even a small ad in paper! But, on our site, we will make available a hyper link to “my App Share”

·         And hope that users will pass on jobs widget to friends.

·         Just sent on email to Revathi (HP LABS) RE: a simple design of icon.

Page no 105

·         I hope jobs widget stands apart from existing /job search apps of * Beyond .com/ jobs DB.COM timesjobs.com / - whose I cons, I saw on I pad today.

·         I am hoping that jobs widget will make Jobsearach obsolete! That is my goal. 

Page no 108

·         In India , today , smart phones have a market share of perhaps no more than 10% of all mobiles sold But     CHEAP / low end smart phones are being introduced every week. Market share could reach 50% in 2/3 years this (future) is comical for success of jobs widget

Page no 112

·         A  “ device ‘ in search of “ Applications”- to make it “ useful” to “ customers” jobs widget will be an App

·         That can run on many devices. Android to begin with Apple op system next. I have already drafted a letter for sending to mfre. Of Android phones in India urging them to pre –install jobs widget before phone leaves the factory.

Page no 116

·         What is here, that “unmet need” which becomes an opportunity for launch of jobs widget?

·         There are millions of jobseekers- all over India- who have mobile phones – but no access to pc/ internet. They are unable to “access” jobprotals to conduct job searches online & then “Apply online “

·         But if they can use their mobile to access jobalret and also apply directly from mobile, then that would be a great opportunity to “meet their need”

·         This is how sms – based task let got launched 1 year, I don’t’ know why! So, now, I plan to launch jobs widget (for smart phones) to meet that “unmet” need. Let us see.

·         I must wait & see!

Page no 120

·         5 times in 10 yrs.is a terrific growth! 

Page no 125

·         What “next” to jobs widget to bull jobs and apply from mobile? May be Resumes widget to pull matching resumes and conduct VIDEO INTERVIEW of that candidate by touching interview button on screen? May be next Oct 2012 if first widget clicks well!

Page no 131

·         It is the same story for Recrutguru: at least from year 2000 onwards! No revenue – only expenses.

Page no 134

·         I just   sent to shuklendu / Revathi, a link to Achive,org  home page of world-wide-jobs-com. Data 30 sept.2004, where / when, we first launched jam/ job Alert on mobile. Seven years later, we ready to launch job widget! 

Page no 135

·         Can / will, job widget tum the fortunes of Recrutguru?

Page no 136

·         May be this B the reason, sms-based JAM never caught on! One had to memorize 3 sms messages and a long phone no (9756510001) in order to get one job alert & app by! No wonder it failed!

·         Jobs / widget reduce to just 2 touches on mobile!

Page no 140

·         If jobs widget succeeds, my next step would be to modify resume-parsing engine (guru mine)

·         As a free downloadable “Tool “(Resume Parser) and make it available to Recruiter around the world.

·         This is exactly what my father wrote to me when I failed at uni-billions in 1956. Rather than “shaming” my family by returning to India as a “failure” I kept going, enrolled at uni: of Kansas and passed-out with a GPA OF 4.5 OUT OF 5.0

 Page No 153

·         For a few hours on NY stock Exchange, becoming the largest co: in world, in terms of market cap! In India, it is always other way around.

Page no 154

·         For a company like L & There Are Hardly Any Products That A board Member can use! There are many such companies.  

Page no 155

·         This could well be true .it is a logical at come of collaboration between Google & mobile manufactures. But still, last month, Android-based smartphones reached market share (of phones shipped in Aug. 2011) of 42% overtaking Apple ios based phones! And most people neither use nor care for all the features incorporated in smart phones! These days ‘I pad and iPhone and I pod, are mfv-by fox conn of china! Only designed / sold by APPLE

Page No 157

·         While designing customize.com (and the other 6 jobprotals that proceeded) I never consulted anyone!  Despite- that this morning 3p website was on 5th & 8th position on Google / yahoo, on search tem “Executive Search” – in 100 m/ 150 m results!

·         In cuts Resume, expired jobs moved to “job Archive page!

Page no 158

·         I am counting on jobs widget to be such “game changer”- by making job search ( on jobprotals ) obsolete!

Page no 159

·         I my early years, in the switchgear factory of L & T (1959-1965), this was a common argument!

·         Widget should be such a thing.

·         We launched our first website ( www.3p jobs.com) on 14 nov.1997 // and seventh website.

·         ( www.customizeResume.com) on 14 nov 2009.

