Reason is not far to see

Rohan

Flooding of mailboxes with irrelevant resumes

I refer to your mail on this subject.

You are absolutely right when you say that recruiters have no time to open / read all the unsolicited resumes flooding their mailboxes.

Reason is not far to see.

Possibly 50 million city-based jobseekers have access to PC / Internet. Therefore, most of them end-up submitting their resumes on Naukri / Monster / Timesjobs and conduct job-searches there.

And what do they find ?

Same job-advts which 50,000 companies have posted on all these 3 sites !

No wonder mailboxes of recruiters are getting flooded.

Possibly this will get worse with launch of JAM. Because it will be much easier and convenient to Apply from your mobile, even during working hours. Even when your current employer has banned access to jobsites.

There could be some relief to those recruiters who use Resume Rater. To make it much more effective, Resume Rater needs to be modified to incorporate

Ø  Inbox Reader

Ø  Separator ( which will separate Resumes from other incoming emails, using 34 unique resume-related keywords which I have listed and given to Alex ) Bayesian Filter.

Ø  Once separated, rating to be carried out automatically

Ø  Automatic transfer of resume to that “ Function / Skill “ for which a given resume gets highest “ Raw Score “ ( In our office this process is being carried out manually / daily by Tushar on some 100 / 120 unsolicited resumes which arrive on Contact@3pjobs.com.  He “ rates each resume for all the 41 non-it functions to figure-out for which function does the resume gets highest score )

Ø  Transfer each resume to corresponding Folder ( named for each Function ).Over the last 3 years these 41 folders contain, between them, some 57,000 rated resumes. However what is most useful to our Consultants is that these resumes are automatically arranged in the descending order of their Raw Scores !. Our consultants need to look-up only the TOP 20 / 30 !

If we can develop such a “ Resume Reader-cum-Rater-cum-Sorter “ Tool, we can first test it in our own office.If we find that it does solve the problem of “ Resume-Flooding “, then we can develop a downloadable version.

In Stage 2, we could even try to integrate into this tool

Ø  Resume Parser ( GuruMine, which we had developed for RecruitGuru.com and during his last visit to our office, Abhinandan had shown to Alex how to revive the same.)This will create a structured database of 23 fields.

Ø  GuruSearch ( our resume-search engine which was integral into RecruitGuru.com )

There are may be, 500 million resumes on the hard-disks of those 50,000 corporate job advertisers, except that there is no way to search them !

We have been using ISYS for some 15 years, but it is not very effective. Hardly any other employer has even heard about it. And as far as LUCENE.net is concerned, even I had not known about it till you mentioned it a few months back. I have still to experience its power.

If, using our “ Resume Manager “ ( name of new tool ), recruiters / employers succeed in “ searching “ ( that too pinpoint ),all those 500 million resumes buried deep in their hard-disks, then they may not even need to subscribe to Naukri / Monster / Timesjobs for a long time to come or post new job-advts !

Hence, the problem of flooding of mailboxes of recruiters can be looked upon as an opportunity-in-disguise !

While on this subject, we did try to solve this problem partially in IndiaRecruiter.net, by creating Resume Holder

But this will work only for the employers who “ register “ with IndiaRecruiter and have User ID / Password to access their Resume Holders.

But in CustomizeResume, any jobseeker can

Ø  can apply against any job advt ( companies which are not registered with us )

Ø  blast his resume to companies which are not registered with us

I wonder if even for such un-registered companies, we can find a way to create Resume Holders and give them access to their Holders.

With regards

hcp