Rushit Shah

Time To Increase your Alexa Rankings !!!

noreply@blogger.com (Rushit Shah) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:23:00 +0000

Its important for every blogger to have high alexa rankings.

Webmasters, advertisers and ad networks use your blog’s Alexa rank as a gauge to determine the worth of a link on your website. If you depend on link or site selling as a form of monetization you’ll definitely want to increase your Alexa rank, because it’ll increase your bargaining power when it comes to ad pricing.

ReviewMe, Text Link Ads and Sponsored Reviews are just three of the networks which base your ad selling strength on Alexa Ranks.price your ads based on your Alexa rank. The higher you rank in Alexa, the more money you make from the ads. Text Link Ads aren’t alone in using the Alexa data as their benchmark. Many other ad networks still use it too.

The fact is that without a realistic competitor in the market place, Alexa will continue to be used for these purposes so if you’re looking to make money with your website or blog, you should consider looking at maximizing your Alexa rank.

Get Started With Alexa.

There are two easy ways to start using Alexa. If you are using Internet Explorer, visit this page and download the Alexa Toolbar. If you’re using Firefox, download the SearchStatus extension

which displays the Alexa Rank, Google PageRank as well as other useful features.

I highly recommend that you use Firefox and SearchStatus instead of Alexa toolbar, which I find to be more bulky and less useful.

Now for The best Part how to increase your alexa rankings Quickly and Easily.

Here is a collection of methods you can use to boost your Alexa Rank. Most of these tips are derived from several fellow webmasters I know who claimed to have derived positive results through their experiments with the Alexa Rankings.

Some of the other tips were derived articles and sources, which I have duly referenced at the end of this post.

1) Install the Alexa toolbar or Firefox’s SearchStatus extension and set your blog as your homepage. This is the most basic step.

2) Have a few friends download the Alexa Toolbar and surf your site.

3) Put up an Alexa rank widget on your website. I did this a few days ago and receive a fair amount of clicks every day. According to some doshdosh, each click counts as a visit even if the toolbar is not used by the visitor. You can download the Alexa Rank Widget from here .

4) Participate in many webmaster forums which allow you to place your site in your signature.

5) Encourage others to use the Alexa toolbar. This includes friends, fellow webmasters as well as site visitors/blog readers. Be sure to link to Alexa’s full explanation of their toolbar and tracking system so your readers know what installing the toolbar or extension entails.

6) Write articles about webmaster topics and distribute them around the web.

7) Work in an Office or own a company? Get the Alexa toolbar or SS Firefox extension installed on all computers and set your website as the homepage for all browsers. Perhaps it will be useful to note that this may work only when dynamic or different IPs are used.

8) Optimize pages of your site for Alexa and related phrases.

9) Write or Blog about Alexa. Webmaster and bloggers love to hear about ways to increase their Alexa rank. They’ll link to you and send you targeted traffic (i.e. visitors with the toolbar already installed). This gradually has effects on your Alexa ranking.

10) Buy ads on search engines to increase your traffic. Your Alexa traffic rankings will increase.

11) Flaunt your URL in webmaster forums. Webmasters usually have the toolbar installed. You’ll get webmasters to visit your website and offer useful feedback. It’s also a good way to give back to the community if you have useful articles to share with others.

12) Get StumbledUpon or Digg. Social Network members are more likely to have an Alexa toolbar on their browsers and a flood of traffic from these sites can skyrocket your Alexa rank!

13) Use Alexa redirects on your website URL. Try this: http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.rushitshah.blogspot.com . Replace heenamehta.blogspot.com with the URL for your website. Leave this redirected URL in blog comments as well as forum signatures. This redirect will count a unique IP address once a day so clicking it multiple times won’t help. There is no official proof that redirects positively benefit your Alexa Rank, so use with caution.

14) Optimize your popular posts. Got a popular post that consistently receives traffic from the search engines? Include a widget/graph at the bottom of the post, link to your Alexa post or use Alexa redirection on your internal URLs.

15 ) Submit Your Posts to alexa site to crawl. Here is the link to submit your site

So this is some quickest way to Increase your Alexa rankings. If you know something more then this please let me know.

What do you think of Alexa? Have you tried increasing your Alexa Rank by any of these methods?

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Rushit Shah's Updated Profile

noreply@blogger.com (Rushit Shah) — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:01:00 +0000

Current

Executive Search and Global Business Development consultant at Antal International Executive Search
Marketing Manager at Outsource 2 India

Past

Co-Founder And Web Master at Offshore Recruitment Process Outsourcing Association
E-Eecruitment Specialist at Os2i PVT LTD
Sr. Technical Recruiter at Rangam Infotech

Education

University of Pune

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Industry

Staffing and Recruiting

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Summary

Specialties:

Marketing strategy & planning,Marketing Organization,Lead generation programs,Market Research,Budget Control,On-line marketing activities,Marketing Recruitment,Go-to-market Strategies,Demand Generation,Marketing Campaigns,Organization of international Events,Marketing Plans,Targeted
Marketing,Database Enrichment,Web and e-Mailing activities,Marketing Budgets,"offshore Recruitment Process Outsourcing", Marketing Manager, Internet Marketing, Web Master, Recruiter, Outsourcing, offshore,