Page no 165

·         Walkman was a device which created a brand new “NEED” Vis heed to listen to music while on move before arrived of Walkman; this need did not “exist”! gt was an example of a DEVICE creating a  NEW NEED . 

 Page No 166

·         Akio had spent many years in USA.

Page No 167

·         Imagine a jobseeker – with a smart phone –in a remote vill age He has no internet connection in village

·         He needs to travel to nearly small town – only once- to submit resume on our site. Thereafter, he can see job alert on mobile daily and even APLY against any! NO more head for PC / internet! NO typing of SMS just two touches of his finger! That’s all will jobs widget provides level –playing field to millions?

Page no 171

·         SMS-based job alerts were NOT a “generation better” other job-portals were already offering.

Page no 172

·         “Recognition” is the key.

Page no 173

·         ALL job-portals after “Jobsearach” to candidates “resume search” to recruiters. I want to make both OBSOLETE! Jobs Will Come to You / Resumes wil comes to you.

Page no 174

·         This is why I want shuklendu to come up with a graphic visual which “illustrates” (not explain), the “2 touch Process “of jobs widget.

Page no 178

·         I bought a MOTOROLA flip out some 15 days back and find battery draining out every day though I make no more than 3 calls /day!

Page no 179

·         To open on “Application” by simply touching mobile screen has become regular experience with most youngsters in India’s metros.

Page no 182

·         Smart phone are already becoming minicomputers,

Page no 184

·         I got a iPod (Nano) as a present on my 75th birthday too late. Rarely used if.

  Page no 185

·         I stressed his aspect (of simplicity of use) with Revathi (HP labs), right from beginning in 2010. But sms based Task let did not meet that objective, and never took off.so, in July 2011, I renewed my request for for a 2 touch process on smart phone.

·         We will know when jobs widget is delivered next week.

Page no 188

·         We have 3 big daddies of job portals Naukri / monster) timesjobs.And they would show to jobseekers only those job-Advt which get posted on their respective sites by recruiters But we “aggregate” (thru RSS feeds) and show ALL, IN ONE PLACE!

Page No 189

·         A jobseeker just does not care from “where” we get our job Advt –( and how) .ALL he wants is many option to choose from- then click / touch a button deliver his resume those are his “needs”

Page no 191

·         Customize Resume is very vulnerable due to its dependence on RSS feed of job-Advt from the 3 big daddies, if they stop RSS feeds, are doomed. To an extent, I can reduce the risk by getting RSS feeds from hundreds of job portals. If jobs wide greet becomes a hit may get easy to persuade them.

Page no 192

·         I have thought of making a (homemade) 30/45 second video which would show a jobseeker

1)    Look around to ensure that boss is not watching

2)    Pull out smart phone from his pocket

3)    Touch jobs icon an screen

4)    Read , displayed job Advt

5)    Touch APPLY button screen

6)    Read flashing message on screen “thank you tour resume has been. Emailed to job advertiser (job ID…………”) it should be easy to shoot upload such a video.

Page no 200

·         It is quite possible that when we launch jobs widget on Oct 06.2011, some of the candidates receiving our promo email, may not find any “matching” jobs and fed disappointed but I hope they will love the ease of use “widget.

Page no 201

·         Why should job seekers feel “enthralled” with widget?

·         Ease of use / just 2 touch

·         NO need for pc / Internet ( great for most Indians )

·         NOT to search for jobs on portals, day- after –day

·         Mobile by ( Apply any time , anytime, from anywhere )

·         Free.     

·         By now Android Phone have over 300.000 apps! I this very likely that Naukri etc. will create their own widgets.

Page no 203

·         Today job portals are acting as a “middleman” between jobseekers & recruit terse as...a kind of “Bulletin Board which both search.  

·         To begin with, jobs widget will eliminate are concerned. On their mobiles, they will get jobs from Naukri / monster / click jobs (more will get added later) and they will Not need to register / submit” on all of these portals.

·         When we in traduce RESUMES widget, even recruiters will have “jobs thru RSS feels jobsites, we will aggrerute”Resumes” from Recruiter themselves thru Resumes Exchnge.com

·         When we launched. 3pjobs.com.

Page no 207

·         Where jobseekers use jobs widget, they will get an experience of “shopping”- albeit with limited options! on jobprotals, a search throws up 2000 job Advt !          

·         How can anyone search thru such a heap?

·         Read “paradox of choices” most people want others (experts) to help them make-up their mind’s while buying.

·         I hope, widget would orate a mass movement aimed at “obsoleting job search on jobprotals”

Page no 208

·         Jobs widget will make “perfectly matching” jobs available “any time “you choose.

