Proposal For Launching etimes.com (A job website + Search Engine)
Prepared By Nishanth kumar ICFAI National College
Aim
To launch a job search engine with job site labeled under “etimes.com”
Introduction
It is effective combination of job site and job search engine, which helps to collect information and datas about all employers regarding their jobs, which will be facilitated for job seekers, when they register themselves for jobs.
etimes.com has three phases: Employers: Who provides jobs (Companies) Job Seekers: Who apply for the jobs Administrator: The Hosting Company
A brief description of three phases Employers: In Employers mode, vacancies of your company will be published, but before using this part employer must sign the agreement with concern company and they have pay a little amount for publishing their jobs on etimes.com
Job Seekers: Job seeker is a person, who is in search of a job. He can able to search jobs and create and upload multiple resumes, apply for jobs online. A jobseeker has the right to signup.
Administrator: An administrator is a person who has complete access on that particular job site. He is responsible for managing all the employers account activities.
Features
Job Seekers User can center account details, contact details, and resume summary, educational details, upload resume. Login Module User easily login with their username and password. Forgot password: User can receive mail for forgot password. Change password: User can change their password. Home Page It shows details job details, locations and employer profiles. Search Agent Search the job profile from the database, according to jobseeker requiments. Upload resume User can create and upload their resume. User profile User can enter his information into that page and later can be edited according to user’s need.
Search Jobs Quick search •
Enter any keyword and search the jobs very easily and very quickly.
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Keyword can be role or location or skills or experience
Advance search •
Search jobs by enters keyword, experience, location, functional area.
Jobs by category •
Search jobs by category like IT, Marketing etc…
Job by company •
Search job by registered companies.
Job search by location •
User can search job according to preferred location
Newsletters Includes job fairs... Resume Builder •
Enter key information
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Upload or paste resume
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Enter supplemental information.
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Free resume posting.
Employer’s Phase: Registration Module •
User enters their account information, company details, and primary contact details.
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User can easily select the job mail alert and news letter alert during the registration itself.
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Activation emails send it to the user after registration
Login Module •
User easily login with their username and password.
Forget Password Module details. •
User receive mail for forget password.
Employer profile: •
Contains employer profile and employer can edit there profile according to their need, along with employer can play the following roles:
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Find Candidate
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Find the job seekers who are apply for the posting jobs.
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View their responses.
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Recruiter can send email to the job seekers.
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Recruiters create the common mail message before sending the email.
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Recruiter can download the job seekers resume who are all apply for the job.
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Resume access
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Recruiters are searching the application of the user.
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Enter the detail about job position, functional area, industry type, keyword, experience, qualification, location, country, and order by date.
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If the employer or recruiter was not order any package it shows the buy package link
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After the employers or recruiters are buying the package then only they can search the job seeker resumes.
Posted jobs •
Posted jobs are listed.
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The employer can edit the jobs.
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Delete jobs.
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View jobs.
Administrator •
He is the one who can control employers and job seeker information.
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Check the validity of employers account.
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Delete unwanted informations.
Technical Requirements •
Linux/Unix (Red Hat, Debian, FreeBSD, Mandrake, etc.) or Windows OS, Apache Web Server
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PHP 4.4.0/5.1.0 and higher (register_globals must be Off, safe_mode must be Off, exec() must be allowed and allow_url_fopen also must be On) with mbstring, domxml and xsl extensions (they are required to run Orca forum and support UTF-8)
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MySQL 4.1.2 and higher
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Curl functon enable hosting GD library compiled with TrueType fonts (for photo processing) or ImageMagick as an alternative
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Sendmail or Postfix
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20MB of disk space and 1MB of MySQL DB space for installation
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8MB of disk space and 50KB of MySQL DB space for an average user
Marketing Strategies for this site
1. Tv advertisement 2. Newspaper 3. SEM Which ever is better?
Pricing strategies Examples of Pricing Strategies Nakuri.com
Monster.com
Return on Investment.
On the basis of Nakuri.com I have calculated approx ROI. Nakuri.com has begun his journey from 1997. They have at least 70 employer worth of Rs 15,000/approx Their ROI 70 * 15000 =1050000.
Initial Investment If go for dedicate job server price list look like the below.
I calculated Rs 50,196/- by considering the minimum server configuration.
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Market Share Thought is job site + search engine I accept it will be a successful project for our organization, because we have a potential market for job seekers in India as well in Kerala. Because of globalization and liberalization many foreign companies has come done to for setting up their braches and outlets.
Terms and conditions
All monetary figures are approximately calculated on the basis of assumptions. I have taken nakuri.com and monster.com as an example for comparing the monetary figures. On the basis of that figures I calculated an assumption monetary figures.