Experience

Executive Search and Global Business Development consultant

Antal International Executive Search

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

February 2008 – Present (1 month)

• Executive Recruitment, Selection, Consulting, Executive career management and Management consulting globally
- Business Development (researching the top producers within a particular industry, market research and analysis, first contacts with potential clients, client care activities)
- Recruitment projects (project planning, job market research and analysis, search and selection of potential candidates for conducted projects, carrying on interviews and phone interviews)
- Creation of a synergistic match between a company and a prospective employee
- Executive Recruitment, Selection, Consulting, Executive career management and Management consulting globally
- Business Development (researching the top producers within a particular industry, market research and analysis, first contacts with potential clients, client care activities)
- Recruitment projects

Marketing Manager

Outsource 2 India

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

May 2007 – Present ( 10 months)

Responsible to assist and implement my company
- Marketing analysis
- Marketing strategy
- Marketing Planning & Budgeting
- Operational Marketing: all marketing & communication activities: from PR and advertisement over direct marketing and e-mail marketing, web and telemarketing to seminars and events.
- Marketing organization: structures & processes

offshore Recruitment Process Outsourcing , Recruitment Process Outsourcing

For further Question please mail me at rushit@os2i.com

Co-Founder And Web Master

Offshore Recruitment Process Outsourcing Association

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

August 2007 – January 2008 ( 6 months)

Only association for Offshore Recruitment Process Outsourcing Vendors around the globe.

It is our mission to educate the global recruitment industry of the benefits of outsourcing elements of the recruitment process, offshore and to bring together offshore RPO providers into an accountable and responsible community

E-Eecruitment Specialist

Os2i PVT LTD

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)

October 2006 – July 2007 ( 10 months)

Executive search for Cisco top level (Sales Director, Program Manager, Account manager, Executive, Associate, System Engineers, etc) requirements, Client Reporting, Client Relations, Active search and Passive search, Advert posting, Keyword Analysis, Advert web Optimization, Screening, Analysis, E-marketing and SEO.
o Successfully converted Cisco Systems trial period to full time contract.
o Worked with Clients for USA, UK.and Middle East
o Build good rapport with client and added new resources and earned revenue to my employer.
o Worked on job board like monstergulf, bayt, monsteruk, monster usa, dice etc
o And same as below.

Paromita Roy (paromita.hr@gmail.com), Senior Recruitment Specialist, OS2i India Pvt. Ltd.

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Sr. Technical Recruiter

Rangam Infotech

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)

August 2006 – October 2006 ( 3 months)

Manage all process of recruitment and handle Nike IT department in Oregon USA. Reported to hiring manager of Nike.
o Successfully placed 5 IT consultants for roles such as developers and production designers.
o Gathering and understanding requirements from client.
o Sourcing resumes through Job sites and database created by own.
o Interacting with candidates for the job role and taking down quality information from them to submit the best suitable candidate to end client.
o Working on more than one client at a time with giving out best result in limited time.
o Working with a team and coordinate with them on the job process.
o Time to time reporting to clients as direct interaction.

offshore Recruitment Process Outsourcing , Recruitment Process Outsourcing

Sr. Technical Recruiter

Rishabh Software Pvt Ltd

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)

June 2005 – August 2006 (1 year 3 months)

Manage the recruitment process from screening to selection and induction to recruitment world. Worked with fortune five hundred clients in USA and UK. Also worked with Emirates computers in UAE.
o Successfully placed 7 IT consultants for roles such as project manager, Oracle dba, SAP HR, Java web developers.
o Clients served from the pharmaceutical, IT, automobile, sports apparel, financial and insurance industries.
o Introduced new recruiting techniques, which reduced costs while improving quality of new hires, and decreasing time required to attract new applicants.
o Responsible for the implementation and completion of recruitment training programs introducing String Theory.
o Helped develop web-recruiting strategy, selected web search tools (Monster /Dice, Careerbuilder, Hotjobs, Jobcircle, Net-temps, jobsite, cv-library etc.

Tele Sales Executive

Ethos

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2005 – May 2005 ( 5 months)

To call Canadian customers from data base and click sale. Sales were for our client dealing with local and long distance call connection as well as internet connection. We also generate leads from the websites available eg. www.Whitepages.co.ca

Tele Sales Executive

Futura convergious

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)

August 2004 – January 2005 ( 6 months)

cold calling and making sales was the process of my work. I can also explain you the process in detail.

Education

University of Pune

2006 – 2007

Recommendations For Rushit

E-Eecruitment Specialist

Os2i PVT LTD

““Rushit, a great individual with all his dedication, devotion and determination in whatever he does, personally or professionally. He has an outstanding personality and hidden skills, always ready to prove himself. Sometimes very mischievous, naughty but always sweet, caring and ready to help others anytime. I find him a very good colleague, a friend and above all a nice human being. He is an asset to anyone, who knows him internally and externally both. I wish him all the luck for future endeavors. Warm Regards Paromita” January 25, 2008

Paromita Roy (paromita.hr@gmail.com), Senior Recruitment Specialist, OS2i India Pvt. Ltd.
worked directly with Rushit at Os2i PVT LTD

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Search Engines vs. Meta-Search Tools

noreply@blogger.com (Rushit Shah) — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:02:00 +0000

Search Engines

Search engines and meta-search tools are the principal vehicles for finding documents on the web. Because there are many misconceptions about how these tools actually operate, it’s important for recruiters to understand their real structure, capabilities and limitations.

