Wednesday, 10 November 2010

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This is worth studying.

In www.RecruitGuru.com , our Resume Parsing software ( GuruMine ), did have a functionality to extract entire “ blocks “ from any resume , depending upon their “ headings / titles “.

In fact, “values” of those 23 “ fields “ were searched only in that block , which was most likely to contain that value. Eg:” BA / B Com / B Sc” etc  were most likely to be found in the block ( paragraph ), titled “ Education / Qualification “ etc.

Cvmaker.in enables a jobseeker to create such “ blocks / paragraphs “ by letting him, first select the “ Title “ . Once he has created a “ block “, he can then write appropriate description within that block.

Many years back I wrote a note on such a concept- except my “ context “ was not the jobseekers but the Recruiters.

It is just too much to expect that millions of jobseekers will

Ø  construct their resumes having several “ blocks “ , all titled identically

Ø  then they will arrange these blocks in an identical “ order / sequence “

Truth is

Ø  All resumes do contain between 5 to 10 distinct blocks

Ø  These blocks do carry titles / headings which are same or similar ( synonyms )

Ø  The blocks are arranged in thousands of permutations / combinations

This makes a recruiter’s life miserable !

Depending upon the “ vacancy / position “ to be filled, a recruiter is primarily interested in looking-up just 1 or 2 blocks out of the entire resume at the very beginning, to decide whether that particular resume is worth reading in full or not.

Eg:

For a position of “ Head of R&D “ in a Process Plant, the very first thing that a recruiter wants to know is : Does this candidate have a Ph. D. in Chemistry ? ( clearly mentioned in Advt ).If not, forget !

As a result, a recruiter must search-out the “ Education / Qualification / Academics “ block from within all resumes received and read those blocks FIRST.

But these blocks are randomly “ scattered “ all over those hundreds of resumes ! A lot of time gets wasted in locating / searching for those blocks.

Now imagine that we develop a software which

Ø  Separates the blocks , title-wise ( what RecruitGuru.com already does )

Ø  Enables the recruiters to “Customize “ all resumes where “ Education “ block appears right at the TOP ! or any block of his choice.

Ø  Enable the recruiters to make all blocks to “ re-arrange “ in a pre-determined sequence

Ø  Does all these with a single click for for all of those incoming resumes

Such a software would save the recruiters a lot of time in screening-out useless resumes.

Such a software would enable recruiters / organization to “ focus “ on that particular aspect of each resume which is most critical for their respective companies.

We must incorporate this “ Re-arranging of Blocks of Resumes “ functionality in the downloadable Resume Parser tool- when we start working on it

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