WHire for ASP is a complete solution for hosting online recruitment services for job posting, candidate search and conducting selection processes. Revenue maximization can be achieved through a host of chargeable services facilitated in the portal. The product is designed as per industry standards and customizable look and feel, with instantaneous learning.
Features
  1. Multiple revenue models for the service provider
  2. Flexible products from combination of services
  3. Candidate Relationship Management
  4. Candidate job search and applying
  5. Multi-layered search facility for seeking out right candidate
  6. Management of both full-time and part-time jobs
  7. Recruiters have flexibility to serve their clients
  8. Multiple modes of Candidate search
  9. Multi layered, multi-activity selection processes
  10. Offer / call letter generation
  11. Built in work flows to manage portal customers and their product purchase & use
  12. Reports to track the performance and activities of the entire system
  13. Reports to manage the sales force and manage the sales activities

Candidates, once registered, have their own portal through which all activities, information etc. can be accessed or communication initiated.

Major facilities provided to the candidates are:
  1. Register with site and create a base profile
  2. Create multiple profiles in multiple languages if needed
  3. Change the interface language and set a default language of the user
  4. Upload resume in DOC, RTF or PDF format for each profile
  5. Download offline tool and create the CV and upload to the system
  6. Create availability charts for applying to part time jobs
  7. Upload photograph
  8. Download a formatted resume which is automatically formatted by the system in MS Word. Two types of Standard formats are available in the system
  9. Facility to remove the resumes from the system
  10. Automatic job - profile matching by the system
  11. Job search - Basic and advanced search options
  12. Apply for multiple jobs at a time using specific profiles
  13. Mail alerts and other messages from the system
  14. Receive mail alerts on new jobs posted from the system automatically
  15. View application status for the applied jobs
  16. Upload job specific documents scanned or otherwise, as per the request of the Recruiting Manager
  17. Attend chat interview at the portal
  18. Attend online test or survey as part of the selection process
  19. View the status of the selection process
  20. Access call or offer letter
  21. Send resumes for external jobs
  22. Avail Resume Blasting service
Recruiters are the external sourcing agents who supply appropriate candidate resumes to their customer companies. The employers on the other hand post jobs and recruit candidates for their own companies.

The generic features are listed and then the specific features provided for Recruiters are listed:
  1. Register and buy service products
  2. Post jobs
  3. Search the resume database for appropriate candidate using multilayered search engines
  4. Store search criteria and select candidates in folders
  5. Create final short list of candidates
  6. Create call/offer letters and send to candidates
  7. Create selection process and request the candidates to go through the process
  8. Create short listed candidates depending on the selection process

Additional facilities for the Recruiters for servicing their clients
  1. Search Resumes for specific clients and store them in specific lists
  2. Create user accounts for their clients in the portal
  3. Hide the appropriate portions of the resumes and send them to the respective clients
  4. Clients can log in and approve or disapprove of the resumes and ask to unhide the details
  5. Recruiter can unhide and submit the resumes again to the clients for approval
The services are productized and are purchased by the customers. The portal management is divided into various services. These services are allocated to different users. There are built-in work flows for appropriate approvals.