Search engines find web pages by matching keywords or phrases found in the documents. But it’s important to note that users are not searching through a live interface to the web. Search engines build a proprietary database of text snippets retrieved from web pages by automated software programs called spiders. Spiders are configured to follow links and gather information from specific areas on a web page. The search engine then builds a database (or index) of the results. When a user searches a search engine, they are actually searching text snippets saved to the index, not the web itself.

With billions of the pages already on the web and some estimates claiming that over 7 million pages of the content are added every day, it is extremely unlikely that any single search engines will ever index the entire web. It is also important to know that no two search engines index contains millions of unique pages. Therefore, to access the universe of documents, across even 50% of the web, recruiters need to use multiple search engines.

Meta-Search engines

Meta-Search engines are tools that search multiple search engines all at once. This sounds like great solutions for recruiters, but there are some complicating issues.

First, because each search engine uses slightly differently syntax, meta-search tools have a hard time keeping up. Second, because only a small subset of search engines support advances search featured like field search commands, most meta-tools do not map search strings with those commands. That means some meta-tools are not particularly useful for all the types of advanced search we’ll learn in our search lab, although they are getting better at supporting more advanced searches every day. Additionally, we would strongly recommend that you experiment with these meta-search tools occasionally.

A few top meta-search tools are:

The SearchLab Portal contains additional online and offline meta-search tools. Now that we understand these terms, it’s time to understand how to work with search engines. Next, we’ll learn to use Boolean logic and field search commands to construct complex search strings.

My Words on Professional Networking

Searching tips for Job Boards and Search Engines

"P.E.R.F.E.C.T. T.E.N." Resolutions

Useful Abbreviations

My Words on Professional Networking

noreply@blogger.com (Rushit Shah) — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:51:00 +0000

My post is all about networking, professional networking and personal networking.
Professional networking :- To start with an example I did not got any better idea then Linkedin . I am sure everyone would have an account on linkedin, if you by chance have missed he invitation here is the link of the website www.linkedin.com . Once you are member please make sure you send me an invitation on my profile , here is my profile link RUSHIT SHAH and my e-mail address is tihsur@gmail.com. Lets get back to my topic, well networking, networking has in own process to follow. If you don't follow the process of networking then you are actually not doing networking but just making database of your own. Which is not wrong as a recruiters point of view. The process is to talk to people, a talk is key to interact with business, getting leads getting help on referrals and many more benefits. Linkedin has crossed 10 million professional networking around the world. People can send them a mail and start interacting with million people, it’s a free job board may be someday it would kick monster and other job portals.
Few sites which can be useful for networking.

Linkedin

Xing

Ryze

Jobster

Visible path

ziggs

I hope I get invitation from you on at least two of the networking tool. Increase your contacts and see the power of networking.

You may also like to read few of the blogs I have written on Recruitment.

ORPO

Beyond recruitment

Recruiters Link

Happy networking
Cheers
Rushit Shah

Searching tips for Job Boards and Search Engines

noreply@blogger.com (Rushit Shah) — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:06:00 +0000

Boolean Operators

Search engines can be considered as a cluttered resume database. Using detailed searches with Boolean search operators can drill down and find the information you are looking for faster. These operators are used to weed out irrelevant pages thereby narrowing your search results to find exactly what you are looking for.

Each search engine is unique and we recommend to review the help section on each of the search engines to determine what Boolean operators are supported.

Boolean Key

AND - The AND operator delivers results with the terms you requested. For example, searching resume and oracle will return pages with both terms - resume and oracle.

OR - The OR operator delivers results with either of the terms you requested. For example, MCSE OR M.C.S.E.

NOT - The NOT operator will not deliver certain words in your search results. For example, Java NOT coffee will deliver closer results for JAVA Programmers and not Java Coffee.

NEAR - The NEAR operator locates words that are located in close proximity to other words. For example, Java NEAR Programmer. Not every search engine supports this operator.

( ) Parentheses - The ( ) operator allows you to group terms and build longer search strings. For example, NOT (submit AND employer) will avoid pages with both names.

* - The * operator is a wild card. Adding a wild card will find words contain the wild card. For example program* will help so you do not have to run separate searches for words similar like: programmer, programming, program

Example of Complex Search String

resume AND (java or JavaScript) AND program* AND (New York or NY or 212) AND NOT (coffee or submit)

* In some case we recommend to go to the advanced search option within the search engine.

Definitions:

X-Raying - searches for pages that are all on the same host.
Flipping - searches for pages that link to a specific page.
Page Title - searches for pages that has specific words in page title.
URL Search - searches for pages that has specific words in the URL or web address.

If Build It, They Will Come

ERExchange 3/00
Audra Slinkey

In my previous article we talked about the importance of doing your homework before beginning your search. Once you have clear understanding of the position including similar terms, competitors, associations and synonyms you are now ready to begin your Internet search. So…where do you start?

