Saturday, 27 May 2017

DECIPHERING SKILLS FROM OBJECTIVES


Rohit / Akshay :

Job descriptions do mention , some skills / domain expertise that a prospective candidate should possess for a given position

Even when these do , it is very difficult to establish whether a candidate possesses those skills or not

Most of the time, the candidates manage to use vague jargon to imply : Yes , I have that skill

Interviewer is left , no wiser  !

But , if you were to ask him :

“ If selected , can you achieve an average age of accounts receivable not to exceed 25 days – which is currently 45 days in our company ? “

He is forced to answer “ yes “ or “ No “ or “ yes , provided ……..

Such a positive / definitive answer implies that , he does possess some “ Skills “ necessary to achieve this “ objective “

But precisely , “ what “ are those skills ?

May be , these are “ mentioned “ somewhere in his resume , in the form of some “ keywords “!

The trick ( for the algorithm ) is to establish a “ correspondence “ between :

·          The Objective Question
·         The given Answer
And,
·         The “ keywords “ in his resume

Attachment ( to this mail ) may help you to “ train “ your software to “ discover / uncover “ such co-relations

A larger / more complex issue :

Can your software ( which you will design ) automatically convert a “ job description” handed out to us by our clients , into a set of “ objectives “ ( as shown in attachment ) ?

Then , possibly , we can ask our consultants to ask those questions during interview and record the “ YES “ or “ NO “ answers !

And , should you make this feature available online ( in Careerletics ? ), for use by your Corporate Clients , you will succeed in capturing thousands of YES and NO , from hundreds of Interviewers ( crowd sourcing , at its best ? ), to build up a large data-set  


With Regards,

hemen  parekh 
( M ) +91 - 98,67,55,08,08


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