Some of the facilities are:
  1. Creation of user accounts and allocation of services
  2. Conversion of the portal services into products and price the products
  3. Manage the remittance by customers
  4. Approve the product purchase
  5. Activate the products
  6. Create base configuration data
  7. Create work flows for approvals
  8. Create mail and other templates
  9. User activity log monitoring and management
  10. Turn ON or OFF certain facilities according to requirement
  11. Produce all MIS reports
WHire for ASP is meant to provide multiple services to organisations. Multiple revenue models (products based on the services offered) are built in. Additions can be made if required. The parameters of the models given below can be altered to create multiple products in the same category.
  Description of the service / Product Remarks
1 Number of job posting for a specific number of days Number of job posting per 30 day period (a predefined period)
2 Number of CV Views The price for a predefined number of CV views
3 Jobs of the week This enables the placement of specific jobs to be put on the portal page with two additional variations
4 Country based Jobs of the week To enable more jobs of the week in a given portal
5 Business Type based Jobs of the week It enables more jobs of the week customers per portal
6 Featured customers Enables the portal to have customer information links placed in the portal page
7 Country based featured customers Helps to have more featured customers in a given portal
8 Business Type based Featured customer Helps to have more featured customers in a given portal
9 Period extension for a product The period of an already purchased product many be extended and the extension may be priced on a decreasing value with respect to the length of period of extension
10 Tiered pricing Each product can be priced and varied as per the number of products purchased
11 Discount structure and period specific discounts Discounts can be impressed on the pricing of each product and it can be put into effect over a period of time
12 Customer classification and special pricing for each class of customers The customers can be classified according to their profile, length of association or total value derived etc and impresses the product pricing respectively
13 Keep-Me-On-Top service for candidates Ensure that the resume of the candidate is placed at the top during a search and highlight the CV as well
14 Keep-Me-On-Top service for Jobs Assuring that the job posted is placed in the top 10 during a search and highlight the job
15 Resume Blaster service for candidates Sending resumes to multiple recruiting agents
16 Recruiter's client charges The pricing may be impressed on the number of clients the Recruiter is creating (dealing with)
17 Selection process: Online probing survey to extract more personal information from candidates Probing survey or job specific surveys can be created by the customer and hosted at the portal. This will help to get a better understanding of the candidate for use during an interview
18 Selection process: Online test creation and roll out with access to portal question banks Tests can be created in the portal or the available tests can be used to conduct online tests for the selection process
19 Selection process: Leasing of the online database of test questions The portal can have a question bank which can be used by the customers to conduct online tests
20 Selection process: Online chat interview and interview Manager The portal facilitates the conducting of online chat interviews and gets the details of personal interviews conducted against a specific job
21 Selection process: Background checking - third party integration The Portal passes the information in the form of standard XML documents to the respective background checking agency
22 Selection process: Reference checks There is a facility to create reference check questionnaires and send by email or conduct telephonic discussion with the referrer
23 Selection tests by third party agencies Customers can buy the online testing facility hosted by third party agencies for conducting online tests
24 Multi country revenue models Each country can have its own revenue model in a specific currency. Pricing can thus be different
25 Multi currency pricing The respective revenue models / products / services can be priced in different currencies. The same product for a specific country can also be priced in multiple currencies
26 Publish the schedule for "WALK-IN" interviews Customers can host information about walk-in interviews
27 Classified job advertisements Host classified job advertisement to which the candidates can apply directly through a post box or use the profiles already put into the system
28 Advertisements in various pages There is facility to host advertisements on various pages like portal page, personal portals, log-in pages etc
29 Create Micro sites for the customers and respective jobs The portal provides the facility to create micro sites by the clients themselves and host them against the job, providing more information about the job or about the company

Return on Investment (ROI)
WHire is designed to optimise resource. The system is designed to have very low manpower consumption for managing the portal. Revenue maximization can be achieved through creation of multitudes of revenue models.
The following points highlight the means of a high ROI:
  1. Very high profitability as large number of revenue models are available
  2. Low implementation time - quick realisation of investment
  3. Management can be effected from any where and hence the manual operation can be shifted to low cost countries enabling higher profitability
  4. Very low manpower consumption in managing the portal
  5. Single installation for a trans-geographical operation
  6. Portal promotions can be effected through tools provided in the system
  7. Low cost of maintenance and low service time as the system can be securely accessed over the internet by authorised service persons
  8. Enhanced income from outsourcing the selection process to third parties
  9. Built in checks and balances to lower management costs
  10. Trans-demographical presence due to multilingual and localisation capability
  11. Very high speed and precise candidate search & match reducing recruitment time - enhancing the employer productivity and hence higher customer retention
  12. Higher productivity through automated management processes