Building a top notch Boolean search string is the key to getting successful results. Although they may appear very complicated, they are actually rather simple. Using a well thought out search string directly in the different Search Engines or Meta Search Engines will result in maximum returns. To keep it simple, remember there are three crucial elements to every search string, two of which will rarely change. Let’s go over these three elements in more detail:

Identifying the Resume: Our goal is to find all of the homepages/web pages that give us resumes or give resume information. We can do this by telling the search engine to give us those pages that are resumes. How do we do this? First, think of all the terms one might find on a resume i.e. resume, CV, Bio, Homepage, Objective, Education, Experience, etc. A web page is made up of several elements one can search on. The URL, Title, Links, Text and Images are among those elements you can search on. By specifying that you want those pages that have the word resume in the URL or text or title of the page you are increasing your chances of getting a resume. This part of the string might look like this:

(title:resume OR title:CV OR title:bio OR title:homepage OR url:resume OR resume)

Of course, using this part of the search string alone would generate thousands of results so let’s continue to the next key element to your string.

Eliminating Pages That Are Not Resumes: Our goal is to sift through the millions of web pages, locate the ones that could be resumes and throw away the pages that are not. These pages are usually in the form of a job posting. Think of all the words that are typically on a job posting but NOT on a resume i.e. submit, “equal opportunity”, EOE, job, opening, send, apply, “your resume”, classified etc.. This part of the search string might look like this:

(job OR "career opportunity" OR "equal opportunity employer" OR "employment at" OR EOE OR "employment opportunity" OR opening OR "submit resume" OR "your resume" OR "sample resume" OR "career development" OR classified OR book OR books)

Job Specifications: Last but certainly not least, you need to take all those key terms we developed in my last article on your job and put them in the form of a Boolean search string. For instance, if you are looking for an Embedded Software Engineer in the telecommunications industry you may use a string like this:

(cdma OR dsp OR cellular OR wireless) AND embedded AND (Motorola OR Lucent OR Ericsson OR Nokia etc…)

Your final Search String should look like this:

(title:resume OR title:CV OR title:bio OR title:homepage OR url:resume OR resume) AND NOT (job OR "career opportunity" OR "equal opportunity employer" OR "employment at" OR EOE OR "employment opportunity" OR opening OR "submit resume" OR "your resume" OR "sample resume" OR "career development" OR classified OR book OR books) AND (cdma OR dsp OR cellular OR wireless) AND embedded AND (Motorola OR Lucent OR Ericsson OR Nokia)

Once you have an initial search string created, you can now continue to mold and form it to fit your particular needs as well as mix it up to get a wide variety of good results. Most Search Engines will want to see this string in different forms but the concepts are the same. Remember, if you build it right, the results will come!

How To Flip Search

Lately we have noticed that there have been a lot of people wanting to learn more about “Flip Searching”. This article should help you understand how to flip search and what types of results you should hope to find.

Flip Searching is actually easier than it sounds and it can be performed using some of the major search engines such as www.altavista.com, www.hotbot.com and www.northernlight.com. The thought behind the “flip searching” technique is that those individuals with personal home pages many times will insert hyperlinks on their homepages that pertain to the companies they work for, the associations they are a part of or the skill sets they have. You are trying to pull up those pages by telling the search engine to find you those pages that are linked to “Sun Microsystems” or IEEE or PeopleSoft.

An example of this would be if you were looking for a PeopleSoft consultant. Flip Searching can be used to find sites that are linked to PeopleSoft.com. What you should find would be people who have resumes with PeopleSoft skills because they may have linked them to their sites.

To do a “Flip Search” go to AltaVista and under the advanced search function type on the following “link:peoplesoft.com”. The results should be sites that have linked to Peoplesoft. You can further refine your search by adding the following after peoplesoft.com: AND “resume or CV or homepage” so that your complete search string would look like this:

Link:peoplesoft AND “resume or CV or homepage”

Adding resume or CV or Homepage will help narrow your results to only pages that you receive only those pages that are resumes.

While you are reviewing the results that your “flip search” brings up make sure to note other companies that qualified candidates have previously work for. You should also keep your eye open for specific skills that these candidates have in common because that can help you identify top candidates.

An important thing to also remember is that each search engine will bring up different results. If for example AltaVista didn’t get you the results you wanted, then try a couple other search engines like Northern Light or Snap.com.

Flip Searching is a great tool but it is not the ultimate answer to Internet Sourcing. You must use many different techniques to find candidates. Flip Searching is one of the many ways to find those hard to find candidates hidden on the web.

If you have information you would like to see on this page or site, please email us and let us know.

How to X-Ray

The term “X-Ray” sounds so cloak and dagger that it confuses Recruiters more than anything. The purpose of x-raying or “domain searching” is to find something within a particular domain name or server. Cisco owns the www.cisco.com domain name or server. You can tell a search engine to only search those pages that are in the www.cisco.com server. This works particularly well for finding “employee directories”, bios and high-level executives (searching by title).

