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Friday, 9 July 2021

RECRUITING ON THE WEB - MICHAEL FOSTER

 


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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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Pg. No. 12

·         “For Executive Search, Corporate India’s First Choice”. (The 3P Brand).

Pg. No. 13

·         Job = Roti / + Kapada / + Makan / + Marriage

·         “First Choice”

Pg. No. 14

·         “Company Profile” Keywords

·         Our “Customizable” MASTER, should provide a set of “Key Sntences” instead of “Keywords”

Pg. No. 17

·         Seems like Universal Truth – even in U. S. A.!

·         Reji was referred to us by Rajeev - & we are quite happy.

·         Supesrisory

·         Unionised

Pg. No. 25

Inder for our Interview Mgmt. Module

Work-stations

Pg. No. 27

·         These could be a “family” of graphs for each sub-population of

·         Function – wise

·         Industry – wise

·         Designation – level wise

·         City – wise

·         Age. – wise

·         Once, a large no. of candidates fill-in & submit edited resume with “Career History” section, then we should be able to plot FREQVENCY DISTRIBUTION graphs for “Ave-Tenure / Duration” in each job held.

Pg. No. 36

·         I am against installing GuruMine / Guru-Search on local servers of Subscribers (Enterprise Vekions) but, we could consider insider installing on Subscribers’ own webservers – if they have Corporate websites. We can track usage from our own web-server.

·         Updating will be automatic.

·         Corporates already advertise their jobs on their own websites & even receive resumes

·         Where can we get hold of a list of Indian Corporate websites?

·         Wipro / oracle India etc. receive > 1 lakh resumes every year.

Pg. No. 37

·         This is the USP for our webservice – “Pay per USE”. – do not invest upfront.

Pg. No. 41

·         See my today’s note

·         New Reoumes (Image Builders) for old resumes!

·         New currency for old currency!

Pg. No. 42

·         In our case, “purchase-decision” is

·         Do I Subscribe to RecruitGuru or not?

·         Do we tell potential clients “why Should you Subscribe to RecruitGuru?

·         This is why, each page should start with (1) Der Recruiter (2) Dear HR chief

Pg. No. 48

·         RecruitGuru’s Interview-Mgmt. Module, should provide Templates where a company (Subscriber) can CUSTOMIZE, own Compensation Tables / charts / graphs etc.

·         which can be used by a Recruiter as “Bavgaining / Negotiating Aid” – to build-up CTC (Cost To Company) from BASIC salary in each grade.

Pg. No. 49

·         Look at the standard FORM, which we use to calculate CTC (Cost To Company) for prepaning our Professional Fee InVoice. You may wish to add some elements.

Pg. No. 50

·         From “Career History” Section, we plan to pick up “Gross Annual salary” (at time of leaving) & then plot frequency distribution graphs of “where do I stand, salary-wise”. Visiting these sites will help you.

·         I agree, entirely!

Pg. No. 52

·         Functional Exposure Profile

·         Salary-Profile

·         Designation-Profile

·         Read “Jobseeker’s Corner’.

Pg. No. 53

·         Read “The Match-Maker”.

Pg. No. 55

·         Job Advt. downloading will stabilize by monthend. In 2 months time, we should have 150,000 ad’s – duly processed by “Auto-Converter”. We should target to launch JAWS by Oct.

Pg. No. 58

·         Guru Ad must have these features.

Pg. No. 59

·         This too!

·         Guru Ad shouldbe able to upload on no. of jobsites AND must have feature to “blast” the job-advt. to “pre-selected” no. of Placement Agencies.

·         Job search

·         As in case of guruMine, Guru Ad can also extract keywords used in a Job-Advt. & display in a box. In any case, we will need to extract keywords, to plot the Function Profile graph for a job-advt.

Pg. No. 60

·         Our search-features (search-parameters) of INDUSTRY / FUNCTION / DESIGNATION-LEVEL, are meant to club together “similar” jobs.

·         For resume-search on 3pjobs.com, we already have a shopping cart. I don’t think we had one for jobsearch but we will have one on Recruitguru.

·         I believe we do have this on 3pjobs.com

·         Short Display.

Pg. No. 61

·         Clients as candidates & vice-versa

·         We are planning “Job Alerts” as SMS on mobiles.

