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Comment on vSkool Presentation by Ankit Jain

Ankit Jain — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:46:22 +0000

Queries Answered:
1) The calls are made by the system and hence we would be paying for it.
2) That totally depends upon the organizations, we only provide the training platform.
3) Yes, this is more for training than of academic use. This platform is well suited for providing training and knowledge sharing but not complete academic course.

And I am really sorry for a long delayed reply as there were too many spams on the post and we initially missed out your comment initially.

Comment on Automated Interview: Can this save your candidate filtering blues? by Vani Taneja

Vani Taneja — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:29:14 +0000

Thats quite an interesting read. Filtering CVs constitute an important part of the whole Recruitment procedure. Being in the same industry, i know the kind of efforts it involves to screen CVs, sometimes to find out that none of them fits the bill.

The only drawback of this method of churning out CVs is that the Job seekers, especially the experienced ones might take up other Opportunities before getting the time to place a call in order to apply for the Job as mentioned above. ‘Other Opportunities’ here refer to the ones that do not require them to make calls in order to apply. Thats like asking too much out of their heave Schedule!

Comment on ’86% of all medical trips are made by rural Indians’ by Indranil Das Gupta

Indranil Das Gupta — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 10:01:42 +0000

The ToI report does not quote a source of for the information presented. Since you have shared it here, do you have some idea where this nugget was originally sourced from?

Comment on vSkool Presentation by medical tourism india

medical tourism india — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:24:08 +0000

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Comment on Automated Interview: Can this save your candidate filtering blues? by Ashish Gautam

Ashish Gautam — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:06:13 +0000

What I feel is yes! we do not really like to talk to robos and machines because we know the person whom we called up is either busy or he does not want to attend our call that time ( Our ego comes into play). I completely agree with your point.
But when it comes to this kind of interviewing system, the caller has an inner feeling that somebody on the other side wants to listen actually what he is going to record. Also, having an Interview with such a system is a part of the hiring process and ultimately who takes it seriously is considered as Ankit said.
So, this kind of system is a different thing as compared to Voice mails and things like that.

Comment on vSkool Presentation by Dr. Shivani Kapoor

Dr. Shivani Kapoor — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:09:16 +0000

The presentation is very well made, makes sense. Few querries:1) who pays for the calls. 2) Can a student get a certificate at the end of the year/ sesion. 3) Validity of certificate provided. Seems excellent for training more than academics. To hold the attention of a student on phone, the material/ voice needs to be professionally worked out. Would love to know the details of how you would go about and how could we be of help.
Right now, there seem more querries than comments. The idea seems excellent though the nitty gritties will be more important here.

Comment on Automated Interview: Can this save your candidate filtering blues? by Ankit Jain

Ankit Jain — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:13:43 +0000

Hey Jay,
Thanks for your feedback. Here is my bit on same:
I understand many people do not like talking to machines. But this is in concern to a job where candidates have to take some effort. Any candidates who cannot take an effort to attempt the same, in my view, are again not serious candidate.

Apart from filtering the solution also has advantage of voice which is better than text as it tell me the communication skill, attitude and vocal presentation of the candidate.

Comment on Automated Interview: Can this save your candidate filtering blues? by Jay Thaker

Jay Thaker — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:05:13 +0000

I do find this idea really very very interesting. I mean imagine the amount of time/effort/workload that can be saved if we (a recruitment agency) implements this
BUT at the same time, I get these couple of doubtful concerns
1) what if the 116 people out of 122 which we’re assuming didn’t read the job description – many DID actually read the details but “chose” not to call. May be they weren’t attracted to the idea of speaking to a machine to give an interview. may be that was below their “ego” to be responding to a robo for a job of this position.
2) my personal experience with answering machines (voicemails) has been similar. whenever i call some number which forwards me to an answering machine, i instinctively disconnect thinking (a) i’ll call back later (b) it feels weird talking to the wall

just my 2 cents.

PS: but i’m seriously considering ways/ideas in which I can implement some automated filtering process to streamline our recruitment work, because we work on volumes and have several clients waiting for us to deliver good profiles.

Comment on vSkool Presentation by anitha machaiah

anitha machaiah — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:32:41 +0000

excellent i did really like it!

Comment on ’86% of all medical trips are made by rural Indians’ by Ashish Gautam

Ashish Gautam — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:34:03 +0000

Medical tourism in rural India stands unexplored as most of the Big players are focusing only on the urban people.It is a huge and unexplored market