A good Sourcer knows that just because you are not allowed access to a page, does not mean you can’t still get in. If you can’t get in the front door of the site (by going to www.cisco.com), then back door the server by using the advanced function on a search engine. You can do this relatively easy by x-raying the server. X-ray allows you to ask a search engine for every web page on a server. Many times companies will have pages on their server that are not linked to any of their main pages. Search engines still index those pages so they may be able to pull them up for you.

All you need to do is go to the advanced search function on Altavista and type in host:thesite.com AND the words you expect to find on your page. In our Cisco example we can ask AltaVista to search for a title of an executive within the Cisco server in order to find names of potential candidates with those titles that work for Cisco:

host:cisco.com AND “public relations manager”

Once you have a name, it is easy to gather more information on this individual by using a metasearch engine (see How to Use a Metasearch Engine).

It never ceases to amaze me how often companies give all of the information on several of their key employees directly on their site. Do me a favor, for fun go to the advanced function of Altavista and type in host:*.com AND “employee directory”. Can you believe there are over 6,164 pages of companies who many times list their complete employee directory and title it such!

Remember, X-Ray is great for searching for candidates within a specific industry or organizations. You can search for "bios", "employee directories", or specific titles of candidates for best results.

"P.E.R.F.E.C.T. T.E.N." Resolutions

noreply@blogger.com (Rushit Shah) — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:59:00 +0000

While no one can guarantee success, I believe each of us can come closer to success if we start our relationships off with our optimism set on "P.E.R.F.E.C.T . T.E.N."

P.E.R.F.E.C.T. T.E.N. optimism represents the resolutions I offer those with whom I network.

They can best be expressed as:

Planning – A planned year is better than an unplanned one. And it's the same with business relationships. I resolve to plan my work and plan my success with you. (Resolution #1)
Elation – Elation is the height of relationships. Elation is the tone and the tune to which I will set my relationship with you. My "Elationships" start and are maintained as close to "10" as possible. I resolve to give you strong reasons to be elated about our working together. (Resolution #2)
Results – Results matter. Having relationships without getting results equals misery. I resolve to work as intelligently and as resourcefully as I can to get the best results I'm capable of producing for you. (Resolution #3)
Faith – Faith matters. Faith in one another helps you and me to cover more ground more effectively and with less stress. You get your results faster when we have faith in one another. I resolve to work to keep the faith you've express in me. (Resolution #4)
Effort. People who don't believe in effort, don't get results. I'm honored when I get results. I'm shamed when I don't get results. Therefore, I resolve to put in the extra effort to get the results you and I have decided to pursue. (Resolution #5)
Concentration. Without concentration, effort is wasted. Wasted effort is wasted energy. Wasted effort and wasted energy leaves you poor. Concentration literally means to stay "within the circle". All work I do for you will be circled on my calendar until it is completed. Therefore, I resolve to concentrate on my work for you until I get the results you need. (Resolution #6)
Talk. I will talk with you. I intend that most of my conversations with you will be positive. But positive or negative, I resolve to talk with you, asking for your help if needed, and keeping you informed about significant obstacles as well as noteworthy progress. (Resolution #7)
Truth. What good would all of the above and any of the below do if our work is not grounded in truth??? Truth takes strength. Truth takes caring. It takes energy. Commitment. Sometimes it can be draining to tell the truth. But be that as it may, I insist from myself to give you all the truth you have a right to know. I resolve to tell you the truth about our project. (Resolution #8)
Efficiency. Efficiency has been in style and it has been out of style. Waste is guaranteed to happen when efficiency is out of style. To keep it from going out of style, however, efficiency must be looked at as part of a whole system. Sometimes though, efficiency must be subordinated to getting things done at the right time. At all other times however, I resolve to be as efficient in my work for you as is within my power. (Resolution #9)
Networking. Networking is about nurturance. If your network and your networking aren't nurturing you, what good are they? This is an odd bit of truth - but I want to nurture those who turn to me for business. I don't want to get boxed in to old business concepts just because they've been in practice for years and years and years. But I also don't want to work with anyone that I can't take pride in introducing to my network, the people I care about. I believe that introducing you to my network will help you and my network and me by helping me to have more hands and minds to get things done for others and for you. If the people in my network know you, they're more likely to help you. (This is a neural networking approach to consultative work and it's about integrating life into the work we do for business.) If I work for you, I resolve to help you grow, to help you prosper by introducing you to my network for your nurturance. (Resolution #10)

Useful Abbreviations

noreply@blogger.com (Rushit Shah) — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:47:00 +0000

CH or C/H – Contract to Hire.

CON – Contract position.

CS – Customer Service.

CSR – Customer Service Representative.

DOE – Depending on Experience or Discretion of Employer.

EB-1 – Employment-based immigration category for aliens of extraordinary ability.

EB-2 – Employment-based immigration category for aliens with advanced degrees or exceptional ability.

EB-3 – Employment-based immigration category for aliens with bachelor's degrees. Most immigrants become residents through this category.

EOE – Equal Opportunity Employer.

H-1B – Visa for temporary skilled workers (sponsored).

H-4 – Visa for family members of H-1B Visa holder.

J-1 – Visa for doctors and researcher usually tied to some sort of research grant or exchange program.

J-2 – Visa for the spouse of a J-1 Visa holder.