Pg. No. 62

·         A very useful suggestion. We must incorporate in our “Job Search” module

Pg. No. 63

·         We are planning to do just the “opposite” in our Jobsearch viz: “AGGREGATION”

·         Some 2/3 months after we launch our Job Search, it is quite possible that Monster / Naukri etc. Can be persuaded to daily send us XML database of all of their job advts so that we do not have to download on our own!

·         What we plan to do!

·         We will approach such corpo. Websites after launch of our job-search. Better to get job-advts. directly from the advertisers than downloading from jobsites! Better to bypass the jobsites altogether!!

Pg. No. 64

·         This is exactly what we too are planning with our “Jobsearch” feature! By “flooding” corporate-employers with plain email resumes (thru our resume forwarding free service), we hope to get them to subscribe to Recruitguru – to convert to Imagebuilders.

Pg. No. 66

·         This is THE value-propositing RecruitGuru.

·         Repeat Job-Advts. for same / ideutical vacancies

·         RecruitGuru!

Pg. No. 67

·         Hit on the Nail!

·         Promise of RecruitGuru.

·         Pl. enter these instruction on “Submit Resume” block on Recruitguru.

Pg. No. 70

·         We did same in our website V 2.0.

·         Our tooget market.

Pg. No. 71

·         ImageBuilder (Guru Mine), offers best of both methods to jobseekers as well as Recruiters!

Pg. No. 72

·         Originally, under our logo, I had put this word

·         “Career-History” Section

·         We have managed superbly! We must send an email to this author & ask him to test-out our GuruMine with a few plain email resumes, see results (graphs) online-and then send us his opinion. If his opinion is favourable we ask his permission to publish this opinion on Recruitguru!

Pg. No. 73

·         Maybe, ImageBuilder, (GuruMine), would bring about such a “transformation”!

·         With GuuruMine, it will.

·         We do not want to eliminate or replace resumes! As time goes, we will mine these resumes deeper & deeper & provide many more “profiles”.

·         Real gains will be made, when we introduce the MATCH-MAKER

·         Resume -------------

·         Job-Advt. -----------

Pg. No. 75

·         To be remembered, when we design “Interview Management” module.

Pg. No. 77

·         Headhunting Technique

Pg. No. 80

·         This is the rationale behind our “Interactive Respouse Page”

·         recruitGuru will have provision for multiple users from a subscriber.

·         I believe Abhi had already implemented such “Intelligent Spider” in Module 1 & I hope, we have migrated this spider into GuruSearch, as well.

Pg. No. 81

·         We have extracted & shown them in separate box, next to Profile Graphs. Author Foster should like what we have done.

·         Once we start delivering JOB-ALERTS to candidates as SMS on their mobile-phones, we need to only reverse entire process and we (i.e. World-Wide-Jobs.com + mobile phone service providers) are ready to deliver, as SMS, CANDIDATE-ALERTS, to the mobile-phones of Recruitment Managers & charge them (pre-paid) Rs. 5/= to download each resume by clicking on handset!

Pg. No. 83

·         Once, we launch RecruitGuru commercially, you must register it on Google & as many search-engines as possible. We must try to get a listing among [TOP IO] results, on keywords “Recruitment” & “Web-Service”.

Pg. No. 84

·         We should try to separately register GuruMine & GuruSearch pages.

Pg. No. 85

·         We should pay this.

·         Maybe we can start with these

·         Pl. show me first.

Pg. No. 89

·         RecruitGuru, seems like an apt choice.

Pg. No. 91

·         We need not get into these.

·         When we are ready to “extract” American resumes, we will take help from this Author’s own company (AIRS News), to spread our message to 50,000 American Recruiters (see last page).

·         Of cuurse, if we can get hold of email ID’s of these 50000 recruiters, we can sent an “INTRODUCTION TO RECRUITGURU” email

Pg. No. 93

·         Is there a “Community” of Indian HR managers / Recruiters?

·         What can we do with our subscription to www.Indianrecruiter.com?

Pg. No. 94

·         HR Mgr. / Recruitment Mgr. / Personnel Mgr.

·         We should give a demo to HR Mgr. under the auspices of NIPM & HRD Network.

·         Dose NASSCOM website accept ADVT?

Pg. No. 95

·         Ask Nirmit: we are, I believe, a member of this. But no point in publicising RecruitGuru to these 6500 unless, first, we are ready with extraction of American resumes.

·         In India very few colleges have their websites (eg: IIT / BHU / VJTI / IIM-A / NMIMS etc.)

