Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Sunday, 22 May 2022

Original Sound – 2016 / Echo from Google - 2022

 


 

[ A ]   Original Sound


Ø  Job Fairs : Offline or Online ? …………………………[ 05 Aug 2016 ]

 

 Extract :

 

Ø  All online interviews will take place using Audio-Video chat thru Skype / FaceTime

 ( from Smart phones )

 

Ø  All interview " Conversations " ( questions and answers ) will get recorded and

    made available to candidate being interviewed for his study and improving his "

    Interviewing Skills "

 

 

Ø  Should Ministry of Labour desire , I would be happy to design / develop and hand-

    over such a online platform without any charge / fees , provided ,

 

             #   Labour Ministry hosts and maintains it  

 

            #   Makes it available for use ( by Recruiters and Jobseekers ) , FREE  OF

                 COST

 


Ø  An Idea Ahead of its Time ? ………………………………….[ 30 May 2017 ]

 

      Extract :

 

      Letter sent on December 21, 2005 :

 

      Mr. Ashish Kashyap / Country Manager / India Sales & Operations / Google 

      Online India Pvt. Ltd.


     Dear Mr. Kashyap,

 

     My only hope is that Google does not take another 12 YEARS to implement :

               ·         Online Jobs  Fair 


           Extract :

           “ Preparing for Interview “ ( 21 Oct 2012 )


           Dear Jobseeker,


           On this page, you do the same by watching,

            #   What kind of questions are interviewers asking , and

            #   What kind of answers are candidates giving


           The more interviews you attend here as “ OBSERVER “ , the better for you

           And although, you can neither ask any questions, nor supply any answers to

           the candidate being  interviewed , you can participate in the AUDIENCE POLL

           , by entering your own “ RATING “ of the candidate ( - a kind of “ Peer

            Appraisal “ )

          

          

            Isn’t this a great way to prepare yourself for your own interview ?

 

    

 

Ø  Software Architecture For Online Jobs Fair 

Extract :

Online job fair is a platform for the recruiter to conduct real time interviews by

using latest technologies. It will include: 

Video Interviews 


Candidate Assessment Form 



Speech-to-text conversion of Interview Questions 


Speech-to-text conversion technology will be used to convert the interview

questions asked in the interview to text format



The converted interview questions will be added to the interview questions

 database

The name of the interviewer/person who asked the question will also be saved.

 

System will maintain a database of interview questions

This will also include the interview questions which were converted by speech-to

-text during online job fair

Recruiter/Candidates can add questions along with the suitable answer

     

 

 

 

[ B ]    Echo from Google


Ø  Google Launches Tool For Practicing Job Interviews  / 

SearchEngineJournal  /  19 May 2022


Extract :

Google has launched Interview Warmup, a new tool that uses artificial intelligence

to help people prepare for job interviews.

Part of the Grow with Google and Career Certification initiatives, it asks common

interview questions and transcribes answers in real-time.

Originally intended to help Google Career Certificate learners prepare for job

searching, Interview Warmup is now open to anyone.

Using voice-to-text or the keyboard, users can practice answering questions

commonly asked in interviews, as well as job-specific ones picked by an expert in

 that field.

The tool then analyzes the answers and offers suggestions for improvement.

Interview Warmup features three types of questions:

      Background –  covering past training and experience

      Situational – how specific situations were handled in the past or might be

                            dealt with in the future

      Technical – covering knowledge and skills, often testing how hypothetical

                         problems would have been handled

                         

As well as allowing for personal review, Google’s algorithm will employ machine

learning to identify patterns and generate insights in a user’s answers. These

include:

·   Job-related terms, which highlights words in answers that are relevant to the

    specific field

·         Most-used phrases, which points out phrases that have been used three or

          more times and provides alternatives.

·         Talking points uses Google’s artificial intelligence to uncover important points

           in replies, including skills, experience and lessons learned.


·         “Insights help you discover patterns in your answers,” Interview

            Warmup’s FAQ page said. “They don’t ‘grade’ your answer or tell you

            what part of your answer is right or wrong. Insights include the job-

            related terms you use, your most-used words, and the talking points

            you cover.”


·         Google does not save audio or the transcripts from interview sessions,

           though users can manually copy or download a transcript upon

            completion. This feature is currently only available in the U.S.


·         Since Interview Warmup was designed for Google Career Certificates

          learners, you may run into questions that are specific each of the

          certificates. However, the tool is available for everyone to use and has

          general questions applicable to many fields.

·          


Thank You, Sundar Pichai


I urge you to come up with V 2.0 of Interview Warmup, which incorporates the

features listed in my letter to Shri Ashish Kashyap (  December 21, 2005 )


With regards,

Hemen Parekh  /  hcp@RecruitGuru.com  /  23 May 2022

 

Cc :

Shri Sridhar Vembu  [ CEO – ZOHO / support@zohopeople.com /

svembu@zohocorp.com  ]

 


Related  Readings :


 ONLINE JOBS FAIR      ……………………… [ 06 Nov 2012 ]

 

Ø   This Russian robot may hire you for your next job  …….[ 01 Apr 2018 }



Ø  Digital Recruiting with AI has matured more than you realize 


 /  Fierceelectronics / 15 Mar 2022


 

Ø  Thank You, Rajan Anandan  !.............................. [ 25 Apr 2018 ]


 Visual Analytical Resumes ……………………………………[ 02 July 2013 ]

 

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Added  On   28  May  2022  :


Google is in talks to join Govt's Open Etail Network  /  US News  /  27 May 2022 


Extract :

ONDC's chief executive, T. Koshy, told Reuters that

Google was one among many companies it was in

 discussions over an association with the project.