NAFTA – North American Free Trade Agreement.

RTH – Right to Hire.

RTW – Right to Work.

TN – Visa for temporary workers authorized under schedule 2 of NAFTA.

URL – Uniform Resource Locator web address of a web site.

Employment Definitions

noreply@blogger.com (Rushit Shah) — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:32:00 +0000

1099 Employee – A 1099 employee is in most cases a temporary employee (technically, not even an "employee"). Because they are not permanent, they do not need to complete a W-4 or have the employer withhold taxes. They are responsible for paying their taxes directly to the IRS(Internal Revenue Service - www.irs.gov ). The IRS requires that the employer report the earnings paid on a form 1099. The IRS would rather put the burden of tax withholding on the employer and therefore has fairly stringent rules regarding when someone can be considered a 1099 employee.

Announced – Job seekers that are ready to work in 30 days and appear on the Hotlist.

Corp-to-Corp – Indicates that the employer would prefer to deal directly with another corporation. The main reason for this preference is to avoid some of the potential liability that might exist in dealing with an independent contractor on a 1099 basis. This would include corporations dealing directly with other corporations or corporations dealing with individuals who have incorporated.

EB-1 – Employment-based immigration category for aliens of extraordinary ability.

EB-2 – Employment-based immigration category for aliens with advanced degrees or exceptional ability.

EB-3 – Employment-based immigration category for aliens with bachelor's degrees. Most immigrants become residents through this category.

H-1B – Visa for temporary skilled workers (sponsored).

H-4 – Visa for family members of H-1B Visa holder.

Independent – The employer is willing to hire a temporary employee on either a 1099 or W-2 Basis.

The IRS classifications of workers are independent contractors or employees according to the "common law" standard. The common law standard holds that if an employer controls and directs, or has the right to tell a worker how, when, and where to work, then the worker is an "employee". A worker free from such direction and control can be classified as an "independent".

J-1 – Visa for doctors and researcher usually tied to some sort of research grant or exchange program.

J-2 – Visa for the spouse of a J-1 Visa holder.

Job seeker – Candidate looking to better their employment opportunities. There are three types of job seekers:

· Announced are job seekers that are ready to work in 30 days and appear on the Hotlist.

· Passive Public is those job seekers that are not actively looking for a job but would entertain the right opportunity. Passive Public job seekers names display on the Hotlist, but they will be on the passive list.

· Passive Confidential is those job seekers that do not want anyone to know who they are. Job seekers can chose to be confidential and they will show up in the passive list as a confidential candidate.

Tax Term – Tax Terms include:

· Contract - W2 – Will be working as a contract W-2 employee for the company.

· Contract to Hire - W2 – Will be working as a contract W-2 employee for the company with the option to hire.

· Full-time – Will be working as a full-time W-2 employee for the company.

· Contract - Independent – Will be working as a contract 1099 employee for the company.

· Contract to Hire - Independent – Will be working as a contract 1099 employee for the company with the option to hire.

· Contract - Corp-to-Corp – Will be working on contract with or through another corporation.

· Contract to Hire - Corp-to-Corp – Will be working on contract with or through another corporation with the option to hire.

TN – "TN Trade NAFTA (for citizens of Canada & Mexico)" – Visa for temporary workers authorized under schedule 2 of NAFTA(North American Free Trade Agreement) – ( http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/nafta-alena/menu-en.asp )

W-2 – A W-2 employee is an employee whose taxes are withheld by the employer and whose earnings are reported to the IRS at the year-end via a W-2. The W-2 employee completes a form W-4 at the beginning of their employment to instruct the employer on how to withhold taxes. This eliminates any possible issues that may arise with the IRS regarding employment status.

W-2 / 1099 – The position can be filled by either a W-2 or 1099 employee.

Google Search Made Easy - Google Cheat Sheet

noreply@blogger.com (Rushit Shah) — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:52:00 +0000

Find below the searching tips for Google to make your search faster. Every tips here is useful for passive search for candidates.


(A printable PDF version is available.)
Basic Examples
This Search				Finds Pages Containing...
biking Italy				the words biking and Italy
recycle steel OR iron				information on recycling steel or recycling iron
"I have a dream"				the exact phrase I have a dream
salsa –dance				the word salsa but NOT the word dance
Louis +I France				information about Louis the First (I), weeding out other kings of France
castle ~glossary				glossaries about castles, as well as dictonaries, lists of terms, terminology, etc.
fortune-telling				all forms of the term, whether spelled as a single word, a phrase, or hyphenated
define:imbroglio				definitions of the word imbroglio from the Web

Calculator
Operators	Meaning	Type Into Search Box (& Results)
+ – * /	basic arithmetic	12 + 34 - 56 * 7 / 8
% of	percentage of	45% of 39
^ or **	raise to a power	2^5 or 2**5
old units in new units	convert units	300 Euros in USD, 130 lbs in kg, or 31 in hex

Restrict Search
Operators	Meaning	Type Into Search Box (& Results)
city1 city2	Book flights.	sfo bos (Book flights from San Francisco (SFO) to Boston (BOS).)
site:	Search only one website or domain.	Halloween site:www.census.gov (Search for information on Halloween gathered by the US Census Bureau.)
[#]..[#]	Search within a range of numbers.	Dave Barry pirate 2002..2006 (Search for Dave Barry articles mentioning pirates written in these years.)
filetype: (or ext:)	Find documents of the specified type.	Form 1098-T IRS filetype:pdf (Find the US tax form 1098-T in PDF format.)
link:	Find linked pages, i.e., show pages that point to the URL.	link:warriorlibrarian.com (Find pages that link to Warrior Librarian's website.)