·         To view! No hurry! Unlike “ search Results “ disappear a job search on a jobprotals – which “ disappear the moment you “ Refine” Or Conduct Another Search One Improvement is that jobs against which user “ applies should disappear from the list.

Page no 209

·         A MONTH BACK, CHINESE Authorities dissevered (and shut down) 4/5 “FAKE “APPLE stores in one city alone!   Absolute Xerox copies of original.

Page no 210

·         BY end OCT, we should have enough “early results “to tell us whether jobs widget concept is likely to succeed or not.

Page no 211

·         Each smart phone hosting a jobs widget would become a “demo center “–and mobile one!

·         This would become especially so , if HP labs succeeds in enabling several jobseekers use the same phone essentially tuning that devise into a “ internet kiosk” in a village- though to jobs only Steve jobs  & jobs –may run parallel !

Page no 212

·         Jobseekers don’t know they can a job by just touching jobs I can AND “apply “by touching APPLY button! Hope, when, try, their faces will light-up!

·         Approx. 23000/300 & 80 PER STORE!

Page no 213

·         JOBS WIDGET IS “radically smaller” (experience) than a job search on a job-portal.

·         Will jobs widget give the job-portals, a run for their money? I don’t know.

·         We too are offering this, by aggregating jobs from 3 portals.

Page no 215

·         In India, more than 47 million people work in “organized sector” alone. To these, add 3.5 million graduating from colleges every every year.

·         Jobs WANT to install it- if required, only if the “App” Creates A viral Buzz on its own.

·         My promo emails can push the widget so far and no further.

Page no 220

·         It took me 2 years arduous follow-up to sing up, AIR tell,  Reliance, BANL & MTNL to sing-up a revenue- share agreement for JAM (job Alert on Mobile) thru world –wide-jobs but they never bothered  to promote this VAS-it died that was 2005.

Page no 223

·         Just typed search term “iphone5 “in Yahoo?( on may iPod 2 ) and got 330 million results ! Rumors before launch-which is ½ months away –not even announced!

Page no 225

·         Revathi (H P LABS)   team has been testing jobs widget for past 2 week. When it is delivered in 7 days from today, I am sure, it will work flawlessly.it is for Android but Apple ios will be next.

·         I believe Apple sold 9 million dung April June 2011 – and 3 million pads 2 as well, 

Page no 227

·         When Revathi team (at HP labs) develops jobs widget for I o s and uploads on Apple store, we should keep it “FREE” will these widgets work from anywhere in the world?

·         Some 15 days back, I came across www. Apps Bar.  Com, which I referred to both Revathi and   Shuklendu. I tried create one App myself but could not!

Page no 228

·         Every resume emailed to recruiters, by our servers, carries a link, www.customizeResume.com. Hopefully, that will create awareness about our site among recruiters. I will now change that link to “Free App for Smart phones”

Page no 230

·         Jobs widget is (I hope) supposed to work on touch-screen devices- when device is a 3” mobile or a 9”Tablet. Someday soon, we will have 21 “touchscreen TVs too.

·         Jobseekers should be able to see use JOBS widget from a tablet as well job Advt is content. So are resumes.

Page no 231

·         In “Jobsearach by job Tittle”, we have 2+ million job Advt.in “jobs Archive” so far we have 200000 job advt. in “job suggest” we have 340,000 job Advt .

·         ALL of these will steadily grow. One day, this content will become a  “treasure, this content will become a “treasure trove”

·         We too, must usher a social revolution, by making available, job- related content on mobile phones to millions of jobseekers in villages-where internet will not reach for 10 years.

·         If jobs widget becomes a wild success, I will write to him? (One of us will have –not enough time- may bell)

·         Steve passed away today.

Page no 236

·         Widget to penned level playing field to remote jobseekers

·         Every page on CustmizeResume starts with: jobs for ALL-peace on Earth.

Page no 240

·         I consider it an opportunity to make job search “Obsolete” JOBS widget ought to do that.

Page no 241

·         We started with 3 separate / long, sms-based JAM that was too clumsy to use. JOBS widget (I hope) will be extremely EASY TO USE.

·         *! Fantastic!

Page no 242

·         Early this month, took over from Steve, as CEO, because of Staves ’deteriorating health.

Page no 243

·         I fail I on count! At the age of 78, no one is likely to me any job! So, I better not use jobs.      

Page no 246

·         Stave has been suffering from pancreatic cancer for some years now.

·         Came true early this month. / Sept2011/


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