Pg. No. 96

·         Not quite developed in India

Pg. No. 97

·         Not existing in India

Pg. No. 108

·         Our non-member database is an example.

Pg. No. 112

·         In “Jobseekers’ Corner”, I have talked about creation of a PERSONAL PAGE for each jobseeker – where we compile all historical data about him.

Pg. No. 113

·         When we receive, 30,000 corporate email ID’s from Banglore party (Indianrecruiter.com), we will offer them FREE TRIAL.

·         We have done this.

·         For FREE TRIAL, on recruitguru, this has to be exactly opposite, since we are talking to CORPORATES.

·         Job-Alert

Pg. No. 114

·         I am sure our corporate subscribers would be delighted to be “greeted” by first name, when they log-in! We have to pamper them!!

Pg. No. 115

·         Someday, we will provide a feature, whereby, a jobseeker can compare his “Function Exposure Profile” with people / Sub-population of same

·         Age

·         Exp.

·         Edu. Quali.

·         Design. Level

·         Etc. (Apple-for-Apple com parison).

·         We must have this link on every “Jobsearch” page

Pg. No. 116

·         We are most interested in their “Career-History” block.

·         Jobs

·         Salary-Profiles

·         Designation-Profiles

·         Company-Profiles (PREPARE)

Pg. No. 117

·         5 lakh job-advts, downloaded from different jobsites (-and also searchable by Company-Name), is certainly not an ORIGIAL content…but such an “Aggregation” (one stop shop) would be the greatest CONVENIENCE for should draw them to RecruitGuru in millions.

·         “Convenience”

Pg. No. 119

·         Practically, all our email Circulars have “document altachments”! eg: “Get an Interview Call-Today?”. Could this be the reason why we have such a poor response?

·         In course of time we should have one each for Recruiters (subscribers) & jobseekers.

Pg. No. 124

·         Very few (relatively speaking) Indian Corporates have their own websites-and still fewer have “Career Centres”. If Corporates are happy with Recruitguru, they may not Want to create own “Career Centres”!

·         Not true in India.

Pg. No. 125

·         If corporates start receiving far more resumes from their Ad on RecruitGuru, yhen after a while, they may stop posting Ads on Mobster / Naukri / Jobs Ahead / Jobstreet etc.! And, this can happen if Guru Ad is really fantastic.

·         Millions of jobseekers in small towns source of (job) info. is local newspaper. This is why blasting JAWS to small town newspapers, should be our next step, after online jobsearch.

·         Candidates

Pg. No. 126

·         Once we have stabilized job-advt. “aggregation” & “Search” on Recruitguru, in our next step of JAWS, we will enable / allow, such “Local job boavds” to configure & receive a daily “FEED” of job-advts, which they can reproduce on their sites.

·         This will work in same way as small newspapers (who cannot afford their own correspond dents / journalists), receive FEEDS from

·         Reuter

·         Asso. Press News Service

·         Etc. Which are primarily “Aggregating & Delivery” Agencies. They are not in the publishing business. They are in the DELIVERY business. We want to gain lost of free publicity by giving a way “aggregated” job-advts. Summary to any MEDIA, which is willing to PUBLISH same-jobsites included.

Pg. No. 127

·         Some of these questions may help you in preparing Func. Specs / UI for “Manpower Planning Module”.

·         Apparently many Indian Placement Agencies mustbe using such tools – since they upload dozens of Advts. davts. Daily on jobsites.

Pg. No. 128

·         We should work-out Similar “Costing” for Indian Companies & then launch an email campaign to compare what it costs to post a job advt on

·         Monster / Naukri

o   [Vs.]

·         RecruitGuru

·         To investingate & report

Pg. No. 129

·         Mktg. May be in India, no Advt Agency specialises in only Recruitment Advts – but all of them, may be interested to use our “Guru Ad” module. Whenever they have to release a recruitment adv. for a client. For this module alone, we may give them a 3 month FREE TRIAL. We can also target U. S. A. Ad Agencies.

·         But remember – when, under JAWS, our server starts delivering job-advts directly to hundreds of small town newspapers, these Agencies will not like us! We would be threatening their existence!

Pg. No. 130

·         JAWS?

·         Will really make us a true MULTI-MEDIA, full service web Agency! Guru Ad will help create job-advts & JAWS will deliver these job-advts to

·         Other websites

·         Newspapers

·         Cybercafes

Pg. No. 131

·         (Func. Spec. for Guru Ad)

·         Guru Ad should enable blasting advt. to 1500 placement Agencies as well. They will be happy and our corpo. Subscribers too, will feel happy at this free “Image-Building” exercise!!