Specialized Information Queries
Operators	Meaning	Type Into Search Box (& Results)
book (or books)	Search full-text of books.	book Ender's Game (Show book-related information. Note: No colon needed after book.)
define, what is, what are	Show a definition for a word or phrase.	define monopsony, what is podcast (Show a definition for the words monopsony and podcast. Note: No colon after define, what is, or what are.)
define:	Provide definitions for words, phrases, and acronyms from the Web.	define:kerning (Find definitions for kerning from the Web.)
phonebook:	Show all phonebook listings.	phonebook: Disney CA (Search for Disney's phone numbers in California - CA.)
rphonebook:	Show residential phonebook listings.	rphonebook: bill jones NY (Search for the phone number of every Bill Jones in New York State - NY.)
movie:	Find reviews and showtimes.	movie: traffic (Search for information about this movie, including reviews, showtimes, etc.)
stocks:	Given ticker symbols, show stock information	stocks: goog (Find Google's current stock price.)
weather	Given a location (US zip code or city), show the weather	weather Seattle WA, weather 81612 (Show the current weather and forecast. Note: No colon after weather.)

Alternative Query Types
Operators	Meaning	Type Into Search Box (& Results)
cache:	Display Google's cached version of a web page.	cache:www.irs.gov (Show Google's cached version of the US Internal Revenue Service home page.)
info: (or id:)	Find info about a page.	info:www.theonion.com (Find information about The Onion website.)
related:	List web pages that are similar or related to the URL.	related:www.healthfinder.gov (Find websites related to the Healthfinder website.)

Restrict Search to Sites where Query Words Appear
Operators	Meaning	Type Into Search Box (& Results)
allinanchor:	All query words must appear in anchor text of links to the page.	allinanchor:useful parenting sites (Search for pages that are called useful parenting sites by others.)
inanchor:	Terms must appear in anchor text of links to the page.	restaurants Portland inanchor:kid-friendly (Search for pages on Portland restaurants for which links to the page say they are "kid friendly.")
allintext:	All query words must appear the in text of the page.	allintext:ingredients cilantro chicken lime (Search for recipes with these three ingredients.)
intext:	The terms must appear in the text of the page.	Dan Shugar intext:Powerlight (Find pages mentioning Dan Shugar where his company, Powerlight, is included in the text of the page, i.e., less likely to be from the corporate website.)
allintitle:	All query words must appear in the title of the page.	allintitle: Google Advanced Operators (Search for pages with titles containing "Google," "Advanced,", and "Operators".)
intitle:	The terms must appear in the title of the page.	movies comedy intitle:top ten (Search for pages with the words movie and comedy that include top ten in the title of the page.)
allinurl:	All query words must appear in the URL.	allinurl:pez faq (Search for pages containing the words pez & faq in the URL.)
inurl:	The terms must appear in the URL of the page.	pharmaceutical inurl:investor (Search for pages in which the URL contains the word investor.)

Restrict Search to Google Groups
Operators	Meaning	Type Into Search Box (& Results)
author:	Find Groups messages from the specified author.	flying author:Hamish author:Reid (Search for Hamish Reid's articles on flying.)
group:	Find Groups messages from the specified newsgroup.	ivan doig group:rec.arts.books (Search for postings about Ivan Doig in the group rec.arts.books.)
insubject:	Find Groups messages containing crazy quilts in the subject.	insubject:"crazy quilts" (Find articles containing crazy quilts in the subject line.)

Restrict Search to Google News
Operators	Meaning	Type Into Search Box (& Results)
location:	Find News articles from sources located in the specified location.	queen location:uk (Find British news articles on the Queen.)
source:	Find News articles from specified sources.	peace source:ha_aretz (Show articles on peace from the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz.)

Restrict Search to Froogle
Operators	Meaning	Type Into Search Box (& Results)
store:	Find Froogle products from the specified store.	jeans store:gap (Find Gap jeans.)

Rushit Shah's Profile

noreply@blogger.com (Rushit Shah) — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 05:15:00 +0000

Rushit Shah
Cell - +91 9371076634
E-mail: tihsur@gmail.com
DOB: 08-09-1986

Career Objective:
Obtain a position as a entrepreneur for a dynamic market of Offshore Recruitment Process outsourcing companies, where my extensive experience in high-tech recruiting and organizational management will be utilized to dramatically reduce cost per hire and meet high volume staffing objectives. Computer and Internet proficient in sourcing and recruiting. Primary focus for the past 24 months in the high-tech arena and start-up environment. Continuously developing new human resource management skills while working for some of the top corporations within the area.

