Economic Times ( 06 Feb 2016 ) carried a news report
titled :
" Labour
Ministry Ties Up with Cos for National Career Portal ( www.ncs.gov.in )
"
THE REPORT :
Says , the Ministry has signed MOUs with :
Uber / Monster.com / Quikr Jobs / Babajob.com / Tech
Mahindra / Indian Staffing Federation ( ISF )
( Strangely , I failed to find any mention of these
MOUs on NCS / MonsterIndia / Babajobs web sites ! )
PURPOSE ?
" It will provide its partners with the huge
Aadhar-verified database of authentic job seekers "
HOW MANY ?
" 35 million authentic jobseekers and 900,000
employers have registered on the portal so far "
WHAT ELSE ?
" The government has taken the initiative to link
all 878 employment exchanges on a national platform "
MY TAKE :
This is a step in the right direction
I hope , it will lead to the creation of a SINGLE /
CENTRAL database ( of jobseekers' resumes and employers'
vacancy announcements ) , which can be freely " accessed " from ANY job
portal of India , by anyone , any time
* By Jobseekers ,
# to
search online job advts posted by ANY Employer ( Indian or Foreign ), on ANY Indian Job Portal, ANY-time
# to be able to apply against ANY jobs ,
directly from mobile or online
# to be able to REGISTER ( Submit Resume ) on ANY
Indian Job Portal
* By Employers / Recruitment Agencies,
# to be able to post their Vacancies from ANY
of hundreds of Indian Job Portals ( after registering )
# to be able to search resumes and download any
number , without restriction
# to be able to shortlist candidates and send Interview
Calls, directly from ANY Indian Job Portal
# to be able to conduct online Video-Interviews
of ANY number of jobseekers from ANY Indian job portal
On 22
July 2015
, I had sent following email to :
* Shri Bandaru
Dattatreya ( Minister for Labour ) ('bandaru@sansad.nic.in' )
* Secretary ,
Labour ('secy-labour@nic.in' )
* Directorate
General of Training ('feedback.dget@nic.in' )
* Chief
Ministers of all the States
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dear Sir :
On 20 July 2015 , our PM , Shri Narendra Modi-ji
launched a career portal ,
NCS claims to bring together on a single platform , Career
Centers ( re-named Employment Exchanges ? ) / Job seekers
/ Employers / Career Counselors / Skill
Providers / Local Service Providers etc
Whereas this is a great initiative , it seems the web
site has got launched despite any number of glitches , such as :
> " Site Map " missing
> Links not clicking
> Pages not loading
> Databases missing
> Content confusing
> Naming misleading... etc
As if this is not enough , most of the Registration
Forms , carried unnecessary and irrelevant data-fields , such as :
> Aadhaar Number for Employers / Placement
Organizations ?
> Employer Company Executive to provide
personal Aadhaar Number ?
> Employer Company Executive to provide Gender
/ DOB / Father's Name ?
A Local Service Provider does not need to select ( from
a drop-list ) , what kind of service does he provide. But he must mention his
"Affiliation" ?
A Jobseeker does not need to provide :
> Edu. Qualifications / Institute attended /
Exams passed - and when
> Previous Employment History ( for
experienced job seekers )
> Years worked / salary drawn / designation
held , in each previous job
I suspect , there is some another form hidden somewhere
, which , a job seeker will be asked to fill in later , just when he is ready to
click " Apply " against a job searched after several hours !
But , these are minor defects that can be rectified
soon - and without much difficulty
But here is the worst part !
Apparently the web site does NOT want
job seekers and employers to get motivated enough to register !
Here is how :
# EXPERIENCING THE FEATURES
Job portals all over the World , enable any casual
job seeker to be able to search the online database of posted / live jobs , even
if he is not registered
But he cannot " Apply Online " , unless he is
registered and logged in
It is no different than a shop-keeper allowing you to
roam free thru the entire shop , without asking to see your Credit Card !
He knows that a customer gets motivated to " Buy
" , only if he gets to see the goods on sale !