Create multiple products There are more than 29 revenue generation facilities provided in the system. These revenue streams can be mixed to create multiple service products for the customers
Marketing /sales monitoring reports Detailed reports can be taken, assisting in understanding the effectiveness of marketing campaigns or sales efforts of individuals etc
Trail accounts It is possible to provide trail accounts to customers to try out the portal services
Multicurrency option Multicurrency option is provided to cater to trans-geographical customers.
Approval workflows The portal management has built in work flows for approval of product purchase and similar tasks
Individual portal Each user has his or her personal portal and the content of the portal depends on the authorization of the user. All activities, communications, and information are accessed through the portal
Multi language enabled WHire is multi language enabled. The user interface language and the data entry language can be different. All languages that are UTF-8 complaint are accepted by the system - presently about 650 languages
Low learning time The system is designed to have low learning time. The screens are arranged to learn fast with no ambiguity. The system has context sensitive menus and movies. This avoids reading up heavy manuals and speeds up the learning
Alerts and mails WHire initiates the user through alerts and mails. This is meant for reducing the time to attend a specific task
Multiple Question Banks Question banks can be created by experts. It can be used to conduct several activities like online tests, surveys, telephonic interviews etc
Activity Logging The system has detailed activity logging. These logs can be used for generating reports on the activities of a user
Email templates The system sends email to users in various situations. The templates can be designed thus
Extensive MIS reports The system has scores of built in reports which provides details on the activities in the system. All reports are provided in MS Excel to facilitate further manipulation
NEWS letter Facility to create NEWS letters and send to all concerned (candidates, Recruiters, consultants etc.)
User Management Create multiple users and allocate various types of services them

Candidate registration Register with recruitment portal and get access to all facilities like job information, applying for them, participating in selection process etc
Multiple candidate profile creation The candidate creates multiple profiles prioritizing the respective experiences. This brings the focus of the recruitment manager to the respective experience profile of the candidate enhancing the chances of selection
Creation of profiles in multiple languages The interface languages are predefined and candidates can choose a specific language from a drop down list. The data entry language can be chosen by selection of the keyboard language. About 650 UTF-8 supported languages can be configured
Create part time availability The candidates can create part time availability on an hourly basis across the week. Multiple availability profiles can also be created
Offline Resumes creation and unloading The system provides offline tool which helps in creation of CVs at leisure of the candidate and upload it to the system. Multiple profiles can be created
Basic and advanced search facility for jobs The candidate has the facility to search for jobs. The basic search has a generic search and the advanced search provides more specific information in jobs to be searched
Automatic job matching with candidate profile The system also has the facility to automatically match the profile with available jobs and provide a percentage matching between the jobs and the profile
Receive all information /alerts in the personal mail ID The system sends all information to the candidate via e-mails. These information can also be accessed at the personal portal of the candidate
Refer a job to a friend The candidate can refer job to a friend with ease
Upload resumes matching each profile Resume document in DOC, RTF and PDF formats can be uploaded against each profile the candidate has created
Upload photo There provision upload photo of the candidate
Receive new jobs alerts, matching profile through mail WHire has the provision to seek out matching profiles of candidates and send mail invitations to candidates to apply for the job
Information and participation in selection process All invitations are sent out as mails and the candidate will have buttons automatically created in the personal portal on the services one has access to - like the selection process
Receive offer/Call letter Offer/call letters can be received as mails or at the portal