High Skills:
Networking and Passive:
Made 3,239 direct and 6,376,400+ indirect Connections with top linked profile on Linkedin and gained successive relation with the network.
o Made cheat sheets to work on Google on Linkedin. .
o Got an added asset to the company by getting a premium member ship free on XING. Made 10000+ contacts around the world.
o Successfully maintain profile on Konnects and generated business leads.
o Created and maintained the database from Jigsaw and Spoke with having good relation with business development manager of the companies.
o Maintaining relation with the network on Ecademy, Ryze, Solflow, Fastpitch, Orkut, HI5, xanga, tagged, facebook, Viadeo.
o Proactively taken parts in Groups and Alumni of fortune five hundred companies.

Training and Leadership:
o Prepared training material such as presentation, IT manual , process, Grammar article, Passive Search tips, cheat sheets for Google and Linkedin.
o Trained more then 60 candidates in the previous job for End-to-End US recruitment.
o Handled 6 recruiters under me and maintained the continuous process.

Technical Skills:
Outlooks express, windows outlook, lotus notes, highly adaptable to windows vista and Mac tiger.

Communication skills:
Had been working in call center for one year and had been trained twice by the best voice and accent trainer in the town.

Work Experience:
Offshore Recruiting Experience End to End recruitment.

Offshore Recruitment Process Outsourcing Association
Working as Co-Founder And Web Master at Offshore Recruitment Process Outsourcing Association
August 2007 - Present
Only association for Offshore Recruitment Process Outsourcing Vendors around the globe.
For further Question please mail me at rushit_shah@orpo.org

Outsource 2 India Limited
Working as Marketing Manager
Duration: 2007.4 - August 2007
Work Profile:Responsible to assist and implement my company
- Marketing analysis
- Marketing strategy
- Marketing Planning & Budgeting
- Operational Marketing: all marketing & communication activities: from PR and advertisement over direct marketing and e-mail marketing, web and telemarketing to seminars and events.
- Marketing organization: structures & processes

Cisco Systems Middle East – Outsource 2 India LTD
Working as: E-Recruitment Specialist
. Duration: 2006.10- 2007.3
Work Profile: Executive search for Cisco top level (Sales Director, Program Manager, Account manager, Executive, Associate, System Engineers, etc) requirements, Client Reporting, Client Relations, Active search and Passive search, Advert posting, Keyword Analysis, Advert web Optimization, Screening, Analysis, E-marketing and SEO.
o Successfully converted Cisco Systems trial period to full time contract.
o Worked with Clients like Unisys for USA and Stairway 2 for UK and placed 3 candidates in 1.5 months.
o Build good rapport with client and added new resources and earned revenue to my employer.
o Worked on job board like monstergulf, bayt, monsteruk, monster usa, dice etc
o And same as below.

Nike - Rangam Infotech pvt ltd. Duration: 2006.08- 2006.10:
Working as: SR. Technical Recruiter
Work Profile: Manage all process of recruitment and handle Nike IT department in Oregon USA. Reported to hiring manager of Nike.
o Successfully placed 5 IT consultants for roles such as developers and production designers.
o Gathering and understanding requirements from client.
o Sourcing resumes through Job sites and database created by own.
o Interacting with candidates for the job role and taking down quality information from them to submit the best suitable candidate to end client.
o Working on more than one client at a time with giving out best result in limited time.
o Working with a team and coordinate with them on the job process.
o Time to time reporting to clients as direct interaction.

EDS, IBM Direct Blue, Daimler Chrysler, FORD - Rishabh Software Pvt. Ltd. Duration: 2005.05- 2006.08
Worked as: SR. Technical Recruiter
Work Profile: Manage the recruitment process from screening to selection and induction to recruitment world. I have Worked with fortune five hundred clients in USA and UK. Also worked with Emirates computers in UAE.
o Successfully placed 7 IT consultants for roles such as project manager, Oracle dba, SAP HR, Java web developers.
o Clients served from the pharmaceutical, IT, automobile, sports apparel, financial and insurance industries.
o Introduced new recruiting techniques, which reduced costs while improving quality of new hires, and decreasing time required to attract new applicants.
o Responsible for the implementation and completion of recruitment training programs introducing String Theory.
o Helped develop web-recruiting strategy, selected web search tools (Monster /Dice, Careerbuilder, Hotjobs, Jobcircle, Net-temps, jobsite, cv-library etc.

Call Center and BPO Experience

Ethos Info Services Duration: 2005.02-2005.05
Worked as: Tele sales Executive/ Group lead
Work Profile: To call Canadian customers from data base and click sale. Sales were for our client dealing with local and long distance call connection as well as internet connection. We also generate leads from the websites available eg. www.Whitepages.co.ca

Futura Convergious Center Duration: 2004.10-2005.02
Worked as: Tele Marketing Executive/ Tele sales Executive
Work Profile: We used to sell products of our client available in USA, UK, Australia, and Canada.
I have been working on understanding recruitments of client and there products for giving training to employees working with us. I started as sales for mobile phones company in USA and UK EG. T-mobile, Orange, Cingular wireless. Have also worked with our Australia and Canada clients with their products for mortgage and Rogers and Bell Canada.

Educational Qualification:

Second Year
¬ B. Com.
Pune University

Personal Information: Available on Request.