·         Posting job advts. On jobsites require “Subscription” – but no such need for sending advts to placement agencies.

Pg. No. 132

·         We could learn a lot by examining such readily available softwares.

·         Will Guru Ad take care of this?

Pg. No. 134

·         Kartavya / Inder

·         Important Func. Specs for “Guru Ad”

Pg. No. 135

·         Job – Description

·         Company Profile

·         A set of “standard” sentences would help greatly.

·         Pl. provide Dropdown list of a set of “Standard Sentences”.

Pg. No. 136

·         For Guru Ad, provide a standard ste of sentences from which Ad-Composer can select by clicking

Pg. No. 139

·         In May 2003, in a lecture at Leela, Jeff Taylor, Said Monster, now have 40 million resumes & expect to reach 100 million in 2005.

Pg. No. 141

·         RecruitGuru will become such a “third-party career repository”, because, we will “aggregate” job-advt. from all over & deliver to who-so-ever wants to PUBLISH it and, we will attract jobseekers to REPEATEDLY update their resumes, in order to get a FRESH PROFILE, every time.

·         Author should be very happy to visit Recruitguru. We must write to him when we are ready.

·         This, is precisely the reason, why, we must attract several million-resumes, convert to ImageBuilder & then flood the market with these. We must change the game! (New Currency)

Pg. No. 142

·         This is why “Industry” has to be a search-criteria, whether for a resume or for a job-advt.

Pg. No. 143

·         We must make RecruitGuru, such an “alternative”.

·         Even if we are not ready to “extract” American-style resumes, we could still attract many American Corporates to subscribe to RecruitGuru for

·         Searching Indian Software engineers

·         Composing advt (Guru Ad) & attracting __ __ __ - thru Job Alerts.

Pg. No. 144

·         Even if we charge Rs. 200/= to compose an advt, many American software companies would find our rates “extremely attractive”, especially, if they are looking for Indian Engineers.

·         This is going to be our situation too - 3P & Recruitguru except, we are going the reverse way, i.e. from – 3P to - Recruitguru.

·         On the other hand, Naukri / Jobs Ahead / Jobstreet etc. are all moving to set-up, brick - & - mortar, staffing services.

·         By aggregating job-advts & attracting millions of jobseekers & simplifying resume-blasting, we intend to “flood” the maitboxes fist & then, sell the idea of “ImageBuilder”.

Pg. No. 145

·         With ImageBuilder, no need to “Key-in”. then by setting “Percentile-Score” as a search-parameter in Intellingent spider of “GuruSearch”, there would be no need for “Manual Review” either!

·         For each of his job-advt, subscriber should be able to set % percentile score parameter in ADVANCE (in Guru Ad itself), so that only those resumes which meet these search criteria are “Sorted / Shortlisted” for viewing by Advertiser & rest go to some DUMP.

·         This is why we want job-search by “Company-Names”

Pg. No. 147

·         Mktg.

·         This is also the UPS of Recruitguru – make your past resumes “Searchable”

·         But none provides searchbased on “Percentile Score”!

Pg. No. 148

·         Selling electronic “Space”.

·         We must offer “Job Market Profile” graphs.

·         This is why we too want to aggregate jobs from all jobsites.

·         Why will we Survive & grow (in revenue) when FlipDog Closed down? Where does our model differ? (from FlipDog).

Pg. No. 149

·         “Myriad” needs a human being – what we need is a web-crawler / soon.

·         Pl. visit this site & find out what they do & how

·         Is it not quite likely that when we start aggregating jobs from diff. jobsites, corporates may decide to directly post these on RecruitGuru? Monster will not pickup jobs from Naukri (& vice-versa) due to presting issue but we have no such reservations!!

·         Author could guess (-and quite well, too) what is on our mind! Amazing.

Pg. No. 150

·         If JAWS can galvanise 200 medium size local newspapers in small towns, timesclassified.com will get serious competition & millions of citizens will get level-playing field.

Pg. No. 151

·         Besides the major ones (MonsterIndia / Naukri / Jobs Ahead / Jobstreet / Jobsdb), there are dozens of smaller / local) niche jobsites. All of them are also struggling to get job-advt postings, in order to attract jobseekers. Therefore, it is quite possible that, if properly approached, they would be happy to receive & publish JAWS (-a free content, as far as they are concerned).

