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.
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