Google's existing shopping business works solely as an

aggregator of listings online and doesn't carry out

 any order fulfilment like delivery, which the likes of

 Amazon do.



Partners of the ONDC project, which currently includes

 the likes of Indian fintech firm Paytm, will show

 listings from each other on their platform in

 search results.


Saturday, 21 May 2022

Poor People of Pushkar

 


 

I mean poor people of all Urban areas of Rajasthan

I have only sympathy for you

May be 3 months ago, I got overjoyed and sent following e-mail :

Ø  Thank You, Shri Gehlot : On behalf of URBAN poor      [ 02 Mar 2022 ]

 

Then I found today's Hindustan Times , carrying following advt on its front page :






 Then I visited : www.lsg.urban.rajasthan.gov.in 

But, found no details of this Scheme ( IGUEG ). Upon search, I got these results :

 

Ø  http://www.lsg.urban.rajasthan.gov.in/content/raj/udh/en/search-result.html?q=IGUEG+scheme&search-button=

 

Ø  http://www.lsg.urban.rajasthan.gov.in/content/raj/udh/lsg-jaipur/en/home.html#

 

 If this is the condition of official portal of Rajasthan Govt , on the day of advertising ( which must have cost Rs 2 Crore ? ), then I pity those jobseeking poor of Rajasthan !



Now , I will try sending e-mails to following officers ( of course, I do NOT expect any reply ! ) :



#   dlb.lsg@rajasthan.gov.in

Ø 

#   itcelldlb.jaipur@rajasthan.gov.in



It is said :  "  well begun is half done "



Is there any saying such as :  " ill-begun never gets done "  ?

 

With regards,

Hemen Parekh  /  hcp@RecruitGuru.com  /  22 May 2022

 

Related Reading :

 

Ø  Thank You, Shri Jayant Sinhaji …………. [  19 May 2022  ]

 

 

e-Transmissions : are like Air Molecules

 


 

Context :

Trade bodies want WTO to extend zero customs duty on electronic transmissions / ET / 17 May 2022

Extract :

More than 85 global organisations, including some from India, on Tuesday wrote to the World Trade Organization (WTO) members to extend the zero per cent customs duty regime on electronic transmissions.



Though there is no concrete definition of what comprises electronic transmission, WTO members have generally agreed that anything from
software to email, digital text messages, music videos, songs, and video games fall under the ambit of this term.


In the letter, associations such as Asia Cloud Computing Association, Australian Services Roundtable, India Electronics & Semiconductor Association, Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association, Global Data Alliance and others have said that allowing the current moratorium of zero per cent customs duty on electronics transmissions to expire would “be a historic setback for the WTO, representing an unprecedented termination of a multilateral agreement in place nearly since WTO’s inception

 

 

MY TAKE :

 

Ø  Nightmare ? #Aadhar #Privacy #DataProtection …………[ 04 Mar 2018 ]



Extract :

 

#   The number of Internet-connected devices ( without doubt , GPS

      enabled ) are growing exponentially and expected to reach 50 device per

      person by 2020


#   Each of these device will be embedded with micro-sensors which will pick-up

      all the personal / private conversations of a user and transmit it to the

     Central servers of , not only the device manufacturers but also of the Internet

     Service providers involved .


#   Scientists also seem to agree that content in all of its form ( textual - audio –

     video – sensory ) , generated by all human beings on the earth will get

     captured automatically / continuously and flow seamlessly , across billions of

     internet connected devices and will no more remain confined to a few servers

 

  #  All of this will happen involuntarily and an individual will have neither any say

     on this nor will anyone be able to opt-out from this scenario. This flow of a

     person’s private data will start from birth

 

#   Technology has advanced so far – and continues to accelerate even faster –

     that it is possible to treat “ Content ( personal  / private data ) “ like an air

     molecule , which keeps travelling freely around the earth and gets inhaled a

     trillion times ( content consumption ) by a billion humans . Introduction of 5G

     and Li-Fi technologies  will speed up this process even further

 

#   With the arrival of Quantum Computing , it will soon become possible for the

     same content ( personal / private data ) , to exist simultaneously at multiple

     places , but in differing formats


     A “ Text Posting “ on Facebook may well appear on different media as

     Voice  or  Image  or  Smell  or  Touch !

 

#   Parallel to the Theory of Thermodynamics , I would like to propound the

     following  as far as the “ Theory of Information “ is concerned :

    

     “  Like Entropy , content keeps growing with each and every human

     interaction , either with other humans or with his environment , and content

     can no longer remain hidden , nor can it be destroyed  “

 

 

with regards,

 

hemen parekh  /  hcp@RecruitGuru.com  /  21 May 2022

 

 

Related Reading :

 

Half the atoms in the planet could be digital data by 2245  /  live science   /   27 Aug 2020

 

Extract :

But within a few short centuries, the total amount of digital bits produced annually

by humanity could exceed the number of atoms on our planet and, even more

unexpectedly, account for half of its mass


We live in information-rich times. Cell phones everywhere and high social media

use mean that almost every human being is generating astonishing quantities of

computerized content every day. 


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Added  on  01  June  2022 :


India to oppose continuation of moratorium on customs duties on e-com trade at WTO meet


Hindu  /  31  May  2022