·         They may even agree to post job-advts (individual) FREE! In that case, we could put-up their links on Guru Ad composing tool itself. Our corpo. subscribers too would be very happy to get free job-advt. postings on a no. of smaller jobsites!

·         Even Cable TV operators (MSO – Multi Service operators like Hinduja) may be interested in displaying local Ads, in order to attract “Viewership”.

·         We do not have many “Specialized / Focussed” jobsites in India

Pg. No. 153

·         Our own “process of growing a mass audience” (of jobseekers) is by aggregating job-advts from various jobsites & making RecruitGuru a ONE-STOP-SHDP! If you can find ALL the jobs on ___ . – why should you go to five sites?

·         Job-aggregation is our Branding Engine.

·         Sampoorna.com specialises in software engineers.

·         Thru Job-Aggregation & Subsequent “Resume Blasting” (Apply Online) we, first, want to creat exactly sucha headache for companies & then “Sell” them the Aspirin (GuruMine / GuruSearch / In Telligent Spider)!!

Pg. No. 154

·         Our goal is to create such a “tidal wave” for corporates – also thru ImageBuilder (Project E G O).

·         GuruMine / GuruSearch will do this “Screening”!

Pg. No. 155

·         Just as we plan (in our Jobsearch) that any jobseeker can search jobs by “Company-Name”, so, will plan (maybe we already have) for corporate subscribers, to conduct Resume-Searel by Employer-Company Name! If not let us do fast.

·         All resumes on Recruitguru are PUBLIC & “For Sale” (@ Rs. 10/=) download

Pg. No. 156

·         This is where Guru Ad should score by affering one click [__] uploading. And especially those sites which permit FREE jobposting you should quickly make a list of such “FREE” sites.

Pg. No. 158

·         Jobstreet is one.

·         City

·         Ind.

Pg. No. 159

·         Industry

·         Func.

·         Skills

·         Key-words

·         Desig. – Levels.

·         City

Pg. No. 161

·         In course of time, we should cousider a feature (on RecruitGuru) called “OPINIONS” visible to all-even non-subscribers!

Pg. No. 162

·         Mktg.

·         Once we are commercially launched, you should send an email to the “Moderator” of each of these FORUM / EXCHANGE / NETWORK, to visit RecruitGuru & evaluate its “features”.

·         Hopefully, our invitation to visit & evaluate, may start an online discussion amougst their members! A lot of free publicity.

Pg. No. 165

·         This is what 3pjobs has become due to our faulty business-logic.

·         This is why, whatever jobs we download mustbe processed thru AUTO-CONVERTER & uploaded on same day.

Pg. No. 167

·         Mktg.

·         Our postential subscribers will ask you these  questions. Better prepare a POWERPOINT presentation.

·         Job Alerts.

Pg. No. 168

·         In “Jobseekers” Corner (note), I have spoken of a “Personal Page” for each jobseeker, where his statistics are stored. If we get millions of jobseekers, this may not be possible,

·         We would have, only a few hundred (or thousand), corporate subscribers. It should not be difficult to create a “Personal Page” for each of them. On this page, we can create a few “Metering / Measuring” Tools.

Pg. No. 174

·         This is why we must continuously expand our “Non-Member Database”.

Pg. No. 176

·         Patterns & swarm behaviour.

Pg. No. 184

·         Competing Companies

Pg. No. 189

·         This is really worth experimenting!

Pg. No. 190

·         Kartavya / Abhi experimented with this (free demo version), one year back, with no luck as far as Indiay jobsites were concerned. But worth trying again

Pg. No. 192

·         40 million now.

Pg. No. 193

·         Sounds challengine

·         If you can succeed in “automating the process”, we should seriously consider subscribing to Monsterindia / Naukri / Jobs Ahead & download ONE MILLION resumes in just 3 months of subscription!

Pg. No. 195

·         Author will like the name “RecruitGuru”!

·         Deduetive logic.

Pg. No. 197

·         Candidates covered by same “Function Exposure Profile Graph” (i.e. population) – all belong tosame “communities” and Guru Search, permits searching by “Functions” / Percentiled.

Pg. No. 202

·         Is this what author suggests on p; 193 – by way of “Software Drivers & Search Formulas”? can this process be automated?

 

 

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