Ditto with a casual Employer Visitor
Job portals allow anyone to search and look at resumes
But he can download only if he is registered / logged
in
Usually , job portals " hide " contact
details on the resumes , when viewed online but downloaded resumes carry full
contact details
This is because , job-portals , make their money from
Subscriptions from Employers ( usually 95 % of the incomes of Indian Job
Portals )
They cannot afford any casual visitor to reach out to
the jobseekers , bypassing them !
They make their money , by acting as
" Gate-keepers " between the job
seekers and the employers
I am sure , this ( making money by acting as an
intermediary ) , cannot be the intention of National Career Service - since ,
rightly , it is FREE for employers as well !
I believe NCS intention is to ensure that no vacancy
remains un-fulfilled for more than a few hours !
# JOB / RESUME ALERTS
ON MOBILE
On the web site , I could not find any provision (
downloadable Mobile App ) thru which ,
> A job seeker can " pull " job
alerts " matching his resume and can apply online , directly , from his
mobile
> An Employer can pull " resume
alerts " matching his posted job and download those resumes with just one click
on his mobile
We must remember that millions of job seekers in remote
corners of India have no access to a PC
But , soon , all of them will have internet-enabled
smart phones !
# JOB FAIRS
On the site , there is a provision to search for info
on ground-based Job Fairs taking place in different parts of India
But , for a job seeker located in Coimbatore , there is
no use getting info about a job fair taking place in Kolkata !
Same with an Employer
Why have portal designers shied away from a "
Virtual Job Fair " , where both , the job seekers and the employers can
conduct Online Interviews , using Video ?
Not difficult , considering that all mobile phones /
tablets carry a camera and Skype / Face Chat are free !
Technically , it is a simple task to create a million
Interview Cabins online , which any registered Employer can " book "
for a specific date / time / period and conduct online interviews
A million online interviews can take place
simultaneously , with no constraints of either time / space / distance !
That would encourage even employers located anywhere in
the World to conduct interviews of Indian job seekers
If , India wants to train 40/50 million youth who will
constitute " Export Surplus " , as per Shri Modi-ji , then this
feature is a must
# COMMON SHARED
DATABASE
Today , in India , there are hundreds of
job-portals , each having its own database of Jobs and Resumes
And , barring a few big ones , most of these offer FREE
service to both , the jobseekers and the employers
Many have only " local clientele " ( both
job seekers and employers )
But a job seeker who is registered on portal A , can
search only those jobs which are posted on that portal
Same with employers searching for resumes
Neither resumes , nor jobs posted on portal B can be
accessed by visitors of portal A !
Like a MTNL subscriber
not being able to dial anyone other than another MTNL subscriber !
This severely limits their usefulness
NCS should enable ALL such job portals to ,
> Deliver their jobs and resumes , into the
CENTRAL DATABASE of NCS
> Deliver / display all of these to any
visitor of any participating partner portal
Within a short period , this feature would generate a
database of millions of jobs and hundreds of millions of resumes , accessible
from a thousand partner job portals
Just imagine the
exponential increase of usefulness thru " Network Externality "
# MOBILE APP - " JOB-POST
"
Today , NCS web site boasts of only 1684 registered
employers !
India's 3 major job portals show some 50,000 +
registered employers
Then there are approx 50 million MSME , who have never
advertised their vacancies on any job portals !
May be because they don't have PCs / broadband
connections
Let NCS web site enable them to post their jobs , using
a simple Mobile App , " Job-Post "
There is no reason why their 12 million vacancies every
year , should remain " Un-Announced " !
Then there are many other features that can bridge the
DIGITAL DIVIDE between the jobseekers and the employers
If desired , I would be happy to share my thoughts /
notes / codes etc with NCS or Ministry of Labour and Employment , drawing upon
my past efforts at designing of following job portals :
RecruitGuru.com / GlobalRecruiter.net /
IndiaRecruiter.net / World-Wide-Jobs.com / CustomizeResume.com /
ResumesExchange.com / OnLineJobsFair.com
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hemen parekh
22 July 2015
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