Post jobs Post jobs in the portal and position it as per the various products purchased
Create job specific pages for providing more information Additional information can be posted in separate web pages. This facility is provided to give the candidates additional information about the job or provide information that is not captured in the job specification page
Basic search for candidates The basic search is intended to give the recruitment manager an idea about the number of resumes available in the data base with in a broad specification
Advanced Boolean search In this type of search, the search conditions are connected with each other through Boolean relation of "AND" , "OR" or "NOT"
Search using logical statements - rule base search This is a very complex search method. The user can create complex logical statements which help to pint point the candidate who suites the job requirements precisely
Search with in search - drill down search The system allows the search results to be stored in a common place and then these results can be searched to arrive a more precise list of candidates
Create favourite folders and store candidate profiles for appropriate use Authorized users have the facility to create favourite folders and store the candidate resumes for future use. These resumes can be shifted to the respective jobs as and when required. Each folder can be named as desired by the user
Roll out job specific questionnaires The system has the facility to create job specific questionnaires to be created and rolled out to the candidates. These forms can be analyzed at the time of short listing of the candidates
Define selection process for a specific job WHire has extensive selection processes. These process need to be defined against each job. The sequencing and the type are to be defined and rolled out
Conduct section process Selection process can be conducted in several layers. Each layer can be used to shortlist candidates for the next layer. The consolidation at each layer helps the recruitment manager to arrive at the right group of candidates quickly
Collate the results of selection process and short list candidates The system provides effective means to collate the results of a selection process. The multilayered selection process with promotion of candidates between layers helps the recruitment managers to arrive at the right candidate effectively
Create offer letters / call letters and customize for individual candidates WHire has a unique feature of creation of offer letters with an understanding of the individual elements in the offer letter to be integrated to the respective elements in the enterprise HR management system

Modules Fixed Flexible
Candidate registration and creation of multiple profiles in multiple languages
Customer registration and purchase of products
Job Posting
Search, filter / rule based search and segregation and final short listing
Recruiter client registration and client user creation
Creation of job specific selection process and its execution
Approval of final selected candidates, offer letter creation etc
Multiple Language Interface and data management
Multiple revenue models not directly attached to the essential modules. For example publishing walk-in Interviews etc.

The system is designed to cater to the global business practises. This supports all UTF-8 supported languages (nearly 650) and localisation can be easily carried out.
Reduction of recruitment-cycle time
  1. Minimum learning time to operate the system
  2. Automatic processing of CVs through multiple, cascaded, rules based searches
  3. Faster applicant matching
  4. Automatic online mails for quick communication
  5. All activities / information are pushed to the user through the portal
  6. Faster information exchange
  7. Automatic scheduling and rescheduling
  8. Online multiple selection process
  9. Minimum clicks for doing a specific task
  10. System aids / forces to take decisions, reducing errors or slips
  11. Context sensitive help & Feature demonstration movies for rapid self learning
  12. All the above will enhance the customer satisfaction and hence greater customer retentively and new customer acquisition
High security
  1. Authorisation based access to services / activities
  2. All activities are pushed through individual user specific portals based on authorisation
  3. If required, secure access can be provided
High profitability and quick revenue generation
  1. The system offers about 30 different revenue models
  2. More revenue models can be created as per customer demand without altering the main software
  3. Multiple revenue models enable wider choices for portal customers and hence better customer service, thereby enhanced revenue
  4. Easy administration and tight control of the models prevent revenue leakages
  5. The administration does not require any technical expertise
Quick deployment and Immediate revenue realization
  1. Rapid deployment
  2. Low requirement of technical expertise to operate
  3. Minimum learning time to administer the system
  4. Easy configuration of various products
  5. Multicurrency pricing to cater to various demographics for faster revenue realisation
  6. Low learning time for customer to become fully familiar with all features of the portal
Significant reduction in recruitment cost
  1. Low manpower consumption per recruitment
  2. Low Maintenance & Operation cost due to remote diagnosis and error fixture
  3. Low cost of communication using emails
  4. Short learning time to operate
  5. Customisable, flexible processes
Increased business operation arena and trans-geographic reach
  1. Designed and developed on Internet technology, the system is independent of location, application server and operators
  2. Being a Multilanguage application, it can serve multiple users simultaneously using multiple languages from a single machine cluster
  3. Being a single instance of the software controlling all operations; monitoring and control of operations across geographies will be effective
  4. Effective collaboration through RSS technologies
Built in Best Practises
  1. Developed after extensive market experience and interaction across continents
  2. Enhancements will be developed through interaction with HR professionals and made available in the coming versions
  3. The solution is benchmarked with similar products and the report is available at the website
Enhanced efficiency
  1. Flexible individual job based processes
  2. Prevents duplication of effort
  3. Generates various analysis reports quickly and easily
Efficient Customer support
  1. Easy maintenance through remote authorised log in and simulators
  2. 24X7 online help and low response time